New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-09
COMBINATIONS VITAL
Necessary to Success of COun'
try. Says Secretary Nagel.
OPPOSES FEDERAL CONTROL
Scores Judge Gary's Suggestions
and Deplores Agitation Against
Industrial System.

r-.,,~btor. Mich Aug Sin an address
,o.dsv at the quarter-centennial celebration
:, che Michigan College Of Mines Charles
go Secretary Of Commerce and Labor.
-o-sS the suggestion OF Judge Gary. chair
-, = the hoard Of directors Of the United
Stotse Steel Corporation. that the federal
-o,-srrynent sho I'D exercise control over
the prices Of commodities.
.sves " sad Secretary Nagel. and when
49,. government runs the whole business
cary will Try 70 run the government
M eecrefar~ vigorously denounced agi-
.,+,sn fo~.~adical departures from the pres
,,t Governmental and industrial system OF
,pe Tnltea States He said
r+. ell very waH 70 say. Let the govern
..~- fv prices then they can De mace
low enough for Us opl WI W - ~
~ Ccre,.- fy prices for the producer
80 NE must fx conditions and vases IN
49, factory. and tine result Is me s4Iein =
~ ,,,~,trols every industry and when II
CONTROLS t. it owns i'
-o,~etsrv Nacel said grave mistake was
t,,,q made ia approaching the corporation
,-ollsrs from only one side-that Of prose
80, of The bad. He said some measures
90. t5s protection of the good were impera-
.i... ~ tbe commerce of the United States
20 he kent ar the position IL has reached
TO- ire trade Of rra world Combinations OF
,o,,,al no said were vital 70 the success
~ The Tinted States in such competition.
rA+ present." the Secretary said. we
boas, NJ our exports and denounce our ex-
7orters. a corporation cannot learn whether
IT. NAV go ahead with business safety WITH
ON arst getting itself sued 10 determine
watcher If is legal He continued.
believe the Department of Commerce
and Labor should act consuuctlNely ].
should bs able 10 say what a. les1l ana Wnal
If, nor. 10 -~0vtda q form into which an
industry may be- cast without a SUIT ana n
decree 20 ~,,-,,-,eros
ard Labor Int let ME say night mere tnal
I'm ne Secretary OF Labor, bur 50 Tar as
commerce IS conCeruad-Well IN haroN I'D
wal we need is real department of
-or7r7e~ce We cannot have 70 on an 3D.
rr0nrauOn which SIS no bigger Than LOT
sien go.crnmen, pays Tor rs consula r
r Vow York City We should send agents
abroad 20 gather industrial Information Tor
f6- people of the United States. We are
ROW given $50 600 with which 70 SEND oul
d. srea aeerts To IS nigh time to point our
fRa+ we have cor I'M name department OF
commerce and labor. but not 10 tact.
Secretary Nagel vigorously attacked the
initiative referendum and recall. AS ~
recalling Judges" he said. would II not
h. better to provide that no decision should
no announced as such until Fl is submitted
m The public. Then they could recall the
nudge before the harm was done We might
ue- se ven abolish the courts altogether"
Governor Osborn. whose views on the
initiative. referendum and recall are direct
ly onposire 10 those Of Secretary NageL
preceded the secretary i'm making his adj
dress
In 10 interview this evening, Governor
Osborn said. "It IS such speeches as that
Of Secretary Nagel this afternoon which
have kept President Taft apologizing ever
since ra mas been To- office