Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-28
SENSE FROM A CORPORATION MAN
 AGER

George w. Perkins, a partner or the nrm or J. P. Morgan X Co.,, and leading influence in the United States Steel corporation, said some things the other day at Harvard university that must sound like rank heresy to corporation man. agers from the old school. Indeed if the aver age ''reformer'' had said the same things he would have been hooted by the old time corpora ton manager as popuist socialist or some thing else that he thinks horrible and deadly and unrespectabe. Indeed, reformers have said such things and have been so condemned many times.
 He was talking about the relationship be- tween the corporations and the people, He said, in beginning, that "the people have witnessed abuses, glaring abuses, in business methods. They have suffered under many of these for years, and have found no remedy. They have been told that these abuses came about largely because of the SIZE to which certain business enterprises had grown. For want of better reason many have accepted that one. How un- American it is to be afraid of thing because it is large!"
 Bigness isn't the trouble.
 This is the day of big things
 Business could no more be conducted by small concerns nowadays than this issue of the Silver Belt could be run off on an old-fashiened hand press
 Methods, not size make the trouble.
 Regulation, not destruction, should be the remedy. MT. Perkins didn't say that, in quite the same words but the Silver Belt says it, and not for the first time either.
 Speaking of the corporation officers, he said :: "The officers of great corporations should real lze that such concerns are more nearly public in stitutions than private property. While the agi- tation of the last few years has been unfair and harmful in many instances, on the other hand it has set bushes men thinking; it has awakened the business conscience" While the "agitation" may have been unfair in its objective at times it grew out of recognized and undenabe abuses, protest against which was not only fair but patriotic duty. If, for lack of proper knowledge of the real causes of these abuses, the wrong people or the wrong things have been the sub Jects of public indignation that is something that proper knowledge will correct
 Here, however, is some plain, common sense advice which MT. Perkins gave to corporation managers, and it should be needed: "Let those of us who are in business be fair with the people and the people will be fair with us; let us see and accent the tendency of the times; let us realize our responsibilities, and our problems will be far easier of solution. If we believe that in our re- public the peoples word is law, let us believe it in all things and if the people have decided that the time has come to take hand in how bushes shall be conducted, is it not plain business sense to meet the question at least half way rather than fight it all the way?"
 Mr. Perkins argument comes to this that the fight against the big corporation ought to be changed into fight to control the big corpora tlon and make it faithful servant to the people. Publicity of corporation affairs and public regu- lation of corporations, in his view, will go fur ther to solve the peoples problems than any amount of prosecutions under the Sherman anti trust law.
 And he is right. Perhaps his idea of the ex- tent of that public regulation and your idea of it or ours would vary; but sooner or later such regulation is coming, and its extent will be great enough to insure the people decent treatment from the great corporations. They will then be servants, not masters.
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