Waterbury Evening Democrat

Attorney General Bonaparte has announced in an interview that the government is about tired of imposing fines on big corporations that recklessly disregard the law. He says that while an accumulation of fines reaching a large amount may act as a deterrent, such penalties only too frequently are paid out of the treasury of the corporation, whether they are assessed against individual officers or not, and result only in decreasing the company's dividends and thus striking many innocent stockholders without affecting the high officials who are really at fault. He intimates that a jail sentence which will have to be served by the officials against whom it is directed seems a much simpler and more effective measure.
This will be bad intelligence for the managers of many big corporations who supposed they were law-proof. It will be interesting to see whether the attorney general will have the hardihood to put his threat into execution.