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Show COIiliECCIAL IIICIilAVELLISfl AND ITS CURE. I s U . ....... ., . . , , .4 - There has been a good deal said lately late-ly about , "Business Is. business," "the end Justifies. the means," "the battle to the strong," and all that sort -of talk. It Is likely that few. have realised how far ' this dangerous e spirit-has been carrying- us riot In the business world only, but In every-day life. The recent exposures of financial methods have shown you, perhaps, that, a sorry system sys-tem of. ethics prevails "down-town," but has it made you search your own conscience more closely? Miss Tar-bell's Tar-bell's "Commercial MachiaveUlanlsm" in the March McClure's brings the lesson les-son home to all of us, the little fellows as well as the heads of the big corporations. cor-porations. , - .,'.,..' ..." There is something- here to set the money-grabber j - thinking. , Miss Tar-bell Tar-bell tells the story of Machlavelll and his wriUnar of "The Prince." which has made his name a by-word of scheming and clever lying, : Then Mie draws the parallel between commercial methods of to'iay. and tn? flrplomatic cimiltles of 16th century Florence. Miss Tarbell knows both periods, that of the 'Medici In Italy and of our own day in America; Ameri-ca; and she tells you clearly how modern mod-ern captains of industry have achieved their success by following the rules of "Tha Prince," step by ! step, more remorselessly re-morselessly even than the Italian despot. But it was a significant fact In the life of Sigmor Machlavelll. as the wrltor points out, that Instead of being raised to great honor ard power by the Medlcts, for whom he wrote the treatise; trea-tise; versatUe, brilliant, insinuating as ' he was, he was left to end his life in loneliness and without power. And herein, ' says Miss Tarbell, lies our eafety. -r . ..- .,- "The truth is," she adds, "the Machiavellian Mach-iavellian formuli carries its own death potion with It. It cannot - stand ' the light. , Today, as four hundred ! years ago,' state it bluntly and men disown It. Why was Machlavelll repudiated repu-diated by Italy as soon as The Prince' ' was published T They are will-! ing to practice tho formula as long as ; they can 'avoid hearing it; those who profited by their success have been J willing to support them so long as they could deaden their Intellects by repeating. repeat-ing. 'Judge not lest ye be Judged but when it , came to defending the Machiavellian Mach-iavellian creed aloud, they dared not do it. -And herein lies our safety. The trut, nothing but the truth, ugly and cruel and relentlesa-ns It may- be, is the cure of Commercial MachiaveUlanlsm." MachiaveUlan-lsm." -..- ,-r- . ., - i :. ' |