The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-24

pOrtance OF this tendency In the pro.
pagation of plants and animals, and
enjoins every effort to avoid relapse tc
type by constant care in breeding. Tt
prevent relapse from liberty restrained
by law to rule based on the judgment
of rulers will require counter effort by
an aroused public opinion imbued
with the spirit OF Goethe's lines:
Fortunes greatest gift to man
Is personality alone
Progress is the sequence of struggle
of individual to attain supremacy
over individual Removal of the re-
ward of struggle will mark the be-
ginning of decadence. These truths
are established by history and ground
ed in the principles of biology.
| In conclusion I wish to express the
| faith that the Trades Commission Act
will be construed in the the light Of
reason and applied in harmony with
the industrial law which has given
this people and this nation comfort
at home and power abroad.
Our ancestral lands ere bathed in
blood; national ambitions for trade ex-
pansion have clashed; strength is
struggling with strength, and skill out
whiting skill for the mastery, not of
Europe alone, but of the uttermost
parts of the earth where undcveloped
or decadent races must yield to mod
ern civilization.
Eject Of Wars
The god of battles may change polit-
ical boundaries and may change the
code of International law, but when it
is all over, the men who escape mortal
missiles will return to their respec-
tive countries armed with enlightened
zeal for progress and with courage
hardened by the experiences of the
battlefield Germany may be destroy
ed; but the Germans will live and work
and continue to apply science to the
mastery of nature. France may be
Inundated; but the French will con-
tinue to manufacture the worlds lux
uries; England may be clipped of
colonies but the English will continue
to dominate trade and to be the money
changers of mankind. America is not
now involved; we are not likely to be-
come involved in the carnage, but from
the struggle after the war is over we
cannot escape unless we are willing
to become a commercially dependent |
nation. America today is facing a |
crisis. How shall preparation be !
made? When the German Empire saw
a war cloud on her horizan at the ris-
ing of the sun and again at the setting
Of the sun, she accumulated martial |
and trained her boys in :
soldiery. On our horizon, both west
and east, there is, not the thunder
cloud of war, but the signs of a COM
nercial storm How are we preparing
o reach with American goods the mar
zets of the world so that our own
people may be steadily employed? Are
We guarding against the greater dan
,er of swapping home markets with
oreign wares and produce? IT the
american people are to hold their own
n this world competition, they must
ave the material implements Of trade.
these are factories, railroads, and
hips. They must have the medium
f trade, that is, money; they must
ave the life of trade, that is, enter
rise. Without all of these no amouno|
f ingenuity will enable this people to
eep abreast in the mighty march Of
and commercial pro-
ress forecast by the light of exper-
snce.
The task will not be easy, the bur-
en- OF meeting foreign competition
ill not be light. 1t is certain as truth !
lat this people, ingenious as they are
/ fabricating matter and manipulating
ature's forces, will not meet the full
Ieasure of their responsibility to flu
Ire generations if handicapped by 3
public policy. 6
1t must be recognized that there is q
widespread fear that concentration g
trade to the extent that very lin G.
ed number of persons through cor d
,rate organizations are able to con- q
oil the production and sale of any A
,cessity of life, IS a menace to the m
lblic welfare. This general alarm h
Us influenced courts and politics. ii
under American law means n
actical control of the manufacture r.
d sale of any article of general use.
OBJECTION by the government of ex- bj
lsive control is not necessary ele- q,
ent of monopoly, as the word has ct
en- defined in judicial literature. Is D,
ere in fact any real danger to the ia
bile welfare in the existence of big th
siness, even SO big as to have ca
sorbed control over an entire line or
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