Show f rr I f i t it S From the Chica Chicago o Journal Nov 6 1905 When Commissioner Garfield went to the Chicago packers and asked permission to Inspect their books the condition was made that no Information information tion he might obtain would be used In court proceedings against them Mr Garfield gave this pledge It Is la stated and the packers allowed him to study their business In all its de- de from the tha Inside Now It Is announced the results of ot othis his study have been turned over to the government department of Justice to be employed In legal prosecution of ot the packers Commissioner Garfield would not have ventured to give the pledge that was demanded by the packers without Instructions from Washington He pledged not his own word but the governments governments It Is good faith but the governments government's that Is in question question ques ques- tion now The Journal has no concern for the packers except as they are citizens lot of Chicago If It can be proved that they are guilty of engaging In a con con- In restraint of ot trade they ought to be punished But their guilt If they are guilty must be fairly proved They must be given a square deal Since the government has elevated Its vision to such a height as to overlook overlook over over- look the nest of ot defiant criminal trusts in New Jersey almost within the shadow of ot the tho dome In order r r to fasten itself a thousand miles away upon Chicago the government and the President cannot be too careful to avoid suspicion that they are more anxious to prosecute western offenders offend offend- ers than offenders in the east Some of the methods already employed employed em em- in this case have not been particularly particularly particularly par par- distinguished for decency When the government breaks Into a aman's amans amans aman's mans man's house and steals his private papers papers papers pa pa- pers when it drags the wives of packInghouse packInghouse pack pack- house Ing-house into court and puts them under heavy bonds it Is hardly dignified not to say honorable I nor even respectable |