The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-12-29
BORAH'S NEW YORK SPEECH

DUAA1 , NEW lUkA NPEECh
Voices Warning Against Lawless-
ness and Crime.
Senator w. e. Borah Of Idaho
made q speech before the Young Re-
publican club OF New York one uiRht
last week, in-which he flayed yiolators
OF the law and voiced a warning for
the future of the country that ~
elicitlng much serious comment He
drew comparison between the MO
Namaras, the confessed dynamiters,
and the old Standard Oil and Tobac.
CO companies.
'To save their worthless lives" he
said. referring to ihe dynamiters,.
"they entered pleas Of guilty, insisting
that they did IL all for a principle
and expect an astonished world To
accept their whloing apologies.
"There is another court record
which we will, 10 passing, notice also.
Bound up in many volumes you will
find the full record Of two OF the late
noted decisions. 1t Is. u tale twice
told, Of seldshness and greed, extor-
ton and iawlessness. The plea Ut
Justification Is not unlike the plea OF
the planters of dynamite, for al
though the &c urs c.eary in viola.
tion OF law aud he rights OF the
public. It - claimed, nevertheless,
that II WAS all done in the interest OF
business growth aud Industrial pros.
gresS.
"There Is no place whore life Is SO
insecure against bomb or bulle',
where criminal laws, are SO incfYec.
tually enforced, where corruption Is
SO little condemned IN public opinion,
and where defiance Of law in the
highest walks OF business life 50 gen
orally prevails as In TIE United
States. To leave law uneufurced, To
cultivate a disregard FOR It's obliga-
tions, Is but to fallow the ground 81
that 10 after years there may be one
law for the poor and another for the
rch," said Mr.. Borah.
II refer alone" he said, ITO that
class who sit In their offices with
trained lawyers and plan how they
may evade the law and its penalties.
II a man lies In wait for his adver-
sary and slays him, nnwarned, will it
be defense for his lawyer to say To
the court that his client has always
had difficulty 10 distinguishing be-
tween voluntary aud Involuntary
manslaughler?
1t Is not only OF the things con-
demned by the rule of reason, but by
the dictates Of conscience and com.
mon honesty that the public COM
plains.
THE danger lies In procrastination.
We learned once at tremendous cost
OF life and blood that you may have
your fugitive slave law, your Mis-
souri, compromise, your bred Scott
decision, your fiat Of government,
your compromise with wrong, your
barter with justice, but the hour Of
reckoning and read djustDent comes
tardy, but inexorable. It's possible,
my friends, to 20 on until men of
great fortunes. whether Justly or un-
justly earned, will stand stripped like
the slave master Of the south not
alone OF his slaves, but stripped OF
his wealth, earned through two cen
turies OF 'unrequited TOLL
"Let US not trine too long with
that widespread passionate sense of
wrong, even among the more conserv--
ative, arising out OF the belief that
large fortunes have been built up at
the expense OF the poor, and that men,
women and children go hungry while
others revel In waste and luxury. 1t
is possible to go until the soldier
called into the street to protect pro-
perty will fraternize with the mob"
On Dec. 90 Persia yielded to the
demand of the Russian ultimatum
that w. Morgan Shuster, and Amcri.
c,n who hold I hc nosition of treasurer.