The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-04-11
BIG BUSINESS is A FOOL"

Big business has always had its hooks out: 1t has always
hooked everything that the law would allow 1t to lay ITS nanos
on. It is the same today that it has always been except that II
has not failed to utilize all the machinery and the ingenuity OF
the present to enlarge its golfers. -.
ing of finances in a way to depress the cotton seed and cotton
seed products market, the Commercial Appeal of March ~,
states. big business is a fool. If the big business does not
stop exploiting small business and the people there Is gong TO
he trouble for big business. Big business already IN many &C
tivities has sinned its day away -
Much is being and has been said about what must oe II
for the returning soldier" In our judgment there has been
much fuss and feathers about mollycoddling the soldier: at
tempting to do something for him that he does not care a INK
es damn for. What the returning soldier wants Is a chahce
to get a fair start in the world. He wants to make a hv1ng ana
he is not going to suffer any pangs OF regret or any dlscon1nture
if he is not met a. the train with a wet nurse and a not water
bottle. He will think little about that but ne IS gong u tnlnH
a blamed lot about a whole lot of fellows piing up money and
some of them fortunes, while he was away laying III he 20"
II g"s;ness and when we say business" we are not combining
ourselves to any particular class of business, has played a knock
down and drag out game since we entered the war; Every Ia-
low has charged all he could and still doing that. Big concerns
have fattened as never before and much OF 1t is being MA away
from the tax gatherer, too, we dare say. ...o ava
All this leads us back to the Scriptural statement tne loHe
If monev is the root of all evil" There will be more people
peeping out of the bars and fires of hell because Oh Lii oo'iai
than all other means or agencies for evil in the worid. -:.;
But what we started out to discuss was the neeo o a NM
nnm and maximum wage or salary lay. In many of our cities
shop girls are being paid barely enodgh for them to pay ooaro
hence it is little wonder that many OF them sell themselves
There ought.to be a law that would forbid any business con,
Germ or corporation from paying any man as presioent, vi W ,a
any other office or trust, more than s 20 ~ wv ~ man
should be allowed to levy tribute on the public to pay any man nan
a salary of fifty or one hundred Thousand dollaI III .e eHst e..
place, the services, his actual services OF NJ man Is wor.n ~ nh.s
thousand dollars to any business or corporation Oh ~ A no
whatsoever. - oes i; !.
The Commercial Appeal well observes, big business ne MS s a
fool' and. if "big business does not stop exploring smaii puSi-
ness and the people there is going to De trouble.
Yes. the troubles that the railroads have whined about tor
the past fifteen years, is because they exploHeu u pun - ~
Years mast. They have not quit it altogether yet.
The public will bear so much and then it. will say to win
Won and all your affairs. This war, we are told ana. II Is rus
was fought to lberate the world. The people are not gong 70
let bic business be their master any more than they would the
hellian, Bill Hohenzoiefh.