The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-20
STREET THE CRADLE
OF GRAFT IN every CITY
HENEY SPRINGS NEW
SENSATION IN THE
CRUSADE.
VIII Return There and Give
Utterance TO What
He Witnessed.
BY w. G. SHEPARD

by w. c. SHEPARD.
SAN FRANCISCO Jan. 20 -Ons
would not think that q man nehiina
graft in ihls city would have to 20
/ clear 10 New York. Ga the other
I end 0f the continent ~ find out
I whore the local graft started
The graft u every city % era.
died 10 Wall at.. ! believe. said Mr.
llenev
He paid "a VISIT 10 Wall a. Tho
/ day was rainy and Mr uoney aid
not feel strong bat be went down
T 20 the lower end OF Manhattan ia.
land b dine with Jas. Beck. counsel
I Tor Henry Rogers
They used 70 be old friends In
fact Heney almost became a cor.
pOraiion attorney himsoif before
Be became converted 10 the inter.
eBtg ~ the people
Henes shook his head, as be saw
the traders
They look like a lot Of gam.
blerG.' be declared you can see Il
in their faces. You can feel II IN
the atmosphere Don't they look
and act Ike race track men7'
Where Trouble Starts.
ron Wall a. a. where The trouble
starts ln This country" gaid Mr..
lleney after be had seen the stone
conons Of Wall 81
DO you mean to say that the
San Francisco graft started IN Wall
81. e. asked HIM
Why yes, indeed" be replied.
he seemed troubled and a frown
settled on his forehead
There was a man named Heron
out IN our locality who bribed our
city officials
n don't blame Heron no much.
There WAS a man higher than Her
ron. That man Is about WALL 81.
somewhere Ills name Is Harri-
man.
ION Wall st Is where the graft
starts"
Heron was a corporation law
yer7' ! asked
Eyes" replied Mr. Heney.
Work Of Corporations.
Well. whore Is a lawyer 10
draw the line az what he viii do
for these corporationa2 Where ~
tho place for a lawyer 20 stopf
Shall he refuse 10 serve any cor
poration7'
ITS hard to tell" said Mr..
Heney.
these corporations sometimes
hire big. honest, great men as
their attorneys. These men
wouldn't do anything wrong.
"You see. a man q this kind
protects the corporation and its
reputation Yet the corporation win
probably be very crooked. The
big lawyer won't know a. When
he hears his firm DETAINED. he VIII
think Il ie a lie
Il know OF a case in which 4
lawyer-au h0nester man J never
{ knew-worked like everything 20
win a case. lie toiled day and
night desperately. and worried 40
greatly before the trial that his
health was impaired By lack Of
sleep.
Judges Fixed.
"And yet II he had only known
II, Il would have been utterly I'm
possible for him 10 have lost that
case. Mo- He couldn't have lost.
possibly. The judge Was fixed by
his own company. Only he didn't
know Il.
when the case was decided in
his favor he thought he had gained
great legal victory. by his mas
terly handling 81 the case. AZ a
matter Of fact. he hardly had 70
handle a al all. Yet. so long as he
was willing aud didn't know that
the Judge didn't dare 20 rule against
him. his employers were glad 20
have him work as hard as he
could. Il made Il look all the better
for the corporation and for the cor
porations judge.
Wall ST. Trick.
rThat's one of Wall SITS tricks"
Does Wall st. have any more
tricks than Won know of" ] asked.
He stopped a minute, and squirt
ed his eyes. thoughtfully.
In every American city he
said. slowly. weighing his words
carefully, decent citizens have 20
contend. on the one hand. with the
saloon and vice; on the other hand
they have TO fight the corruption
{ By public utilities companies.
"And I don't know which Is the
worst" he said
"piushurg IS IN an awful condi-
I ton. That's a pretty condition of
affairs down there. IN Philadelphia
II discovered there are prominent
citizens who are dead anxious to
clean up their city again--to have
regular house cleaning
SIN Minneapolis one OF the Burns
detectives from San Francisco made
/ things look very interesting FOR the
school board there,
Sticks 70 His Line.
81 don't like to talk too much
about Wall ST. People say I'm not
sticking 10 my line But ] am stick
ing TO my line when | talk Of Wall
st.
In March I am going 20 New
York and I'm going 20 deliver an
address az Carnegie hall. IN which
] will tell what seems 10 me TO be
the cause of evil in American
cities"
"Wiu you blame Wall st. for the
entire evilgf | asked,
MY speech isn't ready yet" he
said, smiling.
'Rut You might add that the
scenes / saw I'm Wall at. when there
aud the atmosphere | felt may give
me some inspiration"
MyRRASKh WILL