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Show Suspicions and Injustice ol Ignorance. We read every day that such and such a man is not available for office, or has been turned down for a nomination because "ho has always boon an attorney for corporations." Nothing against a man, nothing against his abilities or his integrity, but "ho has .been an attorney for corporations." Who are the ones who urge this war against a fellow man? Is there one of them that has not done the best he could all the days of his life for himself? Look in the paper that puts out the objection and see if it is not filled with advertisements of all kinds of corporations. Railroad corporations, mining corporations, manufacturing corporations, mercantile corporations. Is the money of a corporation corpor-ation paid for advertising any different from that paid by the same corporation to a faithful attorney? attor-ney? Maybe the newspaper lied about its circulation circula-tion in order to obtain the advertisement; the lawyer could not got his place except through demonstrated merit. But, says someone: "The laboring men have a prejudice against corporation attorneys." Well, who engineered that prejudice in his mind? Again let us suppose a case. Suppose a dozen laboring men were working, we will say for a farmer at $60 per month each, and just before harvest time some corporation should offer them permanent situations at $80 per month, and to work only eight hours a day; how many of the dozen would stand by the farmer, at least until the harvest should bo gathered, and how many would turn straight to the corporation, the higher 'H pay and shorter hours? fl An honorable man would give a corporation 'H his best service if he had sold his time and tal- ents to the corporation, but would not such a :,'H man perform just as faithful service for the state ''H if given an office? There are cases sometimes when men have :H long been attorneys for corporations and then 'H have become candidates for office when the of- 'H fleers of the corporation have been anxious to see jE them elected. But this does not prove anything. H In such a case the man himself must be judged. Tho. questions should be: Has he given his best H service to the corporation? Has he in that em- ployment ever done a dishonest or dishonorable 11 act? If tho answer to the first question is "Yes" ' and to the second "No," then it would bo but fair H to believe that he would give the same good serv-ice serv-ice to tho state, and that in a public office ho would be no more liable fo perform a dishonorable act than in a less conspicuous position. The -M friendship of the directors would count for noth-ing, noth-ing, because when men are long associated to- gether such friendships are but natural, s ' When Mr. Bryan cabled from England that he wanted no tainted money accepted to preparean 'M ovation on his arrival home, that was pure aemar goguery on his part. Moreover, , it was a half in: suit to tho friends who were engaged in getting up the reception, as though they would not be care- 'H ful enough to make the show as nearly perfect as 'H possible. Again, it was in bad taste, for it was lH an intimation that he felt he must keep watch lest the perfect ideal might not be realized. It 11 was of tho same character that the hurling of sus-picion sus-picion and slander against an honest man Is, whose ,only known fault has been that he has hon- jH estly earned an honorable salary. -H |