Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-02
CORPORATION HATRED.

S~i'f S'NN INN F1N NEbs
 There is a corporation doing business in the War. ren District with which many in the community have dealings every day. It the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Those who have dealings with it doubtless express themselves freely concerning it and its service It is only fair to give the corporation chance nbosom itself concerning its feeling. This chance materializes through the medium of talk which NicePresident Philip Hamlin voiced recently at dinner to the company's employees and officials He said in part:
 By great many people today any representative of corporation looked upon as being little differ ent from the great majority who maintain their own individual shops stores and offices There be some reason for this Is because of the individual, of what he represents? The latter undoubtedly. In what way then, does the corporation diner from the private business? In methods? Not greatly In what then? Size? Emphaucaly. Why then should there be fear. envy, distrust any line of demarcation Frankly, because think that in business. in in- divduals beges buyiug-or the fear of it the mind of the smaller. Now, a bully is Go be hated rather than feared enved or distrusted and is up to the corporations. their officers and employees to see that bullying in any form is tolerated; and it up to too, make that portion of the public that now nates fears, distrusts corporations, see and understand that We not bulies s-that we arc big only because bis tasks require big muscles.
 The corporation has to stay; is the top step in the stairway of business economies; has come stay because it the practical solution of big deeds
 think MT. Theodore N Vail coined phrase to the effect that there is nothing lonesome as single dollar" which the publicity manager recently added. eft cant even jingle" And that thought tie whole answer to the questions 'Nyhy is a corporauon?"
 Every achievement of all the ages has been accom- plished in the ast analysis by capital Brains all have in varying quantities; muscles likewise Those two assets are congeniaI gifts all mankind but with the great majority capital be achieved. It takes the general run of humanity a lifetime to gain more than a competence. So it follows that one may have sufficient brains to plan and carry big en- terprise but many required to furnish the muscle and quite many the capital This is true of cities, governments and nations and even more true of in dustrial efforts. No in the United States could have built or even own, any one of great railway systems-the New lorS Central the Pennsylvania the Union Pacific the Santa Fe Their construction and their ownership require the combination of large nun ber of investors So with he great corporation, which deem 1t an honor to represent
 But want to give suggestion: Since big deeds are only possible through big muscles. do the assoca- tons of really represent the savers, in the nations-the ants who have sorimped and boarded? Truly this is SO. Who own the stocks the bonds, and the securities of our big oorporadons-a few wealthy men? Mo- indeed The Pennsylvania Railroad the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph Company, the United States Steel Corporauon all stockholders by hun. dreds Of thousands We all know Chat there are not many extremely wealthy men in our country The Mountain States Company itself comparatively small as it is with approximately 5000 stockholders has S75 who own five shares or less. No could be found to take the risks incident to business by assuming its entire investment his own individual What would our railroads our telephones great indus trials be today left the development of individuals or even of communities? Do you fully realize that to go back 10 Che days of small and individual ownersbips would bo to go back the stagecoach and tho pony express? think you do. and ! think win agree with me fully that must matter of normal growth concede chat the corporation is here to stay.
 Why men if we agree E this prcseutday feeling against corporations? Ther- doubt that it exists and there mo doubt that such feelings do not rise new born in le mind of any 1ut Che lowest and -hallowea