The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-10-12
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SPEECH.


trinc a. IN its essence. counter revolu-
tionary That doctrine. I'm its essence.
provides FOR such control. in the inter
est Of All the nation. Of great wealth
asnaS~ed In quantities and used in
quantities that there viii b. no excuse
for revolution against IL
Great wealth il usually used in cor
porations. Now corporation i just
a. much "A necessity IF the modern bust
ness world as a labor union Is Of the
modern industrial world. l would favor
both where they do right and / would
unhc~itatingly oppose both where they
do wrong Friends people have spoken
as II / werc against corporations Non
sense You might just as well SAY that
I am against politicians because / ann
down ON crooked politicians as 10 say
ann against corporations because /
ann against corporations the manage
mcnt of which j. crooked and because
I think that we ought 20 exercise such
supervision ove~ them a. 20 To- sure that
they act fairly and decently.
Now. the corporation - entitled % It's
rights One of the things / want TO
say 90 You here-l say IL everywhere
~ you newer viii have real honest -
shown % you hy public servant unless
yon insist that that public servant IL
honest toward everyone else also You
never find man who b. honest to one
man and crooked Co another either bee
Is straight or Dee isn't let me tell You
"a story the unly onc 7 shall tel
A good many years oro lived out I'm
the cow country in the west There
We didn't have amy fcnceS. and cach
calf was branded with the brand eft the
COW that 30 followed ON the round up
we ecnt along and branded zap AN the
calves NJ "a calf WAS passed hy. next
wear Whom BE- WAS an independent ycarl
ing d., itself DO was called maverick
an unbranded wearing and by range
mem mavericks were branded With tho
brand of abe range on which they were
found One day had hired "a new
cnNuunch,r. and $50 were going on th'
range ami struck maverick ~,
throw fho maverick and built ltti,
nr. of ~agr brush There b. NOT much
wool out there and thc man put 90,
brand ou be- I Said That is NOT q
rhi,tl, brand. wc are on che rhi.tl,
r,rge He said. IAN right boss,
know ma business I'm minute
said. Hold on. vou are putting on nay
brand hc said That's an right
lviN. puf on the ho-, brand I said
OH Sow you go hack Co tho ranci
and g,t your time ie said. What
that for. was putting on your brand.
I Said We, nay friend and 81 sou
VIII sie.l for me you viii steal from
me Laughter
NOV Ism that pretty soundl Well
DC applies just as much in public life a.
30 ,ios, n the cattle country. lou wi-l
90 ~oo that your public servants do jas
tice to thc corporation. because II yoi
find "a man who viii eco an injustice to
corporation. thinking that he viii go
your vote hy doing 30. you can bet you
h.d n,ck dollar that exactly "a, he ha
dome crnoke,lly against the corporation
when he thought il was 20 ms interest
ho VIII work crookediy for the corpora
ton when he thinks BE- il 60 his interest
Nou can trust the man 60 he stmigh
for the fs.ople against the corporltio
only hcn yon can trust him to do iu'
uce GO the corporation itself
So NOW J made thi, preliminary tai
~ that nobody could honestly mi,ur
derstand me ST he thinks ann pneachin
an assault on corporations. or anythin
az the kind \ great many people vi
SAY that. hnt they won SAY il honestl,
IA Voice That Is where the trouh
come, in
That i. where the trouble comes II
I don't like thief but like him a
most as much a. a lar
7 insist upon that as preliminar.
We must do Justice Ia the corporation
hut We must exact Justice from H. an
~ must have such power over IL tn
can effectively demand justice from
The corporation j. entitled to its right
bnt IL j. not entitled 60 DO wrong am
above all IL h not entitled IL own ar
man Ia public life senator congres
man juige-it j. not entitled 60 on
any man IL il entitled 10 night AZ
Justice. and We must do justice "a