Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
JORDAN ASKS
FOR CLEANER
POLITICAL DEAL
PARTIES DESCRIBED AS PIGS
ABOUT TROUGH
EDUCATOR SAYS CORPORATIONS
ARE FAVORED
Great Problem Is Business COMPETE
ton Between Real and Artificial,
and Good Government Is Re-
quired to Regulate

"The way to get good government is
to take politics out of politics." is the
paradoXical statement DR.. David Starr
Jordan, president of stanford uTliver-
sity, made yesterday In an address be-
fore the City club on the functions of
government.
IT have always been a good Republi
can, but | have always considered
that the only difference between the
two parties was that one is like a lot
of pigs with one foot in the trough and
the other is lot OF pigs that can't get
their feet in the trough.
But there must always be conserV-
ative party and a radical party in order
to bring about an equalization and
good government.
There are some things the govern
ment can do that the individual cam
not. The government can investigate
and find out the truth. Take the mat
ter of pure food, for instance. Pure
food cannot be made a matter of indi-
Vidual investigation. 1t requires CO.
operation. 1t is the same in forestry
and fishery conservation. These are
the things the people as a whole are in
terested in, and they must be done by
cooperation.
Investigation and administration
must go together, and when co-opera
ration should apply the remedies
lone of the greatest of our pTblemS
is business competition between real
and artificial persons. A real person
is one who is born and who achieves
through individual effort and who dies,
but an artificial person is one recog-
nized by law as a corporation, and
while the individuals who compose the
corporation may die, the corporation
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which the individual person can COM
pete with a corporation.
"The banking system of this country
is not the best. The United States
government, through its experts, should
find out the best system of banking.
1t should find out what would be the
result of postal savings banks.
I'VE have the tariff question to con-
slider. The whole tariff system is based
on the transfer Of money from the
common mans pocket to those inter-
ested in manufactures. The tariff pro-
notes prosperity only because 1T takes
money away from the man who does
not know how to handle it and gives it
to someone who does. The solution
seems to be to take the tariff question
out of politics. If this country ever
becomes a free country, then every
standard for the transfer of money
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must be taken away.
"The cost of living is twice as high
today as it vas ten years ago. Part of
this increase is due to the tariff, but
not all of it. The tariff exists for the
purpose of raising the cost of living,
but the fact that it does not cost half
as much to get a $40 gold piece out of
the rocks as 1t did ten years ago has its
effect also Gold is being produced
cheaper today than it ever was before,
and is much more plentiful.
1--WE would like to have our govern
ment look into this and get at the truth
1t is the duty of the government to
stand on the edge of the laws to pro-
tect our interests"
DIR. Jordan concluded with a refer
ence to the removal of Clifford Pinchot
from the forestry service, which he
keenly regretted, that brought a storm
of applause from his audience.