The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-18
THE SQUARE DEAL
WAS DIXON'S PLEA
Continued from page IL

is beating him down and press him
back. Not business. man In this
country Is safe. Socialism says this
is inevitable, don't believe 1t. The
evils we have to fight are the result
of this system. The corporation SO
far 1t can serve the needs should
survive. Economic efficiency should
be the test and the f1ttest should sur
vive. To wage our fight against the
corporation We should squeeze the
water out OF its capitalization. The
individual business man fights on an
honest basis and the corporation
should do the same. The pickpocket,
the slugger, you know what to do with
them. But the man who sells water
ed stock Is out OF reach Of the law.
Another way to give the individual
a square deal Is to do away with dis.
elimination. The merchant who builds
on the square zeal, builds on
adamant. A monopoly is so deadly
in its power that you do not let II
operate unrestricted. The railroad
has the power Of discrimination and
can use 1t to destroy an individual
or community The rates they give
you determine the market. You stand
at the mercy of the greatest corpor.
alton. OF course we have the inter.
state commerce commission, but that
commission is so enIangled by re,
strictions that they cannot give you
redress. l wouldn't restrict the rail
roads, wouldn't take from them one
honest dollar, but would make them
admit the individual to the market on
the same terms as it does the corpor.
alton.
Business and Politics.
The square deal demands that we
take our business out of politics
When you mix these you prepare a
soil where corruption will thrive. The
man should go to the ballot box with
a mind unclouded by business inter
ests. But how can we take our bust
ness out of politics as long as we
have the tariff? Protective tariff is
all right but the man who was pro
tected owes his neighbors something
for our favor. But he doesn't; he
goes on and capitalizes our favor, and
organizes corporation And when
he does l believe in throwing him out
and fighting it out in the open field OF
politics. Either revenue or protec
ton, adopt one line or the other
take 1t out OF politics and put it into
a commission which shall make your
tariff"
"The method Of business is not the
method of craftsmanship. A business
man wants something and he buys it
But when a man in politics buys
what he wants and we get the evi
dence we shave his head. We don't
always send him to the senate. The
virtue of the one is the vice of an
other. Don't think because he is 8
good business man he will be sue
cessful statesman. Whom did yor
choose for president In 81? Yor
didn't choose business man, yor
chose statesman, that's what yor
did when you chose Lincoln. Ans
when you wanted to whip us dowr
south back into the union where we
belonged-you didn't choose a states
man, you chose soldier, for if yor
hadn't we'd have whipped you into
frazzle. But you didn't, you chose
U. S. Grant, the greatest military
genius Of our nation. And when yo,
want a man to pass your laws, make
sure he has in him the elements Of
craftsmanship. Don't send a mar
whose business is concerned, he is
disqualified for patriotic action be
lieve the dsy Is coming when mar
IN the senate speaks for measures
which d'r"t tly Effects his private bust
ness, he will be expelled as traitor