UEEGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1905.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1905.
ENFORCE THE LAWS.
"The remedy for corruption, brib
ery, for grafting of every kind, is to
enforce the law. If the system is work
ing an illegal game, instead of trying
to beat the game, me Dener waj
to stop the game.
With these words, Governor Folk
of Missouri, closed his address at a
recent monster meeting held at Phil
adelphia under the auspices of the
City Club and in the interest of good
government. Missouri s reiorni gov
ernor spoke as follows:
"The most conspicuous fact of mu
nicipal governments in the United
States today is that they are govern
ments by the few and not by the peo
ple. There is more aggressive rot
tenness and less aggressive patriot
ism in our large cities than anywhere
else. If the patriotism can be made as
aggressive as the rottenness, the prob
lem of good government would be
solved by the people taking the gov
ernment into their own hands. If cor
ruption exists in Philadelphia the peo
ple are to blame; if corruption is to
be eradicated the people alone can do
it.
"The fight you are making here is
a battle which will be felt by every
town, city and state in the land. The
benefit of a victory for good govern
ment will be universal, and the evil
effects of a defeat will demoralize
those who believe in good govern
ment by the people. The average man
does not appreciate the solemn duty
he owes his city, his state, and his
country.
"The moral revolution now sweep
ing over the land means the patri
otism that comes from the heart, not
from the head. Many men would be
willing if need be, to give up their
lives for their city if they are needed
sometimes, and this kind of patriot
ism cannot be too highly commended;
but the man who is willing to live for
his city and state every day is the
man that is needed just now. There
may be as much patriotism in giving
one's time to the betterment of civic
conditions and the election of good
men to office and in purifying the
ballot as in bearing one's breast to the
bullets of the enemy. There never
was a time when the need for patri-
" otic men in public affairs was greater
than now. We need more men actu
ated alone by the public good and few
er of those who are in politics merely
for revenue.
"The strength of the lawless ele
ment is great, but it is as nothing
when it comes in contact with a pub
lic conscience thoroughly aroused.
Philadelphia at last seems to be awak
ened, and though the gang has been
strong, it is being shattered beneath
the shafts of public opinion under the
leadership of Mayor Weaver. The
people can overthrow the civil gov
ernment whenever they want to, and
get just as good government as they
deserve or as bad as they permit it to
become. The law-abiding people are
in the majority in Philadelphia, and
there is hardly a community in this
county of which this cannot be said.
They are usually quiet, however', while
the lawless are so vociferous as to
deceive many as to their number.
They may bluff and bulldoze, but they
are cowards, and if resolutely fought
they can be overcome. They are al
ways active, however, while the av
erage good citizen becomes active only
"occasionally.
"The moral revolution that is now
sweeping over the land is a revival of
the rule of the people. Four years
ago the laws against bribery in all of
the states were considered as practi
cally dead letters. Not because the
offense was uncommon, but because
it was uncommon for officials to be
prosecuted for it.
"When the prosecutions were com
menced in St. Louis, members of the
house of delegates claimed that this
bribery had been going on so long
they were entitled to notice to quit
before being prosecuted. Some of
them argued that members of the
house of delegates, having been taking
bribes from time immemorial, had ac-
. quired a right to do so, and it was
Just as proper for them to sell their
'votes as for the merchant to sell his
wares. Here was a crime worqe than
any other, for their offense violated
the law, while bribery strikes at the
foundation of- all laws. Yet the law
denouncing it was not enforced; brib
ery became the usual and exnected
thing all over the land; corrupt men
feasted and fattened at public ex
pense; laws became merchandise on
the market, and all this time the pub
lic conscience was asleep. When the
revelation came the people saw how
they had been plundered, they saw the
offense In all of its enormity, and from
one end of the land to the other there
was a civic awakening.
"A special privilege is a graft. Mo
nopoly, even law-protected privileges
are grafts, and should be hateful to
every fairminded citizen. Unless the
spirit of civic righteousness now
abroad in the land dies out, and there
Is no likelihood of that, we will pass
from the sordid age of commercial
into the age of high ideals.
"A political party has no right to
ask for support because it is that
party, but because it stands for the
right. If a political party cannot get
votes on the ground of patriotism it
has no right to ask for votes on the
ground of partisanship. Under our
form of government political parties
are necessary, for it is through them
they can come to agreements on pub-
!lic questions and announce their prin
ciples and intentions, but political par
ties should be the servants of the peo
ple, not their masters.
"I have spoken of corruption,, brib
ery and grafting using the terms as
they are commonly used, synonym
ously. While the effect on the public
may be as injurious from grafting as
from boodling there is a distinction
between them. The boodler sells his
vote and prostitutes his trust for
bribe money contrary to law, but the
grafter is not always a boodler. When
those on the inside of any great fi
nancial concern divert the trust funds
for their profit, that is a graft against
the law; when a class of men have
special privileges whereby they can
prey upon the rest of the people, that
is a graft that may not be against the
law,- and may even be protected by the
law."
AS VIEWED IN CHICAGO.
Some weeks ago a jury in the Unit
ed States District Court at Portland,
Oregon, returned a verdict of "guilty
as charged" against Congressman
John N. Williamson, Dr. Van Gessner,
and Marion R. Biggs, former land
commissioner of the United States.
The indictment under which they were
thus convicted alleged conspiracy to
suborn perjury and obtain by fraudu
lent entries dishonest titles to public
land.
The defendants named had been
tried twice before without result, the
jury disagreeing in each instance. The
government, as represented by the In
terior Department and the Department
of Justice, however, in the belief that
the evidence was strong enough to
warrant a positive verdict, and at the
third triaf it succeeded.
On Saturday the court imposed sen
tence on the defendants, the penalty
in the case of Congressman William
son being fixed at a fine and ten
months' term of imprisonment
Oregon's delegation in Congress
consists of two senators and two rep
resentatives. One senator, Mitchell,
was convicted in the spring of com
plicity in the Oregon land frauds and
swindles and given a prison sentence.
Williamson has now joined him on the
list of congressional candidates for
transfers of the penitentiary, and the
other representative, Binger Hermann,
former commissioner of the general
land office, is under the shadow of two
distinct indictments one for complic
ity in the gigantic land steals and the
other for destroying government rec
ords containing evidence of his crim
inal transactions. If he should be
convicted. Senator Fulton would en
joy the distinction of being the lone
member of Oregon congressional rep
resentation free from compulsory and
entangling alliances with prosecutors,
grand juries and prison authorities.
A melancholy situation, doubtless.
but far less melancholy than would
have been a situation indicating pub
lic or omcial indifference to crimes
against the government and the na
tion. The Oregon trials develoDed
the fact that many so-called respect-
aDie men in tne state regard it as a
venial and purely technical offense to
steal public land, or enable others.
for pay, to steal such land, but such
sentiments merely emphasize the dntv
of the departments concerned to bring
iue uneves, gratters and conspira
tors to justice and teach them and
their sympathizers wholesome respect
for law and public property.
vve nave had so far in this fliaBT9o-
ful Pacific land fraud business si-rtv.
eight indictments and nine convic
tions. And still they come," say the
euergeuc prosecutors and their di
rectors in the cabinet dfinrrmr.r
Secretaries Hitchcock and Moody'
More power to their elbows. Record
Herald. CHANGE THE LAWS.
Now that the land fraud rrlnla nr.
about over and the people are settling
aown to a sober study of the subject,
it becomes evident that there are two
sides to the question, says the Forest
Grove Times. Here is a vast body of
the finest timber In the world. It
belongs to the government and can
not lawfully be touched while in that
condition, and it cannot go out of
government ownership except by
homestead and timberland entry.
But no man can go into that forest
and do more than .put up a little cabin
and stay there. He cannot alone clear
a tract; he can do nothing there to
make a living: he cannot live there
and cnmplv with the conditions Im
posed by the government.
The result is that technical viola
tion of the requirements have always
been sanctioned even by the govern
ment. Timber men would like to
get the timber but cannot do it, ex
cept by purchase of entrymen's claims
and the entrymen cannot live there to
perfect them except they are aided
by some body with means. That has
led to the "conspiracies."
It is an attempt to accomplish some
thing in indirect and unlawful way.
that should be permitted in a lawful
way. The purchase of timber in bodies
: large enougn to justify lumbermen In
j establishing mills there should be pro
jvided for; just as the purchase of
range lands in large tracts in the drv
regions should be provided for. All
should be under sensible and careful
regulation, but the land laws should
be adapted to conditions.
If this were done these everlasting
range wars and timber land candals
would be done away with largely, and
lands which are almost without value
except when taken in large bodies
would pass Into ownership that would
make them valuable.
Our land laws were evidently drawn
to suit the conditions in the fertile
prairies of Illinois to Kansas, but they
are not suited to ' conditions in the
mountainous and timbered sections,
and the attempt to make them fit has
ueen productive or. uncounted scan
dals and hardships for years. It Is
time they were ended.
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A WOLF-TAMER IN POLITICS.
A writer in Collier's Weekly, has
the following concerning William
Travers Jerome, District Attorney for
New York:
Every interesting situation in poli
tics must turn upon a personality or
a principle. The candidacy of Wil
liam Travers Jerome for District At
torney of New York has the advant
age of both. Mr. Jerome has made
himself a national center of attrac
tion, first, because he is Jerome, and
second, because in the present cam
paign he is the most conspicuous rep
resentative of the principle of the open
door to public service the idea of
reaching office without crawling
through the gutter to win favor of
a boss.
Four years ago a degraded Tam
many, befouled with the muck of
Devery, Crocker and Van Wyck, was
beaten by a fusion of all the elements
of good citizenship in New York and
some of the bad. Jerome was elected
with the rest of the reform ticket.
He did more than anybody else to
make hte victory possible, but still
it was Fusion's victory, not his. But
today he stands as the representa
tive of a principle that is all his own.
He nominated himself in a year when
Tammany was invincible, and told all
parties that they micht suit them
selves about supporting him, but that,
win or lose, he would go through the
campaign without an obligation to any
man or machine. He stands on the
maxim that when the people know a
man and trust him they need no po
litical middlemen to bring them to
gether.
The common idea of Jerome, even
among his admirers, is that he is a
devotee of the spectacular and the
over-strenuous "Roosevelt ad absur-
dum," a malicious critic has called
him. He first came into notice as a
judge through a pyrotechnic series of
raids upon gambling houses, in which
he would head a hatchet brigade and
then hold court upon a table in the
captured stronghold, surrounded by
the spoils of victory- He carried on a
sensational campaign against the in
famies of the Red Light district mak
ing his audiences catch their breath
with descriptions of social evils in
terms as daringly plainspoken as the
eloquence of Dr. Parkhurst or a mod
ern lady novelist. He pushed his war
upon the gamblers after his election
until there was not one known gamb
ling house left open in New York a
condition which still exists, and which
probably does not exist in any other
important city in the United States.
brightly focused limelight of public
ity. I
ity.
But that Is only one Bide of the
man, and not the most important side.
In all these four years of authority
Jerome has repressed himself and left
the dramatic and attractive parts of
the work of his office to his subordi
nates. He tries no cases personally,
although he enjoys trying cases. The
great coups by which the public judges
his success or failure are in his view
of minor importance. What he con
siders the supreme achievement of
his term is a thing most people have
never heard of. It is his success in so
remodeling a great public department,
formerly conducted with all the slip
shod inefficiency of the average gov
ernment office, that now it is run with
the systematic nrecision of a private
business establishment. The real
work of the District Attorney's office
is not to advertise some one notorious
Canfleld or Nan Patterson case.
It is to keep justice moving in thou
sands upon thousands of common cas
es that never get more than a line or
two in the papers to see that ob
scure criminals get prompt punish
ment, and that innocent men unjustly
accused do not linger unnecessarily
in jail. This is what Mr. Jerome has
accomplished. He has so systema
tized the work of his office that not
withstanding the appalling growth of
the city there are fewer persons in
the Tombs awaiting trial than there
have ever been before within living
memory. There were about four hun
dred persons in that class when he
began his work; now there are less
than two hundred. There were about
eight hundred names on the trial cal
endar; now the number has been cut
in two. There are fewer people ar
rested and waiting examination; few
er examined and waiting indictment;
fewer indicted and waiting trial, than
ever before. Formerly the District
Attorney's office used to ask for con
tinuances because it was not ready to
try cases now it is always ready,
and all the applications for delay are
made by the defendants. Mr. Jerome
calls himself the floorwalker of a le
gal department store, always patrol
ling the aisles to see that the machin
ery keeps moving.
Mordver, he has given the public
for the first time an opportunity of
knowing Just what its servants In the
District Attorney's office are doing.
He has instituted a system of daily re-
cases are pending In which indict
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ments have been found, which are on
the calendars for trial and in what
court, and, in short, everything there
is to know. A summary of these re
ports is posted up every morning,
available to the reporters or to any
citizen. Under the old pre-Jerome sys
tem the District Attorney himself
did not have this information and
could not have obtained it without a
month's work.
If Jerome is a merciless assailant
of the bad, he has the knack of finding
and bringing to the surface what good
there is in the most unsuspected
quarters. When he was making- his
early raids on the gamblers he used to
sit up until three or four o'clock in
the morning to give them a chance to
find ball. If no bonds were forthcom
ing he would often say to the friend
less wretch before him a criminal
who would not hesitate to rob a visi
tor with stacked cards or pick a pock
et: "You are charged with a felony.
Your friends have not turned up. I
have the power to let you go on your
own recognizance. If l do and you
do not come back, nobody will think
anything about you, but I shall be se
verely criticized. If I let you go will
you give me your word, not as a de
fendant to a judge, but as man to
man, that you will appear before me
at nine o'clock?" The, prisoner would
answer: "I'll do It, Mr. Jerome," and
never once was that promise broken,
although not one of those gamblers
was acquitted, and they ay knew that
they were facing the penalties of fel
ony. Under the democratic theory of
government an official with Mr. Jer
ome's record would naturally be re-,
elected as a matter of course. Having
found a faithful servant, the people
would simply hold onto him. But as
the time for a new election approach
ed, it appeared that the people had
nothing tq say about the matter. Half
a dozen men controlled all the turn
stiles that gave access to nominations,
and nobody could pass through with
out dropping in his tribute of money,
of self-respect, or of entangling pledg
es. In this emergency Jerome did
the bold, unconventional and therefore
the Jerome-like, thing. He announced
long in advance of the meeting of the
party convention, that he would be a
candidate lor re-eiection it tne legal j
numDer or iwo-inousana voters wouia
sign his nomination petition. Twenty
five thousand responded. The list in
cluded the most .illustrious and the
lowliest citizens of New York. Many
of the letters contained money for
campaign expenses. There were no
$50,000 checks from insurance com
panies, but there were dollar bills
and even twenty-five cent pieces from
workmen. The politicians began to
wonder whether this man, whom they
could not manage, might not add
strength to their ticket after all.
Mr. Jerome has succeeded in pro
ducing upon the public mind the im
pression of sincerity of an honest
intention to do the right thing. A
reputation of that Hind is a tremendu
ous and terrifying force in politics.
The bosses do not know how to deal
with it, and when it is combined with
aggressive fighting energy it affects
them as the crack of the trainer's J
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OREGON CITY BOATS
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