The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-20
THOSE WHO SLEW RosENTHAL

Every playhouse has several entrances two of which exceedingly important One is the great arch at the front of the house. through which the public enters the magnificent display of tinse and make believe The other is the stage door, through which the actors ter and the stage hands They the scenery it S cude painted the faces of the actresses There illusion to them The stage is cold, bare place. upon which men and women toll hard for living.
 The play house of American politics has two principal entrances the front entrance and the rear to the last of which the people seldom admitted
 It is feature of the development of our life just now that this door has in way refused to tirely close and through tiny crack it were, gmpses of life behind the scenes are hazily visible.
 Occasionally light iamnes some special nook upon the boards and particular incident is sharply de- fined tvpfving other incidents that are not seen.
 The villain of the play is the politician a poor devil with scarcely extra suit of clothes to his back But the and promoters of this unfortunate fellow, who ally keep well in the background big business special privilege and public service They furnish the brains and the motive and the villain does the dirty work.
 few times the door has jared little wider and severaly Senator Stephenson spending $1OO00 to carry Wisconsin, Senator Lorimer obtaining his office by corruption and his expulsion from the Senae one Theron E. Cat spending thousands upon thousands to be elect ed to Congress- who is also expeed Judge Archibald inn peached for abusing his high judicial office and Herman Rosenthal the gambler murdered in New York by the undoubted connivance of high police officials
 From the corrupt expenditures of Stephenson, or a Lorimer, to the murder of Rosenthal seems far cry
 From the purchase of franchise, to the killing of gambler by police crooks, is long way but the con- necion between these separated nques that between the separate beads in a necklace THEY ARE ALL THREADED ON THE SAME STRING.
 Government isIorganized by predatory wealth to fa- ctate the robbery of the people their exploitation by fair prices by public service extoron by watered stock by inordinate tariffs.
 The predaceous plutocrats cannot organize govern ment in their interest without linking together all the clements hatp prey upon the people Thugs and mil ionaires have purpose; gamblers and railroad owners are linked by desire Wool barons, and such as kill for hire, are inspired by twin motives
 Greed strings them together, filthy adornment en- crcling the neck of the state. a.
 Greed links them together and they sin together and each responsible for the oenses of the other for they consprato1s against the state work out end and in the eye of the aw legal and moral the pr- cples wicked plot each and every guilty of the consequences of that plot small or great for evil
 The soft handed, brilliant who organize evil in the sate responsibility for the Rosen- thai murder, than they escape their own skins.
 He who buys legislators in Connecticut has the blood of Herman Rosentha upon his hands, certainly as if he slew him by his own voltion.
 Shall robbng house kill the owner by accident and not be guilty of murder? Hes guilty That is the law.
 It is not of the least consequence in the domain of morals, that those who chiefly corrupt the state not contemplate murder If by their corruption sequence in chain of events murder is done then the system faut and the creators of the system blood guilty the formsi