The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-01-24

AT DIES MONIES
Leslie m. Shaw, Ex-secretary Of the
Treasury, Speaks at Des Moines
to Chamber Of Commerce.
He URGES MERCHANT MARINE

to Chamber Of Commerce.
HE URGES MERCHANT MARINE
Declares it is The Business Of the Gov
ernment to Foster, not to Father
Big Commercial Enterprises
DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan. 17.-Leslie
M. Shaw, former governor of lowe
and former secretay Of the treasury
was the principal speaker at the an
nual dinner of the Chamber OF Com
merce here tonight. His subject was
"The Government in Business" anc
his address contained many notable
epigrams. He urged support OF a sub
sidy or some other plan Of encourag
ing the building Of an American mer
chant marine. He said in part:
Governments are instituted among
men not to thwart but to cooperate
with these underlying principles OF
human life conceived of God for mans
good and planted in the ever fertlie
I soil of his ambition, blOssomng IN
each aspiration and bearing fruit IN
his every achievment. Thus the
wheels of progress have been slowly
turned.
It is not surprising, therefore, that
happiness as we'll as all prosperity
rests on industry. Having touched OF
seen life at every angle. and therefore
speaking as an expert, declare what
I do know-that the happy women OF
this world, like the happy men, are
those who rise to daily tasks. Inc
woman who does not know whether
the day will bring the yacht the auto
mobile a whist party or matinee
may get some pleasure out OF life, but
she will remain stranger to happin'
ess. We fathers are unintentially do
inc ali we can 4 to blight the future
Of our daughter and Y, erea Ting an al.
snre 'synonynIous TERMS 19ey are not. o.
Happiness comes from tasks perform
ed, from obligation redeemed and duty
fulfilled. In all this world there IS no
monument to pleasure. But where
noble men and faithful women nave
stood true and suffered for the right,
there memorials ascent. Not soon
will be forgotten that anniversary
drawing of McCutcheon showing an
gels scattering flowers on the deep,
while underneath is the inscription,
"Where the Titanic sank and man
hood did not perish
At the close of the Civil war we
occupied unique position. We had
matchless resources undevelOped and
matchless resourcefulness untried. In
harmony with these Divine purposes
and the God given impulses to which
| have referred, the government said
to the citizen, Achieve and be happy
So, when general Dodge and his asso.
ciates proposed railroad to the Pa
aific ocean the government promptly
gave hands, hitherto and without this
road forever worthless and subsidies
of money to be subsequently returned.
Then, as by magic, the Union Pacific
crossed the rockies where few years
before no one had imagined even a
wagon road could be constructed, La
ter, more roads were builded and 9th.
er enterprises fostered until we now
have Rocky mountain empire, yield.
ing gold by the trainload, silver, cop
per. and iron and hundred other
metals, oil, COAL. rock, lumber, fruits,
and vegetables and some millions of
people living in happy homes. The
other ways and applied to thousand
other industries. achieve and be
happy"
Had the government said to the pi-
oneer geniuses of America, mo,
will build the road and you shall
serve on salary:I will develop the
farms and you shall work by the
month: will build the factories and
you shall be paid by the week; will
mine the coal and you shall be paid
by the day" the prime source of hu-
man happiness would have been de-
MED and all incentive to fearless en-.
terprise would have been strangled.
Business Management.
All business stands on three legs.
No business can stand on two legs.
Alone and unaided capital languishes
and labor starves The third and all
essential leg is Management. Imagine
the business enterprises of the world
each threelegged stool. Failure re-
suits only when management buckles,
Capital never fails to perform it's func.l
tions, labor never fails to quit its job
so long as mangeme remains ieffil
.cient and effective. The concern that
sAils for want of capital fails in fact
because management tries to do too
much with its available capital.
J. No government and no community
tan supply management, the, all es-
Eential leg on which business must
rely. Only strongly centralized gov.
|ernments, like Germany or industrial
relationships like those to which Eng
land and France have recently resort
led can supply business principles to
government affairs. Senator Aldrich
was often falsely quoted as having
said the government could save $780,
100000 per yeAr If 1t would apply
business principles. He never said
anything of the kind. No man knew
letter than the Rhode Island states.
pan that business principles cannot
applied to our government affairs.
tArst of all the people will not permit.
What the senator did say was that
lhe government could save $500, ,OOO,-