The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-24
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ditions have come to stay, in so far
at least as these conditions mean
that business must be done in larger
units, and then the cool-headed and
resolute determination to introduce
an effective method of regulating big
corporations so as to help legitima'e
business as an incident to thorough
~ and completely safeguarding the
interests OF the people as a whole.
THE middle-sized business men
form an element of strength which is
of literally incalculable value to the
nation. The average business man
OF this type is, as rule, leading clti
zen OF his community, foremost In
everything that tells for its better.
ment. man whom his neighbors
look up to and respect.
Unwilling Transsressors
Yet nowadays many men of this
kind, when they come to make neces-
sary trade agreements with one an
other, find themselves in danger of
becoming unwilling trsnsgressors of
the law, and are at loss to know
what the law forbids and what 1t
permits. This is all wrong. There
should be a fixed governmental pol
icy, a policy which shall clearly oe-
fine and punish wrongdoing, and
shall give in advance full informa.
ton to any man as to just what he
can and just what he cannot legally
and properly do.
ut is absurd and wicked to treat
the deliberate lawbreaker as on an
exact par with the man eager to
obey the law, whose only desire is to
find out from some competent gov
ernmental authority what the law Is
and then live up to 1t. II is absurd
to endeavor to regulate business In
the interest of the public by means
of long.drawn suits without any ac-
compartment of administrative con.
troll and regulation, and without any
attempt to discriminate between the
honest man who has succeeded IN
business of rendering service TO
the public and the dishonest man who
succeeded in business by cheating
the public.
1T is imperative to exercise over
big business control and supervi-
sion which is unnecessary as regards
small business. ] do not believe in
making mere size of and by itself
criminal. The mere fact OF size,
however, does unquestionably carry
the potentially of such grave wrong.
doing that there should be by law
provision made for the strict super
vision and regulation of these great
industrial concerns doing an inter.
state business much as we now regu-
late the transportation agencies
which are engaged in interstate busi-
ness.
Principle Of The Square Deal.
Our demand Is that big business
give the people square deal and
that the people give a square deal to
any man engaged in big business who
honestly endeavors to do what is
right and proper. On the other hand
any corporation, big or little, which
has gained its position by unfair
methods and by Interference with the
rights of others, which has raised
prices or limited output in improper
fashion and been guilty of demoralz.
ing and corrupt practices, should not
only be broken up, but II should be
made the business of some compe-
tent governmental body by constant
supervision to see that 1t does not
come together again, save under such
strict control as to insure the com
munity against all danger of repe.
tition of the bad conduct.
The chief trouble with big bust
ness has arisen from the fact that big
business has so often refused TO
abide by the principle of the square
deal; the opposition which | person
ally have encountered from big bust
ness in every case arisen not because
did not give square deal but be.
cause | did.
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ment of monopoly in any way or de.
gree enters and where it proves in
practice impossible totally to elinin,
ate this element Of monopoly should
be carefully supervised, regulated,
and controlled by governmental au,
thoTity; and such control should be
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