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Show IMPRISONING CORPORATIONS. Why may not a corporation be imprisoned im-prisoned to all intents and purposes, as well as an individual? Is the question ques-tion thrown out In a Chicago communication communi-cation to the Green Bag. In imprisoning imprison-ing a man the State merely takes away his liberty, his earning power and his , material ambition for the time of the ' sentence. If, then, an offending corporation corpo-ration were closed up for a certain period pe-riod of time, or its earnings were appropriated ap-propriated by the State, it would In effect ef-fect undergo a punishment similar to that Inflicted by Imprisonment of a person. It Is a startling suggestion, but not many "Imprisonments" of corporations corpora-tions would be required to make law-breaking law-breaking very infrequent where now It Is Impudently common. Springfield Republican. |