The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-01-27

JUDGE DILL TALES on TRUSTS.
Man wae F.sh~r~d si.sy Tcss. Hox<
20 Correct Them-JaIl for Al
Wrungsao~rs-rower nrtnxs Da<rx-
gard for Individual Raxhss-rh~
Fsrit b. the Pahtie's own-rah-
ticity and Cniforua Laws Are the
Remedies
New York. Jan. 2z.-Defors hs
sent on The beach Of the court az
error and appeal OF the State Of Ssw
Jersey. James ID. Dill ~aa known "A
godfather Of trusts" lie vas some
thing more. lie assisted st the birth
and thereafter stood for. cognssled.
and watched over tham-chldinx
them and Christening them. Becaus.
he had had so great . measure OF
responsibility for them, q reporter
went 70 him to-day TO AJAX:
Since ron know ali about building
this Frankenstein monster. won't you
tell Us how 10 destroy IT,"
Judge Dill has blue eyes that
twinkle.
Il won't be interviewed" he said
1 am on the bench. Ny usefulness
Is there-not in public prints. For
seven years I have been trying TO
correct the Job"
Then tell what in the final analy-
sis, Is the most direct corrective you
have arrived att"
Placing responsibility for viola
tions OF the law upon persons re-
sponsible. What happened TO Morse
and happened 10 Walsh shows the
most effective methods OF diseourag-
ing wrongdoing."
Favors Jail Sentences.
Putting the responsible wrong
doers in jail?" was inquired.
Judge Dill nodded. Il have never
looked with patience on the fining of
a corporation. Infiicting a fine as
penalty Is inflicting punishment on
the innocent stockholders. Penalties
should be laid upon persons re-
sponsible.
The real evil In aggregation of
capital and corporate and other COM
binations lies in men-character-
not in things. The trouble is per-
sonal. That's why I just said that
the penalty for wrongdoing should
be personal.
Some of these combinations are
using their resources and their ener-
gies to accomplish their own ends,
without due regard to the rights Of
individuals or the public This they
do naturally. Power always carries
with it an instructive desire to adopt
the theory that might makes right.
Some of our foremost men are work
ing upon that theory.
THE menace In our so-called pros
Derity to-day Is that In many in
stances the men among US who be-
come powers-fnancial, political, So
cial-abuse their power. The trou-
BILE is not with theories. II Ia with
forms. 1t Is concrete. The wrong 10
personal.
"A large part of our modern pros
perity is to a perilously large extent
bottomed upon fraud and sham. The
unprecedented natural growth OF the
country, the resulting creation OF i'm
mense fortunes, the massing of great
aggregations of capital through in
dustrial combinations and railroad
mergers, all have tended to concen-
of a. to1
achievements, and to put In highest
place in popular estimation captains
of industry and powerful financiers.
Yet we hear of instances of men
who have stolen millions having en-
ployes sent to Jail who had taken
only hundreds or thousands of dol
lars.
Fault of the Public.
Whose fault is this? 1t is ours.
1t is the result of public opinion,
yours and mine-yours of me, mine
of you. ours of all the rest. We
must learn to recognize graft and
grafters, however respectable their
disguise, and punish them. Punish
them personally, not only with i'm
prisonment and fine. but with all the
scorn of society.
For Uniform Laws.
His correctives for corporate ex.
cesses, oppression, and illegalitiei
are publicity, uniform laws for incor
poration, honest promotion, and In
dividual integrity in members Of Q
cooperation. When they err he woult