In making the Constitution, the Georgia Outlaw had the help of the best people of the State, and his work was sanctioned by a popular vote after it was finished. In violating the Constitution, J. P. Morgan has the aid of the worst men in Georgia, and they dare not submit their work to a free vote of the people. The party machinery of the Democratic party is prostituted to the vile uses of the corporation lobbyists, and the negro vote is held in reserve to be used as a club to beat down any organized opposition. The Georgia Outlaw who made our Constitution was a Democrat; the Wall Street Outlaw who violates it is a Republican. Georgia is a Democratic state. The Democratic party is in full control of every branch of the Government. Thus we have an amazing spectacle. A Republican Wall Street outlaw uses the machinery of the Democratic party in Georgia to trample upon the Constitution and plunder the people. What is the secret of this astonishing situation? Bribery—direct and indirect BRIBERY. Daily and weekly newspapers subsidized; rebates given to certain shippers; favors granted where they will do the most good; campaign funds supplied to needy candidates; free passes dealt out by the bushel; princely salaries paid to plausible lobbyists. Bribery, _bribery_, BRIBERY! In no other way can you account for such a shocking state of affairs. When Democrats hold down a Democratic State while a Wall Street Republican robs it, there is just one explanation—only one—BRIBERY. _Building on Sand, Again_ With a strenuous rush and clang and clatter, President Roosevelt has set out to solve the Railroad Problem. All honor to him for the motive. To his everlasting credit be it remembered that he recognized the abuses of the present system and shouldered the task of reform. But Mr. Roosevelt’s remedy will never reach the seat of the disease. In a case of blood poison, shin-plasters for surface abrasions never yet saved the patient; and Mr. Roosevelt’s plans for another tribunal _to control the railroads_ are mere shin-plasters. The trouble is that _the corporations will control the new tribunals_, just as they have controlled the old ones. The tremendous pressure which combined capital can bring to bear upon any tribunal which Congress creates will be irresistible in the future, as it has been in the past. Poor human nature is simply unable to withstand temptations which assume so many seductive forms, and intimidations which assail natural weakness in such a variety of ways. So vast is the power of the corporations to reward or punish, enrich or impoverish, that individuals sink into nothingness by comparison. No man is beyond their reach. If they cannot act upon the official himself, they can strike him through his family, or relatives, or friends, or business connections.