PRINCIPLE ABOVE PARTY
Principle above Party SENATOR Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma is one of the national leaders of his party. Probably, no other Senator is stronger in the confidence of President Wilson. No one can...
...Honest, brainy, industrious, resolute, no end of courage and physical endurance, with every heart throb for the man who is down—that is Raymond Robins...
...Little wonder that small business is disappearing...
...that hundreds of thousands of dollars should be paid in unlawful rebates to a few great packing houses...
...Senator Owen regards the nomination of Roger Sullivan as the Democratic candidate for United States Senator from Illinois, though made under the direct primary, an outrage upon democracy as a principle in government...
...He has given recent years to a study of economic problems as they bear on human life, and to some of the most practical social service rendered the country...
...1,560.00 $9,161.56 What did the Interstate Commerce Commission have to say about the payment of rebates by railroad companies to the owners of refrigerator cars and other shippers...
...It was one of the purposes of the creation of a Railroad Commission in Wisconsin to put an end to this infamous practice in that state...
...It is but a means of aiding the people to achieve democracy...
...For these cars it received no rental...
...Philipp made the contract in behalf of the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company under which the Chicago, Milwaukee & St...
...He may not talk like the same Philipp...
...It is a cowardly way in which to destroy a business rival...
...1205, January, 1903...
...Shall the citizen destroy the instrument which has never failed him before...
...Philipp was also President of the Union Refrigerator Transit Company of Kentucky...
...Our statute makes it "unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation knowingly to accept or receive any rebate, concession or discrimination in respect to transportation of any property wholly within the state...
...Denouncing these violations further, the Commission said: "With reference to their prevention and the methods whereby those who commit them may be convicted and punished, they differ in no important respect from petit larceny or any other misconduct which the law characterizes as a crime...
...It has been fertile in devices to escape detection...
...Both received rebates paid in violation of law...
...But Senator Owen stands for these progressive measures because they are the best means yet devised to promote the prin ciples of fundamental democracy...
...Philipp's Kentucky corporation was the owner of several hundred refrigerator cars...
...What then...
...And the big shippers now, as at all times, are the beneficiaries—the picked favorites...
...Senator Owen sets up the highest standard of party service...
...All that the Wisconsin corporation did was to control the shipments made in the cars of the Kentucky corporation, and RECEIVE IN PART BY THE HAND OF PHILIPP AS VICE PRESIDENT, THE REBATES PAID TO IT BY THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST...
...To enforce obedience, the law provides that "any person, firm, or corporation, violating the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense...
...Everything was against him...
...He has wonderful powers as an orator, whether it be from the pulpit, the political platform, appealing to the better judgment of a body of strikers, or addressing a university convocation...
...It had this to say in its report to Congress January 17, 1902,—the same year that Philipp as Vice President received certain of these rebates: "That the leading traffic officials of many of the principal railway lines, men occupying high positions and charged with the most important duties, should deliberately violate the statute law of the land, and in some cases agree with each other to do so...
...It is a public enemy...
...The state that elected Lorimer Senator may elect Sullivan, but it would inspire every progressive Republican and every progressive Democrat with hope to fight on if it should elect Raymond Robins to the United States Senate...
...Will he vote to elect a man to office in November, whom he would regard it as reprehensible to vote to nominate for the office in September...
...He may even profess to favor the railroad commission now when he is seeking to gain the power of life and death over that body...
...They need a lesson everywhere...
...Blind idolatry of the direct primary, the initiative, the referendum or any other instrument of democracy, that would exalt them above democracy itself, is worship of the FORM, instead of the GREAT PRINCIPLE to which men have given their lives for centuries in the struggle for self-government...
...Paul Railway Company as follows: Voucher No...
...Can you, Progressive Republicans, trust a man to enforce the laws of the state, who himself, as Vice President of the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company, bargained with the railroads to violate the law of the nation...
...No one can presume to question his loyalty to his party or to the administration...
...995, December, 1902...
...Senator Owen, progressive Democratic leader, says Sullivan was not a fit man to nominate for United States Senator in September, and is not a fit man to elect United States Senator in November...
...It should teach all men that he who serves country best, serves party best...
...because, like nominations by direct vote, they make for direct action of the citizen upon his government...
...The disclosures made through the recent investigations conducted by the Interstate Commerce Commission settled that...
...will he, to gain a party advantage, vote to surrender a progressive government to the known enemy of every principle vital to the life of that progressive government...
...Shall he abandon his government to suffer irreparable wrong because some one has blundered in using the instrument, or, it may be, has neglected to use it at all...
...But you will discover sooner or later that the hand is the hand of Esau...
...He is supporting Raymond Robins, the Progressive candidate...
...A common and shifty device which often serves as a red herring to confuse those who hunt along the trail of combination and trust operations...
...Politicians rely upon the party name to carry the election for a candidate whose steady record should damn him before all men...
...The private refrigerator car companies seem to furnish a convenient medium through which to violate the law prohibiting the payment of rebates...
...It supplied cars to Philipp's Wisconsin corporation...
...Suppose the instrument fails through some latent defect, or suppose it fails through some fault in the hand that directs it in a critical operation affecting the very life cf a people's government...
...It is not a fetish...
...2,910.31 Voucher No...
...It is in control of and operates all the highways that lead to market...
...Paul Railway Company unlawfully paid rebates to the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company...
...The Hand of Esau EMANUEL L. PHILIPP, in 1902 and 1903, was Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company, a Wisconsin corporation...
...It has ruined thousands of shippers...
...Prohibited abuses change their names...
...Rising above the subserviency of party regularity, the Senator has repudiated Sullivan and has given his support actively to Raymond Robins, the Progressive nominee for United States Senator...
...The Senator is one of the stoutest advocates of the direct primary in this country...
...Pick and shovel, shovel and pick...
...Manifestly, Senator Owen believes, as every progressive Democrat and every progressive Republican should believe, that the direct primary is not demccracv itself...
...He is an active supporter of the initiative, referendum and recall...
...There was not even an attempt at denial...
...Financial ability and integrity are powerless against it...
...Curiously enough, this refrigerator company had no refrigerator cars...
...Just why KENTUCKY does not at once appear...
...The railroad is a public servant...
...He faced it eagerly and won a fortune...
...It has built up trusts and combinations...
...He dug his way through to an education, then to a place in the legal profession...
...The secret rebate is the meanest weapon ever used by crooked business...
...that it should be thought by them necessary to destroy vouchers and to so manipulate bookkeeping as to obliterate evidence of the transaction...
...Rebates and discriminations masquerade as "free services" now...
...The peril and the hardship called him most...
...A private arrangement between any shipper and the railroad which gives advantage over a competing shipper is a conspiracy against the commercial life of that competitor...
...the same Philipp who is now a candidate for Governor...
...996, December, 1902...
...Wheels within wheels...
...1,809.96 Voucher No...
...It has destroyed competitive markets and forced the producer to sell at the price monopoly chooses to pay...
...2,881.29 Voucher No...
...He was a coal miner...
...What, then, justified the existence of Philipp's Wisconsin corporation...
...Is party success to be weighed against the interests of all the people...
...Philipp's Northern Refrigerator Transit Company refrigerated beer...
...Upon the right to use these highways on terms of the strictest equality depends the industrial independence,.—the very existence,—of every business man in the community...
...The voice may sound like the voice of Jacob...
...It is a knife in the dark...
...Philipp's Kentucky corporation never received a cent, either as rental for cars or on account of repairs, from Philipp's Wisconsin corporation...
...Little wonder that the grip of monopoly grows stronger and stronger in the market where the people sell the products of their labor and buy the necessaries of life...
...832, March, 1903...
...The proof was absolute...
...the same Philipp who fought the bill to establish the railroad commission of Wisconsin...
...that the business of transportation, the most important but one in the country today, paying the highest salaries and holding out to young men the greatest inducements, should, to such extent, be conducted in open disregard of law, must be surprising and offensive to all right-minded persons...
...It is still practiced in business...
...Can you vote for a man for Governor of Wisconsin who, as Vice President of the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company, accepted rebates when it was criminal for the railroad company to pay rebates...
...The packers' refrigerator companies refrigerated meat...
...Alaska challenged him...
...But as Philipp resided in Wisconsin, perhaps this company was incorporated in Kentucky for convenience...
...Philipp, as Vice President of the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company, received and receipted for NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE DOLLARS, unlawfully paid as rebates by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St...
...EQUALLY STARTLING AT LEAST IS THE FACT THAT THE OWNERS OF THESE PACKING HOUSES, MEN WHOSE NAMES ARE KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE COMMERCIAL WORLD, SHOULD SEEMINGLY BE EAGER TO AUGMENT THEIR GAINS WITH THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF THESE REBATES WHICH THEY RECEIVE IN PLAIN DEFIANCE OF FEDERAL STATUTE...
...Phil-ipp's Kentucky corporation even kept the cars in repair for Philipp's Wisconsin corporation...
...But once you come to know Emanuel L. Philipp, there is no mistaking him thereafter...
...He may not act like the same man...
...Vice President Philipp of the Northern Refrigerator Transit Company who receipted for rebates is the same Philipp who was the registered lobbyist of the Union Refrigerator Transit Company...
...It should warn party organizations that a bad-nomination binds no man...
...It is an instrument for building and strengthening a republican form of government...
...PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY...
Vol. 6 • October 1914 • No. 43
