The Year of Our Lord, 1904

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Excerpt from The Year of Our Lord, 1904: A Survey of the WorldIt is quite true that there is some ground for the cynicism which sneers at the motives often found beneath a popular out break of feeling against large organizations that are indirect abettors of law-breaking. But Christians may be glad for such reaction. The weakening of the sense of responsibility, in men, for the moral in¿uence of their property and their acts, under corporate relationships, is one of the evils of modern business life. The common promptings of sound humanity are disregarded. Men who would not dream of renting their own buildings for doubtful or immoral purposes do not consider their share of responsibility when the same thing is done through a company in which they are interested. We are told that men who would not bribe a legislator to accomplish the dearest wish of their lives, are content not to inquire too closely into the contingent expenses of a great corporation to which they lend their names or from which they draw their money. And the reason for this neglect of duty is clear. It has not been made sufficiently plain to the conscience of the American public that the act of a corporation is in theory the act of those who compose it, and that the introduction of intermediaries does not break the chain of responsibility. Truly edifying is it to hear a secular paper announce that the old notion that a corporation has no soul to save, leads men to forget that, after all, a corporation is only a shell containing many men with souls to save.In the case of the Western Union Telegraph Company it appears that Captain Norton Goddard approached the com pany last April in the guise of a poolroom magnate and found that the company was ready to run a wire down the chimney of his house to supply his supposed poolroom with news of the races, and to send him an operator who was an expert at jumping out of the window. The captain made all this public through the papers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.