The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-23
MAKES PLEA FOR
CORPORATIONS
Address of Federal Judge Peter
GroSScup Before Chautau-
qua Assembly.
CRITICISM OF ROOSEVELT
THINKS Mr.. BRYAN ALSO FALLS
SHORT.

Ottawa. kan. June Judge Peter
GrosscuD OF Chicago. IF the United
States court of appeals. delivered an adj
dress here today at the Ottawa ChaU-
tauqua, dealing with corporations
Judge Grosscup spoke OF the great in
dUstriaI growth IN this country since the
civil war He told how the new life
had grown beyond the means of the sin
gle individual to handle its enterprises,
and the consequent appearance Of corDO-
rations. which latter grew in proportions
as the new life had grown, until today
N spite Of popular resentment AZ wrongs
done. in spite Of natural jealousy, IN
spite Of drastic anti-trust laws, the cor
DOration. as an instrument or working out
our commercial and industrial supremacy,
IS itself almost supreme
Should Be Made to obey Law.
A constant DUTY. Of course" he said
IS 10 see TO ii that The particular cor
IOTaTio7s that are breaking the law be
made 10 obey the law To the full eE-
Jeat that the national administration. sin
cereiy and intelligent'y, Is pursuing TINS
gul5. PUBIC opinion Will remain peIind
Sc But il the administration and the
Republican leaders think that is the Alpha
ard OMEGA Of what IS needed-if they
think that the disease viii be reached
ard eradicated solely through continuous
campaigns against this or that incoTpO-
rated enterprise. as if the the corpora
ton, IN itself as the embodiment Of mod
ern enterprise were some alien enemy
entirely dissent from them
Agrees and Dissents-
When Mr.. Bryan denounces The par
tIcuiar corporations that by discrimina-
lion or favOrtism succeeded IN suppress
ing competitors or that unJUstly Cypress
the public, / agree with him. Every spe-
Cies Of device that puts u within the
power Of an outside party to choose
which OF two or more competitors shall
succeed and which shall fail is a crime
against the first principle OF American
business life-cQUality of opportunity. But
when Mr.. Bryan. as the already chosen
leader Of the Democratic party, sees no
further than this-when he confuses
what. under a just corporate policy cor
porate enterprise could become, with par
ticular corporations that have abused
their opportunities / dissent again
incorporation Not a Sin.
THE incorporation of enterprise is not
in itself sin. The incorporation OF en-
terPrise has proven ltseif,. over ana over
Of EeQeral progress and prosperity
Through il the competition fl MANY lines
has been-unJlstiy and cruelIy SUPPRESSED 17ss5ee
competition IN many lines aimoSt
destroyed But the cause of this is moi
10 be found in the fact that men have
been allowed TO incorporate The chief
cause is in the fact that under our pres
ent corporation policy the people at large
though they have abundant avallaole
means have no reasonably secure cor
pOrate way offered to them to raise Up
councillors. The thing TO do IS TO raise
ND COnDeIIUOFS- 70 IeudDluLdNe lllt tDIpO-
ration 10 purify II TO restore to il char
acter ard responsibilities. that the people
may come back into the ownership Of the
country's industrial properties, For, IN
Ill that Is done. ell opportunity for new
or competitive enterprise Viii be IN the
hands Of those who already have mo-
nODoIy of the field.
Plea for the Individual.
Tn closing. Judge Grosscup said: The
message that 7 have come 10 deliver IS
TO urge the people Of this state 70 take
the lead tn giving TO the rev industrial
lie Of the Union an embodiment that, in
stead OF losing sight Of. VII again lift
ND 10 his rightful place in his country
rroSneritv the individual man.