Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-23
CORRUPTION,A AND MONOPOLY
BY sAyoYARD.

R must be a humiliation to that paFS of the United States senate who voted for the ''Vindication" in re LOT insr to find that public opinion has forced the senate. as it IS now const- tuted to reopen the case. ! used the idea of. coercion advisedly. it IS the trtnate that vice pays to virtue wnen pro-Lorimer senators get hot-iaot in d chase of corruption here and there. It Is a sign of the times. and it means a house cleaning that means in turn that he, in public life, who would sooner be rich than honest will ere bong find himself a rascal without puhlic job.
 One conspicuous occupant of a seal in the senate, so wary held and wise ,Ss to scarce receive for gospel what the. church believes" tells us thai some yO, ,V00. COG of us have no rgnt to pass oH the LOrimer case because we have not read all the testimony. That is one of the solemn. ponderous and damphool; preachments of the Hon. Joseph Weldon Bailey of Texas. There is a large, a huge, monstrus volume of the testimony, and shall it be said these contain the law and the testament that only the elect shall in- terpret? Not son. Some 90,00O,OVt Americans have passed on the Lorl- suer case. They have found him gull ". and they are resolved to see that their verdict shall be made judgment and that the senate shall carry that judgment into execution.
 The neRs9apers told the public all Al T s@ tell the public all there is of the other cases. It Vas Richard Brins.ey Sheri- dan, a match for Burke, or Fox or Pftt in the Rthenian age of English parliamentary government, who eN claimed, give them a corrupt house eI lords, give them venal house Of commons. give them a -tyrannical prince, give them a trucking court, and lei me have an unfettered press, I win defy them to encroach hairs breadth upon the liberties of Eng land" - We have an unfettered press that told the exact truth about the Lorimer case. From that story the people form . cd their opinion and hence the order 10 the senate to reopen and retry the case. Public opinion said it was case of whitewash. and public opinion was not quite assured that if was not even worse than whitewash. That IS why the fJorimer case is reopenec. Nor is that all. There is to be no more whttewash here is to be a probing to the very bottom No judge of 8 cir |. emit court will be allowed to stop the proceeding. Every fact and every cir cumstance will be laid bare. | The neopie intend to'have a thorough look Into all their public affairs Hsnce this investigation. Look at the testimony the first day before the Stanley committee that is fnyestigat' ing the steel trust. It is startling though not. precisely new. Andrew Car Regfe laid the American people under trfhutA tn.him for s160, ,00.0J0 that was nothing but water in the obigationS of an industrial concern and seeureH by bonds. Rractically it was the eNer' else of the taxing power by an inol- yftuai who has accumulated hundreds of miIlions-s20O .000,G00 We know oI --sz monoBoiistic methods. Can that De toleratedsi in a free country Every day the people who labor. manual or mental, for an honest living ID me Vuite1 StateS strive for NIT. Carnesle, wko levied this debt of S1S0.0O0.0OO on them. for which he gave not one cent compensation. It vas not present given him. but a graft exacted by him. That thing has been going on for years. CarBegie's millions are about as honest as any millions that are gath cred in the field of frenzied finance. Al, of them are soaking in water and the peOnIe are taved in higher prices to nay them. It is feudalism in the gufse of business. rather than In the display of arms. Let me repeat and
 try to make it plain: Mr. Carnegie
 without the expenditure of 1 cent-not
 even the unearned increment-puts
 an annual tax on the American peo-
 vRF to pay him interest on s1s0.oOo.-
 eco bonds Of the United States Steel
 corporation. If Mir. Carnegie had put
 his property into the concern at what
 Ne had. said it was worth. only a while
 earlier. that comDany's burdens woulC