The broad ax., 1916-04-22

CQalE next lI1ue, Is TIC Q1e-
r. Of prominent New
York newspaper.
Government is a BUSINESS, and
BIG BUSINESS.
Seagoing and overland commerce,
taxation, tariffs, rate regulation, mo-
nopoly regulation, the mails and par
GELS posts, conservation Of resources,
and maintenance Of wa
terways, the huge payrolls Of Govern
ment employees, the courts Of justice,
the national revenue collectors and DO
lice. the army and navy-what are all
these but pure business problems de-
handing the same trained and capable
business executive direction that any
great business concern demands?
What board of directors would think
of hiring a professor Of sanskrt b be
president Of a great railroad?
What huge shipbuilding or engineer
ing concern would select peripatedc
stump orator or a lyceum lecturer 10
direct it's activities?
Bio Business Men Nseoeo.
Big business concerns seek big bust
ness men with big business brains 10
be executive chiefs.
Now, here Is this big business cor
iporation In which every one Of u, 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 head for this
wonderful, gigantic business concern?
Why. we always select a man who
has never shown enough business ahl
tty to run a one-horse draytng concern.
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 and
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
- Of hT1oir01d RO-0nQPaQOQ
and consolidation and Of wasteful and
criminally extravagant expenditure OF
the peoples money to the tune OF thou
sands of millions?
Is it 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 or proies-
sional politicians, horn-blowtng ora
tors, briefess lawyers, pretty phrase,
makers. theoretical schoolmasters ana
all that sort on q shelf In the Dack
woodshed and put BIG, BRAlNi'
CAPABLE, EXPERIENCED BUei'
NESS MAN, who has done big tnmss
well all his life, In the chair or ne
President of the United StatesH 49,.
What do you think about this CD
:. Zens?
For an Idea, Not an Individual
q The views expressed in the above
!, editorial are exactly the views heio .!
. THOUSANDS OF INFLUENTLAI
BUSINESS MEN throughout the coun
try. AS an outgrowth Of this sentiment
there has been formed an OrganizanOD
called the Business Mems PresidenuA
n League, which has for its object w
o exploitation of an idea instead OF -
- Individual. What it seeks to Dtine
- about is the nomination Of candlos.'
for president WHO CAN BE ELEoI
l., ED. also to prevent action next 'a,'
= at Chicago that would be party W.
eide.
" An All Round Business MAN
r To win next November the hePur ,
lican party must DESERVE TO W..
That means we must have canuiu. =,
who first of all merits and conn
4. the confidence of the business men !,
a. the nation. Among the prominen' - ~,
- mentioned as candidates who WV.
: meet this demand is General Coie
"A du Point. of Delaware. Du Pun, -,
- distinctly a business man. he
been everything, from MINER -. A
ing with a pick and shovel. TO 80
rector of one of our greatest lncu.
corporations. He has built anu ,
:. aged railroads and is banker ~.
- farmer. In every line bis acsr
" have been SIGNALLY SUCCESS 4
. and no man has had a more zap pr.,t
perience to equip him for tne re
dency. He is the kind OF ma 10
could save to the taxpayers 6f
u country the three hundred r- I.S -
- lars that the late Senator Alarl s.s "
were wasted annually In runD
public business.