Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-17
RUSSIANS FEAR ATTACK
UPON THE EMPEROR AT SEA


Tended upon the ground that the
course they follow is absolutely neces-
sary so as to secure Order
"Many excellent people are taken in
| by the use of the word liberty at the
one time says the eX-president, land
the use of the word order at the
other ignore the simple fact that des-
potism is despotism. tyranny tyranny,
oppression oppression, whether COM
mitted by one individual or by many
individuals, by state or by private
corporation. All forms of tyranny and
cruelty must alike be condemned by
honest men,
Law for Big Man.
| There must be law to control the
big man, and therefore especially the
| big corporations, i'm the Industrial
world in the interest of our industrial
democracy of today. This law must
| be efficient, and therefore it must be
administered by executive officers and
not by lawsuits in the courts. If this
| is not done, the agitation to increase
out of all measure the SHIRE of the
government in the work will receive
an enormous impetus The movement
for government control of the great
business corporations is no more a
movement against liberty than a move
ment to put a stop to violence is a
movement against liberty. The huge
Irresponsible corporation which demands
liberty from the supervision of gov
ernment agents stands on the same
ground as the less dangerous criminal
of the streets who wishes liberty from
police Interference
Refers to Newspapers.
The eX-president closes with a direct
reference to newspapers:
Yet another thing he says. .No
movement ever has done or ever will
do good in this country where assault
is not made upon evil wherever
found, but simply upon evil as it hap
pens TO be found in a particular class.
The big newspaper owned or controll-
ed in Wall street, which is everlast-
ingly preaching about the iniquity of
laboring men, which is quite willing to
hound politicians for their misdeeds,
but which with raving fury defends all
the malefactors of great wealth, stands
on an exact level with and neither
above nor below. that other newspaper
whose whole attack is upon men of
wealth, which declines to condemn, OF
4 l.else condemns in apologetic, perfume.
tory and wholly inefficient manner
outrages committed by labor This
latter is the kind of paper which by
torrents of foul abuse seeks to stir UP
bitter class hatred against every man
of means simply because he is man
. of means, against every man of wealth
whether he is an honest man, who by
industry and ability has honorably
, won his wealth. and who honoraLly
spends it, or a man whose wealth rep
, resents robbery and whose life repre-
sents either profligacy, or at best al
inane useless, and testeless extrava
gance.
ii Cannot Afford LapsntiOn:
, This country can not afford to LEI
its conscience grow warped an;
twisted, as it must grow if it take:
either one of these two positions We
, must draw the line, not on wealth mol
or poverty; but on conduct We mus
stand for the good citizen because h,
, is a good citizen. Whether he be ricl
or whether he be poor, and We mus
mercilessly attack the man who doe,
evil-wholly without regard to whethe
the evil is done in high or low places
whether it takes the form of homicida
violence among members of a feder
alton of miners, or of unscrupulou
craft and greed in the head of SOM
great Wall street corporation