Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-07-17
LETTERS TO THE EDIT0a
Government as VaIlette Sees 1t.

Mr.. Editor: I have been wondering
for quite a while how much longer
this farce will cof4tInue2 What farce?
Why, the farce OF pretending that this
is a government of, by, and for the
people, when anyone at all converSdnt
on the situation and conditions knows
that it is a government of lawyers, by
lawyers and for lawyers. DoSyou doubt
II? SeVenty-fiVe per cent. of congress
arc lawyers. At least if not more than
IS per cent. of the state legislatures
are composed of lawyers. The greater
part of the national and state offices
are held by lawyers. Congress is sup
posed to make all of our national laws:
except when the supreme court takes
hand. Congress being composed of
majority of lawyers, makes laws CD
that lawyers may have business. It
really looks that way down at Wash
ington. The profession of lawyers is
to work for others, but of course not
without pay. There isn't much doubt
but lawyers are like laboring men in
regard to wages, each works for those
who pay the most for the service. This,
of course is natural for self preserva-
ton is the first law of nature" and
The that provides not for his own
household is worse than an infidel.i'
The above enumerated facts being self
evident, it naturally follows that the
trusts and big business interests be-
ing more able to pay big prices fer
any l0InS tneN want imam the common
individual, it leaves a. loophole for them
to employ lawyers to make such laws
as the trusts desire to be made. This
is the way it looks just at present. If
it is not so, why let me ask is there
so much investigating going on down
at Washington? 1t looks as though
every congr assman was on some one
of the investigating committees. About
every trust of any Importance but one
is being Investigated. The one that is
not is the Wall street money trust The
trusts are the indirect result of the
laws on the statute books, placed there
by lawyers. The money trust is the
direct result Of law Is this doubted?
If So you ought to read Spauldings
Financial History of the War. That is
good authority, for E. 6. Spaulding was
a congressman from the Buffalo dis
trict, New York. and helped make the
law, in fact, was the chairman of the
subcommittee of ways and means and
was the chief Trainer of the laws dur
ing the war. This book is well worth
reading.
1t is wrong idea to place all the
blame on the Wall street magnates-
Congress investigating the trusts is on
a par with the man trying to lift him
self by his bootstraps. J. P. Morgan
does not create money in the sense of
saying what shall be money That
function belongs exclusively to con-
gress. Congress does say what shall
be money. but instead of creating it for
the people, direct it creates it and puts
it into the hands of the Wall street
magnates. as a free gift, besides giving
them a bonus The people. in order 20
get this money to use. must go either
to Wall street or its agents. which can
be found in every state in the union,
anG. pay them for the use of it. Wall
street gets it for nothing, and the bust
ness of the country (outside of the
NT1IT f-,-
use. Yet congress is supposed to make
laws for the people, the whole people
and as money is created by law, then
why should not the money be created
for the people instead of for Wall street
and the trusts?
The Wall street and trust magnates
may be blamed for trying to influence
legislation and make nominations for
the people to vote for but that is the
voters business. The voter who knows
enough to go to the polls and vote
should know enough to know whether
the candidate he votes for is going to
work for the trusts or for the people
The trust magnates take an interest n
politics Ga la Lorfmer) and nominate
the men they want, while the average
voter, if he has any choice at all, is for
the men on his party ticket. When the
voters of the country become as much
interested in their own affairs and
business as the trust magnatas are in
theirs the voters will have the mag
mates beaten to a fragile, simply be-
cause there are hundreds of voters to
one ma gDate and the magnates cannot
employ lawyers enough to make a cor
poral's guard. comparatively speaking.
BY the voters not taking any interest
the farce goes on. It is only question
of time and that ere long when the
anchor rope will snap and then AL
hands will be trying to keep their
heads above water and trying to swim
for the shore and not one in hundreds
know in which direction the shore is.
Moral: Better learn the points of the
compass, and learn how to swim before
the cyclone hits the boat.
J. C. VAILETTE.
North Franklin Conn., July IA 1911.