Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — SAME OLD GAME [ARTICLE]

SAME OLD GAME

Because, to use his own language, “most large corporations do a business that is not oonfined to any one state,” Mr. Roosevelt asks that the states shall be denied the right to regulate them and that exclusive control shall be vested in the national government. You don’t hear any objections from the “large corporations,” do you? It will be nice and tidy for them if they can get everything down at Washington where the Joe Cannons run the law-making, aided by the Jim Watsons and other big and little creatures of the trusts.

There was another saloon brawl at Hammond Monday night that is likely to result fatally for one of the participants. Lake county is certainly the most lrfwloss section of Indiana and the wide-open saloon policy there is largely responsible for this deplorable state of affairs. Murders, criminal assaults upon women and mere children are of frequent occurrence, The jail at Crown Point is full to overflowing and is to be enlarged to make room for more criminals. And still a great many escape the officers of the law and are never apprehended. The assailant and murderer of the little girl near Gary a couple of weeks ago, which aroused the whole country, is still at large with no hope of over being captured. In the meantime the saloons, brothels and gambling hells of the county never close their doors, and criminals are being turned out at au alarming rate while the worst criminal element in the whole county flock there in great numbers. Governor Hanley’s "reform” measures seems to be an unknown quantity in Lake county.

Mr. Cortelyou, President Roosevelt’s secretary of the treasury, seems to understand his part of the corhedy that the national administration is playing. Cortelyou’s part is a “practical” part and he isletter-perfectinit. Mr. Roosevelt, in his Provinoeton speech, to gain the further applause of the multitude, thundered against Wall street! I&i fepptelyou, immediately after that jpeeeh, took his key ill hand, unlocked the vaults in wtrich the 'jttjtac'.fritihey was k os andilhhWed; grefd heaps of And thefl the sspedulpttQrsismlled. They saF^niP o "Rhek&tetfwas talking^fot' tlrt r-Bt«MJ t* Tf,q a overt o) si )i an hbiis/theiold’gamei of Catching them coming and going. ~ The .fproetra.esi

tion” when Mr. Roosevelt “sternly” refused to listen to his appeals for the money interests was s part of it. /The men who play it expeot the people to be deceived by it. A few will be. There are some persons who have infinite capacity along the line of gullibility. But tbe majority of men are not built that way.