The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-09
THE PRESIDENTS POLICIES RELATIVE TO BUSINESS


 as the enemy of either big little business It is a little humiliating to those who believe in the intelligence of the American people that President Wilson should have found it necessary to make such statement
 The president is formulating certain legls- lafion which is intended to give, and will give, greater stability to the business fabric. These laws are in the nature of rules for the better. conduct of the game.
 Whichever legislation is attempted control- ling and directing corporations somebody arises to cry that somebody else hates corpora tiohs-
 corporation is an, association of men. ThB sins and the mistakes of corporations are Ind sins and mistalles of men. Nothing else,
 Who would think of saying that law aeainst murder is a manifestation of hatred for. mankind. It is an evidence of mans love for mankind
 law against theft is not occasioned by mans hatred but by man's affection.
 So good laws regulating corporations and, fhs business activities of men are not the result of hafreds, but of Affection They are made to help men andtn=assist business.
 It may we'll. be that a three card monte man will protest the statutes against crooked gambling or dealer who puts sand in the. sugar object to laws forbidding adulterations of fo6d- But those laws do not represent mans hatred They express the desire of mankind for honest games and pure food.
 The hue and cry against the presidents policies for the regulation of certain bad ppac- tides come largely from ignorance, partly from pa4hsan hatreds and partly from the ignorant nen who have been committing the wrongs which are about to be forbidden.
 The necessity that those wrongs should be corrected is, first, in the fact that they are wrongs great enough to demand, legal correc- hon. and secondly, that the commission of th ase wrongs has destroyed public confidence and caused sIackIless in the activities of the nation, which will not be removed until the wrongs that caused them have been removed.
 Fheway. to Judge piece of legislation is not very diffefent from the method of judging d remedy for the healing of the physical body
 It must be ascertained if the thing exists that needs healing. and then; if the remedy is adapted t0 effect $ cure
 The presidents remedies should be scrll- tin1zed, each by itself. There is the proposal that anybody controlling wealth in the earth raw material taken from mines-shall sell this raw material to any responsible bidder, upon the same terms as to the most favored.
 In this a good rule, or a bad one? Shall one trust corner all the coal, another all the copper, another all the iron ore and crush this manufacturer and then that one by refusing him the coal the copper or the iron he needs or if not refusing it to him, by selling it to him at a price that means his ruin?
 This is the only question that needs to be asked with respect to that rule.
 zzViH it help business or hurt business to
 
 even terms to all producers?
 This is one thing the president seeks to ac- complish?
 If Jones has an oil business in Bridgeport should the Standard Oil Co., be permitted to GU the price of oil in Bridgeport for the purpose o1 r1ining Jones, while it raises the price some where else, and, when Jones is destroyed raises it in Bridgeport This ought to be ar easy question to answer
 Price discrimination, practiced for the pur pose E1aaing competitors, is one of the thing. Prestn Wilson is trying to forbid
 8hAhld the owner of a railroad or othei public Service, or industrial property, be per mittsd to capitalize his property for great dea more than it is worth, and then sell the securi ties broadcast to any person who will buy?
 This should be an easy question to answer especially in the presence of the New Haven ex ample and within easy distance of the Claflil failure.
 One of the things President Wilson seek to prevent is wholesale stock watering, whcl has amounted to wholesale theft of private an public property, practice which has brough disaster whenever and wherever 1t has beei
 President Wilson is not foe to big or 1t tie business, but to evils big enough to deman federal correction
 Join in no hue and cry of malice or ignor ance, kind citizen, but ascertain what laws ar prdk Ad to corEectsHf1at evils
 Make up your mind if the evils ought to sb correetea and if the laws are adequate to cor