The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
CAUSE OF PARALYSIS INJECTING
 BUSINESS IS PLIGHT OF RAILROADS

New York, Nov. 25-The supreme need and duty of the hour is to strengthen business; for upon active well being of all the people, former United States Senator Albert J. Rev. eridge of Indiana. told the New York State Chamber of Commerce at is an- nual banquet recently.
 The present depression is not a transient economic phase due to an unhappy state of mind on the part of business men or the people generally; and it is not to be improved by the methods of college cheer leaders al football games" MT. Beveridge said 'On the contrary, those inf1ationists or hope who tell us that prosperity Is just around the corner when 1t Is not there, but far away, do not help but positively hurt business.
 They sow broadcast dragons teeth of distrust. For when the people go around the corner and fail to find the promised prosperity, but are again told that 1t is around the next corner and again fail-when this process Is repeated three or four times, the peo- pie lose confidence. Faith Is killed by disappointment.
 Now is the time for plain speaking by men who have graduated from ann bition. Let us frankly know the worst at once Vt have been rather instead, a period of brass tacks.'
 "One of the immediate causes of the creeping paralysis from which busi- ness is suffering is the plight of the railroads.
 Today railway rates are oppres- sive, railway facilities inadequate, railway employees dissatisfied and re- bellious, railway equipment impaired, railway capital reduced and imperi1- led. Until these conditions are bet tered, all forecasts of good times are the mere matters of politicians, the crafty wiles of men who have axes to Dr~ind he SQ1aSs ir1o0haranoiaS nE pipe dreamerS.
 Almost ten years ago I denounced as the invisible government, the sway of those financial conspirators who sought to dominate the nation. That cabal of cunning and avarice has been overthrown. But another invisible empire hase been established, as evil and dangerous as that of the de- throned autocracy of wealth. This new aSsailant of ordered liberty and American institutions is the close and closed corporation of those men who have made themselves masters of la Dor unions.
 ''Organized capital and organized la bor 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 to gov ern the American people.
 ''The methods by which the Adam son law was forced on the statute books raised issue 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 strangIe the nation, can dictate laws for their own advantage at the ex- pense of all the people, then regular government by all for the good of all is annihiliated; and. in place of it is substituted the cratic despotism of particular groups for their special purposes to the injury of the country as a whole.
 ''At all cost, the Alamson law issue should have been fought out to the finish the moment 1t appeared Soon- CT or later it must be settled and every days delay will make matters worse in the end. Differences over mere questions of policy can be com