The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-14

chlehy interstate would be no stretch
 or power, as it was from the begin hlng, to conditions that did not exist in the beginning.
 Nor is there any need to keep up the
 impression that between the corpora
 ton and the people there Is a great gulf
 that the corporation can only prosper
 at the expense of the people, and the
 people can only prosper at the expense
 of the corporation. Between the corpor-
 atlon, when it once reaches it's best
 estate, and the people, there need be no
 gulf; for, in the last analysis, it is the
 people who are building up these ln-
 dustriai triumphs, though in corporate
 form, that everywhere surrounds us
 the peoples aecmulating wealth, the
 peoples thinking heads, the people,
 busy hands, the peoples throbbing, as-
 bring hearts, and the corporation,
 when 1t reaches its best estate, will
 come to be recognized and trusted, on
 ly as the organized form through which
 these heads, and these hands, and these
 hearts, and these aceumulated savings
 accomplish their work, And when the
 days of the corporations best estate
 have come, it will be recognized, also,
 to be as wicked to strike at an enter
 prise, merely because that enterprise
 is incorporated, as it is wicked now
 to incorporate crime, merely because
 by so doing it may be put beyond the
 reach of the law.
 Nor is there any need that in our travels toward corporation reform, we should wander much longer in the wilderness. The time has come. I think, to formulate and present a con- crete program-a program short of which the friends of reform will not stop, and beyond which they will now allow themselves to be carried The conservative intelligence of the coun- try, the real support of the great civic change through which we are going, has a right to know whether it is be- ing led. The interests of the business world require that the business world should know where it stands-that it should be relieved from the apprehen- sion that, somewhere in the dark, blow turks whose powers for mischief have not yet been measured. Besides the cause of reform itself demands that the next step be promptly as well as intellgently taken; for in every movement like this, there is a moral momentum, that once halted and dissi- pated, disappears. The time Is at hand, I repeat, for concrete pro- gram.
 And the time is here, also that the be national program--that some national political organization, the nations best judgment on this subject go to the people for a mandate to form a corporation policy for both the staets and the nation, that will cary that judgment into exc cution True, in some of the states the work of reform has begun. But it would do a little good to have reform- ed corporations in New York or Wis consln, while the free and easy cor porations of New Jersey remain. To be effeetual the reform must be uni form throughout the nation and the states.
 It is to the every day business man, then, in touch with the business af- fairs of the country, that l bring this appeal The corporation problem. in | he very highest sense, is his problem; for just as it was the supposed busi- ness needs of the past that gave to the country it's existing corporation poll 1, cy, it ought to be the clear business of today that will lead in giv- ng to the country a corporation policy or the future, that men do not live by bread alone, will lift the American pirit of enterprise to new levels of in lividual opportunity.
 The members of the New Haven Economic club will recall Judge srosseup's speech at its initial dinner year ago.