The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
PRAISES PLUTOCRAT AND
 ATTACKS LABOR UNIONS

politicians investigations The agita- tors do not pay it. the corporations will not charge it to profit and loss. It is a plain case of the people destroying their own interests and paying the cost.
 The mechanics and workingmen s interests are being imperiled by a spirit of rampant Investigation and business persecution to-day far more than are those of the great corporations.
 The reason given for attacks upon corporate business is that 1t crushes out the individual and makes it impos- sible for smaller forms of business to flourish. In this statement it as as stunned that this is an evil But we contend that it may be- and for the most part is, positive good.
 "The big trunk line absofbs the little railways and tickets you through, Twenty little shops or stores fighting each other at loss appear in a great factory with profits.
 "Men are incorporated, and the man of a small business becomes the su- perintendent or manager of millions of invested capital. The contention that individuals are being wiped out is a strange one in view of the hosts of men who reach successes, which, if in a subordinate character, are immeas- urably beyond what they would have attained alone. Instead of crlppling the individual, the corporations have promoted him.
 Tt is stupendous folly to talk about giving individuals a chance to act alone by forbidding individuals to work together. We are not to adopt things to the individuals but to the comman good and individuals must adapt them selves to such conditions
 Tt is a piece of insolence for the in- dividual to insist that the corporation shall be disbanded because it sells goods cheaper than he can. We can not change the order of things. The law of human progress is no tfor a staute to be revised by congress. Sure ly we do not expect to help the man at the bottom by pulling men down from the top. Who are the men who are thought to threaten this country? They are individuals. Do you think if you displace them other individuals l will prosper? Are you going to say to one class of individuals, you have ] had your success now give this other class a chance? Do you think that is the province of government. Do you ] think that men who have to have op- portunities made for them by remov- ing other men out oftheir way, are go- ing to use their opportunities after they arc made for them?
 "This new doctrine that you can leg islate other men into success is a piece of imbeciity that does injustice to our twentieth century.
 "There never was such opportunity ! for the average men as to-day. The mighty corporate forms are making op- portunities.
 Millions are not being boarded The modern millionaire loves to invest and spendand give away his money.
 Tt is argued that rich men receive more from the government, and there | fore should be taxed more. But rich men do more for the country by de- veloping and extending it's commerce l over the seas, by opening up territory, by providing vast employment Should there be no restraint, no law. Yes, l but not too much law, and we have exitel ambitions in the bran cf every l lttle lawyer P every county of the un- ion to investigate somebody. The poli- tician is using cowardly injustice to gain or retain his seat in lawmaking halls. Enforcement of law is being in cited by hate and prejudice. Judge and prosecuting attorneys know that they are expected to convict. The yhave re- { ceived notice of what will be expected 1 of them.
 What do we need? Statesmanship and not frenzled impulses to startle the