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Show CORPORATION LAWYER FOR SENATOR. George Sutherland, cold, clammy and crusty, corporation lawyer ud rich man's buffer, is a candidate for re-election to the United States senate. On his record, he should be consigned to eternal perdition. per-dition. He has voted for everything demanded by the predatory interests in-terests and opposed every measure proposed for the benefit of the common people. He voted against the fellow servant act, wh:h aimed to make every trade carry its risk and care for its injured. That bill was advocated by Union labor and supported by the better statesmen of the nation, including Theodore Roosevelt, but Sutherland Suther-land of Utah in effect said: ''No, I will do nothing for the laboring man. He deserves no protection. If he is maimed, why just discard him as you would a piece of old machinery. The hulks of humanity are no more to me than the hulks of the sea. I and mine are well fed, well groomed; why should I worry, over the misfortunes of those who are born in a class fated to be misfortunate? Vote for the fellow servant bill me? Never. I believe in caste. The laboring man should be held down and humbled. Given too many legislative favors, he will deem himself entitled to the privileges of a gentleman of my class, grow independent and audaciously demand to know why I should ask so much of and return bo little to society. I would sacrifice my dignity and sense of superiority were I to condescend to listen to these clam-orings clam-orings for a fellow servant act!" When a clerk of the interior department, following the Ealling-er Ealling-er investigation, saw that important evidence against Ballinger was being concealed and that, by further silence, he would become a party to the crime of concealment, and thereupon volunteered to go on the witness stand before the committee of investigation, Senator Sutherland, with turpitude astounding, undertook to quesion the propriety of a government employe serving his conscience and aiding the side of justice in opposition to what he deemed reprehensible, tricky and contemptible in a superior. Sutherland, browbeating the clerk, demanded to know why ho dared to appear against Mr. Ballinger. Think of a United States senator, with sense of right and wrong so blunted, that he should question the right of any one to tell the whole truth before a committee of which he was a member, presumably presum-ably sitting as a judge, avowedly free from prejudice, open-mindedly weighing the testimony as presented ! A person of that stamp has no conscience, no heart, no soul, so essential to manhood. He is simply an automaton, obeying the guide wires that cause him to flop first this way and then that. |