Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-12-02 | Page 2 | New Department of Commerce for the Cabinet

NEW DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FOR THE CABINET It It If Is earest earnestly hoped that a secretary of oC commerce m may be erea created ted with Ith wih a seat In the Cabinet The rapid multiplication multiplication multi multi- muli- muli of questions affecting labor and capital the growth and complexity of oC tho the organizations through which both labor and capital now find expression ex ex- the steady tendency toward the employment of or capital In huge cor- cor and the strides of this country countr toward leadership In the international business busine s world Justify an urgent dem demand nd for tor the creation creaton of such sucha a position Substantially all al the lead- lead 11 ins ipg commercial bodies in this countr country have havo o hn united In requesting Its Is creation creaton It I Is 11 d desirable that some such measure as that which ha has alread already passed the theS S Senate nate be enacted Into law The creation creaton cre cre- atlon aton of oC such a de department would In Iii itself be an a advance toward dealing with wih and anc exercising supervision over the whole subject o of the great corporations corporations corpora corpora- tons doing an Interstate business s and with wih this end in view vie the Congress should endow enrow the department with wih large powers which could bo be Increased as experience might show the need