Show A Rockefeller a at Last as a at the e Bar Time and again we have been told that public opinion re reflected reflected reflected re- re through juries is to blame for the failure to get verdicts of guilty in criminal prosecutions under the Sherman law Are the eminent and highly courted and flattered gentlemen who make away with ith other peoples people's savings by millions in cool contempt of law and morals mor as guilty as arc the poor who in desperation desperation des des- steal food or clothing The things that Bill Rockefeller r and his pals on the New NewHaven NewHaven NewHaven Haven railroad board did during the Morgan Morgan-Mellen regime of waste vaste loot and conquest unquestionably were of infinitely greater public harm hann than were the things for which most convicts are in inthe inthe inthe the pen A century of petty pett porch climbing or purse snatching wouldn't equal in total spoils the sum of their extravagances The wrecks resulting from their mismanagement killed as many victims as a of single murderers under sentence to the electric chair suffering they the brought t on widows and orphans bulks larger than that caused by thousands of ordinary crimes for which the guilty are doing time I If justice is not a respecter of persons if our laws are for poor and rich alike then the place for these big criminals is also behind the bars on equal footing with the little criminals Now that they have at last been indicted it will be interesting I to see if the judges will let their case get to a jury We think this is perhaps even more uncertain tain than what a jury jur would do I |