The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-20
Business Needs Help,
But Not Cheerleaders,
Former Senator Saws

NEW YORK-The supreme need
and duty OF the hour Is To strengthen
buaInp4s. for upon active ana
,,hgIcsome business depends the
vol bcing Of all the people, former
United states Senator Albert j.
pc.eridgc Of Indiana told the New
Work STATE Chamber OF Commerce
a, .is annual banquet.
"Tbo present depression is not a
tr.lsicnt economic phase due to an
urbappv state OF mind on the part
M bIs.uess men or the people gem
orally. and 10 Is not to be improved
tr fre methods of college cheer
lenders al football games" Mr. Bcv-
.Tdrt said. ION the contrary,
tbose lufatlonists ot hope who tell
us that prosperity ls just around the
corner when il is not there but far
away 30 not help but positively hurt
"rncy SOW broadcast dragons =
teeth of distruct. For when the
po1ple go around the corner and fail
10 find the promised prosperity, but
are again told that It Is around the
next corner ana again tail-when
this process is repeated three or four
smes the people lose confidence.
Faith be- Killed by disappuintmcut.
"N0w Is the time Tor plain Dpeak-
ing bv men who have graduated
from ambition Let US frankly know
tbp worst at once. We have been
rather fed up on the glad hand we
need Instead, a period OF brass
tacks.
conc OF the immediate causes Of
the creeping paralysis from which
business Is suffering IS the plight Of
the railroads
To-day railway rates are opprcs-
sIyc. railway facilities inadequate,
raiv,y employees dissatisfied and ro-
beIious railway equipment impaired,
railway capital reduced and Inn
porilled. Cnul these conditions are
hcttered, all forecasts OF good times
are the mere matter OF politicians
the crafty wiles OF men who have
axes 10 grind, or the senseless, inco-
hcrcnoles Of pipe drcamers.
Almost ten years ago de-
nolnced as the invisible govern
ment the sway OF those financial
consplrators who sought to dominate
the nation. That cabal OF cunning
and avarice has been overthrown.
But another invisible empire has
been established as evil and danger
Gus as that Of the dethroned autoc-
acy Of wealth. This new assaiiant
or ordered liberty and American in
stltutiuns is the close and closed cor
poratiOns OF those men who have
made Themselves masters of labor
unions
organized capital and organized
labor alike can be made useful TO all
men and helpful to the republic;
but neither shall be permitted To
oppress any man, woman or child,
or 10 govern the American people.
"Tho methods by which the
AdamSon law wa9 forced on the sta
tute books raised an issue as vital
and basic as that which brought on
the civil war-indeed the Adamson
law issue went to the very existence
Of government itself
when organizations, by threat TO
strangle the nation, can dictate laws
Tor their own advantage at the eN-
pense of all the people. then regular
government by all for the good OF all
is annihilated; and. in place of It is
substituted the erratic despotism OF
particular groups for their special
purposes to the injury OF the coun-
try as whole
AT all cost, the Adamson law Is
sue should have been fought out 10
the finish the moment II appeared.
Sooner or later It must be settled
and every days delay will make
matters worse in the end. Differ
ences over mere questions OF policy