We were especially zealous in prosecuting all of the "higher up" offenders in the realms of politics and finance who swindled on a large scale.
Special assistants of the Attorney-General, such as Mr.Frank Kellogg, of St.Paul, and various first-class Federal district attorneys in different parts of the country secured notable results: Mr.Stimson and his assistants, Messrs.

Wise, Denison, and Frankfurter, in New York, for instance, in connection with the prosecution of the Sugar Trust and of the banker Morse, and of a great metropolitan newspaper for opening its columns to obscene and immoral advertisements; and in St.Louis Messrs.
Dyer and Nortoni, who, among other services, secured the conviction and imprisonment of Senator Burton, of Kansas; and in Chicago Mr.Sims, who raised his office to the highest pitch of efficiency, secured the conviction of the banker Walsh and of the Beef Trust, and first broke through the armor of the Standard Oil Trust.

It is not too much to say that these men, and others like them, worked a complete revolution in the enforcement of the Federal laws, and made their offices organized legal machines fit and ready to conduct smashing fights for the people's rights and to enforce the laws in aggressive fashion.

When I took the Presidency, it was a common and bitter saying that a big man, a rich man, could not be put in jail.

We put many big and rich men in jail; two United States Senators, for instance, and among others two great bankers, one in New York and one in Chicago.