The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
THAT SQUARE
DEAL Be GIVEN
TO ALL
Term Means Equal Oppor-
tunity Says Frank Dixon
in Notable Lecture

The square deal, according to Rev.
Frank Dixon. who spoke at the Mctho-
dist church Thursday night. as a
member Of the y. NJ. &. a. popular
course. is a system under which every
child shall have equal opportunity to
With Its Intelligence. its industry and
its manhood. unhindered by any OBJ
stscle %interposed by man or society.
Roosevelt and square deal are
synonymous the speaker asserted. He
then went on to tell Of his firm belief
that Roosevelt had e~ndeavored to so
shape things that every man, rich or
poor should have an equal chance with
all others and that no man should be
n a position to injure or Cypress his
fellows.
Rev. Dixon argued for fairness in
all things. He declared that the best
influences were at work in the land
and that the country is receiving a
wonderful uplift. Hughes, Bryan. Will
son and Roosevelt were given as eX-
amples OF the men who are leading
in the great movement toward better
things and better living. Roosevelt.
he asserted, has done more than n
other man to awaken the national con-
science.
Rev. Dixon believes in taking poll
ties out Of business and keeping BUSH
ness men out OF public of1ce unless
they are statesmen.
When dissolution threatened the
country. the people Of the north and
west did not seek a business man for
president. he declared. they sought q
statesman and found him in Abraham
Lincoln.
In the field Of business. he said.
there are the individual and the cor
porate forms of activity. Both are
necessary. The corporation is not to
be condemned. 1t is a necessity Of our
development. 1t has been made ne
cessary by the conditions under which
We must live. Formerly business was
local. and the individual business mar
could well keep pace with its growth.
But. as means Of communication and
transportation were improved, BUSH
ness grew and passed beyond the
bounds Of individual effort. and the
corporation sprang into being. He
poration in its usefulness. He would
encourage its growth. But. where
there arose a conflict between the cor
poration and the individual. he would
legislate in favor Of the individual.
The corporation is after all an expert
ment. while the individual is a DEM
onstration.
He traced the growth Of the mod
ern tendency Of business toward con-
tralization. The department store to-
day employs thousand persons.
many Of whom ten years ago managed
concerns OF their own. and the pro-
cess 10 going on. Soon( II this is con-
tinued. e mar will be the en-
ploye Of some other man. and there
will be no such thing as individual
business left. This condition. the So
cialists tell us. will be excellent. but
they ignore the fact that most Of the
evils which exist in the business world
today z directly traceable to the
elimination Of the individual business
q
Two Remedies.
Two remedies. he believed, are me-
cessary. He would require the cor.
poration to do business on the basis
Of itt actual capital. and he would
prohibit determinations by those in
dustries which are in their essentials
monopolies. He showed the evil ef-
fects which cone from the transac-
ton Of business on a basis of inflated