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Volume 9 November 10, 1911. Nuinvec 45 
‘The Business Problem 
Governor-elect Foss claims that 
Massachusetts has now spoken ‘‘un- 
mistakably for an honest revision of 
the tariff and for a business admin- 
istration of the commonwealth. 
The national significance of this 
election is inestimable; the rest of 
the country will follow the lead of 
Massachusetts.’’ Hidden beneath 
these words there is a popular er- 
ror which is working ruin to our 
business enterprises and destruction 
to legitimate sensible business ad- 
ministration of national affairs. 
The state has nothing to do 
with national affairs and all 
its elections should be fought out 
on local issues. Likewise in na- 
tional affairs the industrial, tariff 
and corporation questions included 
in the Sherman Act are economic 
and not political questions. It is be- 
cause of this confusion that the un- 
thinking citizen is beguiled and 
hoodwinked by unscrupulous news- 
papers and magazines and _ selfish, 
unpatriotic office-seekers. Until the 
two problems are divorced there will 
be rancor, unrest and consequently 
hardships for all. 
The people are facing a serious 
condition in the economic adminis- 
tration of the government and men 
of sand, salt and sense are needed 
as they never have been needed be- 
fore. A practical sensible patrio- 
tism should-inspire the citizens of 
America to be cautious and consid- 
erate. Henry lL. Higginson has 
struck the right note in this issue, 
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the appeal to the patriotic spirit of 
the people. 
It is evident that when Congress 
convenes in December that there is 
certain to be contests, debates and 
movements inspired by many diverse 
national policies. The two great 
questions, tariff and the regulation 
of the Corporations will certainly be 
the two great questions of the ses- 
sion. Both of these questions are 
economic questions and the Ameri- 
can people are committing the egre- 
- gious blunder of making them a po- 
litical question. In this, both par- 
ties have failed, but the democratic 
party appears to be the great sinner 
now. Mr. Taft is a larger man than 
either the republican or democratic 
party have been willing to concede, 
but every thoughtful student, agree- 
general policy must acknowledge his 
good sense and courage in vetoing 
the cotton and wool bills of the last 
session of the legislature. He has 
taken the position that he will sign 
no tariff bill that does not meet the 
approval of the tariff board. This 
is only another way of saying that | 
he will not sign any bill which is 
the result of political chicanery and 
log-rolling. The tariff board was 
created for this specific purpose. 
Here the schedules can be consid- 
ered economically and the interests 
of all America carefully guarded. 
Every encouragement should’ be 
given this awakening conviction for 
the tariff is an economic not a politi- 
eal question. 
It is unfortunate that while the 
country is facing a serious tariff 
conflict that it should be embar- 
rassed by another equally serious 
national economic issue, the regula- 
tion of corporations in order to pre- 
vent the restraint of trade. Here 
again the economic issue has been 
made a political issue and the ac- 
cumulated power and wealth of cor- 
porations has become the target for 
muck-raking un-American news- 
papers and magazines. No care or 
thought has been given the problem 
and consequently the public has — 
been ‘‘fed’’ half digested, untruth-— 
ful (often maliciously so) reports, 
‘*stories’’ and articles by biassed, 
unprincipled and reckless writers. 
The public has been beguiled and 
led blindly into calumny, vitupera- 
tion, class hatred and bigotry. The 
emotions of the people based upon 
a mud alloy of their sense of justice 
(or injustice) selfishness, greed, en- 
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vy, ambition and revenge. The 
“‘stirring’’ up of the emotions re- 
sulting in the widening of the 
breach between the corporations and 
the people does not accomplish good, 
cannot solve the problem, and is do- 
ing incaleulable harm. 
The corporations have come to 
stay. They are a part of the na- 
tional industrial life of the people 
and it has been the co-operative 
spirit back of the American enter- 
prises which has made our nation 
industrially supreme. Consequently 
the problem touches the purse of 
every individual from the Pacifie to 
the Atlantic. The American people 
have been able in the past to solve 
all their problems and they can in 
the future. It will take time, pa- 
tience and restraint. Again be it 
said this is an economic question and 
not a political question and it will 
require the best minds the American 
people have and these are not found 
on the editorial staffs of ‘‘penny 
yellows’’ and muckraking maga- 
zines. 
Let business problems be solved in 
a business way. It is a question of 
national housekeeping to be settled 
according to the principles of equity 
and justice with prosperity for all. 
Something must be settled speed- 
ily and a national policy concerning 
corporations fixed. The uncertainty 
and perplexing situation now exist- 
ing tends to paralyze the industry 
and enterprise of the American peo-- 
ple. America is the laughing stock 
of Europe, the anxiety of her best 
citizens and the hinderer of its own 
prosperity. Abuses have developed 
and the American workman has suf- 
inhumanity and— 
fered because of 
greed incorporated in ‘‘bad trusts.”’ 
This can not be doubted. 
doubts it. But what is needed is a 
No one- 
fixed governmental policy which will — 
regulate and control trusts, prevent- 
ing restraint of trade, the muleting 
of the public, the maintenance of 
false and unreasonably high prices, 
improper wages for workmen, and 
provide the puble with corporate 
business enterprises which will af- 
ford economy in production; and 
prices, the insurance of stability in 
production, reasonable, just and ade- 
quate wages and the proper guard- 
ing of the lives of the workers 
by healthful sanitation, reasonable 
hours of labor, protection from 
dangerous machinery and from the © 
hazards of the health destroying in- 
dustries. A properly regulated trust 
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