Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-10
Corporations Do Not DO
Wrong-Individuals Who Dr.
rect Them Do Wrong"

access to them. They are mere cogs
in a machine which has men for its
parts.
Corporations do not DO wrong. In
dividuals do wrong, the individuals.
who direct and use them for selfish
and illegitimate purposes, to the injury
Of society and the serious curtailment
of private rights. You cannot punish
corporations. Fines fall upon h
wrong persons, more heavily upon the
innocent h upon the guilty, as much
upon those who knew nothing what
ever of the transactions for which h
fine is imposed as upon those who orig
mated and carried them through
upon the stockholders and customers
rather than upon the men who direct
the policy of the business.
IF you dissolve the offending cor
p~oration you throw great undertakings
out of gear You merely drive what
you are seeking to check into other
forms or temporarily disorgs nize some
important business altogether, to the
infinite loss of thousands of entirely
innocent persons and to the great tn
convenience Of society as a whole. You
can never bring peace Or command
respect by such utilities.
Corporations Indispensable.
Il regard the corporation as indis-
pensahle to modern business enterprise.
I am not jealous of its size or might,
If you will but abandon at the right
point the fatuous. ~antiquated and quite
unnecessary fiction which treats 1t as a
legal person; if you will but cease. to
deal with it by means Of your law as
If it were a single individual and also
what every child may perceive it is not
"a responsible individual.
Such frictions and analogies were
innocent and convenient enough as
long as corporations were compare
lively small, and only one of many
quite as important instrumentalities
used in business-only a minor item in
the economic order of society. But 1t
is another matter now. They span
society, and the responsibilities in
volved in their complex organization
and action must be analysed by the
law as the responsibilities of society !
Itself, in all its other aspects, have
BEEN
Upon the subject of new national
ISM" New Jerseys governor-elect had
little to say directly. He only smiled
when 1t was mentioned, and remarked
that 1t did not enter into the New Jer-
sey campaign at all.
The College serenade.
Parades and publications are the order |
of the day in Princeton, which will
devote its off hours for the remainder
of the week in celebrating the election
of Woodrow Wilson to the governor
ship. Bunting d%ecorates residences and
business places, while portraits of the
Governor-elect hang from hundreds Of
windows. Two thousand students, led
by a band and accompanied by towns
people, paraded about the city by torch
light last night, winding up by sere-
nading their former college president,
who appeared at a window and bowed
his thanks. In response to chorused
requests for a speech DR.. Wilson said: |
1.-THE present time is the chance for
every n of you A college man
jhould know the history of our coun-
try and be acquainted with its politics
The country is looking for leaders, and
regardless of party will support the
man the people have confidence in.
Az OASSNnNh 10 AANlOAlcbi !
awakening which is not confined to
New Jersey. Americans haze turned
with serious purpose to the betterment
of politics. They are going after spe-
cial privileges until they no lcrser
exist. ] realize the duties which 1 and
the Legislature will have to face, but
I am encouraged by the confidence and
support of my friends. We will serve
the people to the best of our ability.
It is the duty of all public men to try
to unite classes instead of separating
them"
DR.. Wilson walked down to the field
house and spoke to the football team
after the parade had left. He said
they should play the game for the
games sake, not merely to win. He
thought the new game better than the
old, for it was not so brutal and called
for more brains.