The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-09
THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE
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Those who thought when President Taft took Morgans
attorney Geo W. Wekersham from his Wall St office and
made HIM attorney general that remorsecss bloodhound from
their own pack was be sked the trusts and that the
Indicators OF great wealth to be forced to climb
trees while Nckersham ragged back and forth below chewing
the rear elevations OF the monopoistc trousers, now adj
vised that they have another guess coming,
Wekersham will be just but he agrees with Portia that
human power divine when justice mercy So he
is saherng lot OF mercy the ustecpate for the trusts
He has dismissed the suits against the Utah Fuel Co.
which the coal end Of the Denver Rio Grandc ralroad-iof
stealing eea lands from the people Of the United Staesupon
the payment Of $4,000 and the deciding back the United
States OF 500 Of coal Originally there 40 in
the steal but the railway had issued bonds covering the other
$40 and ii would have been announcement deed back
bond sacred thing you know, We have to be mecul TO
bondholders
To be sure If John Smith iorges a deed to Geo Wilson's
farm and floats mortgage IT, Wilson will be apt to make
work of the fake mortgage covering the fake title Wick
ersham would agree this for he is great lawyer
But the principle is different Vastly Different Anyone that
can't sec the dfereneehy in is the land Of the
people stolen and morgaged and the steast and
ortgagor railway company and in the other it
lust an ordinary person that did the deedi That's the diff
fereneel
OF course. Wiekersham will 20 with the investigation
So the railways that have stolen lands had better issue bonds
on them pretty quick they may have give them back
stolen lands that morgaged OF when bonds
have been oacd them the different would nure
the credit Of the railway company Il their security for their
bonds impaired by giving back the coal lands the
pie To be sure the ordinary ,hies credit is often
tenderly looked alter but doubt would be II the
neys general and prosecuting attorneys could be selected from
firms in which the real attributes Of mercy studied
"sinee justice be thy plea consider this
That in the OF justice, OF us
Should see salvation"
These the words that ring constantly through Wick
ersans neyattuued These words occurred him.
doubt when he found the Chicago packers Relating last spring
They putting stuffed claims against the railway
panies for ost freight and damaged shipments aud the
railways paying them like little The little packers
that could get such claims allowed awful hole
in competition with the rebaiers
But Wckershan after he had them dead rights and
the way jail let the packers 60 He said that he didn't be
eve any criminal intent Il practice that had
grown up and the abenmnded beggar Of packers had for
got to quit il
So he told them that he would let them off, but they had
better him catch them again They will try not to-
Someone has pointed the fact that the packers had
and convicted for the things years ago.
Wiekesham is mercu let that make any difference
They harm in the last case anyhow With Wick
ersham the quality Of mercy is strained doppe,h like
eloudburst from summer shyespeeialy bondholders