The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-30


 u.e 10 the freedom with which their
 industries were permitted tO organize
 TOT purposes ot foreign trade. In
 Europe individual companies of one
 nation did not need to meet ruinous
 competition with other companies Of
 their own nationality, in addition to
 the competition of other nations.
 They could present d solid national front This was accomplished through the organization of syndicates and
 cartels which have fiourished for
 decades in every great industrial nation except the United States.
 SET BUSINESS FREE.
 The Presidents understanding of the prospective post-bellum conditions holds up to his mind the probability that hereafter American industry may 1 have to compete not only with those 1 solid national organizations, but with | international organizations. It is be- 1 cause he faces this prospect that the l President believes it is high time for 1 the American government to strike 1 from our industries some of the shack i cause the Sherman Law failed to au- 1 thorize the needed and wholesome pro, 1 cesses of cooperative business orga- 1 nization.
 i President Wilson's attitude toward l business organization as principle 1 for domestic as well as foreign appli- l cation is different from that which i has determined the policy of many government officers in the past. Then ! the government was so much con- l cerned with eradicating the flaws in | our business structure that it gave ! no large measure of thought to de l veloping business opportunities. Un- i der the Presidents inspiration the | Trade Commission idea has been l evolved, whereby the antitrust di-
 vision of the Department of Justice has been prevented from tiourishing i it's sword over the heads of business l organizations merely because of the | I1, i bigness is not held to be cause for
 suspicion by the Trade Commission,
 which is now the chief instrument i tality of enforcing the antitrust laws. | The Trade Commission has encount, l cred little difficulty in strengthening 1 out kinks in commercial organization i which involve violations of law be ! cause business men have been made 1 to realize that the main concern ot 1 this body has been the promotion of 1 growth and the development of oppoi- 1 tunity
 The Tariff Commission will find
 many ways of being useful to the 1 business world if the plans President i Wilson has formed for it are follow l ed The war has developed new in i dustries in the United States, notably i can be conferred on industries of this i character, the President believes, if the Tariff Commission studies their
 methods of operation and subsequent 1 ly the methods of operation and the 1 economies which obtain among the l European nations, where these indus
 tries have been longest established | and are most efficient
 THE TRADE COMMISSIONS JOB.
 The President expects the Trade 1 Commission to go into the field of 1 foreign tariff duties and to convey to l American export organizations com l plete data as to the existence and | effects of discriminating duties, com
 mercial treaties and preferential
 rates; the effects of export bounties 1 and preferential transportation rates;
 and the effects of any special or dis
 eliminating privilege that may be used against the United States.
 1 The scope of the Trade Commits | sion's activities, according to the poli- | cy in the Presidents mind, includes
 the development of plans by which l American business firms may best | into the international markets. For | example. the standardization of ma
 terials, manufacturing methods and | products, so that a uniformity of
 quality and price may be maintained | in foreign markets, will obviate many | of the difficulties experienced by
 American exporters in keeping up 1 their historic endeavor to compete
 with one another. Another measure
 approved by the President is the de velopment of a system of accounting
 which will enable the American busi-
 ness man to tell more accurately
 what it costs him to turn out his