New-York tribune., 1908-09-26
A MEASURE OF BRYAN
BETERIDGE UIELDS RULE.
No. % Per Cent Statesman Can Be
President, He Says.

| William Howard Taft and Governor Hughes
! shared the plaudits of enthusiastic audience
| which filled Carnegie Hall to the overflowing
| point last night when the Republican campaign
in this city was opened under the auspices of
| the county committee. Senator Albert ]. Bev-
| eridge of Indiana, the speaker of the evening,
| talked on business and the Trusts" His clear.
| logical argument showing that the Republican
party was. the friend of upright and progressive
| business methods and at the same time the con-
server of the rights of the people in connection
| with large business interests was received with
! earnest and enthusiastic approval we battle
| against dishonest business. but battle for
| honest business just earnestly" the key
| note of what he had to say
The Senator spoke of the natural growth of
| big businesses and the benefits which had fol-
| lowed TO consumer we'll workingman. He
| showed the absurdty of the proposition of Mr..
! Bryan that a concern doing business in more
! than one state and which controlled more than -
per cent Of the product in which it dealt should
! take out a federal license. Twelve years ago
| il Bryan and II to l money; to-day It is
! Mr.. Bryan and - per cent business" said
| the Senator. No - per cent statesman can
| he President Of the American people" The
dience approved the point with prolonged
! cheers.
It was then ;hat the Senator proceeded to tell
how the Republican party proposed to deal with
the evils that had grown up with big bust
ncsses. ITO remove the poison ivy without cut
ting down the oak" In this connection the
| speaker mentioned the name of President Roose-
welt. He was obliged to pause until the cheers
had died away. we declare" he said. that
power in the nation shall Toe greater than the
nation. We making that declaration good
| in law and its execution under the most fear
, less feared and beloved leader of the people
in the world-Theodore Roosevelt"
When he was finished hundreds of persons
pushed UP on to the platform to congratulate
the speaker his forcefu clear-cut and con
vlnciug appeal. which ended with a striking
! tribute To Governor Hughes and splendid
| euIogy Of the accomplishments of Mr.. Taft.
Senator Beveridge said, among other things:
Unjust attacks on business have made business
the leading question OF this campaign big bust
ness country must have big business. and ours Is
the biggest business country IN the world. Busi-
ness depends upon the ease and quickness with
which people can mngle and trade together. Russia
has more people than America. but she has few
is segregated into many little groups. Americas
people are united into one vast family. So Russia
has big business while America has big bust
ness And the greater our civilization the greater
our business viii be.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION IMPERATIVE
So We see that TO stop the growth of business
organizations is to stop the growth of the coun-
try. II the steel industry little
concerns OF hity years ago there would be only a
fraction OF the output OF the peoples building and
railroads, the nations transportation done by
the little lines Of the last generation noue5of these
go backward forward? is the business ques-
business ht ask t y I de'QUnGe O,g
go back to the blacksmith shop for his ploughs.
Hut big business also means higher wages and
steadier employment for labor.
The oppustior proposes that concern doing
business IN more than one state shall control as
a. an e R aEes G out S e aega den 9 which @ m
business at all and that thereafter lit shall not
This license may be granted or Withdrawn at any
time by any administration. But business depends
Suppose any business man offended the Presi-
| this license system. Suppose this President or
officer should declare that he was controlling
dealt'-he would be forced to stop his business
business than the law allowed In both cases the
The franchise plan would VenezueIaiza 'ea a
but not for America TO-
The The opposition denounces the increase in govern
ment officials; but their franchise plan would Gre
ate hundred where there is one.
a HUNDRED PER CENT COUNTRY
A 25 per cent franchise means a 20 per cent busi-
Years ago il was frvan @nd ea s to IWeIve we've
1t Is Bryan and p per cent. business. No % per
cent statesman can be President Of the American
people.
AS American business has changed. so its du-
ties have changed. Failure to realize this has
caused most OF the evils of big business. When
men did business exclusively for themselves, deal
ing with comparatively few customers, the first of
his business with which the public had
nothing to do The legal ma kim was "Caveat emp
tor'-'Let the purchaser beware
But all the agencies that knit 90Og0000 people into
n unit made necessary increased business organiza-
the increased needs of this increased
consuming population. They created those organ
izations of industry called trusts. Still the man
old system of business ethics and legal principles
which their grandfathers employed. ~
The railroad manager said: The way run this
railroad is my business with which the people have
nothing to do The agencies | have named made
possible the Beef Trust Its founders thought they
built up the Beef Trust yet they only shaped the
forces which the people themselves created.
greater than the nation; that corporation Gre
ated the people shall be above the people.
And we making that declaration good In Law
and its execution under the administration of the
most fearless. feared and beloved leader of any
people I'm the world-Theodore Roosevelt
In Americas elemental work of setting our busi-
ness on straight paths, England, France and
our chief danger is not from the dull reaetionary
who calls his crablike reasoning the wisdom OF the
ages; but from the excited extremist who calls MS
fashlight philosophy the gospel of progress
AMEND ANCIENT SHERMAN Law
We will amend the ancient Sherman law, which
changed conditions have made injurious ana gro
tesque. is right to shackle the hands OF dis
honest business men; II is outrageous 10 bind the
hands of honest business men. But Mr.. Bryan
refuses to bring this obsolete statute up 10 date