Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

| with llS poluCal ldIeneSS and in pa IS
Ing calls 1t "a Pharisee" The public
says the condemnatory daily-com-
plains of criminal privilege and accuses
1t of coercion, corruption and bribery.
The daily points out how the trusts are
| frequently the victims. not the crimi-
nails, and-threatened by the pubic's
own elected off1cers-pay not brides,
but blackmail. The public, crying for
protection, should-by word of the dali
ly-in its turn protect. II should save
the trusts from extortioners in office
before assailing them as extortioners.
bleeding the public
This charge Is not new. 1t was made
four years ago by Mr.. Archbold. You
know Mr.. Archbold. He sits all day at
NO. 26 Broadway, inclosing certificates
OF deposit for 81 900 and $4,000 and
10000 and $4,000 to my Dear Cen
eral Grosvenor" and Dear Sibley" and
My Dear Senator Foraker" and Dear
Mr.. Penrose," meanwhile urging per
incident that this measure be killed or
that measure pressed, or this man be
made a judge or that man prevented
from becoming an attorney general:
and all and singular with a view to ex-
tending a corruption which in the be-
ginning produced him (Mr. ArchboIdD
and has ever since continued to pleas
antly foster and fatten him
Public Should Reform Itself.
Mr., Archbold and the metropolitan
daily have some reasonable right on
their side. Good can come out of Naz-
areth, truth proceed from a metropoli-
tan daily or an Archbold. 1t may even
be echoed by a Chancellor Day. And
because of a woolsack aphorism which
insists that he who comes into equity
must come with clean hands, a convict
ed public, complaining of trust extor-
tons and the encroachments of crimi-
nal privilege, should turn honestly ac-
tive in an effort to reform itself
As declared by Mr.. Archbold and re-
declared by that metropolitan daily
defending criminal privilege with red
faced zeal-the public too often and
too carelessly has maintained a band OF
wolves at its capitols as part and parcel
Of what 1t calls congresses and legis-
latures.
Failing of it's plain duty the public
in the business of It's Office filing, has
allowed itself to be ruled by bosses
ruled by money These bosses were
mere wolf masters They picked out
and controlled the public wolfpacks.
The big parties were both to blame.
There was the Republican part of the
pack, which corresponded with the
black timber wolves of our Northwest
ern woods There was the Democrat
fragment of the pack which-dingy and
brindled as to moral hue-found their
prototypes in the big gray wolves Of
the plains
Being gathered together, gaunt,
hungry eyed. famished Of flank, the
wolf pack Iettins its glance rove about
the plains OF business describes a fat
trust-felonious, but fat. 1t is now the
chase begins. The fat company is be-
set by some bill or some resolution, cal
culated for its injury or destruction.
Price Must Be Forthcoming.
At this crisis enter the ill-odored
folk OF the lobby whose province is the
unclean province Of the go-between.
The threatened trust is told the price of
peace and safety Unless the price be
| forthcoming the injurious bill or de-
structive resolution will be voted
through.
| The harassed company pays the
price With that the wolf pack fall
upon that blackmail-after the bosses
and minor wolf masters have torn off
their shares-and rend it to pieces.
| Who is responsible for this special
| and particular corruption? Is 1t the
trusts, hunted by the olf-pack? Or is
1t the public. lazily Indifferent both to
its ballot duty and its political respon-
sibiity?
| The above, however, doesn't mark in
| full the boundaries of public culpa-
blity, and Mr. Archbold and the metro
poitan daily stopped talking too soon.
| In its laxities Of politics the public is
not only to blame for wolves of black
mail in legislatures and congresses, but
also for the leg freedom wrongfully
| enjoyed by a multitude of trust organs
and felons of criminal privilege. OIL
these MT Archbold and the excited daily
say suspiciously nothing.
Consider those beef acquittas in
| Chicago and those sugar dismissals-
through the interposition of a conven-
lent statuteN of limitations-in New
York. Consider the score or more of
| similar waterhaus in antitrust litiga
tions-those farcical dissolutions by the
supreme court Of Tobacco and Stand
ard Oil. Forget not, too, those one
hundred and one "tnvestiga tons" of
steel and sugar and railroads and in
surance
Those trials and Investigations in
their results gave the world a long and
ebon roll call of self-confessed male
factors. These letters were self-ad-
mitted criminals, by both letter and
spirit of the law. They had committed
crimes of rebate and perjury and lar
ceny and forgery. Than they no Paul
Kelly by their own admissions, was
more the proper candidate for stripes.
But the law was not enforced
There came no convictions. no SEN