The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-18
nBUSINESS MANS ADMINISTRATIONS"
 IDEA RlDICULED
Dr. Bowers Says This Slogan is the Cloak For All Kinds
 of Robbery

| Dr. Edwin F. Bowers a we'll known
 writer on topics of the day, delivered | an address yesterday afternoon at So- cialist hall, 11O6 Main street, before an audience that taxed the capacity l of the hall.
 Dr. Bowers is not a member of the 1 Socialist party; furthermore he has | a number of marked ideas of his own on the subject of the day The result was that at the conclusion of his ad- dress his audience piled him with questions. The doctor stood up and answered the volleys that were fired at him and acquitted himself so cred itably that he was given three cheers at the conclusion.
 Dr. Bowers warmly paid his re- spects to the fake slogan of "a bus mess mans administration that is So often used in politics nowadays. He pointed out that President Taft under the plea of giving the country "a business administration recently vetoed the wool bill. MT. Bowers said on President Taft:
 'Even when the Progressives and Democrats (who are entitled to credit for their efforts in behalf of a robbed and impoverished country) presented measures calculated to lift the bur- den of injustice from the bowed shoulders-of an exploited horde, this half-baked smatteringly- educated mis- representative of The Peepul' killed the bills.
 That wool veto will cause death possibly, suffering certainly this coming winter. Think these matters over when next you are wheedled and bamboozled into supporting "a busi- ness mans administration
 "As further complications of the manner in which "a business mans administration" has been carried out in the United States, Dr. Bowers cit ed the fact that the railroads of the country are capitalized at nineteen billion when their actual physical value is considerably less than half of that. The people, however, must pay dividends on the fake value Said Dr. Bowers:
 When you pay two Or three cents a mile for riding on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad for instance, (and they are merely little pimple-faced pickpockets as compared with the bold, red,faced pirates of the ive-cents-a-mile Bangor & Aroostook or the skin-em- alive Pennsylvania), you are being robbed of more than a cent a mile for every mile you ride and also 100 per cent in freight charges for every pound of food, clothing, shoes and household commodities you buy.
  Oil Johnnys nefarious extortions. Di- vine Right Baer's God Given Graft, Winsome Andy Carnegie's Medalisnl, the artless charity Sof those sleek buc- cancers. Swift, Cudahy, Armour and the savory gang who feed offal, filth escape unhanged; the grain and pro- vision merchants 'who toll not, neither do they spin'', and yet by some peculiar process of hocus-pocus extract profit of 200 Or 300 per cent for being so good-looking, and also for generously and puissantly permit ting the producer to sell his goods to the consumer.
 Here are the facts. What of the remedy? Why should. we continue this hideous farce, business mans administration" when gaunt Hunger menaces over half our populations; when grim numbing frost pierces the poor shoddy with which the American workingman is forced to cover him. self because a business man's'' exe- cutive-a huge bombastical bed-preSs- ing horseback-breaker who knows nor cares no more for the suffering his despicable traitOrism entails upon an outraged country than dropsical Mastadon would for the ants he might crush under foot, and whose knowl- edge of economics is limited to a weak and helpless God alone knows when confronted with the problem what to do with a starving man who can't get york;
 pr. Bowers also paid his respect to war which is one of his particular hobbies. Among other tribute to Mars, he said on this subject:
 If we diligently mind our business, and refrain in future from blowing up our own ships and picking quar- rels we might dispense with that relic of ignorance, brutality and savagery, the army and navy-or else put them to constructive work on behalf of the Common Good-as forest fire patrols, in building roads, draining swamps, cutting irrigation canals-as police in times of calamity-and in the many helpful methods in which their service would be of inestimable benefit
 "This would save us $500, ,O0O, ,O00 per year (our present expense for their maintenance) and afford us a revenue in the value of the improvements they shall busy themselves with, equivalent to couple of billions more.
 ''To say nothing of the conservation of moral tone, and the obliteration of the hired murderer, living an unna- tural, sex-perverted life. in supine un- questioning obedience to lot of gilt edged. gold-braided, thick-headed as- sassins.
 "In that fair day. Crushing toward | us on Mercurian wings.) Capital Pow erty and preventable disease, econom- l ically enforced prostitution and all the vice, crime and drunkenness which 1 now accompany the business mans l administration would be banished in- | to outer darkness. The 'Cry of the l Children will be hushed; and Love l Honor. Truth and Happiness come in to their rightful heritage-under gov ernment ownership Of the means of | production and distribution"