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The Commoner.
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"HONEST JOHN"
. After a long absence-from the .wit
ness stand, during which ho became
skillful in the art of dodging Sum
monses, John D. Rockefeller made
his public appearance in court- in
Chicago yesterday.
Improved to be just as frank and
as truthful as he Was twenty yearB
ago when committe.es and courts. first
began'. to delve Into tho secrets of
the Standard Oil company.
He' frankly admits that he knows
nothing about the company. The in
ference is that if there is anything
unlawful in its methods of doing
"business the wicked partners of
"Honest John" are to blame.
They hand over to him from $12,
000,000 to $20,000,000 profits each
year and he asks tliem no questions,
perhaps because lie wants to Tiave
as little as possible to do with such
unscrupulous men.-
The-most astonishing thing about
his relations 'with them is ,thaf he
puts such blind trust in them in the
matter of dividing the swag fairly.
It certainly speaks eloquently of his
own honesty that he puts such im
plicit faith in theirs.
- But since John had nothing to
conceal why did he ever engage in
that harrying and wearying sport of
subpoena dodging? "Why did he not
come' out of the aub-cellar as soon
as he heard the officers of the court
were; after him and tell them bluntly
that he did not know anything about
the affairs of ther Standard Oil com
pany? We, know that hejias preferred all
along to allow his money to talkfJ but
as it, comes from such a suspicjous
source nobody wold believe it. An
other) person might) have known J-hat
it wduld put him in" wrong with the
public, hut "Honest John" in his-innocence
never suspected this. -. -
Too plainly can we see now .that
he is the victim bf designing men
and circumstances. The fact that
these' men hand over to him the
lion's share of the booty does not
excuse .them in the least.
That he takes it without asking
questions might be held against him
by some persons. But he doesn't
know;-, He has Admitted this under
oath.tr-Pittsburg. Leader, .
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i ETHICS OP LAWYERS
In' ,the course bf a speech deliv
ered .the other day, William J. Bryan
said while addressing a gathering of
lawyers:
"I "believe the day will come in
thisco'untry when, we will not have
so m?Jiy men who sell their souls to
make'jgrand larceny possible. Per
haps ;SQme time it will not be less
disgr,acpful for a lawyer to assist in
a gigantic robbery' than for a high
wayman to go out and hold up a
wayfarer."
There were several distinguished
lawyers who .defended Boss Tweed,
the monumental robber. Elihu Root,
a memhpr of President Roosevelt's
cabinet, who has frequently criticised
Mr. Bryan sharply, was one of
Tweed'u counsel. The politicians
are wondering if Mr. Root will have
any comments to make upon Mr.
Bryan's latest utterance concerning
lawyers. Mr. Root is spoken of
again and again as a possible candi
date for tho republican nomination
for president. Did Mr. Root believe
that Tweed was innocent of the
charges brought against him and
prosecuted by the late Charles O'Con
nor? If that was Mr. Root's be
lief, then he may be expected to re
ply to Mr. Bryan in a way that will
make the Nebraska- statesman sit
up and listen attentively. Would
Mr. Root have been justified in re
fusing to act as one of Tweed's
counsel if the lawyer believed the
oia roDDer 10 do innocent ox me
offenses with which he was charged?
"Mul" in Brooklyn Citizen.
Mr. Root observed the ethics of
his profession in defending Tweed;
rich criminals rarely have difficulty
in securing the services of able and
distinguished lawyers. Occasionally
a lawyer like Lincoln, for example,
who is said to have refused cases
where he believed his would-be
clients were in the wrong estab
lishes a higher standard for himself
than the prevailing one in the pro
fession, and now that this matter is
becoming the subject of popular agi
tation, this practice probably will
become more prevalent. Undoubted
ly all of our learned professions have
been too mercenary, and cash re
ceipts "have been magnified at the
expense of moral purposes. We
have been passing through a golden
age, thia country has grown enor
mously rich in a few years, and the
fact in some reBpects has deleterious
ly affected all classes bf society. But
now roform is in the air. William
J. Bryan, and Justice Brewer, both
lawyers, only a few days apart gave
their profession some hard raps, and
advocated loftier ideals. Meanwhile
the right of the worst offenders to
the best lawyers, and the propriety
of the latter defending them as stur
dily as possible, are mooted mattors,
and there are things to be said upon
both sidefc of the question. Tn a
general' way, plainly there is room
for Improvement in the interest of
justice and decency, and we hope it
may be accomplished. New Haven
Palladium.
inont republicans, dead and alive?
Who have been silver mon, makes
a long roll. John Sherman was a
silver man, and the author of tho
silver purchase act. One of tho most
rugged performances of William Mc
Kinley was to stand guard over an
Ohio republican convention to keop
it from discrediting silver. Judge
Stanley Matthows made a speech In
the senate advocating the payment
of the United States bonds in silver
jdoIIaTs tho naino silvor dollar wo
havT1oaay Tho whole republican
paViy would bo tot tho froo cdlriago
of silver how had It not boon for-lho
discovery and development of gold
mines. Mr. Bryan is not a free silver
man jdbw. Ho has said as much him
self. As to government ownership,
he really seems to bo no more radi
cal than Presidont Roosovolt'B recent
speech at tho Jamestown exposition.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Washington Herald. ',
HARD TO UNDERSTAND
"I can't see how it (" could he':
mused the man who gets puzzled
over odd things.
"How what could be?" asked his
friend.
"I don't see how there' could have
heen bad provisions iri "the pure food
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NOT A CARIBOU THIS TIME
"Another nature fake!"
"How now?"
"A moth attacks a peekaboo by
biting it in the chest."-1 Washington
Herald.
COMPARISONS
"fyr. Bryan thinks that the impor
tant thing In selecting a candidate is
what a man stand's for," says the
Milwaukee Sentinel. "How about
a man who stands for iree silver and
government ownership?" These ob
jections to Mr. Bryan may not be so
hard to dispose of as they super
ficially seem. The number of prom-
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