Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-05-13

chair next time, is the que
ry of prominent New
York newspaper.
Government is BUSINESS, and a
BIG BUSINESS.
Seagoing and overland commerce,
taxation, tariffs, rate regulation, mo-
nopoly regulation, the mails and par
GELS posts, conservation of resources,
development and maintenance of wa
terways. the huge payrolls of Govern
ment employees, the courts of justice,
the national revenue collectors and po-
lice, the army and navy-what are all
these but pure business problems. de-
manding the same trained and capable
business executive direction that any
great business concern demands?
What board of directors would think
of hiring professor of Sanskrit- to be
president of a great railroad?
What huge shipbuilding or engineer
ing concern would select a peripatetic
stump orator or a lyceum lecturer to
direct its activities?
Big Business Men Needed.
Big business concerns seek big busi-
ness men with big business brains to
be executive chiefs.
Now, here is this big business cor
poration in which every one of us, big
and little is a stockholder-the United
States of America
It is the BIGGEST BUSINESS CON
Germ the world ever saw.
And what do we do every four years
by way of selecting a head for this
wonderful, gigantic business concern?
Why, we always select a man who
has never shown enough business abil-
f7r- vfraer
In the fifty years that have elapsed
since Abraham Lincoln died not one
of the eleven Chief Executives of this
colossal business corporation called the
United States has had the SLIGHT
EST BUSINESS TRAINING or any
acquaintance with the complex, varied,
ramifying and interrelated problems of
finance, production. transportation aud
world exchange upon which depend the
welfare and prosperity of the whole
people and OF each individual citizen.
Hindrance of Prosperity.
Is it any wonder that our national
business Is one long serial story of
stupid HINDRANCE OF PROSPER
ITY, stupid depression of commerce
and trade stupid opposition to the for
ward impulses of business cooperation
and consolidation and of wasteful and
criminally extravagant expenditure of
the peoples money to the tune of thou
sands of millions?
Is 1t any wonder that we WASTE
each year an amount of money that
would fortify our coasts, stock our
magazines with ammunition, equip our
navy properly and SECURE BEYOND
ANY POSSIBLE DANGER the safety
of our country?
Suppose that just once, by way of
experiment, we gently, but firmly and
| positively, set the whole lot of profes-
| stonal politicians. horn-blowing ora
tors, briefiess lawyers, pretty phrase
makers, theoretical schooimasters and
| all that sort on shelf in the back
woodshed and put BIG, BRAINY,
| CAPABLE, EXPERIENCED BUSI-
| NESS MAN, who has done big things
well all his life, in the chair of the
President of the United States?
What do you think about this, citi-
zens2
For an Idea, Not an Individual.
The views expressed in the above
| editorial are exactly the views held by
THOUSANDS OF INFLUENTIAL
BUSINESS MEN throughout the coun-
try. AS an outgrowth of this sentiment
there has been formed an organization
called the Business Mems Presidential
League, which has for its object the
exploitation of an idea instead of an
individual What it seeks to bring
about is the nomination of a candidate
for president WHO CAN BE ELECT
ED, also to prevent action next June
at Chicago that would be party sui
eide.
An All Round Business Man
To win next November the Repub-
hcan party must DESERVE TO WIN
That means we must have a candidate
who first of all merits and commands
the confidence of the business men of
the nation Among the prominent men
mentioned as candidates who would
meet this demand is General Coleman
du Pont, of Delaware. Du Pont is
distinctly business man. He has
been everything, from a miner, work
ing with n pick and shovel to the df-
rector OF one of our greatest Industrial
corporations He has built and man.
aged railroads and is a banker and a
farmer In every line his activities
have been SIGNALLY SUCCESSFUL.
and no man has had more varied ex-
perience to equip him for the Presi-