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Show oo DISCRIMINATION IN THE LAWS ENFORCEMENT. Is there one law for the rich and another law for the poor in this country! To this question, the Los, ! Angeles Tribune answers, "Yes, ' and proceeds to present proof, as follows In the rush and hurrv and press of business that attended the closinc days of Mr Tafts administration his action in commuting the sentence of , the secretary of the American Sugar Kenning company escaped public attention at-tention That company was a thievlnh conrern that deliberated robbed the government systematical under weighing shipments to defraud the treasury of huge revenues The secretary and treasurer of the concern was found guilty of participation partici-pation in those frauds Money ren dered the service it customarih renders ren-ders to rich criminals There were appeals and delays, but finallv this particular criminal faced the penitentiary peniten-tiary In the closing hours of his administration adminis-tration President Taft relieved him of the necessity or wearing stripes and doing time He has but to pav his fine and the costs of prosecution and then will he held to have discharged his debt to Justice N'eed we say that the president is reported to have acted act-ed thus on the recommendation of Mr Wickersham' At about the same time a number of extremely rich oleomargarine manufacturers man-ufacturers were shown such Indulgence Indulg-ence on the recommendation of the attorney general that they were permitted per-mitted to compromise the cases against them on the payment of a 'money fine Prison for them? Never' j Within a week of the expiration of ;hls term of office Attorney General . WickerBhnm directed the United I States district attornev In Michigan to quash the pending indictments lasainst the members of the "bathtub Irust." who were convicted reeenth of I criminal conspiracv jn restrain of trade. They were merely fined on I that first conviction but nevertheless neverthe-less took an appeal an appeal thev indulgently consented to withdraw provided the government would drop the second criminal indictment i ageinst them. Taken singly. nono of these eases i possesses special slcnlf icance. Taken , collectively and compared with the ''on of government when it deals I with poor men. they are tilled with sisnlf iennce Thev supply cumulative p:-oof Of the truth of the declaration that there is one law for the rb h and another law for the poor, and un- 1 let that condition i? abolished this j government cannot endure |