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The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
"Unsettling" Business.

The apoogists of successful dishonesty always de-
claim against any effort to punish prevent it the
ground that such effort will "unsettle business 1t is
they who by their acts have unsettled business and
the very raising this cry spend hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in securing by speech, editorial book
or pamphlet the defense by missatement of what they
have done; and yet when we correct their misstate-
by telling the TRUTH they declaim against for
breaking silence, lest values be unse;tied They have
hurt honest business men, honest working men, hon
est farmers; and now they camor against the truth
being told.
The keynote of all these attacks upon the effort
10 secure honesty in business and in politics is
pressed recent speech. in which The speaker stated
that prosperity had been checked by the effort for the
moral regeneration of the business world effort
which he denounced as unnatural, unwarranted, and
injurious" and for which he stated tine panic the
penalty. The morality OF such plea precisely as
gambling establishment when that gambling establish
ment is raided by the police If such words mean any
thing they mean that those whose sentiments they rep
resent stand against the effort to brpg about moral
regeneration of business which will prevent repeti-
ton of the insurance banking and street railroad scan
dals in New York; repetition of the Chicago and
Alton deal; repetition Of the combination between
certain professional politicians, certain professional
labor leaders, and certain big nanciers from the dis
grace of which San Francisco has Just been rescued
repetition of the successful efforts by the Standard
Oil people to crush every competitor, to overawe
the common carriers, and to establish monopoly
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
Rights of Working Women.

1t is hypocritical baSeness to speak OF girl who
works in factory where the dangerous machinery IS
unprotected as having the right freely 20 contract
TO expose herself to dangers life and nh She has
no alternative but suffer want else to expose her
sell to such dangers and when she loses hand is
otherwise MANNED or disfgured for life it is moral
wrong that the burden OF the risk necessarily incidental
to the business should be placed with crushing weight
upon her weak shoulders and the man who has prof
tied BY her work escape scofree. This is what our
opponents advocate and it Is proper that they should
advocate it. for rounds their advocacy of those
most dangerous members OF the criminal class. the
criminals of vast wealth. the who can afford best
to pay for such championship in the press and on
the stump. ..'
1t difficult to speak about the judges. for it be-
hooyes us all to treat with the utmost respect the high
Office of Judge; and judges as whole are brave
and upright men, But there is need that those who go
wrong should not be allowed TO fee that there is no
condemnation OF their wrong doing A judge who on
the bench either truckles to the mob bows down
before a corporation: who, having left the bench
to become corporation lawyer, seeks aid his eli
ents BY denouncing as enemies of property all those
who seek stop the abuses of the criminal rich such
a man performs an service 10 the body po-
Iitic than the legislator executive who goes wrong
In no way can respect for the courts be so quick
ly undermined by teaching the pLbic through the
action of judge himself that there is reason for the
loss of such respect The judge who By word or
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
Position of the Just Judge.

The Judge who does his full duty well stands
higher and renders better service the people, than
any other public servant he is entitled greater
spect: and if he is servant Of the people, If he
is upright wise and fearless he will unhesatingly
disregard even the wishes OF the people if they Con-
fict with the eternal principles of right as against
wrong He must serve the people; but he must serve
his conscience first All honor 70 such judge; and
all honor cannot be rendered him If it is rendered
equally to his brethren who fall UNNECESSARILY below
the high ideals for which he stands There should be
A sharp discrimination against such judges. They
claim immunity from criticism, and the claim is heat
edIy advanced by men and newspapers like those OF
whom | speak. Most certainly they can claim immu-
nity from untruthful criticism and their champions,
the newspapers and the public men have mentioned
exqusitely illustrate by their actions mendacious
criticism in its most fragrant and niquitous form.
But no servant of the people has right to expect
to be free from just and honest criticism. 1t IS the
newspapers and the public men whose thoughts and
deeds show them to be alien to honesty and truth
who themselves loudly object to truthful and honest
criticism OF their felowseryants of the great moneyed
interests
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
IIIegality or Moral Turpitude?

Among the big corporations themselves, even where
they did wrong there was wide difference in the
moral oblquity indicated by the wrong-doer. There
was wide distinction between the ofenses commit
ted in the Of the Northern Securities Company,
and the ofenses because of which the Sugar Trust
the Tobacco Trust and the Standard Oil Trust
successfully prosecuted under my administration. 1t
was vital to destroy the Northern Securities Company;
but the creating i: had done in open and above
board fashion, acting under what they. and most Of
the members of the bar thought to be the law esab
lshed by the Supreme Court in the Knight sugar
But tine Supreme Court, in its decree dssolving the
Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts, condemned them in
the language for moral turptude; and
severer meed of condemnation shold be visited
the Sugar Trust
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22

been the futile endeayor to imprison defendants whom
we are actually able to fine. H. raises the usual
camor, raised by all who object to the enforcement OF
the law that are nng corporations instead of put
ting the heads of the corporations in jail: and he
states that this does really harm tine chief offend
ers. We're this statement true he himself would not
be found attacking us.
The extraordinary violence of the assault upon our
policy contained in speeches like these in the articles
in the subsidized press in such huge advertisements
and pamphlets as those above referred to, and the
enormous of money spent in these various ways
give fairly accurate of the anger and terror
which our actions have caused the corrupt men of vast
wealth to feel in the very marrow Of their being.
The thus attacking US is usually, like so many
of his fellows. either great lawyer, or paid editor
who takes his commands from the fnancie.s and his
arguments from their attorneys If the former, he has
defended many rualefac;ors and he knows well that
thanks to the advice OF lawyers like himself. certain
kind of modern corporation has been turned into an
admirable instrument by which to render il wel-ngh
impossible get the really guilty man, so that in
the only way Of furnishing the wrong by
filming the corporation or by proceeding personally
against some of the minor agents.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
The Hepburn Rate Bill Helped.

At one time OF their writers or speakers at
lacks the rate law the of the panic; he is,
whether in public life not usually clever corpora
ton lawyer, and he is not foolish being to be-
eve in the truth of what he says he mas too closely
represented the railroads to know well that the
Hepburn rate bill has helped every honest railroad and
has hurt only the railroads that regarded themselves
as above the law At another time, one OF them as
sails the administration for not ;mprisoning people
under the Sherman antitrust law: for declining
make what he well knows in view of The actual atti-
tude of juries (as shown in the Tobacco Trust
and in San Francisco in one or two of the cases
brought against corrupt business men), would have
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
OSCAR STRAUS.

end One OF the special peaders for business dishon
esy in a recent speech in denouncing :he admnisra-
ton for enforcing the law against the huge and cor
rupt corporations which have dehed the law also de-
nounced it Tor endeavoring to secure tar-reaching
law making employers liable for injuries to their en-
poyes 1t is meet and it that the apoogists for cor
rup wealth should oppose every effort to relieve weak
and HELPLESS people from crushing misfortune brought
upon them by injury in the business from which they
gain bare livelihood and their employers fortunes.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
The Cases Against Northern Securities
Company and Those Against the To-
bacco, Sugar, and Oil Trusts Bitter
Assaults Upon Col Roosevelt and His
Administration by the Corporations
He Had Proceeded Against.

deed makes it plain that the corrupt corporation, the
Iaw-defying corporation the law-defying rich man,
has in him sure and trustworthy ally the Judge who
by misuse of the process Of injunction makes plain
that in him the wage-worker has determined and
INSCRIPTIONS enemy, the judge who when he decides
in an employers liability tenement house factory
shows that he has neither sympathy for nor un-
Outstanding of those feow-citizens OF his who most
need his sympathy and understanding; these judges
work as much evil as if they panderec to the mob,
if they shrank from sterny REFRESHING violence mad
disorder
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22

The outery against stopping dishonest practices
among the very wealthy is precisely similar to the out
cry raised against every effort for cleanliness and de-
cency in city government because, forsooth 1t Will
hurt business" The same outcry is made against the
Department of Justice for prosecuting the heads OF
colossal corporations that is made agains the men
who in San Francisco prosecuting with impartial
severity the wrongdoers among business men, public
officials, and Labor leaders alike The principle is the
same II the two cases. just the blackmailer and
the brbe-gyer stand on the evil eminence OF IN
fanny so the man who makes enormous fortune by
corrupting legislatures and municipalities and heecing
his stockholders and the public stands on level with
the creature who fattens the blood money OF the
gambling house, the saloon, and the brothel More
over both kinds OF corruption in the last analysis are
far more intimately connected than would at first sight
appear; the wrongdoing is at bottom the same Cor
rupt business AMI corrupt politics and react with
ever increasing debasement he other; the re-
bae-taker the franchse-traficker the manipulation OF
securities the puryeyor and protector Of vice, the
Matchmaking ward boss, the ballot box suffer, the
denagogue the mob leader the hired bully and man
killer all alike work at the same web OF corruption
and all alike should be abhorred by honest men.
The business" which is hurt by he movement for
honesty is the kind of business which, in the long
il pays the country to have hurt. 1t is the kind OF
business which has tended to make the very name
high finance" term of scandal to which all honest
American men Of business should ION in putting an
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
Material Rewards for Mammon Worshippers.

There are ample material rewards for those who
serve with fidelity the OF unrigneousness but
they are dearly paid for by that institution of learn
ing whose head by example and precept teaches the
scholars who sit under him that there is one law for
the rich and another for the poor. The amount OF
money the representatives of the great moneyed inter-
ests are willing to spend can be gagged by their recent
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
Representatives Of Predatory Wealth"

It was time to say something, Tor he representa-
tives of predatory wealth, of wealth accumulated on
giant scale by inquily, by wrongdoing in many forms.
by plain swindIing, by expressing wsge-workers. by
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
Assaults by Corporations.

However, all the trusts and big corporations
against which proceeded-which included IN their d.
rectorates practically all the biggest nanciers in the
country-joned in making the bitterest assaults
and on my administration. OF their actions l wrote
as follows to Attorney General Bonaparte, who had
been peculiarly close friend and adviser through the
period covered by my public life in high Office and
who together with Attorney General Moody possessed
the same understanding sympathy with my social and
industrial program that possessed by such officials
as Straus, Garfield H. K Smith, and Pinchot The
letter runs:
-, January ?, 1908.
My Dear Bonaparte:
1 must congratulate you your admirable speech
at Chicago. You said the very things it was good to
say at this time. What you said bore especial weight
because it represented what you had done. You have
shown by what you have actually accomplished that
the law is enforced against the wealtest corporation
and the richest and powerful manager or manp-
ator of that corporation, just resoluely and fear
lessly as against the hurnblest citizen The Depart
ment of Justice is now in very fact the Department of
Justice, and justice is melted with an even hand
10 great and small, rich and poor weak and strong
Those who have denounced you and the action of the
Department of Justice either misied, else
the very wrong doers and the agents of the very
wrong-doers, who have for many years gone scot
free and houted the laws with IMMUNITY. Above all,
you be congratulated upon the bitterness felt
and expressed toward you By the representatives and
agents of the great lawdefying corporations of I'M
mense wealth, who until within the last half-dozen
years. have treated themselves and have expected 9TH
CTS to treat them being beyond and above all posi-
bic check from law.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22

which treats the public with the contempt which the
public deserves SO long permits men Ike the pun
lie men of whom speak to represent it IN politics.
like the heads OF collegesto whom refer to edu
cate its youth
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
Causes of Business Distress.

| do not for a moment believe that actions
have brought on business distress; far this due
to local and not world wide causes and to the actions
of any particular individuals, due to the specu-
Iative foIy and fragrant dishonesty of few men of
great wealth. who seek to shield themselves from
the effects of their wrongdongs by ascribing its
results to the actions of those who have sought to put
stop to the wrong-doing But if it were true that
to cut out rottenneSs from the body polite meant a
momentary check to unhealthy seeming prosperity
should not for moment hesitate to put the knife
to the cancer On behalf of all our people, on behalf
no less of the honest man of than of the honest
man who earns each days livelihood by that days
sweat of his brow it is necessary to insist upon hon.
estv in business and politics alike in all walks Of life
in big things and in little things; upon JUST and fair
dealing as between man and We striving for
the right in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln when he
said
"Fondlv do we hoPe-fervently do we pray-that
this mighty scourge may speedily pass away Yet II
God wills that continue until all the wealth. piled by
the bondsmen's two hundred and fifty years of I'M
reouted toll shall be sunk and until every drop OF
blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword as said three thousand
wears ago. so still it be said, The judgments OF
the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
With malice toward none; with charity for all;
with rmness in the right. God gives to see the
right, let US strive on to finish the work in"
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte,
Attorney General
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Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte,
Attorney General.

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The Republican journal., 1914-02-05

Over four hundred and eighty thousand
square yards of different types OF roads
for experimental and object lesson pur-
poses were constructed during the fiscal
year 1912 1913 under the supervision of
the Office of Public Roads, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, according to bulle-
tin So of the department, making total
of over four million square yards OF road
constructed under the supervision of this
office since 1905.
The type of roads built were brick.
concrete, oil-cement concrete, bltuminous
concrete, bituminous-surfaced concrete,
bituminous macadam, surface treatment,
macadam, asphalt-slag, oil-asphalt- grav-
ell, oil-gravel, oil-coralline, gravel-ma-
cadam, gravel, Stag. sand-clay, sand
gumbo, burnt-clay, shell and earth. The
object lesson and experimental work
during the past year was done at cost
to the local communities Of Sl39, 841 80.
This does not include the salaries and ex-
penses of the department engineers.
The road work during the year was
done in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Maryland. Mississippi, Nebraska,
North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes-
see, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and the
District of Columbia.
The Republican journal., 1914-02-05

the right man to succeed DR.. E. A. Blsh-
CD as principal of Montpelier Seminary,
the trustees feel certain that they have
found him in the person of Rev. John W.
Hatch. D. D. of Bangor, Me-, superin-
tendent of Bangor District, East Maine
Conference. Born in Pressure Isle, Me-,
he prepared for college chiefly by study
ing at night after the days work was
done on the farm, and graduated with
honors from the University of Maine In
1888. with the degree of bachelor of sci
ence. In 1889 he took post graduate
course at Harvard University. After
teaching science in Hampton Institute
for two years he took a special course IN
the Theological School of Boston Unlver.
sity. In 1891 he received the degree OF
Master of Science from the University
of Maine, and in the same year was
made a member of the American Assocl-
alton for the Advancement of Science;
After being very successful nigh scnool
principal for several years in Name; IN
1895 he joined the East Maine Confer
ence, and after holding several success
full pastorates, was appointed presiding
elder of the Bangor District. At its last
commencement, willamette University
conferred upon him the degree OF doctor
of divinity.
DR.. Hatch is a combination of several
valuable qualities, being tireless and
courageous worker, and one who faces
difficulties with a determination to con-
quer them. He is tactful administrator
and wise leader. AS a teacher he IS
commanding, and has the ability to
arouse the enthusiasm of his pupils.
The Republican journal., 1914-02-05
THE INCOME TAN RECOGNIZES
FORESTRY.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. 1914. Forester
and lumbermen see in decision of h
Treasury Department in regard to tl
administration of the income tax stror
argument for forestry. AS they int
pref the opinion of the Treasury officia
they understand thai no timherlan,
shall be subject to the tax until the tin
Der is cut and marketed and that the
the profit only will be subject to an il
come tax assessment. In other WORD
all costs will be deducted before the ia
is levied, and these will cover the cost
growing the timber, including the cost
planting where necessary and of protec
ing the growing crops from fire and 9th,
depreciation.
This decision was based upon a requa
for information made by P. S. Ridsda.
secretary of the American forestry a:
ISOLATION He asked if there would he
tax on the value of the yearly growth
timber whether it was cut or not, al
also whether an income tax would be p
sessed on the value of the timberla0
In reply, the Treasury Department 81
that f'the gain from the cutting and .
posal of stumpage is realized in the y-
during which the timber is cut and
dosed of, and that the amount receiy.
in excess of the cost of such timber
profit. and should be so accounted for
income for that year"
The Republican journal., 1914-02-05
FOREST NOTES.

There are So 5000 young trees in
the governments forest nurseries.
Two tons of cascara bark have just
been sold from the Siuslaw national
forest, Oregon, at one cent pound.
The northernmost national forest IS
the Chugach in Alaska; southernmost is
the Luquillo in Porto Rico.
For shingles alone, $50 million feet of
timber is cut in that part of the State of
Washington which lies west of the Cas-
cades.
California led last year in timber sold
from national forests, though Montana
had the largest number of sale transac-
tons.
The American forestry association has
just elected Henry S. Drinker, president
of Lehigh university, and ?. S. Ridsdale,
as its president and secretary respec-
lively
The biological survey and the forest
service have been cooperating in the
determination of ground squirrels on
national forests in California. The annual
loss of range feed and grain crops from
ground squirrels is enormous.
The Republican journal., 1914-02-05

string is always out for people from our
home State and let no one pass us by. II
YOU come to see US from Los Angeles by
rail. take the train over the Salt Lake
route for Hynes, 80 minutes ride. If by
electrics, take the Santa Ana car, 20
minutes ride. If by auto take the boule-
ward between that city and Long Beach
and stop at Hynes village. Our place is
a stones throw from there. Or if Maine
people are at Long Beach by the, sea our
place can be reached in a few minutes by
rail or auto.
We are having delightful weather, with
more rain this winter than year ago,
and everything looks fresh and beautiful.
We have a second crop of appleson many
of our trees and on one large tree there
are apples as large as base ball. De-
Iicous apple sauce is served on our table
day by day, reminding US of the apple
sauce we used to eat at home in Maine in
the month of August. No more beautl-
full climate can be found in the world
than here in Southern California under
these sunny skies, but Maine shall al
ways have warm place in my heart.
God bless and prosper the dear old home
State by the rugged sea.
FRANK W. GOWEN.
Hynes, Calf, Jan. 10, 1914.