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Show HABBJMAH MAKES Plill STATEMENTS Says if Any Business Was Run Like Govern in cut, It Would Soon Fail. CHICAGO, March 31 Edward II. llar-rlman llar-rlman arrived here tonight and while his car was waiting to be hitched to a train for New York ho discussed the tariff, saying: "If the government had revised tho tariff, or given the country a good currency cur-rency law. or both, we would not havo had the Landls decision and we would not have had all the wanton prosecution of corporations nor nil of this hostllo legislation legis-lation against railroads, and tho country would bo going along swimmingly. "I havo been quoted as criticising the government and our former president for having prosecuted me and the Interests which I represent. I havo never spoken bitterly regarding either and I havo no criticism to make. The prosecutions were all right, for there Is nothing about the railroads which I represent that 1 desire to conceal. "I am In favor of government supervision super-vision and regulation, hut not Just because be-cause it has come. I am on record In Washington as being In favor of this and I told Mr. Roosevelt so early in his campaign. But. mind you, 1 told him I was In favor of regulation if combined with protection, but wo have been getting j regulation without protection and that Is bad for tho railroads and bad for tho people, for, after all, it Is the pooplo who have to pay for the mistakes of tho government." Limitation of Power. "Would you have regulation by tho government extend to the Issuance of railroad securities?" Mr. Ilarrlman waa asked. "By no mcons " he replied, "for It is none of tho people's business, to put it bluntly, how much stocks and In what form thoy arc Issued, as long us tho railroad rail-road is run in the interest of tho peoplo and so long as It gives the greatest possible pos-sible unit of service. "I would begin with the Sherman antitrust anti-trust net. which is, and always will be, a menace to corporate prosperity. You can plainly seo- that the- ideas of the People havo changed In many respects. They arc coming to take a different view of many of the problems which are Involved In-volved In the malnlonanco and operation of our railroads, and tho laws should bo changed to correspond with theso changed views. After all, it is the poople who own our railroads. "Thin question of regulation will be worked out all right for pveryono concerned. con-cerned. What the newspapers ought to do now is to stop talking about tho regulation regu-lation of railroads and insist that tho people begin regulating the government. Thcv should insist, for example, that the tlrst nnd chief aim of a new administration administra-tion should not be to wring more money out of tho peoplo before It has learned how to expend It wisely. "If the wasteful extravagance of governmental gov-ernmental methods should be applied lo any one business It. would speedllv bankrupt bank-rupt it. The administration should ha so regulated that It will learn to conserve its revenues by cutting down expenses and bv taking sufficiently sound precautions precau-tions to prevent the terrible and utterly useless and uneconomic deficits that aro occurring with ntoRthcr too much frequence. fre-quence. The tlnanclal methods of the I government should bo the greatest concern con-cern of the poople." |