The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-29

drawn are logical and are borne out
by the personal knowledge OF practic-
ally every business man. The tables
indeed show the effects, and for the
remedy we must turn to the freely
expressed opinions of the industrial
leaders upon whose reports the analyt-
ical tables are based.
The many thousand OF these opin-
ions have been classified according to
the relative number of their refer
ences Epitomized. they stand accord
ing to Importance approximately as
follows:
/. Cessation OF political agitation.
.. Cessation of tariff agitation.
3. Amend or improve the Sherman
law.
(. Federal incorporation and regu-
lation of Trusts.
3. More national and individual
confidence.
6. An improved system OF banking
and currency,
Z. Governmental prosecution of
the Labor Trust with all other illegal
combinations in restraint Of trade.
s.. Increased export trade and re-
hobilitation of the American mer-
chant marine.
It is decidedly of interest to note
! that fully ninety per cent of the opin-
ions expressed demand a cessation of
political activity. The belief that our
industrial ills are the result of politi-
cal agitation is profound and wide
spread, and there is no question that
our business men are determined to
remove the disturbing element. For
instance, Alba B. Johnson, president
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
great American industrial concern
employing $4,000 men. writes:
1.-THE greatest encouragement which
could be given to business conditions
would be the cessation by the govern
ment of its tax upon corporate inter
ests. to give business an opportunity
to recover from the attacks upon it
by government and hostile legisla-
lures to which it has so long been
subjected"
The Winchester Repeating Arms
Company, of New Haven, Conn,
its president. G. e. Hodson, declares:
"There must be a cessation Of at
tacks and the encroachment on the
rights of corporate interests, thereby
making possible an early restoration
of confidence and return to more
normal conditions, which, it must be
admitted. is so necessary to the sue
cessful conduct of business
Henry r.. Towne, president of the
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.and
president Of the New York Mor-
ctarte' eociation. suggests a speed.
settlement of the sherman Antitrust
Act. so that it will apply to trade as
soctations rs well as large corpora.
ions.
Charles A. Schieren, Jr., treasurer
of the Charles A. Schieren Company.
of Brooklyn, n. Y, writes:
"The Sherman Act question should
be settled once for all. Congress
should revise the tariff now or leave
it alone for a term of years. Condi
tons demand the enactment of law
providing a modern currency and
banking system somewhat similar tc
that of England and Germany, and we
should provide for an American mel
chant marine"
"The formation of a well-defined
policy in respect to tariff matters
says the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.
Pittsburg, Pa, "as we'll as the govern
ment's attitude toward large corpora
tons. will in our opinion do much tC
promote business interests"
let there be less legislation against
the railroads." says the Dayton Man
ufacturing Co.., of Dayton, Ohio, "anC
allow them to have rates sufficient
under efficient management, to pay ;
reasonable return upon the capital re