The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-23
With the Long Bolu
.-"Eye natures walks. shoot folly az It rles"
Annoying Questions Having to Do With the Ethics
Of Business Should Man = Soak His
Brother?-Etfect Of the Competitive System on the
Beehive.

7HEN one begins delving into the ethics Of
NM "busness - Of certain kind he soon hnds
Wv himself foundering in deep water per.
nlexed citizen of another city writes to paper that
Ia finds that a horse he is in bad health, tho
there is as vet no perceptible indication of the fact
and that there every to suppose the amman
will die within month Now he has been onered
price for the horse equal to that which ne PAID TOT
t. and he wants to know whether it would be honest
for him to take the money. Almost everybody Will
reply at once, emo, it would not be honest
Yet this same perplexed party owns some railroad
shares which, as he has learned in confidence from
the president Of the company are sure to fall mater
ally in price within short time, OWING TO clrcum-
stances Of which only the ''insiders" are informed
If he sells the it's present price he will make
good deal of money! whereas, if he holds it, ne will
lose greater But if he sells it the purchaser
will lose heavily.
els it honest" he asks .'for to take this ad-
vantage of my knowledge to swinde some other mans
If 1 decline to sell horse because believe him to
be- worthless why should sell stock with the equally
confident belief that it will decline in values And
yet, while in the sale would be condemned as
dishonest, the other transaction is made openly by
presumably honest people, ..- .s..
The problem may come up in another form. BY
your foresight and knowledge of the ways Of growth
of populations, you decide that certain town is
bound to become great city You go there and BUY
up real estate AS your brothers flock there and need
the land you take advantage of their necessity and
dole it out at 200 300 per cent advance on what
YOU paid for it. This is looked uponby at least
as evidence Of great business ability. To others
it appears like theft.
It is clear that business founded the principle
of fighting, with "caveat emptor' of it's
notices. can not bother very much with this matter
of human brotherhood. The bee does not compete
with his brother bee.
system Of production and trade than the beehive But
it is at least interesting to note the difference.
But the bees do have advantage over us. There
are slums in the beehive and poverty. No bee
"soaks' another bee in order to get his honey.
The ethics Of honey-getting more easily de-
Tended than the ethics of money getting If swe could
bees to work for a while the competitive principle
it might be interesting to note the effect in the
beehive. .-..t go. --
m4 . 49,
Constable Alex Monroe of Chicago had summons
to the other day Horace B. Wild in suit
for rent. When Monroe arrived and asked for Wil6
he was pointed upwards. Wild soaring over Chi
cago in his balloon airship and giving all summonse
and summoners the high smile. The constable notee
the direction of the airship and shrewdly figured thai
it would down handsomely, even if Wild die
not. So he followed But Wild got away, leaving
the balloon in the hands of employees. =.
The navigation of the air is bound to furnish
great many police problems, tho we have enough O.
them already, heaven knows.
The 500 road has issued touching calendar con
tanning little notices for every day, to carry you
desk. One Of them reads follows: ''The propri
Of this establishment keeps to loan to his friend
the of $50 1000 in Of from So to $40 at time
Just at present it is all out, but if you will kind
leave your name we will enter you for first choice.
The 500 explains that it will, however, accept boz
rowed money for tickets.
3s@r.H'. 49,
ST. Mrs Leslie Carter, age 40, made lightning tri
across New England in automobile during whic
event two injured, two engaged and two married
total casualties six There is mystery in Mrs Garter
fling. Why she should have had Mysteries at tt
altar; why her Dudley should have ordered the
husband away from the dinner table; why Davi
Beasco her theatrical discoverer and preceptor shou
dash out the back door quite distraught when
heard Of the happy event-these Elusive but au
ing topics of conversation. g.:
Something too much of the Carteresque, Zazaresql
and Du Barrique in this simple little affair! MI
CarterPayne is surely equipped by years and expe1
,enee to conduct her matrimonial affairs with ma
terful and discerning hand. Yet the east seems to