The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
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PUT one DUMMY In JAIL
Thereafter, He Says, There Will
Be No More irresponsible Dunn
my Directors to Hire Out to the
Large Corporations and Trusts
That Prey lyon the People
George E. Miller, special cor
respondent Of the Detriot News, in
letter to his paper from Sea Girt,
N. j., the summer capital of that
state, says if Gov Woodrow VII
son becomes President OF the Unit
ed States, his message on the sub
ject of trust busting will go to con-
gress with the decisive emphasis OF
the rifle shots which echo through
his library from the range as you
sit in conversation with him in the
State Executives summer home
here. They will if the Governor
retains the opinions he now holds
on the illegal things done by the
people characterized by MI. Roose-
welt as malefactors of great wealth.
Gov. Wilson is no hopeless despond-
ent. He disagrees utterly with those
who believe the law cannot be made
to reach such as seek to adjust the
business machinery of this country
so that all the wealth will fall into
few hoppers. His ideas are sharp
" defined and his plans simplicity
itself.
He would send violators of the
law to Jail. That is the whole Of the
antidote he prescribes. Fines, he
says, place too much burden Of the
punishment upon the innocent. And
he SCOTS at the idea that the guilty
cannot be detected and convicted. 1t
will be seen that Gov Wilson's plan,
quoted below, for trust busting diff
fers very radically from the blus-
ter and DO nothing plan of Taft and
Republicans generally, but agrees
with Bryan's plans. Here is Gov.
Wilson's plan as outlined to the
correspondent:
"The managers of corporations
themselves always know the men
who originated the acts charged
against them as done in contraven-
ton of the law; is there no means
by which their names may be dis
closed to the officers Of justlce2
Every act, every policy, in the con-
duet of the affairs of corpora IN,
originates with some particGia of-
ficer, committee or board. The Of
ficer, the committee, the board, or
dering an act, or originating a pol
icy, contrary to the law, or intended
to neutralize or contravene it, is
serious offender against socie2;
and must be Iuuisced If our instl-
tutions are to staLG.
It is neither sensible or affec-
tive to attempt to punist: .he .cr-
poration. We do not indict the gun,
but the man behind the gun. il is
a fatuous and unnecessary fiction to
treat corporation as in all respects
a legal person. To control such OF
it's acts as are against public policy,
we must cease to deal with 1t by
means of the law as if it were only
single individual, a responsible
in dividual, and must handle it for
what it is-an artificial agency
You cannot punish corporation.
Fines fall upon the wrong persons.
Fines fall opon the wrong persons,
and more heavily upon the innocent
than the guilty. Those who Know
nothing whatever of the ofense for
which the fine is inflicted must pay
as we'll as those who originated and
carried through the illegal act. so
the real punishment falls upon 1e
stockholders and the customers.
IF you will but put one or two
cnnsnicuous dummies into the penl-
Tertiary, there will be no more dunn
mics for hire. You can stop the trat-
ic in dummies, and then, when the
idea has taken root in the corporate
mind that dummies will be confls-
Gated, the custom of the business
will change. Modern business enter
prise make the corporations indis-
pensable. None Of US, take it, has
any quarrel with business success,
but all of US ought to have an ire
quarrel with business law
essness. AS I told the lawyers OF
he American Bar Association in an
address last year, corporations 90
lot do wrong. individuals do
wrong. When we stop that wrong
ioing we have taken from the
all the power os evil OF
which the people so justly COM
,lain.
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