Show WHAT MAKERS CAS BO probably no human device or combination of devices can be instituted powerful enough to prevent the recurrence of financial anil and commercial crises and consequent depression in business but this should not prevent men seeking devices which mitch will vill mitigate the severity or shorten the duration of such calamities it 10 when it la is considered that each great manufacturing nation of the world is struggling for exis existence against the fierce competition of every eury other nati nation on engaged in like pursuits some boine of the questions which searn to absorb the mind of individual employers and employees seem trivial indeed there is undoubtedly no universal panacea 1 I n no 0 absolute remedy tor for depression yet if the public through sentiment bentlin Benti ment on t or through its agents in the legislatures legisla turea of the country can stimulate any ineth methods for the tha mitigation of the severity and shortening of the duration of that lie do pre salon certainly the effort should lie be made with a healthy public opinion behind it the lawmaking law making power can prevent to a great deaice the unholy speculation in food products it can indulge ni in ft a conservative care tn in extending railroad building and in facilitating tile the organization of manufacturing corporations po rations it can restrict the gra grants rits of the public domain it can enact uniform tuil form bankruptcy laws extending tho the provisions of such laws so that abo poor man indebted oJ but a few hundred dollars shall be able to readjust liis life financial affairs is as readily as the largo large debtor it can abridge the provisions of laws relating to tho the collection of debts to the he end that the credit eystein shall not lie be abused it can regulate trans transportation por tation on a just and uniform basis to the end that the stockholder shall not be robbed by ruinous competition and that tho alie workman may calculate with some degree of certainty the cost of his living and the producer the cost or production go far as transportation Is concerned it can see to it that the tariff shall be regulated u on oil tile the batis OJ jjustice of justice ustice anil science ienco Bu and not on a haphazard basis which af facts only interests teresta in and ami oftentimes ten times timos inflicts Inflict a general harm it can see that a staple currency be guaranteed that the workingman working nian may kitow know the purchasing c power of his stipulated earnings it can consider what reasonable and humane regulations may be adopted relative to immigration and see sea to it that labor is not lowered either in standi ard or through earnings by the pernier ous methods of importations by contract that every lawful endeavor be made to stimulate education in all its branches especially industrial in all parts of the country that the necessity shall be recognized of the industrial devel development po of all ail parts of the land that there may result a legitimate increase in ia the consuming power of tho the people it can 6 stimulate tim the growth of tho the principle of industrial partnership co through gli aloth odo oda ot of profit sharing by wise permia sive laws public sentiment can encourage the alie perfect organization of the forces involved to the end that each shall treat with the other oilier through representatives senta tives arid and that production shall be regulated by az the deman dand not by the ill advised eagerness of men inen to push puah their work individually to the detriment of others that there may come the universal adoption of shorter shelter hours of IA 11 bor and demand that after capital and labor shall have received fixed and reasonable compensation each for its investment the nett profits of production shall be divided under prost sharing abar i ing laws or methods moth or through partner copartner co 13 ship hip to the end that all tho the forces of production shall bo be equally alive to mutual welfare it can ask aak that the contracts of labor b be as free as the con of commodities under fair ag agreements ree for services rea rendered dered to the end that the workman shall not bo be obliged to make maka contracts acta on terms tenna not acceptable to him and it can hold the party which declines to resort to the ilia conciliatory methods ethoda in of arbitration morally to ro lor all te ile ill effects growing groning out of contest those remedial agencies or reni remedial edill methods allevia alleviatory tery in their design are all aft possible poa by tho the reasonable acts of men they are arc measures adapted to practical adopt adoption iou they demand slin aim ply a fair recognition of it part only of the truth bound 1111 in tho alio rule which in alts that fill all men should to do unto ot others hers they buu have hao men ilo do unto them our legislators and the ilie other members of 0 our lan making bodies bod ies are responsible to some boino extent for somo homo of 0 the causes that bring about a a depression in industry their business is to effect a solution of these causes wu think e leavo named some that adopted would bring about tile dawning daw ning of a brighter day to the I 1 laboring a bor classes cl asies business Busine ae now receive a fresh impetus im petua and a general era of prosperity pro would shed shad its welcome rays over tho the community |