| Show The Government in Business Business- What Does It Mean to to You The Time Has Arrived When the American People People Must Be Aroused to the Danger of Socialistic Theories in Practice ARTICLE XII From N. N Y Commercial The Tue growing tendency to import foreign theories of government gov- gov gov government ov- ov to be tried out jn in an the United States is serious ser o s. s Certainly Certainly Ocr Ocr- no one who has has' given the slightest attention n to the he subject subject subject sub sub- doubts the tile extent and character of the organized movement movement move move- ment merit slowly but surely to socialize or nationalize all lines of business in this country The system employed in one line of business is not always the system employed in another That which can be made effective in the construction line such as the day labor system would not be effective in the packing business or transportation Those who would impose socialism on the United States are skilled and It cannot be said they are Jacking in Ingenuity They are ever active Some of f them are honest in their beliefs some of them mere demagogues demagogues dema dema- some of them il in the work because it affords them an easy living without strenuous work But all of ot them are busy Considering the open and public expression of ot both the old political parties their leaders and public men generally it seems strange Indeed in indeed In- In deed that the Socialist plan of ot day labor foisted in the people Is not given snore more consideration These party leaders and these those public men would vigorously combat any plan to take possession of at all manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing turing enterprises of ot this nation anti and operate them as government institutions under a day labor system And yet when it comes to construction work properly the function of ot the Individual they I easily fall under the influences of ot the Socialistic forces and exert their energy and effort to prevent I any change chang I Recently the Literary Digest quoted Leon Trotsky the communist 1st labor of ot Russia as saying Our na nationalized industries even v-e-n v those working under tinder exceptionally exceptionally favorable conditions and well equipped are all working at a loss Our administrators and df df- rectors are not real masters who whoa a attend to every detail who wJ watch everything e who save every minute of time and every cent of ot money who work day and night preparing for the needs of ot our plants CAN THESE ENGINEERS ANSWER If It this is the condition In a aland land where the advocates of f da daM labor are fired with the enthusiasm of the fanatic what then must be the condition in America where the system Is used merely as an expedient expedient expedient ex ex- ex- ex tp to other purposes It will vill be interesting to note the reasons given b by the army en engineers engineers en- en for adopting day labor contrary to the Republican platform should such explanation be officially demanded demand d' d Also the explanation of state governors go who belong to one or the other of the major parties would likewise be of interest The Democratic national convention convention convention conven conven- tion In New York in 1924 1 adopted the following principles We oppose the exten extension ion of ot bu bureaucracy bu- bu the creation of ot unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary sary bureaus and fe federal eral agencies and the multiplication of offices and officeholders The national convention convention conven conven- tion at Cleveland in 1924 adopted a aless aless aless less neutral plank The prosperity prosperity prosperity prosper prosper- ity of the American nation rests on onI the vigor of private Initiative which I has b bred d a spirit of independence and self The Republican party stands now as always against all attempts to put the government into business AmerIcan industry should not be compelled to struggle against government competition PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S I POSITION President Coolidge In his address o of acceptance August 24 stated I ItI fl v tI favor the Am American system system system-of of Individual enterprise and I 1 am op opposed opposed opposed op- op I posed to any general extension of government ownership and con con- trot The president said at Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Continental congress that if It the people lose Jose control of ot the arteries I of ot and the natural sources of ot mechanical power the nationalization tion of all aU industry could soon be expected Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachment upon their rights If It we wish to maintain our rights we can do no less It Is very difficult to reconcile th the American ideal of ot a sovereign people capable of ot owning and managing managing managing man man- aging their own government with inability to own and manage their own business We are too solicitous solicit solicit- ous ous for government intervention on the theory first that the people themselves are helpless and second second sec see ond that the government has su superior superior su- su perlor capacity for action Oft Oft- times both of these conclusions are wrong I This problem is not hypothetical ea cal says saS a report to the Associate General Contractors of America I All over the country today there is a growing tendency among public pub pub- I lie lic officials s to do public work by day labor It is not confined to to to-i I I maintenance minor or operations but is steadily reaching Into the major projects of every sort the proper performance of which de depends depends depends de- de upon unquestioned skill of operation DAY LABOR IS GENERAL GENERA I Along the Mississippi l n n the South construction companies with millions of f dollars dollars' worth of equipment equipment equip equip- equip I ment on hand are being crowded I I out of ot business and bankrupted because because be- be 1 I cause the army engineers elect to build the levees Highways are be being be- be ing built by states dams and canals ca canals canals ca- ca nals by irrigation districts asylums I be-I and hosp hospitals by coun counties ties schools city paving and almost every conceIvable conceivable con eon kind of operation by municipalities municipalities mu mu- mu-I mu and the chief chiet reason I whIch they give is to s save se e the contractors contractors contractors' con con- tractors tractors' profit con I The contractors need not participate participate par par- in this argument at the the I I present time as the bankers engineers engineers engineers en- en eni j i highway officials and the surety companies are doing it for them The statements which these I individuals make either knowingly or ox- unknowingly according to the I records of ot the bonding companies and the reports of the federal In Income income in- in come tax units obviously are not true In view of ot the p public testimony testimony testimony in-I in mony given by such executives as s sHerbert Herbert Hoover suck practicing engineers as 1 I Metcalf and Eddy and a host of or others with long experience It 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