Arizona republican., 1911-12-21
And Little Business, Too, Comes in for Drubbing at the Hands of the Fiery Senator from the State of Idaho.
STANDARD OIL
 IS GIVEN TRIMMING
Speech Dealt with Obedi- ence to the Law Which, the Senator said, Is the Foundation of All Sue cessful Government.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2o.-Senator William r.. Borah of Idaho. at the Young Republican club tonight made an address that breathed fire in every word for "law,ess big business and little vsoIators of the law as well
 He drew significant comparison between the McNamaras. the con fesSed dynamiters. and the old stand ard oil and Tobacco companies
 To save their worthless lives. he said. referring to the dynamiters. they entered pleas of guilty. insist ing that they did it all for principle and expect an astonished world to ac- ccpt their whining apologies.
 There is another court record which we will in passing, notice also. Pound up in many volumes you will lind the full record of two of the late noted decisions. It is a tale twice tod. of selfishness and greed. eNtor- ton and lawlessness. The plea or Justification is not unlike the plea Of the planters of dynamite. for although the acts are clearly in violation or law and the rights of the pubic, IL is claimed nevertheless, that it was all done in the interest of business growth and industrial progress.
 This k the best plea and the only plea that twentieth century business can furniSh-all that could be said by those go rarely gifted and richly endowed with this worlds goods and intellectual power and of whom the government and humanity have a right to expect SO much"
 Respect and enforcement of the law was one of the keynotes of Sen ator Borah's address. Obedience to the law he said. was the bedrock on which powerful governments are built and he believed this a time when LoliticaI party could afford to make it a cardinal tenet of its faith. In m" other first rate nation. he said. is law SD disrcgarded as in the United states
 There is no pace where life is SD insecure against bomb OF bullet where criminal laws are so ineffectu- ally enforced. where corruption is so little condemned in public opinion and where defiance of law in the highest walks Of business life so generally prevails. To leave law unenforced. to cultivate d disregard for it's obiga- tions is but to fallow the ground so that in after years there may be one law for the poor and another for the rich" said Mir. Borah.
 He added that the McNamara cases and the trust cases were strong and uncontroverted evidence of what is fast becoming a national disease. He said he had no sympathy with the prosecution of business men who erred unknowingly.
 "I refer alone" he said. ito that class who sit in their offices with trained lawyers and plan how they may evade the law and it's penalties. If a man lies in wait for his adver- sary and stays him. unWarned. will it be a defense for his lawyer to say to the court that his client has always had difficulty in distinguishing be tween voluntary and involuntary manslaughter?
 Tt is not only of the things con domned by the rule of reason. but by the dictates of conscience and common honesty that the public com Tlairs. I do not enter a defense of our antitrust law; I am frank to say I doubt both it's efficiency and completeness But it is the law and if half the energy and ingenuity of our business man had been put forth to perfect it. that has been eX- pended to successfully violate it and make it worthless. we would long ago have had law which would pro- tect all legitimate business and make all business legitimate.
 "I sympathize sincerely with the man who in his hunger or his dis appointment. in Encouragement or de- spair. thinks he can better conditions by taking the law into his own hands. Tn the hour in which order shall be driven from its high place in the tenn ple of liberty and in which lawless- ness and might shall come in it's stead. in the fearful struggle tO fol- low. the first man to go to the bot tom to remain there will be the man who tolls
 But how shall we excuse or long sympathiZe with the man of influence and position. of wealth and prestige who still by word and deed teaches disrespect for or defiance of the law? Does he not know that it is useless to long expect law and order in the common walks of life when lawless- ness reigns supreme in the upper air?
 The danger lies in procrastination. We learned once at tremendous cost