Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-07

The same cutlery is made against the
department Of justice for ~PTosecV ibdg b me
been made against the men who in San
Francisco have prosecuted with impartial
severity the and AMONG 10 hgr p 3eadeSs
alike. The principle IS the same in the
two cases. Just as the blackmailer and
bride giver stand on the same evil emil
hence of infamy. SO the man who makes
an enormous fortune by corrupting leg
his STOCKHOLDERS and the PUBLIC, stands on
the same moral level with the creature
who fattens on the, blood money or the
gambling house and the saloon. More
over, in the last analysis. both kinds OF
corruption are far more intimately con-
the ~Wrongdoing is, at bottom the same.
Corrupt business and corrupt politics act
and react with h ever Increasing fhe deP Ssad
Of a corporation and the corrupt labor
leader are both in the same degree the en-
emies of honest corporation and honest
labor unions; the rebate talSer. the fran
chise traflcker, the manipulation OF Sc
vice the blackmailing ward boss, the bal
lot-box suffer, the demagogue, the mob
leader, the hired bully, and mankill ear-
ruption, and all alike should be abhorred
lby honest men. ..a
L. Hurts Right Business.
The business which is hurt, by the
movement for honesty is the kind of bus
1 conntr wft to haVe hi hurt. 1t is the Kind Of
business which has tended to make the
dal to which ali honest American men Of
business should join f in but iIags an aish END:
esty. in ~denouncing the present admin
istration for enforcing the law against
the huge and corrupt corporations. which
deavoring to secure sadly needed labor
legislation, such as a far-reaching
AZ n q 2Se,S s" a@Sisyse! l'a6 L S 50F MEET IT,
and fit that the a~pologists for corrupt
wealth should oppose every effort to re-
lieve weak and helpless people from
by injury in the business from which they
gain a bare livelihood. The burden should
to speak of a girl who works In a fac
tory where the dangerous machinery is
UNPROTECTED as as having t the nfig n t neery
to life and limb. She has no alternative
but to suffer want or else to expose, her
a hand or is otherwise MANNED or disfg-
ured for life, it is a moral wrong that
the whole burden Of the risk necessarily
incidental to the business should be placed
with crushing weight upon her weak
shoulders, and all who profit by her work
eff'a a lust employers liability law advo.
cate; and it is consistent that they should
usually also advocate immunity for those
most dangerous members of the criminal
class-the criminals of great wealth. ;
Our opponents lave recentIy been bit
terly criticising the two judges referred
from the Standard Oil company and the
Santa Fe railroad for having imposed
heavy fines on these two corporations
and yet these same critics Of these two
Judges exhaust themselves in ~denouncins
the most respectful and cautious discus
sion Of the official action of a judge which
results in immunity to wealthy and pow
erful wrongdoers. Most certainly it be
hooves US all to treat with the utmos
j judPges. as a Whole. are brave and up
right men. Respect for the law must g,
hand in hand with respect for the judges
and, as a whole, it is true now as in tn
past that the Judges stand in characte'
and service above all other men amons
their fellow servants of the public. Their
fail in his great office, who fall below
this high standard Of integrity, of wis
dom. of sympathetic understanding and o
courage, should have their eyes opened
to the needs Of their countrymen.