Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-23

| lisye that property was made fol
man and not that man was made fol-
property"
Turns Guns on Assembly.
Judge McGinn then began to turn
his guns on the assembly, it's pur-
poses and its promoters. He took
up one by one the prominent and
directing figures in the assembly
movement and showed where they
stood.
81 remember William D. Fenton
when he was a candidate for con-
gress in 1882" said the judge, "and
before that when he gloried in tell
ing of the poverty from which he
sprang and of the poverty which he
had seen.
But the times have changed.
Since then Mr.. Fehton has become
the attorney for the Standard Oil and
for the Southern Pacific. He is not
talking now in 1910 as he did then,
in 1882, when, as a Democrat, he
thanked God that he had come from
south of the Mason and Dixon line
His viewpoint has changed; then he
was down among the people, and
now he is for Standard Oil and the
Southern Pacific. He would not say
right out that he does not believe
that the people are capable of choos-
ing their own United States sena-
tors, but he would think it as the
representative of the corporations
which employ him"
The speaker paid high tribute
to Mr. Fenton personally.
Il do not want to say anything
against him as a man." said the
judge. 81 am speaking of him as
politician. But when he sat in the
assembly in Portland it would have
been just as we'll to have had John
d. Rockefeller or Coils F. Hunting
ton or Herrln there.
Another Corporation Attorney.
do you want those men to make
your ticket for you? If not, let thai
assembly alone, you and your rela-
tiyes and your wife's relatives"
Judge McGinn then tur led his at
tention to r. w. Wilbur, another
convention leader.
81 am not speaking of him as
man, but as a representative of the
Portland Railway, Light e Power
company and of the liability insur-
ance companies which he repre-
sents," said Judge McGinn.
Talk of Standard Oil and of the
Southern Pacihc!" continued the
speaker. Wilbur represents the
most iniquitous corporation of all -
the insurance corporations - the
cruelest of all. These are the COM
panies which contract with employ
ers to insure them against damage
arising from accidents to employees.
They bind the companies to keep
their contract secret and to make
It appear in court that all damage
would fall on them, the employers |
Any law that will allow such a con-
tract is against public policy, and
want to say that If Dan j. Malarkev
and George G. Brownell are elected |
TO the Legislature they will use their |
efforts to see that no such conditions
continued to exist in Oregon.
Represents Corporate Interests.
But Wilbur was in the assembly. |
Was he appearing there for the man
who had lost his arms in the mill or
the man who had his eyes blown |
out in the mine, for the widow or
he orphan? He was there for the
Insurance company who is trying to
evade its just responsibility. Do
you want him to make your ticket |
'or you? If you do, he has already |
lone It, 1t is the assembly ticket,
Vote it II you want it.
1--WE want the corporation to have
every right under the law, but we
want the corporation to be within,
rot above the law. We want every |
,ne to have their rights under the
aw aud because we want those |
.hings we do not want the corpora
ions to select our judges, our legis-
atures, our senators-and our laws.
THE assembly leaders want to
AXE us back to the old system and
o put us in such conditions as now
,xist in Illinois, where they have q
enator named Lorimer. They want
IS to be in the condition where the
enatorship goes to the man who
uts the most money on the counter.
Ir. Fenton, Mr.. Huston, Mr.. Will
ur, Mr., Stapleton, all of them, want
o take Statement No, 1 away and
ut Oregon back in the same place
nth Illinois and Lorimer, Do you
rant them to do it?"
Converts from Democracy.
Judge McGinn said that s. b. Hus-
1n and George w, Stapleton repre-
ented the timber interests of the
ountry
They are hardly out of the Dem