New Britain herald., 1916-09-15
grounds for their ever having been in

, grounds TOT Cnelr ever naVlng been ln- i spired
 ] II believe that most of the unrea- sonable and unnecessary legislation l and regulation and investigation , arose not from an inherent hatred of 1 class for class, as much as because class and the public do not know the truth about each other. There's noth- 1 ing worse than ignorance unless it be half wisdom or One-sided truth-tO breed distrust and the setting up of hostile barriers of law. If the public and the newspapers particularly could know all the facts; could get
 the viewpoint of the other fellow; could know that he is not such bad l chap after all that he is human and sympathetic and doing the best he f can-and 95 per cent. of business
 men do there would be an elimina-
 tion of much unnecessary and expen- sive legislation, litigation and de- structive anmosity.
 Too Many Busy Bodies. "There are too many husy-bodies in the world and particularly in the political field. The legi$;.ntu~ and congressman cOnceives it his duty to keep himself and his district to the front; not only in that much abused catch-all the Congressional Record but whenever the pork barrel is opcne1-and too often he is right in his estimate of his constituency and It's basis for judging his stewardship. 'T would place the busy law maker i!l t." classes, the one VI, honestly tres to be energetic and the one who makes laws for predator4 reasons; t.. ln bought off, or to pull chestnuts o.:t tf the fire for specialized, Interests of his constituency.
 An Avalanche Oi Law. II would classify the avalanche of
 laws from which we are suffering as a
 sn;all minority which are necessary
 ard valuable, and a majority made ui,
 Of sI sICCifications, perniclols and sc,f-
 center ed class legislation, good laws
 EEt unnecessary, theoretical and dan
 gCr1l!s fantasies and preGtLCry as
 slults on specialized interests or in
 their behalf. And most of them come
 from a lack of comprehensive under
 staEding of actual conditions. This is especially true of the la ,s which are opl)'e ssing business
 ';There is too much tenucnc," to
 ls!la4lze success; especially n.t uey-
 making. It crops out in taxation sChemos-nOt only of 1ha living but
 of 'fc dead-and in antitrust legis- lat on of a totally unnecessary and ineffective sort. If those Wn:' inspire much of this could realize that the whole comm unity-frOm one coast to the other shares in the expenditure of every dollar expended as well as in the benefits for every dollar earned and put to WOrk-there would be less
 legislation and more opportunity for individual initiative and ability to work their own way, so long as that way does not oppress the whole pop ulace
 'Too few people realize to what an extent American business has re- formed it's ideals and it's systems with in the past quarter of a century, within a decade even. We have read justed our whole conception of the rightTul relation between private and public property and Of the duty of em- 1 plOyer toward emplOye. There never
 was a time when the national con- science so generally responded to the spirit of the Golden Rule and when there was less need for laws that ham i per rather than encourage the high est efficiency of our great industrial,