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Nome. Alaaka, Friday, January *8, 1916.
One of tho mo.t interesting
cacc3 that ever was hoard under the
.Sherman Act was the Now Haven
case. This involved America's
richest men; not men just wealthy,
with just millions, but men in the
million dollar income clr-.os. There
are r.ct many of them in this coun
try. There are fow in tho whole
world. Hut most of those indicted
criminally under the Sherman Act
were- in that class in these New
Haven cases
Thero have been convictions <unacr
the Sherman Act. They have been
convicted in labor cases. The Dan
bury Hatters case, for example,
swattod laborites a few. It ruined
every mombor of the Hatter’s
Union and they are sti'l dlct/rlning
under tho impossible fines.
And when they were trying them
tho Court was in deadly earnest.
Heels of testimony were heard with
eagorncss, and the most voluble wit
ness hoard with attention. Corres
pondence and publications were
seized upon with avidity, and ab
sorbed as readdy as the doeert sand
absorbs the tropic down pour.
That was interesting. It always
is interesting whon Justice, through
lhe Law, asserts itself. There is
something grand in the impeccable
yet implacable course of justice
swerving neither to the right nor to
the left: stern, impartial unbending
and rigidly equitable. It's more tha?;
interesting—it’s grand.
But for interest and grnndcui
the Now Haven cases have the
Danbury Hatters case backed off
the map.
The papers arty that tho defend
ants regarded it in the light of a
joke, that afterwards, as the trial
proceeded, grew monotonous. Na
turally with war babies needing
nursing, tho ceremony ir. Judge
Hunts court grew deadly dull in
contrast. They yawned and shifted
uneasily from side to side in their
seats. They got up now and then
and took a shot of stimulating li
quor when the Judge conveniently
took a recess at intervals for that
purpose. For the Judge was one o'
those men who had his Justice tem
pered with mercy and okc with
pity.
The prosecution in a serious kind
of way, wholly cut of place in tin
prosecution of the country's richest
men, introduced testimony of n
rather elaborate nature. Maybo thej
weren’t to blame. They had thel:
xluties to perform and they did .t
though they might bust a large in
testine. At any rate they introduced
a mass of testimony when Mello
ws s on the stand to show that tht
defendants deliberately wrecked thi
road for financial reasons; that th<
subordinate officials prayed and im
piored some of tho higher-ups t(
be allowed to make use of the op
portuuity to make money froir
properties that had been acquired
In a way it was deadly and cor
vincing testimony. It was testimonj
that in a labor case would have no
only the judges but the prosecutioi
and the detectives and the madan
press all over the country repus
liHhing and reproducing with acre
or comment. Everyone ovon thi
messenger boy would sit up am
take notice.
Frank M. Swacker was tht'specia
assistant prosecutor. Ho has ;
hunch of letters showing the statu
of the road, the position taken b;
the defendant officials towerds th
efforts of the subordinate rnilroa
-officers to work up and develop th
road in the interests of its owner
and against the interest of th
financial pirates who were “mani
pulating” the stock. Lawyers to
the defense were taking naps. Th
jury, trying to koop awake kep
-watching the lights on the ceiling
and wondering how long a perso
could hold their breath without d>
ing or some other such extraord
nary notion far away from thw-lH
mediate matter before them. Th
Judge waa tired drinking water, t
npavonf hlmanlf vnvnlnsr. and . who
defendants there were in court were
dead to the world.
Suddenly the Judge could stand
It no longer. Mellen was on the
stand for the fifth day; He was
indentifying letters of a very Im
portant nature. It was too much.
"Mr. Swacker”, said Judge Hunt,
"can’t you abridge your reading or
these documents. It is beyond all
power to sit here day after day and
listen to letters concerning the si
tua of those roads and the mathe
tics of the traffic arrangements,
and carry them in our heads. It’s
tiresome". And finally as a sequel
to this Million Dollar serial it Is In
teresting to know that none have
been found guilty. About the best
way out in the prosecution of the
criminal rich is Judge Hunt’s idea;
bar out the evidence as “tiresome”.
It’s a new one. Prejudiced judges
have in cold blood sustained the ob
jections raised to testimony they
did not themselves like to admit.
But Judge Hunt’s method is un
questionably a higher, a nobler and
much more philosophical one. It is
an epoch making advance in judicial
procedure. It's interesting, and
grandly interesting.
Wilson's pieparodness campaign
no doubt is an essential matter to
the success of that propaganda.
And it will be interesting to fo.'
low it.
it may be confessed that the
country is not prepared for war.
.but it is not so easily admitted that
the country will have to go to war.
It is not likely that
Wilson will come out flat-footed
and assert that granted capitalism,
granted commercial aggressiveness
which is the life of capitalism, wars
sooner or later are inevitable.
That would not do; first, because
it would then suggest itself as an
answering question why capitalism?
A.nd secondly because of the inex
pediency of absolute and unbluffea
candor when an election campaign
is under way to all intents and pur
poses.
Yet if it is declared that war is
sooner or later inevitable under ca
pitalism it would be the moBt logi
cal argument for preparedness.
It is the only argument for pro
jparedness, for otherwise why wars?
International competition is a
vary real and powerful force in mo
dern industry. It means an aggres
siveness upon the part of the inter
ests involved in such industry,
which is in Itself necessary to their
survival. They have built it up,
upon a merciless exploitation at
home and a merciless rivalry
abroad. It is cold blooded, unsenti
mental, unemotional. It is affected
only by a question of profits, and
other matters thereto are only inci
dental.
Now in this respect one country
is positively no better than another.
The American industrial firm
stretching out for concessions or foi
trade in otherwheres, is as ruth
lessly exploitative in other fields as
, are any foreign firms. And they de
mand as foreign firms demand oi
> theirs, the full protoctlon of the
• government in their activities.
1 It is impossible to think thal
these activties, identical among al
i nations, will not, being competitivs
l and unsentimontally agreessive anc
> rival, clash from time to time. It
- that clash they will involve torri
, torlal questions, questions of pro
l lection, questions of immunty fron
5 attack, i They can only bo settle.
, finally by the resort to arms whlcl
a involves not the commercial inter
; loets which first, last and all thi
r time caused these crisos, but tho en
r. tiH national body as well: employ
t era, workers, tfusineBs mon, profes
slonal men, politicians. •
i In that state of affairs wha
, then of the country tbSyt is unpre
- pared? Surely will th.n other am
r mightier countries ride rough ahoi
s over them. That’s the system am
o there is no getting round, it.
t . Just begin at the beginning
Society may bo divided into two
classes everywhere: those who have
and those who have not. The latter
work for those who have and make
them have still moro. Those who
have, take the result of the exercise
of their labor from those who have
not. They exploit them. They can
do this in splto of tho resentment,
envy, anger, revolt of the exploited
classes. Why? Because back of that,
exploitation are the laws of proper
ty, the courts to adjudicate there
upon and the various officers of the
courts, the police, the bailiffs and
the army to preserve orderly con
duct upon the part of those who
may possibly feel inclined to allow
their opposition to this system take
violent form. Potentiaf violence is
opposed to potential vioionce, and
at the basis of our civilization is
physical force and that only, in the
last analysis.
To be sure running through this
like veins of softer rock in the
harder strata, are such humanizing
Influences as ethical and religious
systems, humane conventions, mu
tual assistances, charities and other
phases of the social life which
serve to conceal the iron upon
which it is materially based. But
without this system ofr governmental
force ready to carry out the laws
and orders of the government la
any of its branches, the social sy
stem pould not last, and there would
be a revolt of the exploited against
the exploiting classes.
Now under a system of produc
tion wherein profits is the material
incentive to such, and human wel
fare counts but nothing, or if any
thing only an incidental something,
the same foundation of physical force
prevails in all nations. Whether
it reaches a high degree of effici
ency or is allowed to remain latent,
is Immaterial. It is there with in
tent to use it such as it is, to pro
tect and to defend and to uphold
the dominant interests which are
the owning and exploiting interests
in any country.
And it is positively certain that
such force is to be used just as
quickly against rivals in foreign
fields as aganst the possible insur
rection of those who are so despe
rate from discontent with present
conditions that they will revolt at
homo.
With this fact certain, therefore,
the degree of efficiency which that
force, or preparedness to call it by
its milder title assumes, will
achieve, will mark also the respect
which the rivals will attach to the
| activities of any nation. While on
I the other hand if a nation is greatly
! industrial and commercial, but is
without military emcicncy, 11 is
courting disaster from its greater
rivals who have attainod suen effi
ciency in militarism that they can
fear no attack and can support
any assault of their own.
These are plain truths. Granted
capitalism why not efficiency to up
hold the methods of capitalism7
But this will never be so argued.
Instead other nations will be made
to assume robber-barons attitudes;
threateningly dangerous and aggres
sive. The idea that this country is
pacific but will be prepared against
those which are not pacific will he
seduously inculcated.
But there is no difference in the
methods of American capitalism
American finance and Industry and
commerce and that of any foreign
nation. They might be all one so
completely indentical are their pi
ratical and ruthless methods. And
it is not because one is peaceful and
threatened, and the other is warlike,
aggressive and threatening that pre
paredness has become essential, but
because of the fact that all are ag
gressive and warlike and threaten
ing when it behoves them so to be
to protect what is the mainspring
of all their activities, the accumu
lation of profits.
Wilson won’t put up this argu
ment. Indeed none of them will
But it is the only candid common
sense argument in favor of militar
ism. There is not a single nation
today that will not use force where
force is to be successful beyond
peradventure. It is not a mere in
cident that the United States sends
notes to Germany and warships and
marines to Haiti and Cuba. .Indeed
it is the commonsense action of a
nation which will not willingly an
tagonize a great power over a
small question, while it will magni
fy small guestlons when dealing
with smaller nations.
The natural desire is to be in no
such predicament with any power.
The natural demand is to bo su
premely great evon in the aggrega
tions of supremely groat nation?,
and to have such a military and na
val efficiency that they can have the
other nations going and waiting
not upon the order of their going.
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