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out of mind it has "njyK been a common remark that the laws are made f° r th e rich; that a man °f means is rarely u " brought to suffer for gross misdeeds, while a trivial charge suffices to land a poor man in jail. More than any event in recent years the conviction of Charles W. Morse seems to have emphasized the fallacy of this contention; but with a view to getting at whatever truth might lie at the bottom of so prevalent an opinion, the New York World has not only sought the opinions of men close to the workings of the law, but from thousands of cases in point it has selected as an exhibit enough to put a more cheerful face on those pessimists ' tremble for the continuance of democratic institutions. Those to whom it has seemed that wealth brings immunity from the consequences of crime or misdemeanor will be interested in the following statements and the list containing a few of the more notable cases, briefly stated, in which men of money, political power, or both, have gone behind the bars. WEALTH IS UNAVAILING. Declared Powerless to Afford Security to the Wrongdoer. “There is a very widespread impression especially among the cynical,” said Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer, “that wealth gives security to the wrongdoer and goes far to give immunity from punishment. “It was openly boasted, in the case of the policy king. Al Adams, that his accumulated stealings from the poor would guarantee immunity, even if indicted. And this impression gains force when the criminal is not of low origin and mean practice, but has surroundings of elegance and associations of refinement. It is a relief to those who believe in the essential rightmindedness of the majority of our citizens to have distinct proof in such cases that wealth is no defense against justice and cannot always be made the reserve force in a conspiracy against honesty. “When the poor man pays the penalty of wrong-doing society is protected usually by the removal of one not a very dangerous member of its body. But the man of wealth and cunning using the ordinary avenues of business represents more than the individual. He represents power and pride and the infatuation which envy toward the“^sß^to do is sure to engender. His conviction, therefore, is in a far greater degree a rebuke to evil Influences and a defense of the common weal. "We hope to reach the point after awhile where the mere facts of wealth and poverty will be not so interesting as they now appear. The really interesting consideration is this: “Is a man so poor that he hasn't the means of growth or hasn’t the means of development? Or, on the other hand, is he so rich as to be crippled and encumbered? “Whatever removes the superstitious awe which surrounds the wealthy criminal and gives ample justice to each man, as simply a man, must reenforce the morals of the community.” MORSE CASE CITED. Courts Fair and Efficient, Says Gen. Charles W. Russell. Gen. Charles W. Russell, assistant attorney general of the United States, who is in New York prosecuting a case of peonage in which the Florida East Coast railway is involved, could see no adequate cause for the popular idea that rich men never go to jail. “The World’s interview with Mr. Moxey at the time of the Morse trial,” he said, “shows the absurdity of such a notion. That man alone, and he is only one of a large force of accountants engaged in the successful prosecution of crooked bank officials by the government, has put 33 wealthy and so-called respectable gentlemen in jail. “The whole matter is analogous to the care of a sick poor man and a sick rich man. The rich invalid can hire the best doctors; he can take all the time that is necessary to get well; he can avail himself of proper climate and environment, and it’s a matter of common sense that he stands a better show of recovery than the other fellow. Just so with poor criminals and rich criminals. The rich one’s chances of acquittal are better be-

WAS SOLE RULER OF ISLAND. Michael Waters, “King of Innishmurray, Off Sligo, Is Dead. Michael Waters, the “king” of Innishmurray, a stormbeaten island about nine miles off the coast of Sligo, has died at. his residence there and his funeral was carried out with all the accompaniments of ancient Celtic ceremonial, the body receiving a final resting place in the ancient monastic establishment of St. Molaise and St. Colombkille. This event recalls a quaint survival of the old Irish clan system. The late “king” was actually ruler of the island, his 80 subjects accepting his word as law. He always acted with impartiality and justice and his decisions were never questioned. He was 'king” for more than 35 years, having succeeded his mother as ruler, and he in turn handed his authority ove: to bis son Michael. The islanders, many of whom have never been to the mainland, make j Ibtl/ living by fishing, and their life !

RICH MEN IN JAIL

| Morse’s Incarceration Adds Another Name to a Long List of Men of Money, of Power and of Both Money and Power Who Have Been Put Behind Jail or Penitentiary Bars.

cause they can afford to fight longer. “No, the courts and the prosecutors are fair and efficient, and every year sees a more thorough administration of justice.” MALEFACTORS OF WEALTH. List of Prominent and Rich Offenders Now Wearing Stripes. Here is a partial list of wealthy men convicted of offenses against the law, who are behind the bars: A. F. BONELLI, formerly a banker of Cleveland, 0., arrived in New York on September 17 last from Brazil, a prisoner, in custody of a deputy sheriff and an assistant prosecuting attorney of his home state.' He is charged with the theft of $30,000 which it is alleged he received from laborers under the pretext that he would forward it to their relatives in Italy. The two state officers traveled all the way to Santos, Brazil, to get their man—and got him. SAMUEL SEELEY was a prominent, respected and influential resident of Brooklyn. His position as cashier of the National Shoe and Leather bank in New* York gave him prestige in financial circles. He was accused and found guilty of having defaulted with $354,000 of the bank’s funds and served five years and four months in the Kings county penitentiary. CAPT. OBERLIN M. CARTER, CAPT. B. D. GREENE AND E. H.

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GAYNOR have all felt the iron hand of the law for having attempted to disobey its commands. Capt. Carter was one of the leading young officers in the engineering department of the United States army. When it was decided to make extensive improvements in the harbor at Havana Capt. Carter was appointed to take charge of the work. Certain revelations made started an investigation and Capt. Carter was found guilty of having conspired with Gaynor and Greene to defraud the government. After fruitless appeals Capt. Carter was taken to Leavenworth, where he served his sentence of three years and seven months. Gaynor and Greene, after their conviction, fled to Canada. They were brought back to this country, however, and are now serving out. their four-year terms. DAVID ROTHSCHILD, wrecker o? the Federal bank, was convicted in 1905

is arduous. There are no police on the island, all matters being settled by the “king,” there are no priests and the people are never called upon to pay taxes. The island Is full of interest to the antiquary. The “castle” inhabited by the late “king” is situated near t^e landing stage and close to the ruins of an ancient town. The wall of tie town varies in height from 14 to 18 feet, and it is broad enough to drive a cart around its top. The interior of the enclosure presents a remarkable appearance, for there may be seen churches, cells, houses shaped like beehives, tombs, altars, a wishing stone and crosses. Wit hin the old wall are three churches, and tradition has it that the monastery was the joint work of St. Molaise and St. Columbkille during the latter half of the sixth century. Happiness. Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means In the । way the future keeps its promises.—- | George Sand.

Comments by Men of the Law and of the Church on the Popular Cynicism That Riches Keep Men Out of Prison While the Poor Have to Suffer the Full Rigor of the Law.

and sent to Sing Sing to serve nine years. HARRY BRUNAUGH, formerly secretary to Mayor Bookwaiter of Indianapaolis, Ind., and superintendent of the Western Construction Company, was sent to the penitentiary last June to serve a term of from two to fourteen years for defrauding the city. WILLIAM O. MILES, ex-district attorney of Brooklyn, is now serving a term in the penitentiary for presenting fraudulent sewer claims to the city for payment. R. M. SNYDER, the promoter of the Central Traction bill in St. Louis, was convicted and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for bribery on October 4, 1902. This was the first conviction in the famous boodle scandal of St. Louis, following a year’s investigation. Snyder was accused of bribing Councilman Uthoff to vote for the Central Traction bill. Uthoff was to receive SIOO,OOO, but failed to collect more than $5,000. He was one of the state’s witnesses in the trial. LOUIS GLASS of San Francisco, vice-president of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company, was convicted and sentenced to five years for bribery, September 4, 1907. He was charged with bribery. Glass, before conviction, was one of San Francisco’s leading citizens and possessed of considerable wealth. HORACE E. HAND, a prominent lawyer in St. Louis and a leader of society in the fashionable suburb,

Kirkwood, was arrested on January 17, 1907, at his home on the charge of forgery, while entertaining his pastor and a deacon of his church. He pleaded guilty on the next day to forgery, and by three o’clock in the afternoon was on his way to prison, sentenced to five years. CHARLES T. GROTEFEND was one of the most prominent young men in St. Louis. Although only 30 years old, Grotefend was teller in the Washington National bank, and generally thought to be one of the coming financial men of the city. It was discov?red that he had embezzled more than $3,000 of the bank’s money and be fled to Germany. He returned after a time, and upon pleading guilty was sentenced to five years at Fort Leavenworth. CHARLES H. THORNTON, note teller of tho Hamilton National bank in Chicago, a man highly respected in

MARRIAGE IN FAR GREENLAND, Ceremonies Short and Strenuous, But Matches Successful. The courtship and marriage customs among the Greenlanders were in early times simple and unceremonious enough, since we are told that when a lovelorn youth made up his mind as to the girl he wanted to adorn and be useful in his hut of ice or snow, he went to her home, seized her by the hair or wherever he could secure a good grip on her, and dragged her to his own domain, where she was expected to “stay' put” without any further marriage ceremony. If an affluent bridegroom, he w'ould perhaps soothe her lacerated feelings by presenting her with a new lamp or some other article of household utility. No matter how willing or even eager the bride was to marry a young man, Eskimo etiquette demanded that she should resist every attempt to drag her to her new home, and she must weep and wail bitterly once she was there, indeed, she must continue to

business and social circles, upon the discovery of his thefts, plead guilty to having embezzled SIO,OOO from the bank. He was sentenced to five years in the government prison at Fort Leavenworth, and he is now serving that sentence. The following interesting rosteir is also to the point: EDWARD STOKES shot Jim Fisk; served term in prison. AL ADAMS, the “Policy King,” sentenced in Sin Sing. । SENATOR BURTON of Kansas I served jail term of six months for ap- , pearing for a client for pay before a government department while still in the senate. FRANK G. BIGELOW, former president of the American Bankers’ association, looted t|e First National bank of Milwaukee snd was sentenced to the penitentiary, LEONARD IMBODEN AND JAMES A. HILL, Denver bank wreckers, received ten-year jail sentences. PAUL O. STENSLAND, Chicago banker, stole $1,500,000, fled to Europe and was brought back and sent to jail. JOHN R. WALSH, Chicago bwker, sentenced to jail. WILLIAM F. WALKER, honored banker of New Britain, Conn., stole ' hundreds of thousands of dollars; followed to Mexico, brought back and sent to jail. MAYOR WILLIAM H. BELCHER of Paterson, sent to jail for embezzlement. GUY C. STRATTON, millionaire lumberman of Seattle, Wash., convicted of murder in the second degree for ■ killing child w-ith automobile. MRS. CASSIE CHADWICK, wife of prominent Cleveland physician, sent to jail for forgery. ABE HUMMEL, for years one of New York's most prominent lawyers, | sent to Blackwell’s island for one year. CHARLES T. YERKES, millionaire traction magnate at his death, was once convicted and sentenced to a jail term, which he served. J. A. BENSON, California millionaire, sentenced for land frauds, August 31, 1907, for one year and to pay ! a SI,OOO fine in San Francisco. CHARLES S. CAMERON, president ' of the Pittsburg & Tube City Railroad { Company, whert called for sentence I did not answel and court declared $12,000 bond forfeited. SENATOR MITCHELL of Oregon, convicted and s-btenced to two years in jail. Died vu appeal was pendmg. All of these niyu host of others, to say nothing fur^r of CHARLES W. MORSE and HA^tRY K. THAW. Besides the above, the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., has sent to it each year bankers from all parts ®f the United States that have been convicted of crimes carrying with them jail sentences. The prison authorities have what they term a bankers’ colony. In 1907 there were 21 convicts in the bankers’ colony. They were: “The Bankers' Colony.” JUSTUS L. BRODERICK of Elkhart, Ind., serving ten years. WALTER BROWN, Elkhart, Ind., serving eight years. WILSON L. COLLINS, Elkhart, Ind., recently released after serving six years. CYRUS E. M’CREADY, Seymour, Ind., recently released after serving six years. ALFRED C. BARKER, Bedford, Ind., released last January after serving five years. JOHN H. WOOD, Matthews, Ind., soon to be released. GUSTAV A. CONZMAN, Terre Haute, Ind., serving eight years. FRANK G. BIGELOW, Milwaukee, Wis., serving ten years. HENRY G. GOLL, Milwaukee, Wis., serving ten years. ROBERT B. TAYLOR, New York city, recently released after serving five years. MILTON J. FUGMAN, San Antonio, Tex., serving five years. THOMAS E. LARY, Hillsboro, Tex., serving five years. FRANK M. MABRY, McGregor, Tex., serving five years. J. A. ERICKSON, Minot, N. D., starving five years. > CHARLES C. KING, Scotland, S. D„ serving five years. THOMAS COGHILL, Seymour, Wis., serving five years. HERMAN E. HAAS, Chicago, serving six years.

weep and wail for some days, and even run away to her own home, only to be dragged back again. It is said that this extremely simple marriage ceremony is the only one still in use on the east coast of Greenland, and the laws governing divorce have as little “red tape” connected with them as have the laws of marriage. But it is maintained that as a rule married couples live on quite amiable terms, for the Eskimo are not i fond of quarreling, and they like peace ’ in the house and with their fellowmen. One rarely hears quarreling and | wrangling in an Eskimo home, and no j class of people are fonder of their i children than are Eskimo fathers and mothers. Not even the unwelcome girls are treated harshly, and as for the boys, they may do about as they will. Although they are given this large liberty, they are often less “forth-putting” than are many of our American children.—Leslie’s Weekly . Must Go Together. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless.—Paley.

(visits with]] $ LINGLE BY Saturdays. EEIiBE ■ I । 1 'I $ I Wu jy i To-day, within the galley’s hold. We yearn for Naples far away. The vision of the Matterhorn Is calling to our hearts to-day! Thus, longingly, we strain and sweat 1' rom daybreak to the fading sun— A struggling horde that plays the game For prizes when the work is done. Ah. yesterday we yearned the same For Saturday to come once more! All week within the stuffy school M e conned our lessons o’er and o’er. “Amo, antas, amat.” we droned And bounded Chili on the map, But over all we heard the croon Os rivers where the billows lap! Ho! Saturday would set us free j To wander by the bayou’s brim. To fish for Junkers at the bridge With Stubbie and with Fat and Slim! Ah. when the sun rose in the east And mother called us from our bed, We did not drop to sleep again But heard, the first time, what she said! Then off to join our happy crew. How gladly, joyously we sped; And as we chorused by the way, ' Our faithful Tiger barked ahead, i Oh. those were days worth hoping for, I Worth slaving for, when work was through— For what in Switzerland or France, Can yield the happiness we knew? ! Ah. Saturdays of youth! Thy joy I Sweeps back with mocking voice of scorn ' And scoffs at us each week-end day I When carols wake the timid dawn; । For what vacation is so sweet As that we knew in childhood, pray. When, gladsome as a meadowlark, j We “went a-fishin’ ” Saturday? ,o o o On the Wing. I r —k “j i | |fl ONLY OjOW ' $ 200.000J11 There are a lot of people who can- . not afford to. do things, who do them because “we cannot afford not to.” ☆ ☆ ☆ A Michigan fiimberjack has been bitten by a vicious skunk. It is almost impossible to believe that the lumber jack didn’t know the skunk was there. ☆ ☆ ☆ Gum chewing is said to be coming in again. Those of us who stuck our quids under the side bar of the bed । a year or so ago. are thus reminded । to dust ’em off and get busy! When you take one of the e new Chicago street cars, you have to pay in advance, but when you take the home newspaper, you can fool the conductor if you are foxy by jumping off the car at the end of the trip. The comptroller of the currency is kicking because there is not enough money in circulation. One would think he was once a literary gent to hear him talk. During the late panic, all bankers gave evidence of being great | novelists in this regard. ☆ ☆ ☆ We cut the initials of our sweet- j heart upon a tree. Beneath them we cut our own, and around both we । fashion a heart. Then we go away and : marry another woman and the woodchoppers come and obliterate our j registration of love. In some flaming ■ fire, our amorous record is burned to j ash and, by and by, even we cannot I remember what her initials were, i Thus it is with many of the things i we loved. Time is shifting the point * of view and making insensate the ' heart throbs of yesterday. o o o Scissorettes. An exchange observes that a boy can sit on a sled six inches square tied to a i sled moving nine miles an hour, but can’t - sit on a sofa five minutes for a dollar. A I man can sit on an inch board and talk politics for three hours, but put him into I a comfortable church pew for 40 minutes I and he gets nervous, twists and goes to | sleep. A man can pouch his cheeks with i tobacco and the juice running down his j chin feels good; but a hair in the butter I simply knocks him out completely. A young lady visited a cooking school recently and her attention was divided between a dress worn by a friend and 1 directions for making cake. So when she I undertook to write the recipe for her - mother, the old lady was paralyzed to ! read the following: “Take two pounds of flour, three rows of plaiting down the | ! front, the whites of two eggs cut bias, a pint of milk ruffled ’round the neck, half pound currants, with seven yards of bead trimming, grated lemon peel with lace fichu; stir well, and add a semi-fitting paletot with visite sleeves; garnish with icing and passementerie. Bake in a moderately hot oven until the skirt is tucked from the waist down on either side, and । finish with large satin rosettes.” IPLojUULTJ Danger in Speculation. The farmer sows his seed and has no doubt but that the harvest will re- [ pay him; but he who embarks in i speculations that promise sudden and great wealth, knows that he may be sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind. —Quincey. Modesty of Great Men. Great men, Milton says, are modest, I “because they continually compare themselves, not with other men. but with that idea of the perfect which | they have before their mind.”

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