The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-18

IA6 MANxON
still does. For q time it ran snail
advertisements in the want columns
of the daily papers, and got re-
suits, but some one connected with
the department conceived the idea
that regular circus posters
printed in colors and stuck up
about the cities would prove a
good advertising medium.
Thousands of dcllars was spent
upon photographs, men were hired
to plaster every city in the coun-
try, and the navy department
got ready to receive the flocks of
recruits it believed would come as
soon as the picture of the sailor
boy and tho battle ship was stuck
up on the dead walls. Well, the
recruits didn't come. Then lit
tie investigation was set on foot
People who had had experience in
such advertising was consulted.
Business men who had invested in
electric signs were also interview
ed and the result was that the
best that could be said about the
posters and the electric signs was
Advertising of all kinds helps
all kinds of advertising. !" But
the government has no desire TO
help advertising. 1t wants men i'll
the navy. And it is going to get
them by advertising for them in
the daily papeis-thc culy medium
that stands the test and delivers
the goods. All other forms of adj
vertising only helps advertising;
does some good of course and
the man who has plenty of money
and no way TO keep tab on the
results he gets from his advertising
may continue with the bulletin
boards and the electric signs for a
time longer. Meantime the amount
Of advertising being done in daily
papers Is increasing every day in
the year. Springfield o., News.
The last of the corporate meta
,iorphoses beats all its predecessors
,t surely cannot have been obllterated
rom the public memory that a short
three months ago the corporate news
papers and the great bulk of the cor
porate magnates were vocal with de-
nunciation of what they chose to
represent as a proposition from Sec
ietary Root that the National Gov
ernment shall usurp State powers in
the regulation of corporate methods.
That this was not Secretary Roots
proposition Is trivial detail beside
the more impressive fact that the
practically unanimous declaration Of
the corporate world is now for unit
ing with President Roosevelt in a
plan of national regulation that shall
take the subject entirely out of the
hands Of the State legislatures.
How this remarkable change is to
be effected, and how State legislatures
are to be restrained from exercising
the powers lodged in them by both
national and State constitutions, and
defined by a long chain of judicial
decisions, is rather important par
ticular of which no explanation is
vouchsafed. We observe that one
corporate organ which has recently
been particularly impressive in de-
claring the sanctity of constitutional
limitations tries to save its face by
representing that the national syste.n
OF regulation proposed will be so
Nmplcte and far-reaching that any
State legislation will be unnecessary
But on that po.dt two things are to
be said. One Is that any scheme of
regulation which the corporate inter-
ests accept may seem to some insur-
rectionary State legislatures capable
lof being added to, SO far as their
Irrespective States are concerned. The
Iother Is that the corporate attitude
now Is very firm that the great mass
of the State legislation is unneces-
sary and mischievous. So that the
question how the State legislatures
are to be stopped from continuing
In their unnecessary acts remains
unanswered.
The underlying thought of this
statement seems to be that whatever
Is agreed to by two such powers as
the corporate interests on one hand,
and President Roosevelt on the 9TH
Ter, must be constitutional law,
whether 1t Is found In the Constitu-
tion or not. While there may be
some precedents for that idea, It is
far from convincing. We find 1t diff
ficnlt to believe that President Roose.
welt, in his, most impulsive moments,
has conceived that constitutional law
can be made that way. That the
corporate theory has frequently been
that whatever accords with their in
terests Is constitutional has been
abundantly shown. But since Justice
Brown of this State deemed It peril
nent to answer his misconception of
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