The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-29

oSiAA liein anu the nSC1nCIlye JuQS-
ment OF the vast majority Of business
men everywhere goes with them. We
snali now be their spokesman. That is
the strength Of our position and the
sure prophecy of what will ensue when
u reasonable work is done.
Wnen serious contest ends, when
men unite in opinion and purpose, those
VINO are to change their ways OF bust
ness Joining with those who ask for
n change, 1t is possible to effect it in
the way In which prudent and thought
hui and patriotic men would wish to
see 1T brought about, with as few, as
slight, as easy and simple business
cumstances. nothing essential dis
turbed. nothing torn up by the roots.
no parts rent asunder. which can be
left in wholesale combination.
Not Revolutionary.
Fortunately no measures Of
sWeepina or novel change arc nee
essary.. It viii! be understood that
our object is NOT to unsettle busi-
ness or n where seriously to
oreak is established courses
athwart. On the contrary we desire
to be tho bulwarks and safe ouards
OF industry AGAINST tho forces that
have disturbed it. What we have to
go can 20 done in a new spirit, in
~ehouqhtful moderation without rev.
olutlon OF any untoward kind.
We are all agreed that private mon
opoly is Indefensible and intolerable,
and u program is founded on that
conviction. 1t will be a comparative
out not a radical or unacceptable pro-
gram n these are its items, the
chanses which opinion deliberately
sanctions for which business waits:
1t waits with acquiescence, in the
1lrst place for laws which will effectu-
ally prohibit and prevent such inter-
ocklngs of the personnel of the di-
Iectorates OF the great corporations
banks and railroads, Industrial com
merc1al and public service bodies-as
IN effect result in making those who
borrow and those who lend practical
" one and the same, those who sell
and those who buy but the same per-
sons adm with one another under
different names Inc in different com
binations and those who affect to COM
pete in fact partners and masters Of
some whole field Of business. SUM-
Gent time should be allowed, Of course,
IN winch to effect these changes of
organization without inconvience or
confusion.
Such a prohibition will work much
more than q mere negative good by
correcting the serious evils which have
arisen ecause, for example. the men
VINO nave been the directing spirits of
the great investment banks have
usurped the place which belongs to in
industrial nageme
working in It's own behoof
"oo
Develop New Blood.
ut will bring new men, now ener-
gies, a new spirit of initiative. new
blood, into the management Of our
open the field of industr;,t WI
opment and orin;nsaos oeVe'-
of men who have bsan .kEsN
serve when their .LiIi4 oD.seu 70
them to direct. II viii IL, e...'s.Ga
hearten the youne men conoinn az
and will greatly enrich 49, h,n ns IN
activities of the who'll DaS,"eSs
.Tn tho 5000 80, Soo"ery.
as Veil y. tnon 49, pace: business men
fa ! > ns eaose VINO dlrect public af-
,,.tne,,1 .osLlZe ana with
iasn lua l,eSs' the great harm and
if not al, of he's great raiipnaa " inany,
o. tae country by the way in which
tney nave been financed and their w
ui9tln.lsFe interests subordinated to
me Interests or the men who financed
thenl. ana OF other business enterprises
MLlch those men wished to promote.
me eountrJ IS ready, therefore. to ac-
cept and accept with relief, as well as
a law which will confer on
ne interstate commission
ne power 70 superlntend and regulate
me operations by which the
faliEoads are h~enceforth to be supplied
Wlth the money they need for their
proper ceVeiopment to meet the rapidly
owl requirements of the country
Tor increased and improved facilities Of
ransportatlon We cannot postpone
actlon IA thls matter without leaving
the rallroads exposed ~ many serious
nahalcaps and haZards, and the pros
pefily OF the railroads and the pros
perity OF the country are inseparably
whn arc chi u az uueS.ion, those
actual management Of the railroads
ave spoken very plainly and very
earnestly, with a purpose we ought to
be quick to accept. It will be one step.
and a Very important one, toward the
necessary separation of the business of
production from the business of trans
portation.
DaE,;,,
Ia"'
Ine business OF the country awaits
also, mas long awaited and has suffered
because IL could not obtain further and
more e&plcit Legislative definition Of
the pollcy and of the existing
antl-Irust law Nothlng hampers bust
ness ike uncertainty. Nothing dallntS