The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-08-13

general, the great Industrial commun-
titles of the north and east are more
and more being subjected to govern
ment control and regulation by the
PEOPLE of the parts of the country
that know little of the business of the
country.
] say the sceptre has passed. The
control has changed, and it is i'm
! ossible to resist the conclusion that
there lies the reason for the stag
nation, the hesitation, the timidity,
the unwillingness of American en-
|terprise today. You cannot say it
was the tariff alone. You cannot say
/ it is the restrictions upon the trusts,
the suits against the trusts or the
great corporations which are called
the trusts, alone. You cannot say
it is the Clayton law or the trade
commission law alone. But the men
who are controlling the government
of our country today are men who
have been fighting the tariff so many
years, have been fighting the trusts,
or what they thought were the trusts
the great corporations-so long;
have been fighting the railroad COM
Ipanies, the express companies and
the telegraph companies so long;
have been fighting the banks and the
bankers SO long, that when they come
to administer the government of the
United States they can't rid them
selves of an underlying hostility to
American enterprise Many of them
are good and sensible men, and pat
riotic American citizens-friends of
mine and friends of all of us. | have
talked with them personally and they
don't believe it, but it is true. I'm
DERIVING all their actions is an un-
eradicated but Iot uneradicable hos
tility to the men who they think have
|profited unduly by the tariff, to the
men who they think have unduly
|profited by the trusts, to tie men who
they think have profited unduly by
the control of the banking funds OF
the country land to the men who they
think have made undue profits or
dividends out of the railroads and the
enterprises that surround the proper
administration of a railroad. And
the reason why business does not
start is because way down in the
heart of Americans there is doubt
as to what is going to happen at the
hands of a hostile government.
Now, what is going to be done
about it? 1t is not something to be
disposed of by conquest. 1t is not
something which we ought to be sat.
isfied with disposing of by mere
votes. Merely electing a Republican
president in 1916 ought not to be
enough. The country can't live and
prosper with such misunderstanding
me people who are doing these
things are honest and good Ameri.
cans, but they misunderstood a great
part of the country. They don't real.
lze that oyu do your business in the
city of Philadelphia on the same
principles that they use when thew
arrive load of wheat to the elevator
or load of potatoes to the nearest
toWn-upon no other principles, lust
as honestly and fairly. All the glamor
OF occasional wealth and the magni-
tude OF operations have blinded them
TO the essential identity of the wav
In which they do their business and
the way in which you do yours. 7 saw
that this ought not to be permitted
TO continue; this misunderstanding
ought to be cleared away. It is a
question, it is serious question. II
is question again of preserving the
Union, for we cannot I've with that
kind of misunderstanding between
the people of one section and the
IHOp-N VI oIhOi oCCLIUuS.
Now the first thing which is plain
is that the business men of America
the honest, reliable, good, fair citi-
zens who are doing the great bust
ness OF our country, should become
vocal and take pains to see to it that
they are no longer misrepresented or
misunderstood. What does an hon
iest and fair man do when he finds
that somebody whose good opinion he
respects, misunderstood him? He
does not try to shoot the other fell
low or injure him; he tries to re-
move the misunderstanding, and that
is what we ought to do. The bust
ness men of America should wake
up-get out of the condition of mind
which they have been in for some
time past, in which they have taken
all sorts of misrepresentation and
aspersions, lying down. They should
asert themselves; they should put up-
on foot a campaign of education and
INSTRUCTION for a clearing of the air