Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-02-06

AAe attAckS Dy these great c0rpO,
rations on the administrations actions
have been given vide circulation
throughout the country. in the news.
papers and otherwise, by those writer's
and speakers, who, consciously or un.
consciously, act as the representa-,
ttves Of predatory wealth-of wealth
accumulated on giant scale by all
forms OF iniquity. ranging from the
oppression Of wageworkers to unfair
and unwholesome methods of competi.
ton. and to defrauding the public by
tockjobbing and the manipulation of
securities.
Work for Reaction.
Certain wealthy men Of this stamp.
whose conduct should be abhorrent to
every man Of ordinarily decent con.
science, nave during the last few
months made It apparent that they
have banded together to work for a
reaction. Their endeavor is to over.
throw and discredit all who honestly
administer the law, to prevent any ad.
ditional legislation which would check
and restrain them, and to secure If
possible a freedom from all restraint
which will permit every INSCRIPTIONS
wrongdoer to do what he wishes un,
checked provided he has enough mon
ey. The only way to counteract the
movement In which these men are
engaged is to make clear to the public
just what they have done in the past
and Just what they are seeking to &C.
complish in the present.
clamor Against Truth.
"The apologists Of successful dis.
honesty always declaim against any
effort to punish or prevent it, on the
ground that any such effort will 'un.
settle business It ris they who by
their acts have unsettled business;
and the very men raising this cry
spend hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars in securing, by speech, editorial,
book or pamphlet. the defense of mis-
statements Of what they have done.
and yet when public servants correct
their miscellaneous by telling the
truth they declaim against them for
breaking silence, lest values be de-
preciated.' They have hurt honest
business men, honest workingmen,
honest farmers; and now they clamor
against the truth being told.
THE business which is hurt by the
movement for honesty is the kind of
business which, In the long run. it
pays the country to have hurt.
Punish Only Wronpdoers.
Eve are in no vindictive spirit and
we are no respecter OF persons. Z. {.
We seek to stop wrongdoing and we
desire to punish wrongdoers only so
far as it is necessary to achieve this
end.
"The extraordinary violence Of the
assaults upon our policy and
the enormous sums spent in various
ways, give fairly accurate measure
of the anger and terror which our pub
lie actions have caused the corrupt
men of vast wealth to feel in the very
marrow of their being.
1.-The methods by which the Stand
ard Oil people and others {.
have achieved great fortunes can only
be justified by the advocacy of sys.
TEN of morals which would also Justly
every form of cr;minality on the part
of labor union and every form Of
violence. corruption and fraud. from
murder to bribery and ballot box stuff
ing in politics.
Control Law-defylns Wealth.
1--WE seek to control law-defying
wealth; in the first place to prevent
its doing dire evil to the republic. and
in the next place to avoid the vindic.
tive and dreadful radicalism which. Il
left uncontrolled, 1t. is certain in the
end to arouse.
I'm my Judgment. thoroughgoine
and satisfactory control can in the end
only be obtained by the action of the
national government, for almost all
corporations Of enormous wealth-that
is, the corporations which 1t is espe.
cially desirable to control - are en-.
gagod IN interstate commerce"
Must Not Persecute Labor.
Some action in connection with the
abuse. Of the power of injunction IL