| Show gr g r n graft possesses the officials of this country new york july 3 rev davi G wiley spoke last night on national degeneracy he said greed for gold is almost universal in america to use an offensive term graft seems everywhere this craze for wealth leads to cheating stealing lying and many immoral features in business life here in new york men have tarnished their names by the manner in which they have dealt with the rust funds of a great trusting public men respected high in social and business world have taken fire into their hands and it has burned them to the quick we have an exhibition of high finance pushed to the limit wo need to imitate the municipal authorities of glasgow in the bank scandal where directors of high standing were sent behind prison bars the trial and conviction of the guilty who have not to use wrongfully other peoples money wald do much to restore confidence in the majesty of the law for law ought to deal in the same manner with rich and poor even at the risk of being called sensational I 1 affirm from this chris alan pulpit that the president of the united states in his dealing with grasping corporations and ex dent cleveland paul morion state superintendent of insurance hendricks district attorney jerome have the opportunity of their lives to serve hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens by righting a great wrong NO HONESTY IN BUSINESS new york july 3 addressing the holy nama society in tho church of the nativity brooklyn rev J J donion said among other things in the whole business world it would be difficult to find men who are honest according to the strict interpretation pre tation of the word within the past few months we have seen financiers to whom the people had unhesitatingly entrusted their money exposed as knaves people are no longer surprised at dishonesty in high places they have come to look upon it as a matter of course and the phrase tainted money has become a byword and a jest we are accustomed to breaches of trust on the part of office holders and financiers but when we see these men show a disposition oven to use judges of the supreme court to further lhoir selfish ends it Is time to call a halt we see too judges hemming and hawing over the cases of these powerful wrong doers instead of treating them as they deserved though we may not realize it there is gradually becoming a baan nation these evils are permitted to expand because most officials perform their full civic duty persons adnot be strict party men but should insist upon honest men and honest measures and vote for artisan bias |
