Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-04-14
COMBINES WILL STAY
NECESSITY OF CORPORATIONS
Modern Enterprises Have outero~n
Individual Enor-8ut Trusts
viii Be curbsd by Ads-
Quate Supervision.

sU0tVtOoot eUoSt-ooh ssSsss
viii Be curbsd by Ads-
qusts Supervision.
Pittsburs. April S.-For the first
time in the history Of the TraHe
League the three aspects OF railroad
trafic were represented last night In
Pittsburg. the greatest tonnage orisi-
mating point in the world. The occa'
sion was the third annual banquet Of
the Traffic Club OF Pitisburg.
Samuel Spencer. president OF the
Southern railway. spoke for the rail-
roads: Willis L. King. vice president
Of the Jones 4 iaushlin Company.
Ptttsburs. presented the interests OF
the manufacturers. and Judge Peter 5.
Gtosscup Of the United States Circuit
Court. Chicago. upheld the rights OF
the people,
Speaking to the toast. THE Regen-
Grafton Of the Corporation" Judge
crosscup said in part:
I'VE are now well into the fifteenth
year since the American people started
out. through the Sherman act. and the
sevcral state antitrust acts. TO destroy
the so-ealied trusts. Are they de-
stroyed! Are they diminished? Has
any one of them. except from causes
arising within itself. been destroyed or
diminished! True 1t IL that some OF
them have been bitted and reined until
they are again In the highways Of the
law. Some Of them have voluntarily
come back to the highways Of the law.
Some have never departed from these
highways. Some are stili nj large.
but none that ! can recall have
been destroyed: none have succumbcd
to the full length Of purpose with
which. as a people. We started out TO
annihilate them. Whatever has been
the success of our policy Of measure
able control. the policy OF annihiiation
has proved u faiiure-a nat. sheer fall
urc.
''Thc reason Of this Ii not far to seek.
A corporation In only the individual
multiplied. The socailcd trust In
nothing but the corporation enlarged.
In these days. when enterprises have
grown 30 large that no single indi.
viduai can launch them. or keep them
going. the only Industrial cxpcdicnt
that civilization has yet found OF mass
inE and coordinaiinI the wealth OF the
many into one management. unless We
accept Socialism aS workable means.
IL the corporation. Socialism has yet
to prove itself. 80 that the corporation
In civilizations sole and only way Of
welding large masses OF capital. As
such. as ! have many times said. the
corporation In here to stay. The large
corporation is here to stay. To blind
our eyes TO this truth In to sropc In the
mountains In the dark.
But there IN no need In all this that
we should conclude that there IN moth
Ing wronH-that the public sense that
there Is something wrong Is without
foundation.
THE corporation is here to stay. but
not to set aside all tho Industrial anS
commercial laws OF the trust. The cor.
poration In here to stay. but not TO de-
stroy the individual ideals. the indi.
vidual aspirations. and the individual
opportunities that have given TO the
past everything In II that is worth pre-.
serving. The corporations. and the
enterprises they cmbody. have grown
great. hut behind them. and above
them still rise the peaks OF humanity:
higher than commerce itself. for com.
mcrcc only serves humanity bv sitting
Mt its feet: higher than manufacturers:
majestic above the state itself. And
the heart and the hope OF humanity Is
the Individual Man
ITO enjoy opportunity: TO measur-
ably exercise individual dominion: to
be man among men: proprietor.
even though in n small way. among the
proprietors-these are the instinct. the
incentive. and In great part, the hope
Of the race. And II is just this instinct.
this incentive. this individual hope.
that having mounted the heights.
seems ready to disappear again.
The cause Of this phenomenon-to
republican people. an appalling phe.
nomenon-is the corporation.
But you ask me: How can the
course OF things ns they are now going
be changed? How can the individual
men be brought back into proprietor
ship? My answer is: Take the cor
poration at once and forever out of the
list of suspects. Put the corporation.
as national banks and trust companies
are now put. under the supervision and
control of law. to the end that 1t be-
come n faithful steward.
make 1t impossible to capitalize cor.
porations at figures that can have no
purposes other than that of artificial
and temporary innation-an initiation
that on collapse leaves the victims
holding the bag.
MAKE impossible the geologic cap
italization-the capitalization laid in
layers, one on top Of the other, the last
kept green for little while only by
dividends snatched from the air. or alb.
stracted from the assets"