The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-17

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auonsP Our platform declares fol
individual punishment for corporats
onense. Note that said offending
corporations. Let us awaken to the
existence OF this new era. There
must be and there is just path be
tween clamor on the one hand and en-
slaving federation on the other. Ol
course we must regulate and control
and we will.
Make Crime Personal.
Here is II vital, growing pressing
problem involving both human and
property rights, reaching TO the very
heart of industrial and commercial
existence. 1t must be solved right.
No thinking man wants to hamper or
harass. He wants just regulation. He
wants human rights safe-guarded, TO
put conscience in the maintenance of
property rights. We must have both,
with the prevalence of commanding
justice among men. We must un-
derstand the development and the
necessities attending, and enact just
laws that public sentiment Will en-
| force. Why isn't IL simple and eff
Client to correct contempt for the
laws supremacy by applying the I'm.
| divldual responsibility now imposed
upon banking officials, to officers and
directors OF all our corporations?
Then when u corporate officer trans.
crosses the law, send him to prison.
No corporate offense was ever com
mitted but there was associated there
with human offender, and imprison-
ment will prove ten times as efficient
as political threats or conflscatory
fines. Here In Ohio and in the ma
tion we are making gratifying pro-
sress toward real solution.
Specifically, here In Ohio we need
such enactment. and its enforcement,
AS will make impossible the deplor-
able situation so long disturbing the
tranquility of our Capital City. The
public veal demands that disputes
between public service corporations
and their employees be speedily ad-
justed by arbitration, or left to a
utilities commission. or some other
suitable tribunal of immediate resort,
whose settlement will be just and
final
Conservation In ohio.
Is there a conflict Of opinion about
conservatism? Hardly. here in Ohio.
At any rate, II Is personal, rather
than political. One must stretch the
Imagination to make it an issue in
any form, here in Ohio. We nave no
undevelOped domain. About I'll we
have to conserve, OF a public charac-
ter, is our tattered and torn canal
system, which uncertainty and pro-
crastination are not enhancing in
value, nor conserving for a public
good. Our halting, hestant, half
preserving, half.neglecting policy
ought to be superseded by definite
plan and purpose because the prop
erty is too valuable to neglect and
too costly to preserve in a state of
public uselessness.
Republicans Are Progressive.
| frankly confess / have deliber-
atcly searched the ground over to see
failed to get expression in Republi-
can utterance and ! make the conf
dent claim that progression is the ac-
compishment or the deliberate prom
ise Of the Republican party, and not
OF "a faction within the party. Our
party has written every chapter OF
Ohio and national progress for fifty
triumphant years.
Is the demand for better men in
the Legislature and the public SER
vice? Well, men, that's q mater OF |
patriotism rather than progression. |
And that's voting peoples duty, |
and the people are now armed with a |
primary to give them direct express
sion. This Is popular government |
where the majority rules. " public |
servants betray. speak your rebuke
al the polls. II you find great cor
porations, public service or other
wise, naming officials. challenge them
at the polls. No mans ballot Is an.
swerable to any influence IN this
world except his conscience Ours Is
representative government.
Some one has said that govern
ment Is business and ought to be |
conducted just as successful business
Is conducted. A striking illustration
comes to mind. There has been little
bQasting and less publicity, but Pres
ident TAFT directed his heads OF de-
partments to APPLY strict business
methods to the mounting cost of fed
eral administration, and the Metro
politan Magazine for September In
detailing the simplified and modern
lZed methods and determined applica-
lion OF the business policy, says that
the Tart administration viii save the
American people the unbelievable to-
tai of over $l00,000,000 per year.
why, men, that is as much as the
mineral wealth of Alaska that stirred
most OF the conversation about con-
seryatlon. The mere mention IL made
to suggest some OF the accomplish
ments OF the Taft administration,
which ] believe will come to stand
without an equal for promises full.
hlled, pledges performed reforms es-
Iahlis,hed and real progress recorded.
but mentioned the business like.
ness mere especially to say that sue
'esstul business managers never sub
stltute untripd exneriment for nroVen |