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Show r ; i! Chancellor Day ; , Comes Back With ! Eulogy of Trusts ' tmoto. err socwooo. C1CELL1 DAY'S mm. ik Head of Syracuse University Defends De-fends ' ' Big Business ' ' and Assails Lawmakers. SYRACUSE. N. Y., June 11. "Tho country has never seen a time when Its commerce of all kinds was so Involved and embarrassed by unwise laws created by men utterly disqualified by business Incapacity and inexperience as today," declared Chancellor James It. Day of Syracuse university In hi3 baccalaureate; scrinon. "Tho business men. of whom there are too few in congress, are not making the business laws,"' he continued. "They are In the grasp of men -who keep their ears to the grcAind, listening for the. direction in which popular excitement is hurrying. For a decade It has been blindly rushing rush-ing against capital In corporate forms, Indifferent to the fact that without capital cap-ital In large forms there can be no capital cap-ital In small forms and no labor. "Men meddle with the coal business, who do not know a lump of coal from a piece of Blate, and you and I pay one or two dollars a. ton more for coal because of their folly. "They manage railroads In detail, attempting at-tempting to fix charges, the passenger nnd freight tariff, and the wage of operators, opera-tors, nnd by and by, after the foolishness of it all becomes apparent to all, we of the common pcoplo will pay the freight. We will pay the tax In the higher price of things that come through the corporation, for In the final analysis of things, the people pay the bills." |