These facts were not denied.
In law and morals, Judge Swayne misappropriated trust funds.
He did not go to the cash-drawer at the ticket office and steal five dollars, but he took charge of the car, the supplies and the employees whose services would have put thousands of dollars into the cash-drawers, and thus converted to his own private use the property which was in his Court for management and final disposition.
Here was a plain case of dishonest use of power and opportunity.
Here was a plain case of robbery—the Federal Judge taking that which belonged to the stockholders and which should have earned them thousands of dollars.
In morals and sound law, the crime is the same as it would have been had he embezzled the same sum in dollars and cents.
The Washington Post argues that the President should have a salary of $100,000.
All right. Let us levy a tax or two on the rich, and raise the salaries which the organs of the rich say are too small.