Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-01-12

are opposing the omnibus bill. It is
hard for me to understand why suca
an unjust warfare should be waged
against these territories. The time is
not far off when the enemies of the
territories will be forced to recognize
and acknowledge their mistake.
The same element that Is largely
a work at this time against the terri
tories is assuming to dictate 10 the
business world how and under what
conditions business may be conducted.
In may cases men who have never
been brought in any sense intimately
in contact with practical business
methods are drafting and presenting
bills for the consideration of coz
gress. affecting the business interests
of the country-as they would have 1:
appear, for the benefit of the Gear peu-
pie who are. just at this time, more
or less suffering from the antitrust
microbe, so industriously put into CIR
culation by these self-constitutel
guardians of interests about the prac-
teal working Of which they know little
or nothing.
ANTITRUST sCARECROw.
Western n,eE, as Il rule. are greatly
amused over the antitrust scarecrowi
that is being so generally paraded al
this time largely, as it would appear.
for political reasons. Men of prom;-
nence in both of the two great parties
9eem to be vying with each other II
their efforts to enact laws or, in talk
Ing about enacting laws which would
4 established, paralyze the conserva-
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5ributed so much to the wealth ari
greatness of the United States Ir
we are to admit that there Is no
'onger any need of combination or in
terests. whereby the great Develop
nent that has been going on In this
country was made possible and that
the large corporations now in the coun-
try are proving harmful to the public
generally, then. and not until then,
can. we justify the making Of war on
large industrial enterprises. based upon
lights and privileges. authorized AMI
legalized. securities of which are scat
tered TO the four corners of the eartn
and held by hundreds of thousands of
people who are dependent upon the rev.
enue derived therefrom, to not only in.
sure to them the ordinary comforts of
life, but in thousands of cases to sup
port and maintain tottering and less
successful enterprises upon which, 81
turn, hundreds Of thousands more are
depending for a livelihood.
Lord Beresford very wisely said of
us just before leaving London for
trip to the United States:
You put your brightest men into
business; we put them into politics,
rha no nd he.
20 be changed, not for the sake of the
money it makes for the individual. but
for the general good of the country.
When 1 return 1 hope to have a lot
more information in my pocket which
viii further these ends in parliamen:
and elsewhere
He hopes while visiting this coun- |
try to pick up information regarding
the administrative element in Ameri- |
can business in which he thinks we ex-
eel
1T is to the west. with its undeveI- !
oped resources that the far-seeing. !
energetic. conservative business man
will yet have to look for sympathy ana !
cooperation, and not to their hereto /
fore eastern friends who, In many
cases, have taken up and are indorsing
Who in some cases are not even honest. !
SAYS IT WON'T BE PLEASANT.
1T will be interesting, but not plas-
ant, to watch the effect on the coun- |
try when business men are compelled |
to conduct their affairs in accordance /
with a formula laid down by the busi- |
ness reformers of the day, and labor or
ganizations are placed in charge of all |
corporate. as well as private, business /
enterprises, TO zee that the formula is /
strictly adhered to. leaving the in |
!ividual or stockholders who put up |
the money to create and, in many cases, !
maintain enterprises for months and |
years during the stage Of development. |
to receive practically nothing in return, |
the natural result after having been |
deprived of the management.
when the machinery referred To i
put in motion the talk now being made |
about influences at work in restraint |
of trade, etc, will pale into insignih- !
cance.
The sooner capital and the enterpris- J
ing men of the east recognize that in !
the west are found their warmest and !
most loyal supporters, the better it will !
be for the entire country. If the wes.
We're better understood, there would be
less jealousy and prejudice existing ih
the east which is proving so hurtful Z
this time. when the territories are max
ing a legitimate effort to procure their
just dues"