Justice Falls on Minor Employees in Sugar Trust Case
The principal result of the prosecution of the sugar trust seems to fall upon minor employees, the men lowest down. When Samuel J. Tilden was governor of New York he stated that he was called upon often to speak words of encouragement and hope to those who had fallen, as in homes of refuge. He said, “When I have compared their offenses and their nature, temptation, and circumstances, with the crimes of great public delinquents who claim to stand among your best society and are confessedly prominent among your fellow citizens, crimes repeated and continued year after year, I am appalled at the inequality of human justice.” If that was true in Samuel J. Tilden’s day, it is tenfold true at the present time; and yet as of old the law generally finds those lowest down, while those who are highest up escape.