The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-25
PROTECTING THE PEOPLE

PROTECTING THE PEOPLE
Under the head OF Protecting
Nil1ionaires.' the Times-Union Sun
day printed another of those weari-
some articles, in which 1t insists that
the general public is not affected by
the issuance OF railroad securities.
One cant help inferring, when he
sees an article of this description in
the T.-U., that it is written at the
dicfation OF some fatheaded pluto
crat. who may know enough to
stack up dollars, but has no more
idea OF law. or public veal than a
COW knows of running a Sunday
school. Such articles are so COM
pletely at variance with the ability
generally displayed on the editorial
page Of the T.jU., that 1t is not pos
sfb1e that the men who write them
do not know that other men of in
teIligence, who are the ones they
desire to influence, know better than
TO believe them.
In one paragraph, the T.-U. says:
I'VE do not see how the general
public is affected by the issue of rail-
road securities The people gen.
orally do not own them. The law
that would make the government in
vestigate and approve railroad secur-
1tIes, and therefore in a sense guar
antee them, would be law for the
projection of the rich alone, for the
poor don't lend money to railroads
The men who buy railroad securities
are generally supposed to be able to
manage their own affairs. We have
never heard that any OF them have
ever asked the government to take
saxe of them, and do not see why it
1i0uld do SO unasked."
IN course, millfonaires are 50 en-
rHeD apart from the rest of the
DeOpte ethat money they spend fool
izhiy Dr make wrongfully has no eff
feet su11ateuer on the general public.
They are, sananrding to this, shut OF
IN a world OF their own, and the
snms they handle are not money IN
circulation, but toys for them to
play with.
sKhe T.-U's. statement that it never
heard that any of these people asked
I&ae government to take care of them
,iE,nut asssf OF anything so much as
that Aleere is some One always on the
s1b din the T.-U. Office to judiciously
STUN a wad of cotton in the editorial
ears at the proper times. The coun-
Try has been deafened the last half
n century with either the demands or
runrlain1s Of these same gentlemen
syhD use railroad securities in their
Ding pong games. It's true that 1t is
only lately that they have begun to
ask Up to about decade ago, they
or rather commanded.
The T.-U., with disregard to the
present New Haven scandal that is
poaitiyely stunning. adds this pom
derously Solomonic observation:
1.-The railroads touch the people in
general only in the service they rem
der and in the charges they make for
IL Railroads that had swindled in
restOrs in bonds would be apt to
render to the public as good service
and charge as little for it as those
which had fioated none but gilt
edged securities"
The following sentence is the only
sone in the article, that will strike the
.raaTa reader of the TimesIUnion' as
aai1nerE.
AThe Times-Union is not a paper
that would ignore the rights of the
rich
Rnt when the T.-U. goes on to
cav. est thinks the rich have the
same rights as the poor, and that
each should be equally protected,
1T is likely to fetch a sarcastic smile
fo the faces of even the bunch it is
published primarily to defend.
The T-U. disposes OF the entire
matter as follows:
"A 1maIefactor of great wealth.,
need not fear the law which would
mt the average man in the peniten-
1iary. Is this because his wealth
nuys him exemption9 By no means
He doesn't have to spend dollar or
81 De is too. valuable as an asset 10
xrjtafors to be wasted on the peni-
Tertiary. They use him TO show the
dear people what they will do Il
elected to Office to stop Indicators
81 great wealth from robbing-one
.sreoner. Just how they bring the
people in We do not understand, but
N41ey DO it,