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August T H E
Most of his life he had been an ofliceholder
and politician. And now his eye was on the
Governorship.
He was active, earnest, sincere, ambitious,
religious, highly intelligent.
Also, he was opinionated, ignorant, selfish,
limited, incapable, dangerous.
He was sure that business was largely a matter
of taking advantage of the wants and neces-
sities of mankind, and to this degree was
predatory in its nature.
That modern commerce is art, love, poetry,
romance, beauty, ethics, education, and high
endeavor was beyond his mental reach.
He believed that when you started a business
and hired men to do certain work, that is all
there is about it.
The patience, persistence, ceaseless endeavor
and eternal vigilance which mark the line of
cleavage between success and failure were to
him unknown quantities.
When he suggests a thing he considers it done.
(I To him the difference between palaver and
performance is microscopic.
His limitations grew out of his power, and his
success had deadened his sensibilities.
He knew figures, facts and statistics, but he
did not know the truth. He looked upon the
railroads and all big business as things to be
thwarted, mulcted, exploited.
That all mankind were in partnership was
beyond his imagination. He was interested in
receiverships, bankruptcies, dissolutions, cita-
tions, investigations, fines. He divided the
world into “ me ” and “ them.”
The man had fallen victim to his facility, and
while he knew business, in a certain sense, he
knew it only as an anatomist.
He was not interested in life, evolution, crea-
tion and development, but in dissolution and
death so so
He was a professional reformer, politician,
Shyster and demagogue rolled into one.
He looked upon businessrrfen as greedy,
grasping grafters, and regarded himself as
the instrument of Providence, designed and
created to hold them in check.
Elect enough men of this type to our legis-
lative assemblies, and they would wreck the
world so. 3..
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When sympathy finds vent in vengeance, and
” love ” takes the form of strife, the doctor is
getting ready his ether-cone.
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One Hundred Forty-seven
Adequate Definition of Terms
By Frederick P. Fish
Former President American Telephone and Telegraph Company
izgggj N considering the Sherman Anti-
t? , Trust Law, the pI‘1nClplCS upon
which it was based and what
may well be said to be the dif-
ferent principles which have
been read into it and out of it
since its enactment, certain
things should be constantly
borne in mind.
First, at every stage it should
be remembered that the inter-
est of the people as a whole
should be alone considered.
There should be no thought of attacking or
promoting business enterprises, large or small,
or their methods, generally or in specific cases,
unless the interest of the community, as dis-
tinguished from that of any individual or
class of individuals, requires such action. No
advantage should be conferred by the law
upon capitalist or workman, upon producer
or consumer, except for the benefit, economic,
social or political, of the whole community.
There should be no discrimination for or
against large or small industrial organizations
or prevailing business methods, except in so
far as the same is demanded by a proper
regard for the welfare of the ninety million
people who live in our country. The problem
of their well-being is complicated. It can not
be worked out without taking into account
every phase of social and individual activity
and all relations of men to each other and to
affairs in a highly organized modern commu-
nity; nor is there any room for favoritism or
prejudice in dealing with it.
Under the conditions prevailing at present, it
is obvious that commercial and industrial
prosperity is essential so Legislation which
impaired that general prosperity would be
most unfortunate. The regular employment
of our people, their earning capacity with
adequate compensation for their effort, the
opportunity of the individual for advance-
ment, and the necessary supply of products
of proper quality and at a reasonable cost,
would all be jeopardized if our industries did
not prosper.
Moreover, the time is coming when we must
as never before compete with foreign countries
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