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THE SUN, obWbAV, MAnoi-i A, xoit, ,
BIG BUSINESS AS SEEN FROM THE INSIDE
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Trade Combinations Discussed
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Organize Some of Them
The public knows big business comblna-1
Hons mostly from the outside. It does
not know the special conditions which
brought them about It. docs not get a
view of "big biislne" so railed from the
Inside, 'that lathe view given by Chariot
Norman. Fay Is his new look. "Big Busi
ness and (lovernment " (Moffat, Yard k
Co.) He tells how some bin corporation
(ame to be formed and he disousc trade
combinations In general. His conclusion
Is that a very few businesses are bound
to In the nature of monopolies lr they
are to serve the public properly and there
fore demand reflation by government,
and that as for the others the law of
supply and demand will furnish all the
regulation they need.
Mr. Kay hns leen in "bis business"
all his lire, or at leaxt nil his life since
leaving Harvard, Alter graduating ho
entered a Innk In Michigan and his ability
attracted no much attention that he was
called to Chicago to Income tho head of
the Chicago Bell Telephone Company,
which under his management was the
largest telephone company In tho world,
lidtsr he withdrew from that company
and was made president of the Chicago
Oas Company and also of the Chicago
Am Light Consolidation.
After that ronoern was merged with the
Kdison Company Mr. Kay sidestepped
for a time and lecainn Interested In the
manufacture of typewriters. After that
he financed the Natural (las Company.
which brought gas from Indiana Into
Chicago. All of this to show that when
Mr. Kay writes about "big business" he is
writing from the Inside and knows whereof
he speaks,
In his introduction to the book Mr. Fay
gives it as his belief that "the crest of the
wave of popular hostility to tug business
an such seems to have passed, and he Is
inclined to believe that the public mind is
apparently turning from "destructive to
onstructl v oonstfera' ion i or t ue so-eaueu
problem of tie truts. , .
In all the flood of literature and denun
ciation which has leen directed against
trade combinations the nuthor of this
b6o)( hns not come acros rt single attempt
"to tell the public. In brief and simple
words citing such specific Instances ns
urn n?eded for popular enlightenment,
how and why business grows big, how
far It controls the market and what have
heen the actual net results to hatd Wall
Street and our beloved selves of the so
called 'gigantic monopolies," which hnvo
so long and well served as stock In trade
for politicians and reformers of other
men's misdeeds. A few students and
economists have considered these results
and reassured themselves as to our situ
ation: but In general it may be said that
our valiant American people has never i
stopped running away from Big Business
lone enoueh snuarely to face and size
up its bogy."
Mr. Kav'has set down in the order of
their occurrence a few instructive stories t
from personal experience, nnd It is this
personal experience that makes his booli
especially valuable. Of the power of
combinations he says:
"Much is said of the Irresistible power
of the great combinations, but they are
In fact no stronger In fighting value than
their strongest unit; and what Is worse
they cannot afford to tt their strength
if tackled In the right way. (liven a com
petitor with knowledge nnd capital enough
to build a new unit as modern nnd efficient
ns the liest of the old otiss with nerve
and brains euoliKh to offer the lowest,
. ,., t . ! . '
prices in ine witiesi new, "i ui
himself to bo bottled up In one corner of
It -such a man. without doing much losing
business himself, can damage his big
competitor beyond belief. On of two
things is bound to happen: either he will
be allowed to take such business a he
Senator George K. Cliimberlaln of
Oregon has expressed to the American
Institute of Architects his views as to
l he form which the national Lincoln Me
morial should take. He opposes the pro
posed Lincoln Memorial Iload from Wash
ington to Oettysburg and favors the plan
of a gieat monument at Washington.
'I he question of erecting a national
Lincoln memorial at Washington Is now
liefore Congress. The Idea has been
discussed for many years, and the semi
centennial celebration of 1911 gave It new
life. Congress appropriated $'.,000,000
for the Lincoln Memorial, and the Lincoln
Memorial Commission, with President
Taft at Its head, employed n New York
architect to create a design for a monu
ment on the site in Potomac Park advo
cated hy the Fine Arts Commission.
Soon after this a proposal was made
to divert the money provided by Congress
to the construction of a Lincoln Memorial
Road to extend from Washington to
fkjttysburg and to cost about $34,000,000.
This plan is advocated by the Lincoln
Memorial Hood Assoclr.tlon of America,
of which former Congressman James T.
McCleary of Minnesota is president nnd
Charles J. Olldden. the automobillst,
known for the tours that bear his name, is
e-cretary, The Architectural League of
this city and other similar organizations
have opposed it on the ground that its
cost would lie very great and unjustifiable
nnd that a building would be a more suit
able memorial.
The Washington Park Commission, of
which D. If. Burnham, Charles F. McKim,
Augustus Saint Claudensnnd F. L. Olmsted
were memlers. recommended the bank
of the Potomac nt the foot of the Mall in
Washington as n site Tor the Lincoln
Memorial. This site was approved by
President Boosevell's Fine Arts Council
and by the National Kine Arts Commission
established under the Taft Administra
tion. This commission examined all the
memorial plans, including thn Joseph O,
Cannon plan, to ndd to the Union Hallway
Station and the plan of a roadway to
Oettysburg. The commission, after these
plans hnd leen considered, unanimously
approved the Potomac project.
The designs that have received most
nitenlinn are thn competing pinna of
Messrs. Pope nnd Bacon. The dosigns
submitted by them nro three In number
Mr. Pope has one of a vast ohcular temple
or peristyle, m tho centre of whose un
covered court Is to le placed the Matue
or Lincoln; and he has also submitted
another of a classic temple of the Par
thenon type, to Im placed on the axis
of BUUenth street at or lieyond the
Mac -oror tr
can handle at a fairly profitable price
which will stop the prlco cutting- or tne
Dig fellow will buy him out nt such a "mil
sanco value' as ho has lccn nolo toes-'the
tnblish."
Tho Chicago Telephone Company was ,
tho first combination In which Mr. Fay
was an insider, and lie refers to that
company to tihow "that there nro a few
businesses, such as the telephone In
dustry, which are hound In tho nature
of things to remain monopolies; and
for that reason, in order to satisfy public
opinion and to prevent 'predatory'
exploitation of popular needs, nro bound
to Iw operated or controlled by thn com
munity. They seem to I very few;
telephones with universal connections,
street railways with universal transfers
and possibly steam railways with through
routes are all that occur to me which in
actual practical evolution tend to become
and remain monopolies nnd logically
demand regulation by government."
And then he adds in italics: "As to all
other business, big or little, thn facts,
ns t nm attempting briefly to set them
forth in this took, do not seem to mo to
Justify tho difficult, immense nnd uncer
tain task of regulation ly statute nnd
commissions instead of by supply and
demand."
Tho Chicago Gas Company was the
second big business In which Mr. Kay
was an insider. Writing of the troubles
this company had from Its enemies ho
says:
"Several interesting lessons ure to
Ik) learned from the Chicago gas his
tory, often to be repented in these pages.
The first, that in businesses like gas or
other manufacture requiring large in
vestment in plant the latter Incomes
a total loss unless it can bo kept in oper
ation, Thn competition of a stronger
concern is absolutely destructive of the
entire Investment. Tho finish of a fight
letween such concerns is then almost
Invariably an attempt at a sellout or
a combination Initiated by the wrak
and not by the strong.
"It is the last resort or those leaten
in the struggle to save some portion
of their investment nnd is seldom a de
lllerate device of the strong for the rob
bery of the public. Tho only justification
for taking in n leaten competitor is that
a salvage cun be made upon its proierty
and that it can outlines Ik? operated
economically as part of a lurger system.
A a competitive factor it is already down
and out.
"Now, it takes bold men and large
investments to fight gieut. old estab
lished Industries. History shows never
theless that both are forthcoming pro-
vided the newcomer 1ms two strings
to his Ikw, viz.. that he can make good
profits If the trust' sustains prices and
lots him a lone and that lie cun sellout to the
(trust nt a good round 'nuisance value' If
the trust can be goaded into n general
price war. If we forbid a sellout by
law, take away IiIk second Hiring nnd
leave to the would-be competitor only
the alternative of destructive compe
tition we simply do our best to scare off
comjietltion, and generally succeed in
flolmr mo. Henre the Kliermiin l.ir I
to-day a powerful deterrent to rompe- !
tlllon. 1
"A second leson i that prices seldom
go Itaclc to old high levels after a price
war. no matter if eudrd by combination.
"When I was president of the Chicago
gas monopoly, a corporation which was
I - . ... ...
dally denounced as a powerful and
oppressive monopoly, anybody -especially
any guttersnipe of a small poli
tician could walk into my office and
alius me and my company. I had to
sit and take it. If 1 had lilt the rellow
or bid my 'minions' tlmnv him out, as
VARIOUS LINCOLN MEMORIAL PLANS
crest of the elevation above W street.
Mr. Bacon's design Is of n fireek Dorio
temple to be placed on the shore of the
Potomao In the axis of the Capitol, tho
Mall and tho Washington Monument,
forming as it might with the Arlington
Memorial Bridge an actual ortal or
gateway lietween the North and the
South.
"The site chosen by the irk commis
sion," says Frank Sewall in the Wash
ington Evening Star, "nnd for which Mr.
Baoon's structure is designed. Is on the
bank of the river dividing the north
from the south, in the axis of vision
between tho Capitol and the ancient
home of the Lees in Virginia, with tho
shaft of the Washington Monument as
the central point, and the memorial
temple Itself in its pure white leauty
and its classio lines would be visible
from all suburban points whether Ar
lington, Georgetown, the Cathedral clone
at St. Albans nnd tho nearer highlands
Continued rom Klrit Pasr,
the United States on the passport ques
tion. These methods he describes below.
The attitude of tho United States
toward tinsels on tho passport question
has irritated the reactionary forces In
(the Husslan Empire and tho leaders of
tne uiacK iiunurcus nave commenced n
campaign against tho United States.
Purishkovlch, known os tho clown of
the Duma, and Markov, the rabid re
actionary deputy, Introduced bills in tho
Iluslan parliament threatening the
United States with high duties on Amer
ican products. Tho Husslan reactionary
legislators havo asked for an appropri
ation of 100,000 rubles ($C0,000) for the
encouragement of tho Husslan manufac
ture of agricultural machines and for
tho purpose of Improving tho cotton
fields In Turkestan. With this sum the
ltuslan reactionary lenders believe they
can sucessfuly fight the American mar
ket. Premier Kokovtxoff. who Is also Hus
sta'n Minister of Finance, and M. Krl
veshcln, tho Minister of Agriculture,
have thus far opposed the bill on the
ground that the treaty with thn United
States Is still In force until the end of
this year and that It Is premature to
start a campaign against the United
States.
The Retch, the organ of the Con
any self-respecting man would bum to
do, the press would havo denounced mo
j Toant corporation ...ny and
my directors would havo censured mo
for lack of self-control.
The legislature, the Council, the
courts, tho press, the people, everybody
was against tho company and mo ns
its head. Tho legislature attacked gas j
rates, the Council repudiated gas fran-1
chlses, the courts dissolved the corpora-
tlon as a conspiraoy in restraint of trade, 1
press spread broadcast the vlleness
'of the corporation and of my personal
oharacter with absolute Impunity. The
blackmailers buzzed around tho concern
like horstflles.
"Whoro meantime was the trust's coins-1
sat power? What did it do to those,
i
1
of the city. It looks, as It should, across
the dividing river tn the sister States of
the South, niidstand, or should ultimately
stand, at the entrance of n great memorial'
bridge, which will lie tho real footMth
of fraternal Intercourse between the
once severed sections of the country.
'The site for the Bacon design has
also this great advantage over that of
Sixteenth street, in that here is abundant
space available Irt what Is now a waste
tract waiting to le turned into some
thing ornamental and useful. Thero
Is space abundant not only for a wide,
unbroken sky but for large and imposing
landscape effects. In the way of shaded
avenues, groves, lagoons nnd fountains
a place of freedom nnd repose, for the
traveller nnd the student -where. In n
word, one has mental and physical
elbow room without invading a neighbor's
front dooryard or having to stare into
attio windows or over chimney tops to
look a round oneself.
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RUSSIA IS DEFIANT ON THE- PASSPORT QUESTION
stitutional Democrats, edited by Prof.
Paul Mllukov nnd I lessen, In the Issue
which hns just reached this country, de
nies the rumor that the Husslan Gov
eminent nnd the United States hnvo
commenced negotiations for a new
treaty.
"The statement published In the New
York Unald to tho effect that the Huh
slan Government Is negotiating with
the American Ambassador to Russia,
Mr. Curtis Guild, for a new commercial
treaty Is absolutely without foundation,
according to tho Information given to
our correspondent nt thn Ministry nf
Foreign Affairs," It says.
"It In also true that our Ainhnssn
dor In Washington, M. Itiikhmetyeff,
transmitted to Minister of Foreign Af
fairs Hazonnv 'the fundamental polnta
upon which, according to President
Tnft, n new trenty may ho based.' No
plans for a new treaty have been elab
orated by us nnd nn commission Iioh
been formed for thnt purpose."
The meeting of protest held In St.
Petersburg some time ngo wns ridiculed
by thn progressive press of Hussln. The
meeting was conducted nlnng the lines
suggested by the Incendiary articles
published In the .Yorojyc l'rcinjn nnd
thn speeches were based for the most
part on the anti-Semitic writings of
Mcnshlkov & Co.
upstart legislatures, councils and courts?
What official, editor or citizen did it
harm, imprison or oppress? Whoso life,
liberty or pursuit of happiness did it
lake away? What overt or other act
of any name or nature did It commit,
further than In great trepidation and
under severo financial embarrassment
to continue the harmless and useful
business of making nnd selling gas?
"Its only other notable performance
and thut several years later, when It
became Impossible to finance tho rapid
.increase or gas plants demanded by thn
growth of Chicago without legalizing tho
company's status -was tho procurement
of an nut of the Legislature permitting
the operation of tho former four gas
companies ns one. Kor this act the
"This largeness and freedom from
disturbing l runic or sights is an element
In the Bacon location which cannot lie
overestimated in placing this great
memorial, which certainly Is going to
attract to it the reverent pilgrim nnd
patriot of this and of other nations, and
will not have to thrust itself upon them
in the noisy thoroughfaro or railroad
plaza in order to gain attention."
Other writers nnd artists ask in what
more significant place a national monu
ment to Lincoln could be erected than
iu tho park provided by Congress on the
liank of tho Potomac Itiver. Senator
Chamberlain expressed himself strongly
In favor of the plan before the American
Institute of Architects. He said that he
did not object to roadways, but that he
did object to the establishment or a road
as a monument to the memory of Lin
coln. A memorial to Lincoln ought to
lie creqted in Washington, where pil
grimages nre constantly being made by
Hut It Is known In Russia that the
meetings held by tho reactionaries, the
demonstrations conducted by tho rcp
irHontatlvcn of tho Black Hundreds, to
denounce the American people and
abuse thn .lews, to defy thn Washing
ton Government and threaten n tariff
war that all these outbursts In Russia
have been organized by tho same ele
ments thnt murdered tho members of
thn Duma, Ilerzensteln nnd Yollos,
when they wnnted to rid themselves of
tho inlluencn of these elements In the
Ouinn, by tho snmn elements that
planned nnd organized und participated
In tho massacres.
Hut these representatives of n small
group of course agitators do not repre
sent the Husslan people. The progres
sive preps In Russia has on many oc
casions expressed llsolf In sympathy
with the stnnd taken by the United
Stntes with legard to the passport (inos
itol!, nnd the real representative!! of
the Huslnn peoplo aro ndvocating n new
trenty.
The main Irritation chusciI by the do
clslvn step tnlen by the American Gov
ernment In tho passport matter In felt
keenly In Hussln not because offlclnl
Hussln fears so much the Influence of
the .lows an It fearH tho Influence of the
American people on Russia.
The weekly journal published by Prof.
Maxim Kovulcvsky, who Iu one of thn
'holdup' gang In tho Legislature Is
believed to havo forced out of one of tho
owners of tho comany over KOO.ono,
though tho net conferred neither exclusive
rights nor immunity from rnto regulation
- nothing but legal status In every way
bencllclul to Chicago!"
Although not of tho steel trust. Mr'
Kay knew much about it at tho time of
Its organization nnd before, ns well ns
since. He records a talk with Andrew
Carnegie nnd his brother Thomns on the
veranda of n hotel In Mnrquetto, Mich.,
awny buck In IH7S, which is highly In
teresting. Andrew C.irneglo wns In an
expnnsivo mood and talked with enthusi
asm of his business and its future:
"We started," ho said. "In the early
'oOs, my brother and I. and bought our
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the patriotic men, women and children
of the entire count ry
Among other objections to the road
scheme ure that it is estimated to cost
in the neighborhood of thirty millions of
dollars; that Its maintenance would cost
$7,500,000 n year, that the jieople of the,
country wish to see the Lincoln memorial
when they visit the national capital
and that they would not see the Gettys
burg road when they went there. Also
that the road when established would be
used almost wholly by automoblllsts.
"Basing his figures upon an estimate
made in 189U by the Engineer Corps of
the Army for n memorial road from
Washington to Mount Vernon," says a
Washington paper, "Secretary Brown
finds that, allowing for the subsequent
increase in prices and materials, the
Oettysburg highway would cost $170,000
a mile, or a total of $17,000,000. If it were
made no more Imposing than the one pro
posed for Mount Vornon. But it Is pro
most prominent statesmen and authori
ties' on International lnw In Russia, hns
frequently discussed tho consequences
of tho Russian-American conflict during
tho past few months. The following
statement, which nppenred In a recent
Issue, Is characteristic of the opinion
of tho progressive elements of the Hus
slnu Empire:
"Our 'patriots' lightly demand that
we declaro n tariff war on tho United
States. They do not nt all think of what
such n thing would cost Russia; they
think still less of the polltlcnl conse
quences that may follow such a step.
At the same tlmo we should not forget
that In this question the sympathy of
tho entire civilized world Is on the sldo
of tho Americans; that our medlieval
legislation about foreigners has aroused
tho public opinion of thn western world
ngnlnst Russia, nnd thnt this cannot bo
changed either by patrlntlo demonstra
tions or by chauvinistic threats. Thern
In but one wny, and that In to reform
our laws In accordance with the prln-
'clples of cMllzntlon nnd with the In
trrcHtH of contemporary culture."
I Tho following Is n charncterlstlc In
stance of hownlHclal HiiHsluls Intlucnc
I Ing public opinion In other countries nnd
making It Impossible for other Govern
ment to learn the truth about condi
''inly
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A Very Few Monopolies Needed, Says
m ' i m . . r-
naries iNorman rdy-umer Dig
Corporations Not to Be Feared
I first mill, paying $10,000 down. Thoro
were rournnorn annual paymenio iu
of $10,000 each, but tho gold premiums
t:i- to tho war virtually paid them: Tor
there were no 'gold clauses' In purchase
contract when ours was drawn. So wo
were lucky from tho sturt.
"Wo made money fast, ond went on
from one enterprise to anothor, till now wo
have our coko and flux and local ores,
our blast furnaces, merchant mill, special
shapes mill, bridge and liessemer works.
This summer wo nro adding our Inko
ores; next mut come lake oro carrying
vessels, and then, perhaps, a railroad from
Lake Krlo to Pittsburg.
"Iater wo must build a plate mill to
tiso our surplus billets, nnd a wire mill
Mo draw our crop ends. 'Ihnt will give
us ii complete, well rounded plant, from
the raw material in the bowels of tho
earth to the completed brldgo high In
the air.
"Tho Iron trade," ho went on -peoph)
did not talk much of tho steel trade then
"is very broad, and subject to great fluc
tuations. In bad times It N cut pretty
nearly In two. But It is nlw.iys big enough
for tho man who can manufacture cheap
est. He can nlways ndd his profit to his
cost, nnd that sum. no less, will be tho
market price,
"There will bo room too lor the next
cheapest manufacturer, ami the next.
But above them somewhere costs will ex
ceed prices, and works must fchilt down
in Iwd times or fail Vet the mull who
has and keeps the 'underhold' will nl
ways run full, always make money nnd
always grow.
Now PlttNliiircr Is the point of clienrest
manufacture, in the Iron trade, nnd woenn j need,' 'I he musters of big buslne m,
manufucftiro cheaper than nny one thciniome tlmo ri to the heigU of putuV
except perhaps Jones t Iiaiighlin, and
cortainly ns cheaply ns (hoy. AH we
need then is to retain our present ad
vantage. Wo must keep our properties
up to hte. adopt all Improvements (Irst.
mako prices that will take the trade, and
keep running full, no matter what the
others do. That hns been our plan so
far, und It bus in tlwe few years given
us properties worth, nt a reasonable val
uation, fully $;.500.0tKi,"
In twentv-flvo years from the day ot
thnt talk the value or the Cnrnegie piop
ertles was carried from $2,inoo to $123,
000.000.
"I tell this tale," wrote Mr. Fay,
"for Its human intereft and to bring
out the point hut big bii'lneso Is tho
offspring not to much hf combination as
of ruthless competition. Until Carnegie
sold out to tl9 Steel Cotporntion he was
always a free lance. That wns what
plagued his competitors.
"They used to complain In Pittsburg
that when prices were high and not enough
teel to go around Carnegie would
join the steel beam pool ami maintain
prices: but when trade was dull and
.orders were scarce J,e oukl cut loo-o
! from the pool and take them; "that when
strike-Carnegie would cut loose and sign
nd hold r; ,- 'enm gling amanc;;
and his business grew so fast and huge
that hi profit, for the year before the
; ' 1 ,', . , ' ,vj
orma lonofthehtee Corpora Ion reached
the colossal sum of S41.doo.iksi.
-lMw,f l.ntlilllv In irt'MlH " wp les
Mr. Kay. "is due to their "nuge capitalin
tions and the belief that prices are jacked
up to pay dividends thereon. Tills last
Is in general impossible for any length
of time, as indeed appears abundant ly
in this little book: but much color has
been given to this belief by the great and
e..llUn rnrtlUinri tnil.tM h tlinHO wlloliaVe
sold out to the trusts 'and those whoj
CONSIDERATION
posed that the Oettysburg memorial
shall have three roadwuys for different
kinds or truffio nnd four strips of parking,
thus doubling the estimated cost and
making it $.11,003,000.
"Nor do the Gettysburg boomers stop
at parking and driveways. They would
add memorial structures, and these, to Iw
effective, should le lit least one-half u
mile apart, according to Mr. Brown, nnd
would cost about $40,000,000. The total
cost of the Gettysburg project, therefore,
would bo from $40,000,000 to $70,000,000.
with a maintenance cost, based on tho
experience, of New York, of from $2,000,000
to $5,000,000 a year. New York reports
that her automobile highways must be
rebtiilt oveiy four years, but tho engineers
of the District of Columbia state that
once In ten years would be often enough
for the Gettysburg highway. It would
thus be seen that tho $.',000,000 appro
priated by Congress for a dignified nnil
beautiful memorial to Abraham Lincoln
tions In Russia from their representa
tives there.
Several years ago the French Ambas
sador In St. Petersburg, a well .known
statesman, lunched twice with a distin
guished Husslan Liberal. This becamo
known to the Russian Government.
Shortly nfter one of thn French news
papers published an article about the
French Ambassador In Russia and his
Intimate frlendnhlp with "revolutionary"
leaders. Then another French news
paper criticised thn Fronch Ambassador,
und before long a number of Influential
newspapers reprinted those criticisms.
The French Ambassador was recalled.
Thn "revolutionary leader" with whom
he lunched was the famous editor, his
torian and nUthorlty on International
law, tho friend of Turgennv and Tol-
stoy, Prof. Maximo Kovalcsky, now a
member of the Council of thn Kmplrn.
When Prof. Kovalcsky asked the French
Amhaesndor whether It was trim that
be hnd been recalled by tho French
Government bemuse ho had associated
with him the Ambassador replied:
"I am recalled bemuse Russia con
trols whnt Iu stronger than the French
Government the French press."
' The former American Ambassador at
I St. Petersburg. Mr. Rockhlll, was ill so
I permitted to sen only nno side of tho
j passport question the Russian Govern
ment's aldo of It
promoted them, many of which hi",
beeorno notorious,
Big business has Its weakness nnd ht-
it Is;
"Its weakness," says Mr lay Ml i
In widespread, unreasoning popular lw
tlllty and tho timidity of cnpltnl jl..
mischief Is that In blindly strlklnc a'. !
wo Jill no one so hard ns ourselves."
A to the men who control tin h,
corporations Mr. I'uy wrl tes:
"True statemanshlp and Mlriotl-i
seem to tno to urgo the recognition n,,
...... w ....u.w., ,vu,,i,, nun uurrni com.
ponsatlon for Its us, Comtnnrci U
continent, wide or world wide In
modern days and must U: controlled ,y
organisations of commensurate Ti.f
ngnln, iivj', be dominated by inln-U f
continental scop, to siy the leit m,
business, big men; and big fortune i
bo made, sure enough! But thesf nrs hi;
dnysund growing bigger. Thcw-vvh-.o
swing billions. If their count rv will hut
treat them fairly, will well repay tli-,.
cost. If it will not. there are ot Vf otinf"
trie and oilier enterprises cnj;r for
their forcj and fortunes, 'I hey tm
not stet ve.
"liven ns things are. apart from h
tholr purely selfish activities iicminpli ,
for the race, consider their tinse'lH i on
There is hardly n vwirk of publle -pir
philanthropy. slticntlon or charity mi
on nnywhero in our land that is not m.dn
supported by the tlmo and money nf t.i
very rich, freely (Jven Con?-ienc ni
to row with wealth .Some day even t'i J
ovauuiui (110:1 in ni uio itnciailsl mar co'in
true, 'l'roni nvery man according to Im
' power; to every mini iiccordhu: to In,
their great abilities nt the scrvic i ot t.i.
State for the same wage ns meted out i (
all citizens without distinction. If i
they will create 11 terrestrial pamdn'
for our old friends, nnd over with in.
Messrs. Weary Wraggtes nn-1 Iih,
Jlhoades; nnd no doubt will bo .Miiiidl;
cursed by the latter ns tyrants and iis.irp
crs of all power.
"But now, while every demagogue iu t'i
laud is twisting the tall of (lie 'Mono
Power' with nil his might, not only witi
absolute impunity but confident of gin
thereby, why should wo, the whole peopl
of tho great United States, be afraid?"
In concluding hla book Mr. Fay wrltM:
"This, then, is thd end Of my s?rmoi.
Let us average men put away tho co-mH
oi euvy, fiuireu hiiu iiimiua u.iu u; iw, h
grudging to tnosj cnpaoie 01 greater
material prosperity than ourselves, tat
u try them nt the bar of a generous and
enlightened public opinion, condemning
not Ktircer" but selfishness, and stimulat
lig honest effort in the common servics
with the reward of our confidence and
adiiilraMon, As they prosper, let us si
"" 'y '
' " ouraelvea that
, -V rth.
more and niDi
the fine old chlval-
I V I . 1 V. 1 1 ' . ., rA I
I "j' "mooth '' ascent for all nia i-
' , And let us. for our own part n WSf
, lepende,.c9 nnd honest self-res .
I J11; 'J" aIm8, from man r 8"-.
but lo our best to carry each li s oti
. ,' ,.," , .,,.
j...... ........... ...
Iribution to the common good.
"if 1 were a Progressive I should iw
tMi-e tn iiro9iesA iMotcwnrn. rour worn
i '
pol'tlcal slogan, to wit:
'Kre Labor. Free BUsines.'
In the r-ftv rotittded l,v lieorffe Washlneitii
nnu visited annually ir nunareu vv
thousands of tourists would bs only
drop In the bucket if measured by tli'
capacity of the, Washington to Gettysb'irs
scheme to absorb the people money
PRIZE BOY SCOUTS.
Those of Wllmellf, Illinois. Load h
Number ol Merit Badge,
The Uoy Scouts of Wllmette. III., a'l
the most progressive scouts In the
country, according to the .lmrrfroii Rn'J
Six of them have won thirty-eight
merit bndcen. The leader of these scouli
Is Rruce K. Urown. who has nuollilo'
for twelve merit badges.
Ills work has been certified to hy
Arthur L. Rice, hla scouf master, and
by members of tho local court nf honor.
Brown complied In every detail with thf
rules and requirements for merit barters
ns set forth In the manual.
The badges which Brown won are
as follows: Public health, civics, camp
Inc. cvcllntr. personal health, first Aid.
... . .. .
urcmansmp, swimming, music, nsiru
omy, cooking and poultry fanning.
Next to him comes Klngsley L. r.kf.
who has won seven merit badges. II
Is clever at first aid, trained In flrcmin
ship, a good swimmer, and has qualified
In personal health, In public health an I
also Is a good Interpreter,
William Klrlnpcll has won four nicrl
badges. Ho hao mado a specialty el
astronomy nnd languages, nnd also
studied personal health nnd publl'i
health. Of equal Interest with him 1
Ralph K. Patten, who has won merit
badges for astronomy, chemistry. pcf
sonnl health nnd tlremanshlp.
Kverltt F. Pntlon. another member
the HHtnn troop, has won live tuff"
badges for nstronoiny, chemistry, l'"e
try farming, personal health and .gar
dening. Alfred Bchtnldt, also of
Wllmette troop, has won six badges for
personal health, first aid. flremans i ';
swimming, Interpreting nnd puom
health.
Worry Whllana Man's Hah.
Urnlllr corrfpondenne Portland Cirriout
When Francis A. Vallety, ssH 31,
watchmaker, wanted at KlKln, III-. ""
irhnrxn of miiiikI larceny, Jumped hl
, r..n... iio...ilM in.. Meek
his hair nas black, but when )" w.jlkej
i... . , a .,.l iir p 111!' V
htnwelf to-day It was white as sn;'
Vallely was mi the yerite of i;"u."
prostration nnd wns placed In lb'
hospital. , Hn unld he would '" " "
Illinois without tlm formalities ' VrJ
dttlnn. A telegram from the I'"1' '
Klgtn continued hU story.