Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-24
BUSINESS DESERVES SOME ATTENTION.

SOME ATTENTION.
 There is a surfeit of politics. So much oi it is of the cheap variety So much of it is created by small interests for stock jobbing purposes. The word business is misused in connection with reference to those who pretend to be greatly alarmed over the trend of politics one way or the other Political discussion that has its root in nothing profound or dignified is given an importance it does not deserve. It is one con- tinuai scare. while legitimate busi- ness is forced to lag behind and wait And what is it all about?
 Just now, we are told. business is in a bad way because Of the issue between Vice President sherman and Theodore Roosevelt. Bosh. What diff ference does it really make to legiti- mate business which man is the temporary chairman of the New York state convention? There is an impression that the triumph of Sher- man over Roosevelt would place an undesirable element in the ascend ency in New York. yet the whole country outside of stock iobbing cen ters would welcome such a turn of affairs. And the whole country, prac- tically. is waiting while "big busi- ness" trembles and shakes. and is afraid to buy a bunch of bananas for fear Roosevelt will win and the bananas lose in value. This is . homely illustration, but it goes tc the root.
 Then there is the expected su preme court decision upon seyera phases of the Sherman antitrust law Business, we are told. is waiting witt fear and trembling to learn what tn decisions shall be. When the situa tion' is carefully analysed, what wal rant is there for a business scare O paralysis over those expected dc cisions? Who really supposes tha the supreme court Of the Unite States is going to ruin the bushes oT the country? What difference wi it make. or should it make, to tn dry goods business, or any othe legitimate business. if the suprem court shall find the Standard o company guilty of illegal practices The logic of the situation tells . that. in the opinion of the stock ma ket. the buccaneers of "big bushes. should be left alone to ply their ar of extortion or combination, law { no law. And because certain me are of that opinion. we are actual being told by their newspaper orgal that they will not release the fina ciaI machinery of business until tn know what the supreme court is g ing to do in those interstate case This comes pretty near to amountil to a threat against the supreme cou and the whole country. Big banke big flnanciers and stock jobbers al in effect. saying to the supreI court: "you see what a bad sta business is in merely because Stal ard oil and the railroads are bel proceeded against at all; your deC ion adverse to those interests vol still further demoralize business"
 Yet these cases will be decided
 the supreme court according to l and the constitution Of tae Unit States. Nothing can be more C tain. Isn't it preposterous that sT a decision, which may not be ma for a year. can halt business over whole country. or even be one
 the chief factors in creating dullne
 It is quite evident that if this f ishness continues much longer, if practical defiance of the law and
 supreme court does not give way
 some degree of patriotism and c
 mon sense. somebody Is going to
 to a hard fan, and it will not