Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-06
GEO. 1. WALKER FINDS
 CHANGE IN SENTIMENT
Business Men of the West Have Had Leisure to Think
 About Things

George L. Walker, editor of the Boston Commercial. who has been travelling in the west for three months past. writes his paper as follows:
 The average business and profes- sipnal men of the west who were avowed insurgents a year or two ago are beginning to see a new light. have met and talked with hundreds Of them and find that with very few exceptions they are now conser- vatiyes.
 Their business is so dull that they have a lot Of time to reason about politics, and some of them are taking very logical view of the sit uation.
 Here are a few of the ideas [ have picked up along the route travelled;
 Business goes where it is invited and stays as long as it is used well. The government is abusing our bus mess and driving 1t away.
 When the investing public can buy an interest in an established railroad, its stocks or bonds, at pric- es which represent less than the cost of duplication, of course they are not going to supply the money to build new roads. There is no railroad con struction going on in the west now and consequently business is dull A great many workingmen who should be good customers of the retail dealer are out of employment
 Too many Of our politicians are working for themselves and too few for the country. Their efforts to at tract favorable attention by sensa. tional attacks on successful business enterprises are beginning to fail of their purpose. The various admin istratiye departments of the govern, ment should be investigated and bus mess should be given a rest
 Has anybody been able to find out how many more clerksrthe gov ernment is employing since it began ifs trust busting @ campaign The public gets less for the taxes it pays than for any other money it's spends. We have a too expensive govern meut too many government em- ployes and too many incompetents in public offices
 What has become of the republi. can party of William Mckinley and Benjamin Harrison? If it still exists, it should be given a hearing. It is a cinch that we can't re-elect the re- publican party of Taft, Roosevelt and La Toilette a year from this fall. With the old conservatives in the saddle, we might ride tO victory
 We hear a great deal about con seTvation of natural resources, lands, timber. water power, mineral lands and the like. but no one seems to have thought of the advisability Of conserving businYss confidence or the value of our investments It is when these are not conserved that we have panics, and panIcs do more harm than crop failures
 Why doesn't the government put up or shut up in the Alaskan coal land controversy? The Guggenheims will gladly sell their interests there for what they have cost them. The coal lands were a bad investment anyway as cheap crJTCe oil has ruined the coal market on the Pacific coast.
 "'If it took the supreme court a | year to decide whether or not the Standard Oil and American Tobacco companies were operating illegally how can an ordinary duffer be ex pected to decide whether or not he is acting within the law in time to grasp a business opportunity before it is gone%
 The business Interests Of the west feel that corporation heckline has gone far enough and they are longing for a return of the good old times of railroad Building and indus trial expansion. If the conservatives of either the republican or demo ] cratic parties would get together and come out aatfooted with a clear, de cisive. statement of policy, they would be surprised by the following they could muster It would be land slide"
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