Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-01-30
A Warning Voice.

legislation and business is anX-
ious to take q new start and go
ahead. The corporations are
obeying the law. Proof is found
on every side. They are meet
ing the most eaxcting require
ments in q spirit of fair and hon
orable compliance with every
ruling, no matter how much
hardship it may involve. Let
them go on and make the fight
to win our share of the worlds
commerce.
With a reduced tariff, and in
creased free trade, we must seek
foreign markets or close our
shops. During the past three
years we have been winning for
eign markets handsomely. The
expansion in our exports, of
farm, mining and manufacture
ing products has been unparal-
leled in the commercial history
of our times. All this has been
concurrent with the develop
ment of what has been stigma
tized as big business.
The expansion of our exports
would have been impossible
without an expansion of big
business, yet we are encourag-
ing one and seeking to destroy
the other. The heaviest advan-
, ces in wages and the the most
noticeable lessening of hours of
toll, the widest distribution of
pension funds and profit sharing
, plans come while these great
5 business organizations were be-
ing built up. Are conditions bet
ter to-day while these great cor
porations are being torn down
than they were before?
What good is being done by
keeping up the relentless fight
against big business? What help
has this been to the consumer?
1t has not reduced the cost of
living. 1t has not opened a single
; factory, or added a name to the
, payroll. Is it being done mere
, ly to show the politicians power?
, Let the Democratic party realize
2 its opportunity, and as Ex-Sen-
ator Bailey said it will lay the
foundations for a long lease of
power.
n The inconceivable folly of con-
: tinuing the present program
: with shops closing and business
! marking time is admitted on all
sides. The note of warning
sounded by that strong and
: steadfast supporter of President
Wilson, the New York World, in
these significant words is COM
mended to the consideration of
Congress:
The country needs time to
adjust itself to the legislation
already enacted by the present
Congress, and many of the
amendments proposed to the
Sherman act spell another long
period of litigation, with no de-
finite promise of beneficial re-
suits. Let it be remembered
that if business depression fol-
lows careless trust legislation
the discredit will fall in fact
upon the Trust and Currency
laws, to the undoIng of most of !
the good already accomplished"
A striking evidence of the fair
intention of our manufacturers,
of their good will toward the
Administration and their pur-
pose to aid in the success Of the
new Tariff Law is found in the
resolution unanimously adopted
at the recent Annual Meeting of
the American Protective Tariff
League, as follows:
RESOLVED, That the League urg-
es every manufacturer and every
merchant and every other factor
in national prosperity to give
every support possible to public l
and work out and {
solve the new problems of indus. {
dustrY under the Underwood $
Tariff Bill, as best they may. $
may be done to check t
The constantly increasing mum b. n
~ of UNEMPLOYED and overcome O