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 prosperity unless there is back of it a basis of right living and right think ing In the last analysis. of course the dominant factor in obtaining this good conduct must be the individual character of the average citizenship of the country or all effort to supply its place by the wisest legislation and administration will in the end prove futile. But given this average of in- dividual character. then wise laws and the honest administration of them can do much to supplement it. If either the business or the world of labor loses it's head, then it has lost some thing which can not be made gooi by any governmental effort. Our faith in the future of the Republic is firm. because we believe that on the wEole and in tho long run our people think clearly and act rightly. g
 Increase in Government Control.
 Unquestionably. however. the great development of industrialism means that there must be an increase in the supervision exercised by the Govern emrt over business enterprises. This supervision should not take the form of violent and ill-advised interference. and assuredly there is danger lest it take such form if the business lead. CTS of the business community conane themselves to trying to thwart the ef. fort at regulation instead of guiding 1t alright. Such men as the members of this club should lead in the effort to secure proper supervision and reg uiatlon of corporate activity by the Government. not only because it is for the interest of the community as a whole that there should be this super vision and regulation, but because :n the long run it will be in the interest above all of the very people who often betrav alarm and anger when the pro- position Is first made.
 Questions the Constitution.
 Neither this people nor any other free people will permanently tolerate the use of the vast power conferred by vast wealth. and especially bv wealth in it's corporate form. without lodging in the government the still higher power of security that this power in addition to being used in the interest of the individual or individu- | als possessing it. is also used for and not against the people as a whole. Our i peculiar form of Government in which the Nation is supreme throughout the | Union in certain respects. while each | or nearly half a hundred States is | supreme in its part of the Union in ! certain other respects, renders the | task of dealing with these conditions | difficult. No finally satis- ] factory result can be expected from merely State action. The action must i come through the Federal Govern | ment. The business of the country | is now being carried on in a way of which the founders of our Constitu- lion could by no possibility have had | any idea.
 Change As Last Resort
 
 All great business concerns are en. gagged in interstate commerce, and It was beyond question the intention of he founders of our Government that interstate commerce in all it's ! branches and aspects should be under \ national and not State control. If he courts decide that this intention was not carried out and made effect i we in the Constitution as it now stands. then ii the end the Constftu. | ion, if not construed differently. will nave to be amended so that the origi- lal undoubted intention may be made effective. But, of course. a constitu- ional amendment is only to be used IS a last resort. if every effort of eSislation and administration shall