The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
ARE BECOMING
BUSINESS MEN
SEN. BEVERIDGE SPEAKS
ON CHANGE IN PUBLIC
MEN.
Appeared Before National Grain
Dealers Association at In
dianapolis.

Senator Beverage appeared
before the national grain dealers
convention in indianapolis one
day last week and, it seems,
swept the meeting off its feet. An
account in the indianapolis News
says the senator spoke for a hall
hour in vigorous style to the
business interests of the country,
rather than to the grain men
alone, and at the conclusion the
convention arose enthusiastically
and cheered, and finally gave
three cheers and a tiger"
Senator Bevoridge's address
was timely, for he pointed out
the necessity of great business
interets governing themselves.
The modern public man. he de-
clared, is becoming business
man, and present conditions de-
mand that business man be-
come a public man. He pointed
cut that ethics of business do NOT
change but that methods and
conditions of business change
greatly. I'VE have" he declared
passed the day when the bust
ness man can say that every
mans business is his, own bust
ness. and is nobody else's bust
ness" and this he pointed out
has been the inevitable result OF
the world having become sc
closely knit by mans inventions
and genius that it is one great
community. Large businesses
and especially those wherein the
necessities of life are dealt with
have become everybody's bust
ness.
He traced the evolution, so ty-
pically shown in the meat trade
from individual purchaser to. a
trust controlling the food supply
of millions. There has come in
to business of this character, al
least, a trusteeship for the. peo-
pie, and the people have come tc
realize that they are vitality in
terested. Where the great inter
ests, he declared, have failed to
take cognizance OF their duty o.
trusteeship and have not regulat-
ed the business Justly or for the
health of the people, the people
have stepped in and regulated it
IT. he said, ''the packers, in
sisting that they had the right to
do so as they please in their bust
ness, sold to the millions of peo-
pie food that was not good, the
people could not permit that
condition 10 continue, and the
government would have to regu-
late that which the packers had
not regulated for themselves"
The government he pointed
out, had not stepped in to regu-
late except where the business
people had failed to regulate
themselves, and then it only was
forced in, to obtain pure foods
just rates and just consideration
Every bit of this legislation he
declared, has been compelled by
evils, which the business men
have refused or failed to correct
There would have been no need
for meat inspection laws, fol
pure food laws, or railroad rate
laws, if the idea of trusteeshiE
had entered into the conduct OF
these interests. But, because the
business man has not acted, TIE
government has to step in and
force the realization of that trus-
teeslip."
The senator insisted that NOR
ais are more of business asset
than the commodities in which
the BUSINESS man deals. "Yor
must" he declared to the grain
men, take public opinion into
consideration in your assets, as
you do your mills, your railroads
and other equipment"