The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
SAYS THEORY IS WRONG
Haphazard Statistics of M
 Permanent Value.
Separate Mobilization of Capital and Labor as Enemies is 1xost Menacing Fact That now
 Confronts the Nation

Ann Arbor, Mich, Feb, 14-Judge Petsr s. Grosscup of the United States Circuit Court of Chicago. dean of the Northwest- ern University Law School Iectured be- fore the University of Michigan Good Government Club tonight on the subject of the ''New Nation"
 Judge Grosscup's address was tn part as follows:
 ''In the very nature of things we must expect that men who do not sec tl1Gfr way clear to an Improvement of their condi- tions under the old forms of industrial liberty will entertain sympathy for . sys- tenn that promises something new. Tho separation of labor from proprfetorship- the separate mobilization of these two forces as enemies, instead of commtngline in common interest--is the most unrepub- ncan and menacing fact that now con- fronts the Americanp eopie.
 ''The consolidation idea has thus far accentuated this menace. It has dono what is still more menacing--su narrowing the personnel of the proprietorship of tha country, it is detaching from the friends of property, the great liberal bory of citizenship. However we may wish it, this old-time conservative force will not, thus isolated, remain stationary. It will swing in time to those whose attitude is already opposed to the institution of property and in this movement would give to socialism aIiies that would make ao- cialism invincible.
 Should Wake Up.
 Our first duty is to wake up to the realities of the situation and our next to put the forces of industrial freedom in order. Not until we have done theses not until the time when the propertx- acquiring instinct of the country is again unified upon a basis fair alike to alL-can we rest assured that the outcome of the encounter need be no longer feared
 For my own part believe that once corporate organization and management is cleared of thinblerigging and pitfalls, so that the fortunes of an enterprise will be bound up not in an overstrained organ- izltion, but solely in the vicissttudes of the business itself, the American people will be found ready to take up again their share in the proprietorsldp of the coun- try.
 ''The measures pending in Congress make no change in the basis of corporate organization, nor do they provide for visitation. They exhibit no purpose-at least no controlling purpose-to widen the proprietorship of the country. The publicity proposed is confined to the gath- ering and publication of statistics. val- uable possiD1y~t to the specuaator or the trained investor. ineffective and worth less to the ordinary man who may be seeking ownership.
 Government as Trustee.
 .k.f l. H.. ton of Government as trustee, not as mere gatherers; guaranty that when a corporation Is created, it's creator has seen to 1t that it is fairly organized. not mere statistics of haphazard coBporate organization; that the people cannot corsa- preSend-is absent from the bills. In short the measures pending miss sight of the prime mischief to be remedied and ! thus running astray; miss the remedies 3 to be adopted.
 'But though we cannot expect adequate 5 legislation now, 1t will come. The pub lie mind is forming. Unless I am greatly deceived the mad dog policy of treating corporations. proposed by some. will be ! rejected; the American people win net. ! in blind fury. pull down about them the { industrial edihees. But any policy call culated to merely temDorize will. with equal conclusiveness. be reiecbedi there will be no room when the public mind is made up for the diversions of the polit- icaI masquerade. Then will come about a determined public to set our house in } order; to rc-establish on the secure foun- dations of popular protectorship. and in- dustral liberty the property interests of the republics; to restore those ideals, into the depths of whose Armament the peo- pie of America have always looked. and look now for lights to guide them on their coItraa