Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-01
LIMITING coRPo- RATION OUTPUT.

Mir. Bryan made a foreeful argument for the democratic platform demand for a federal license to any interstate corporation controlling as much as 25 per cent of the product in its line and for limitation of not more than 50 per cent of the product.
 It is a long step in the paternalism of government to put limitation up on the business which any concern may do, yet we are confronted with a condition which seems to demand an unusual remedy Consultations and monopolies continue to multiply and to escape the restraints of the law They pretend to effect great econ omies of production and distribution, but they pocket the savings and in crease the burdens upon consumers.
 The benevolent and economic trust is delusion if not a lie. Human greed is a more powerful factor than human altruism, and it is too much to rely upon any man or any corporation to exercise wisely and eqaitably any monopoly or dominating influence in trade, is the opinion of the Fort Worth Record
 A concern that controls 25 per cent of any product is a dangerous factor in commerce. and the democratic doc Urine declares that it should take opt a federal licerse with certain stipula- tions of publicity so that the people may know just how it is exercising its power and so that it may not infate it's stock or securities beyond the point of actual values. The platform further declares for prohibiting the control of more than 50 per cent oi the product. In other words, when 8 corporation acquires control of 25 per cent of the business in which il is engaged it must place itself under the supervision of the federal gov ernment, and it will be compelled tc confine its business within the limita ton of 50 per cent of the business 1T which it is engaged.
 This establishes an arbitrary limita tion upon concerns that may become monopolies
 Such a concern would not be per mitted to water it's stock as its trade increased, which is favorite method of capitalizing commercial power, no to sell its product for less net pTic. in one place than another, which is al old trick for obtaining monopoly. Without these dishonest artifces i would hardly be able to maintain ex tortionate charges nor to destroy com petition. With less than 50 per cen of the business in its line it would al ways be confronted with effective ri Ealry
 The only objections that can b urged against the plan are purely the oreticaI. One is p@te-nalisn. UT doubtedly. it is pa;ernalistic propof xl. but we have long snce passed tn point where paternalism is a suficien objection to a governmental policy All legislation is paternaIistic in dc gree The sound view is that ther should be as little paternalism as pos sibIe, but all the paternalism that i necessary. Another theoretical objeC ton is that the government shoul' not put limitation upon thrift or ir dustry or enterprise or production But this is not such 6 Irritation. Is an effort to prevent exto-tion ant monopoly. which have always beei hateful to the law and abhorrent | the whole sense of commercial equity 
 Apparently we have come to tn time when we must in some name regulate the conduct of private busi ness that threatens to become a mo nopoly. We have learned that monop oly is so powerful as to be able to es cape tEe law and nothing remains but to endeavor to prevent the evi unless we are to be driven to the des