Arizona republican., 1912-08-07

inequalities of the distribution of prosperity, by only the unfortunately simple process of abolishing prOsperi- ty itself" The tendency of those now in control of the republican party is to give special privileges to '' big busi- ness" and to correct the evils of such a course when they become crying by sporadic lawsuits under the anti trust law. The tendency of the demo-
 crats. judged both by their record in congress and by the democratic plat form. is to abolish all business of any
 size or efficiency, on the ground that
 all bigness is badness, and littleness
 and weakness a sign of virtue. What Is needed IS action directly the re-
 verse of that thus cOnfuSedly indicat-
 ed" There should be applied to all
 industrial concerns engaged in inter state commerce in which there is mo- nOpolY or control of the market the
 principles already adopted "n regulat- ing transportation concerns engaged in such commerce. The antitrust law should be kept on the statute book to be invoked against every big con- cern tending to monopoly CT guilty of anti-SOcial practices At the same time a national industrial commission should be created which should have complete power to regulate and con trOl all the great industrial concerns engaged in interstate business-Which practically means all of them in this country. This commission should eX- ercise over these industrial concerns like powers to those exercised over the railways by the interstate com merce commission and over the na- tional banks by the controller of the currency, and additional powers if found necessary The commission | should have free access to the books of each corporation and power to find | out exactly how it treats it's employees. it's rivals. and the general public. Any corporation voluntarily coming under the commission should not be prosecuted under the anti trust ! law as long as it ObeYS in good faith the orders of the commission The commission would be able to interpret in advance to any honest man asking the interpretation what he may do and what he may not do in carrying on a legitimate business" When cor poratfons not submitting themselves to the regulation of the commission 1 or clearly evading or violating it's or | ders are prosecuted under the anti l trust law and convicted. the cOmmis- | sion should have the duty of seeing | that the decree of the court is put | into effect completely" Only in this way can there be avoided such gross l scandals as those attendant upon the | present administrations prosecution of ! the Standard oil and the tobacco i trusts prosecution which has mere l " resulted in increased prices to the | public, injury to the small competitor, | and actual financial benefit to the | trusts themselves. "The progressive proposal is definite, it is practicable. l We promise nothing that we cannot 1 carry ont, we promise nothing which | will jeop&rdize honest business. . . 1 Our proposal is to help honest busi- i ness activity, however extensive, and | to see that it is rewarded with fair | return, so that there may be no op- 1 pression either of business men or the
 common people We propose to make | it worth while for our business men | to develop the most efficient business agencies for use in international trade; for it is To be the interest of our whole 1 people that we should do well in inter-
 national business But We propose to
 make those business agencies do com
 plete justice to our own people" Where
 these concerns deal with the necessar-
 ies of life. the commission should not
 shrink. if the necessity is proved, from
 going to the extent of exercising reg
 ulatory control over the conditions
 that create or determine monopoly | prices"
 It is imperative to the welfare of our people that we enlarge and extend our
 foreign commerce. We are pre-emin-
 ently fitted to do this because as a people we have developed high skill in
 the art of manufacturing; our busi- ness men are strong executives. strong l organizers. In every way possible our federal government should cooperate
 in this important matter. Any one who 1 has had opportunity to study and ob-
 serve firsthand Germany's course in this respect must realize that its
 policy of cooperation between govern | ment and business has in comparative | ly few years made them a leading | competitor for the commerce of the
 world. It should be remembered that they are doing this on a national scale
 and with large units of business, while l the democrats would have us believe
 that we should do it with small units . of business. which would be controlled, not by the national government. but by
 forty-ni conflicting state sovereign
 ties. Such a policy is utterly out of
 keeping with the progress of the times
 and gives our great commercial rivals
 in Eurnpe-hungry for international :, 1 markets-solden opportunities of , which they are rapidly taking advant-
 age.
 , Social and Industrial Justice to The Wage Workers.
 , | Referring to the opening sentence of | his address, namely. that we are now I in the midst of q great economic rev s olutiOn,' Mir. Roosevelt presents an ad-
 varced and comprehensive plan to in r sure the rights and better conditions f for labor He gives it the paramount } place in his speech. "The first charge s upon the industrial statesmanship ot l the day he said ''is to prevent human e waste. The dead weight of Orphanagt