The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-09
Business; the Heart { Of the Nation

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 Charles. Edward Russell has written a book; book k containing more knowledge of economies. more req sonsd support for his conclusions than any similar work with which we are familiar.
 In ''Busin ess. The Heart of the Nation" this splendid and consistent mucIraker has given us fact piled upon fact, data from absolutely trust worthy sources, sane, sound, and irrefutabIe massing of evidence.
 If the average voter, non-plussed by opposing claims, or purblind from cx- cess of part1sanship (but not yet mentally ossifed) will take the trou- bIe to closely study this work-a para graph or a chapter at a time, de- pending upon his assimilative capacity he will know more practical econ omics than is contained in all the lit- erature of all the old political parties, plus the two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaf which he may-by extraordinary diligence and perspi- cacity-extract from the windy sus- pirations of forced breath of all the candidates for executive offices.
 No Practical Economies Taught In
 College.
 No college dares to treat the mat ters presented in this classic on po- litical economy. John Stuart Mill. Adam Smith, and other works of about the same general scope,-good enough, so far as they go, but thor oughly inadequate-are exhaustive, and quite modern enough for our me dieval schools and universities. And if. 'perchance, any professor should happen to be i nsympathy with col lective ownership, and indiscreet enough to permit the fact to become publicly known, '*off with his head"
 In Business MT. Russell leads us gently and with big brotherly kindli- ness through tangled jungle. n1ias- matic swamp. and lowering dehle, slowly and with a patience born of long experience in hammering a new idea into the thick head of the av- craze man.
 In explaining s:Business'-which he epigramrnatically characterizes as an Automatic device for making pau pers'-and proves it beyond all, dis traces it's inception as & means whereby human necessities are supplied, and follows it's development and evolution up through all it's vary ing phases-as economically determin- 1 ed-concluding this study by a chrewd and masterly analysis of our modern trusts. and of the iInnutable eeonon- | ic laws under which they operate. The Pleasing and Ear-I1ckIing Ope- |
 ration of Trust Busting.
 If, instead of continuing their ear- occupation of uttering an In | toIerable deal of nothing, our wor- 1 thy Executives and wou1d-be Execu- | lives would master a, few of the rudi- ments of RusselI's book, old Silenus | would have less ca use for nirth, our | stout and smiling William, and our l strenuous and truthful Blusterer, 1 and all the other earnest but sadly l mistaken individuals who now pose as trust busters and t'Regulators;'' who are mistakfngly endeavoring to en- mu1ate Dame Burlington, and sweep back the tides of business evolution-I if they could comprehend Rus sells plain tale plainly told" hie to the dense woods, and never more agitate the other infutile efforts to suppress evolution.
 Our lawmakers wish to restore "A species of wisdom only to solving the rail- road problem by bringing back the stage coach, or conserving the coal supply by abolishing the steamship.'
 And again ask, how can we men to compete if they 60 not wish to compete? If Armour of fers 7.20 for hogs, shall we oblige Swift to offer 7.25, and Morris to of- fer 7.30. and if Armour sells beef at 3 1-2c per pound shall we compel Swift to sell it at 3-S and Morris