Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-09-22

There is nothing extraordinary in
the Morse case that can see, nor any
reason why people should be shocked
about it any more than there was for
getting excited about the Newberry
case. The one bought his seat in the
United States Senate and the other
bought his release from the United
States penitentiarv. The only un-
usual feature in the Newberry case
was that he paid more than the aver
age market price for his toga, and the
only remarkable thing about the
Morse case is that he was ever con-
victed at all. Morse simply bought
his way out the same as any other
multimillionaire would have done, and
| do not hold that against him. / have
no desire to see him go back to
prison. | may be less civilized than
those who now rule society, but |
would not put profteer's dog,
though he had bitten men, in peni-
tentiary.
Morse is neither better nor worse
than his profteering kind, and if he
ought to be in prison, so ought the en-
tire lot of silk-hatted looters who bled
the government white, while the poor
devils they conscripted were slaugh-
tered for it in the trenches.
AS it is, the Morses name our
judges, especially those on the federal
bench, and more especially the select
few who occupy the supreme seats,
and why should these judges be ex
pected to send the Morses to prison?
Why Imprison Multimillionaires
What business has a multimillion-
aire in penitentiary anyway? He
does not belong there. The convicts
who are Gagged like beasts and treated
accordingly are not recruited from his
class, but from the crushed and de-
spoiled victims of his class.
The prison, like the poor-house to
which it is first cousin, is for the poor
and not for the rich. Morse knew
this, and who can blame him for re-
fusing to bring reproach upon his
class, the upper class, by occupying
the position of a beetle-browed con-
vict, to which he had no valid claim
Taft's Part in the Deal
While at Atlanta prison | heard a
great deal about the Morse case. 1t
has been a celebrated case there ever
since President Taft's bowels of COM
passion moved him to give Morse his
liberty in exchange for fraudulent
certificates stating that he was at the
point of death. These certificates
were procured by Taft's political pals,
and we are now told that Taft was
deceived. How perfectly silly and
ridiculous! And what chumps they
must take their 100 per cent fellow
Americans to be to believe it!
Taft had his part in the affair and
we'll knew what he was doing when
he set Morse free. 1t was notorious
that the Morses had furnished his
campaign funds and that he abjectly
did the bidding of Wall street from
the beginning to the end of his ad-
ministration, just as he did when he
was on the district bench in sending
union men to Jail for violating the
despotic orders issued by him, through
which he came to be known as "In-
junction Bill"
How could he, being Taft, refuse
the pals who had made him Presi-
dent? But granting that he was de-
ceived, what a sorry alS sickening
spectacle he present to his country
men in that humiliating role. In
either case Taft was and is response
BILE and no one else, and every Morse
of high and low degree in the land
exulted in his elevation to the Chief