The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-21
Draws Sign ficant Comparison Be-
tween The McNamarss And
Large Corporations
ADDRESSES REPUBLICAN CLUB
Assails Dyns miters' Plea That
Actions Were In Interest
OF Industrial Growth

New York, Dec. 90 Senator VII
liam Il. Barah, of Idaho, at the Young
Mems Republican Club tonight made
an address that breathed fire In every
word for ''lawless bly, business and
little violators of the law as well.
He drew a significant comparison
between the McNamaras, the con
fessed dynamiters, and the old Stan
dard Oil and Tobacco companies
"To saves their worthless lives
he said, referring to the dynamiters
"they entered pleas OF guilty, insist
ing that they did ii all for principle
and expect an, astonished world to &C
cept their whinging apologies"
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 II is q
tale twice told, of selfishness and
greed. extortion and lawlessness
The plea of justification is not un-
like the plea of the planters OF dy.
Mantle. for although3the acts are
clearly in violation OF Iaw and rife
rights af pHblie, IL 'as staiffgd neger:
theless, That is was all done in the
interest of business growth and in
dustrial progress.
Best Business Plea
This is the best plea and the only
plea that Twentieth Century bust
ness can furnish--all that could be
said by those so rarely gifted and
richly endowed with this world
goods and intellectual power, ana
of whom the government and hut
manity have right to expect so
much"
Respect and enforcement of the
law was one of the keynotes OF
Senator 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 political party could afford to
make it a cardinal test of its faith
In no other first rate nation, he said
is lay SO disregarded as In the United
States.
"There Is no place where life Is so
insecure against bomb or bullet.
where criminal laws are so ineffect-
ually 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 un-
enforced, to cultivate disregard for
its obligations is but to follow the
ground so that in after years there
may be one law for the poor and an
o,her for the rich" said Mr.. Borah
Cites Mcnamara Case
He added that the Mcnamara
cases and the trust cases were strong
and unconverted evidence of what Is
fast becoming national disease. He
said he had no sympathy with the
prosecution of business Imen who
erred unknowingly,
II refer alone" he said, " to that
class who sit in their offices with
trained lawyers and plan how they
may evade the law and its penal
ties. If man lies in wait for hi3
adversary and slays him, unwarned
will it be defense for his lawyer to
say to the court that his client has
always had difficulty in distinguish
ing between voluntary and involun-
tary manslaughter?
"It is not only of the things con
demned by the rule of reason, but
by the dictates of conscience and
r. mmon honesty that the public com
plains. do not enter defense of
our antitrust law; am frank to
say doubt both its efficiency and
completeness. But 1t is the law and
if half the energy and ingenuity OF
our business men had been put forth
to perfect ii, that has been expended
to successfully violate 1t and make
1t worthless. we would long ago have
had law which would protest all
legitimate business and make all
business legitimate"
Sympathizes with Despondent,
II sympathize sincerely with the
man who in his hunger or his disap-