The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01
this country under the management
Of those who do not own them.
C,n., z,c Scnnrafrd


"rhe right to direc: a business
should remain with those responsible
for the results. The controlling judy
ment should be that OF the man who
toots the bills. Power should not be
given to one and responsibility to an
other. They cannot be safely sep
arated. All men should be forced to
obey the law and then permitted 10
run their own business.
There Is a culture now which seeks
to make wealth a new kind OF crime
and old fashioned crime a new kind
of disease. The new invalid Is getting
more sympathy than the new criminal
This state OF mind is perverted and
unhealthy.
The encroachments of corporate
strength have within ten years leaped
from one excess to another until they
have invaded the spot where, in all
the ages and in all states of civiliza-
tion the individual alone has exercised
pdominion, the domiciie of himself and
family. These encroachments should
be curbed.
Two great dangers of to-day are
the encroaclluents of organized money
and organized labor. Organization it
self is laudable and proper. but their
demands grow more unreasonable and
insistent every day. And the com
rnunity as a whole suffers by the I'm
Just acts of bothE labor trust which
assumes the right TO increase indefi-
nftelv the cost of building by raising
its own wages or Sinking its work
| decided whether that building shall go
| I'D at all. For II it costs too much
IT will not pay and will not be erected
/ That labor trust is in all ways as
| dangerous as a money trust would be
| which reduced the rents of It's own
competing property to a ruinous fig
| ure in order to drive the new building
/ into bankruptcy
THE great majority of capital in
| vested and of labor employed in this
! country ask and receive only fair
| return for what they give. The COM
munity is fleeced by the acts of a
| few dishonest members. who should be
| controlled and punished. This work
the government should do. Its power
is ample and the remedy IS to use 1t,
I It has in its service thousands of COM
| petent men and the right to increase
the number: it can raise unlimited
funds through its power of taxation
the courts with their irresistible ma
chinery are everywhere at hand. II
| would be far better to use these means
to their limit than to agitate the pub
| lie mind by demands for more.
One of Protection.
every scheme of government should
be one of protection and not OF In
reference. That protection should be
within the law and not outside of it
No worse example could be offered The
unruly than government Out OF
bounds, for the law-breaker is the nat,
ural offspring of the lawless.
IT have always believed, but seen
now about the only one who think!
so that the best support for gov
eminent or an administration is ar
aggressive, organized partisan senti
! ment. Men fight better in companie
than any one of them would detache ed
Scatter your army in fragments an
your last campaign has been Won. TIL
Republican party Is now facing thi
danger. We seem to have throws
away our party guns and knapsack
and are now visiting in tents hilbert
Of doubtful reputation.
eve are straying from those politi
cal methods which have made us pros
porous and respected. and are OK
plotting fads and illusions whose e1
feet no man can see.
"When you break the party tie an
stifle the party spirit you become tn
prey Of any forceful and erratic leac
! ership within whose orbit you ma
come. A great man who embroils an
wrecks his party may sometimes al
pear and cut across the politca; SIX
/ brilliant spectacle. He may suffc
cate the steady planets with his smok
l but men do not depend on him fc