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Show run I w ri-rijui irn-i) ii it I o t)t'": o i i.-i 1 i ' ration ra-tion ot e.-rta ifi r;i., ain- of i : t i l : try :uiJ If) oMlWM. HUN DOCTRINE AT HOME. Back of the profiteering by the big trusts of the country is the sittne system of immorality which led to the war in Furopc. Tho captains of industry who have applied a system of ethics lo tho con-duel, con-duel, of corporations which they would not apply in their private lives or in their personal dealings, mnu to man, have adopted, wittingly or unwillingly, I ho morality of tho German state. Thi! oornorslune of the German governmental gov-ernmental philosophy is that the state is above all morality. Our great corporations cor-porations frequently have been con-, con-, ducted on the theory that a corpora-t corpora-t ion is above nil morality, i lu Ihe last thirty years we have soon j the exponents of "high finance" practicing prac-ticing tho doctrine that might made i tight. If the corporation could "keep j within the law'1 it could do anything ! else w ithout troubling the consciences ' of its owners or directors. They did not ask themselves whether it kcpt within the law of ethics to which they gave their adherence in their own lives. Not infrequently they were pillars of tho church. Sometimes, indeed, they were teachers iu the Sunday Sun-day schools, telling the young that honesty hon-esty was the best policy and that whoever who-ever deviated from strict obedience to the ten commandments was lost. Most of us remember the insurance scandals of a dozen years ago which were probed to their depth by Charles K. Hughes. We recall that some of out most distinguished citizens, who, in private pri-vate life, were honest and honorable, accepted ac-cepted retainers;, although they performed per-formed no service. They were men of influence who sat in at the game of "iuvisible government'' and might be of use or harm some day to the corporation corpora-tion which paid them. The stockholders stockhold-ers were robbed by polite blackmailers who were at the head of political machines. ma-chines. Railroads mortgaged the future and turned the immediate cash over to the financiers of the present. It sometimes transpired that the financiers were able to take control of corporations without unv cost to themselves. In fact they often obtained millions of dollars in commissions for floating industrial combinations which they soon were able to control nt no outlay of cash. The original stockholders and the buy-j buy-j ing public held the sacks. The insurance situation was cleared up long :ii;o by necessary legislatiou. i The wrecking of railroad companies is not as common as it was. In fact, there 1 has been much improvement. Our laws . have caught up somewhat with the ntale-: ntale-: factors. But morality has lagged behind. be-hind. The malefactors have continued their depredations wherever the law allowed. And today, in the midst of a great war. many of the trusts which j escaped the stricter regulations resulting ! from the reform movements of ten or ' tweutv years ago. are addicted to the old immoral practices. They follow (tie good old plan That they shall take who have the power And they shall keep who can.'' It was the doctrine that might makes ! right with which we have become intimately inti-mately acquainted iu the last four years. The kaiser is a profiteer. lie was r.ne chief of a great corporation and he decided that the time had come to ex- and. Ifc decided to drive his competitors competi-tors out of business. Instead of adopting adopt-ing some plan of "high finance," which, after all, was a slow method, he arranged the world's greatest war. He stole Belgium and northern France and he has been stealing what he could ' ever since. The German philosophers had tuhl him ; hat might was riplit and that the Ger-j Ger-j man state was alum' the ten commandments command-ments and all dictates of morality and luiiior that the iudh idual subscribed to. We believe that d.he parallel is just |