Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-06-11
THE DRIFT OF OUR NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
BY Gary T. Wihdell.

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we think and realize that so many
of our great and wise men are
continually kicking and bowling
against the big corporations.
They seem to fail to realize that
the enormous business that the
National government carries on
cannot possibly be managed by
small concerns.
There is very good reason to
believe that Europe is conduct
ing = publicity bureau in Amer
lea. This bureau is operated for
the purpose of creating senti-
ment against our large corpor-
ations.
If the people Of this country
can be made to believe that the
high cost of living is owing to
the operations of big business,
then this superstition will find
concrete form in government
prosecutions. For let it be un-
derstood that the government
can do nothing, right or wrong,
save as it is backed up by public
opinion.
The United States is moving
toward free trade; and free trade
is not to be feared, provided
American manufacturers have a
fair field. We can meet the
world in the open, but we cannot
fight If our government insists
on having our hands tied behind
us, for reasons of politics. "
American dissolution and Euro
pean cooperation will surely put
the skids under our prosperity.
In fact. the skids are under us
now, or there would not be a
capable man out of work in all
America. Germany's motto is,
Unite and Conquer. whereas,
ours seems to be Dissolve and
Retreat.
What America should sell is
not raw material-we should sell
our genius, our talent, our skill,
our efficiency, our organizing
ability. In agricultural imple-
ments America leads the world,
simply because we have the ma
chinery that can produce thous-
and plows while the average fac
tory of Europe is making a hun
dred. The American wage-earn-
er is the best paid worker in the
world. American inventive ge-
MUS and American organization
ability are behind him.
Big business has shortened
hours. increased pay, eliminated
sweat-shops. done away with
child labor, adopted old-age pen
sions, profit-sharing in hundred
forms, and has given cleanliness,
order, system, safety, hygiene
and beauty. where little business
never did or could.
Public opinion in America con-
corning Industrial organization
is largely the work of foreign
publicity bureaus that are oper-
ating here in America.
An armed force you can repel.
but a newspaper suggestion ah.
you can not locate it's lair. An
example of a most persistent lie
is found in the oft-repeated state
ment that American-made farm
machinery is sold cheaper in Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa than in
America. This statement has
been disproved by government
Investigations and reports, by
unimpeachable facts. figures and
testimony. But yet the lie still
goes forth. spread broadcast by
European publicity bureaus. with
the one intent of turning the
American voter against Ameri-
can industrial institutions.
What we want in this country
is increased wages, steady work
and sure pay-that is, increased
buying-power. Our learned men
should be up and doing and edu-
cate the American people to the
truth that organization means
civilization, and thus stop. if
possible, this insane war on en-
terprise and industry. The forces
OF dissolution are at work in any
nation that begins to make war
on invention. initiative, enter
prise and organization.
This country has just passed
through cyclone of defamation,
vituperation and exposure much
of it indecent. The national con-
dition has been pathologic, but
we are glad to say that we are
now recovering.
Business means homes. gar
dens, books, parks, music, good
roads, schools. safety. hapniness