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for government protection of life and
property.
A British corporation can be or
ganized to build and operate a rail-
road anywhere in the world. A New
York corporation cannot, even when
New York is excepted.
The Canadian Pacific Railway
builds and operates railroads, steam
ships, telephones, telegraphs, express
services. hotels, dining cars, drawing
room cars and laundries and every
thing incidental to it's railroad bust
ness. American railroads are re-
stricted to building and operating
railroads, and even in that cannot
call their souls their own. The result
is that the controllers of these cor
porations have organized subsidiary
corporations which they own or con-
troll and which make unfair contracts
with the railroads for the benefit of
the privileged few, whereas all the
earnings of the Canadian Pacific go to
its stockholders and not to the priv
ileged few.
A British corporation can be organ
ICED to transact banking or insurance
in all it's branches. In the United
States this cannot be done except in
one or two states, but the other
states close their doors to the corpora
tions formed in these states.
A British corporation can be Or
ganized to transact any class of bust
ness. In the United States it cannot,
except in one or two smaller states.
! A British bank can establish
branches anywhere in the world. The
United States national banking act
and most state bankig laws prohibit
branches, and where one or two states
permit it is subject to the approval of
the banking superintendent, whose
banking wisdom, gained in politics, is
supposed to be superior to that of the
banks management.
Great Britain leaves investments to
the directors; United States politi-
clans tell the directors what they may
and may not invest in.
Great Britain considers her citizens
come to mans estate, leaves them to
judge for themselves; the United
States considers her citizens infants
in swaddling clothes who require to
be protected against their own DELHI
crate and voluntary acts.
Great Britain encourages the organ
ization of corporations, gives them
practically unlimited power, and when
organized let's them alone to work out
their own salvation. The United
States discourages organization of
corporations, and when organized de-
liberately sets out to destroy them.
Great Britain encourages her sue
cessful bankers, merchants and man.
ufacturers by comforting titles of no.
bility upon them; the United States
encourages her successful bankers,
merchants and manufacturers by de-
voting its energies to comforting pen
litentiary rank" upon them, and failing
such, billingsgating them from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
1t has been left to the republic of
the United States, supposed to be the
land Of freedom, to limit, restrict,
bind and penalize human endeavor.
Minimum of powers and maximum of
restriction is applied to individual,
partnership and corporation activities
in every state. Ninety per cent Of
our legislation is devoted to restriction
and to penal statutes for those who
won't restrict. Every governmental
effort is devoted to prevent the natu-
raj development of the energies of
the people, and nearly every elective
and appointive officer, federal and
state, from the president down, is
devoting his every working hour and
his every thought to devising schemes
TO thACkle, lessen and even destroy
the rerculean efforts and energies be-
ing put forth by the constructive men
of this nation, whose lives, selfishly
if you will. have built up the greatest
and wealthiest nation on earth. This
is the only real. actual and living con-
spiracy in restraint of trade and COM
merce.
! Why the above differences between
Great Britain and the United States
in the treatment of corporations and
their successful men? Because in
Great Britain craftsmanship exists,
her best and most successful men en-
ter politics and it is not business,
whereas in the United States politics
has become a business and the politi-
clans have the nation and the people
by the throat. The successful men,
with few exceptions, of this nation
are not in politics; the majority of
the politicians are men who could
not make a living in anything but pol