Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-19
QuietnQ Business

Two facts, widely recognized and most important
at this time, are these: (D Business is much dis.
turbed, and (2) business should be %quieted.
The cause Of the disturbance is well known. It
was inevitable. A change of party control, with the
successful party committed to new policies of the
largest application to. business condidtions, neces-
sarilymade. business pause and take notice. It must
know what the new order meant and would lead to
before entering on any new projects. or going on
steadily with the old.
The Wilson administration is not subject to the
criticism that was leveled at the second Cleveland
administration. Mr.. Cleveland took things up out Of
order. He greatly increased his difficulties by putting
the silver question ahead of the tariff question. In
tia: way he Knocked into a cooked hat within a
few months s. after his inauguration the combination
w'hich had elected him. Failure would probably, have
been recorded in the end, anyhow. for, as Mr.. Bryan
ate, wards described it, the Democratic campaign Of
1892 was a bunko game. But by a different start
Mr.. Cleveland might have Jared better than he did.
Mr.. Wilson has started in the proper order. The
tariff first; then the currency, then conservation. In
q way, they are all related, with each bearing on
business in a direct fashion.
But now comes an issue, suddenly-almost as a
Jack out of box-which overshadows all others, and
may give business a new turn" and a more anxious
one than any preceding. Government ownership and
operation of public utilities if inaugurated may carry
far. How far? Who may say? An answer-even a
partial ~ansWer-cannot be made for months yet, and
until then business will remain. on the anxious seat.
For il the New Freedom contemplates taking over
many great enterprises by the government which
have been founded and developed to huge proportions
by private means, business arrangements as at pres
ent adjusted will have to undergo some radical
changes.
1t wasa cynical old codger, who, marrying late in
life, after, becoming "set in his ways described
natrimony as "just one dashed thing after another"
The %country's present danger lies in the fact that
business may become cynical, and reach the conclu-
sion that the new political control means '.just one
dashed thing after another" The latest thing is
governments ownership. What else is coming? First
a new tariff. was to make everything right. Now a
new currency is to make the new tariff right. Then
new trust regulations are to help the new currency
law, and then conservation is to do its part. When
government ownership and operation of public utni-
ties has been decreed, what will be necessary to sup.
port that?
9 Business, what a variety ]. things is being
presented in thy name!-Washington Star.
Freak dances are so numerous that it Is a task
to learn their names, without undertaking to acquire
the steps.
Perugia says he stole the Mona Lisa because
he loved her" which sounds like another mawkishly
in.incers 'synfession
Nebr1s6 gives its life convicts a high school
course--those OF them who remain in prison long
enough to take II. These days . life sentence means
that the culprit ID to remain In prison until pardoned