The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-03-29
FRANK {. HOEE, Editor and PubIishs
RANT AND sARRARlc YAwP" q

I'm the remarks of Prof Walter +.
Howard of Middlebury printed else
where in this issue he uses rather
historical and incorporate language
himself to charge other people with
being hysterlcal and incorporate
Here is one of his lurid sentences:
What we need in this country and
at this time is more brains and less
mysteries: more common sense and
less rant: more patriots and fewer
demagogues, more thought and less
barbaric yawp.'
This sounds well and there is lit
tie truth in it but Prof Howard and
others may just as well take notice
now as later that the workers and
voters of the country are not going to
let the old system intrench itself in
power again. 1t is all very well to
croak about interfering with business
but that isn't the whole thing.
Business that cannot exist and give
the public a square deal and pay Its
employees living wages is based on
wrong foundation and has no right to
exist. The sooner it is replaced by
something better the greater the ad.
vance.
Up here in the country we know
but little except hearsay about great
wealth. Most of our wealthy men
have made their money slowly hon
estly and through close attention to
business detail. Nobody except ex-
tremists wish to interfere with that
kind Of prosperity, but there is an
other kind Wealth that has been
piled up through the exploitation of
great natural resources like coal, oil,
iron. copper, etc, does not belong 10
the holders of it but to
he public, from which they have cum
ningly wrested it. They may be and
probably are entitled to generous.
even lavish compensation for their
services in exploiting the property
| out natural resources belong to the
people and should not be transmitted
from father to son or from corpora
ton to corporation without paying the
greater share of the profits into the
public treasury
We want the big corporations, and
The great combinations of capital and
re want the men able to handle them
o be well paid for their services, but
the business should be done under
government supervision and control
so that the public and the working
nan may get their full share OF the
profits from the business which they
nave so large a share in creating If
10 insist on this is what Prof. Howard
calls rant" and barbaric yawp' we
fear that his sensitive ears may be
further offended.
How much more healthy and sane
are the remarks OF Judge Gary, chair
man of the board of directors of the
steel trust, but a man who believes in
he rights Of the public Judge Gary
says, as reported in the April issue
If Worlds Work:
I'VE snarl at legislation or at the
chief executive if any action is taken
n word spoken which we think is
calculated to injue vested rights, but
we are apt TO overlook the fundamen-
tai principle that even vested rights,
so-called must yield whenever they
become antagonistic to the public well
fare and safety
Rights Of the individual are subor-
dinate and must submit to those Of
the public. The opportunities for the
acquisition of wealth have been and
are so great that large and increasing
fortunes of individuals and corpora
lions compel the most thoughtful men
to dread the results of the future un'
less the influence and power of money
can be controlled by governmental
authority