Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-21
M'NAMARAS and
TRUSTS CLASSED
Borah Declares Pleas of Guilty
Combines and Dynamiters
Are Same.
FEARS NEW REVOLUTION
Danger of the Future Lies in Pro.
crastination, Idaho Senator
Holds.

NtW ACN- SOhe@SOA va
liam E. Borah Of Idaho, at the Young
Republican club last night, made an
address that breathed fire in every
word for '1awless big business" and
little violators of the law as well.
He drew a significant comparison
between the McNamaras, the confess
ed dynamiters, and the old Standard
Oil and tobacco companies.
ITO save their worthless lives" he
said, referring to the dynamiters.
"they entered pleas of guilty, insist
ing that they did it for principle, and
expect an astonished world to accept
their whining apologies"
CALLS TT TALE OF GREED.
There is another court record
which we will in passing notice also.
Bound up in many volumes you will
find the full record OF two of the late
noted decisions. 1t is tale twice told,
of selfishness and greed, extortion and
lawlessness.
"The plea of justification is not un-
like the plea of the planters OF dyna-
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in violation of law and the rights OF
the public, it is asserted nevertheless
that it was done in the interest Of bus
mess growth and industrial progress.
There Is no nation where life is SC
insecure against bomb or bullet, where
criminal laws are 50 Intellectually en-
forced, where corruption is SO little
condemned in public opinion, and
where defiance of law in the highest
walks of business life so generally pre-
vails," said Mr.. Borah. ITO leave Law
unenforced, to cultivate disregard fol
its obligations is to fallow the grount
sc that in after years there may bt
, one law for the poor and another fol
. the rich. -~--.-- ------@-zS-
DOUBTS LAWS EFFICIENCY.
81 do not enter defense of our anti
, trust law; am frank to say doub
both it's efficiency and completeness
But it is the law, and if half the en-
ergy and ingenuity of our business
men had been put forth to perfect II
that has been expended to successful,
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long ago would have had law whiel
would protect all legitimate business
and make all business legitimate.
II sympathize sincerely with thu
man who in his hunger or his disap
pointment, in discouragement or de
spair, thinks he can better conditions
by taking the law into his own hands
In the house in which order shall b.
, driven from its high place in the TEN
| pie of liberty and in which lawlessnes
and might shall come in its stead, il
, the fearful struggle to follow, the frs
, man to go to the bottom to remain
i there will be the man who tolls.
FEARS NEW REVOLUTION.
"The danger lies in procrastination
We learned once at tremendous cos
of life and blood that you may hav
your fugitive slave law, your Missour
! compromise, your Dred Scott decision
your fiat of government, your comprc
: mise with wrong, your barter wit
J justice, but the hour of reckoning an
rcadjustment comes-tardy, but inel
orable. 1t is possible to go on unit
men of great fortunes, whether justl
, CT unjustly earned, will stand Stripe
l like the slave master of the south nc
: alone OF his slaves, but stripped of hi
5 wealth, earned through two centurfe
3 of 'unrequited toll
5 Let us not trifie too long with tha
widespread passionate sense of wron,
1t is possible to go on until the soldie
called into the street to protect prol
erty will fraternize with the mob"