Show Competition By L. L A A. Competition is the life and energy energy en en- ergy of 01 the thc world Without it this world would be a dead world Competition abused is bad busi- busi ness But competition protected from abuse is wholesome progressive progressive sive Ive energetic and highly beneficial beneficial beneficial bene bene- and necessary to progress There are classes of people who would like to do away with competition One class is s the greedy bunch that wants special privileges by law the other in includes includes includes in- in the Socialists and Communists Communists Communists Com Com- that want to have collective collective tive ti ownership The one is as dangerous and as the other The greedy bunch wants high tariffs that will destroy the I world trade and com compel l the home people to pay enormous prices for their goods and also want dividends on wat watered red stock and high s salaries laries approximating a a year and to do that they have to have the interstate commerce commerce commerce com com- merce commission and the public J utilities commissions of the several sev era eral states to tell teU a smart young business man that he must get out of the way for special interests and not go into competition And the other is the collective ownership ownership own own- bunch that would like the greedy bunch destroy competition tion and reduce everybody to a common plane with ith pra-c pra practically cally equal pay and thus destroy ambItion ambition ambition am am- and andr the initiative of the human mind and reduce us to a common level Jevel of achievement Such action e etcher by the greedy bunch or by the Socialist bunch is a direct or indirect attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to repeal a law of nature and never has been and never will willbe willbe willbe be repealed and an attempt to do doso doso doso so Is throwing a monkey wrench Into the machinery of progress I Lately Stalin of Russia gave the peasants 20 per cent of their crops to sell seIl as they pleased and get their profits on n the same Theretofore Theretofore Theretofore There There- the government was getting all of the surplus This 20 per percent percent percent cent of their crops they will profit prof prof- it on in the competitive markets of or the world They will be blessed blessed blessed bless bless- ed by competition That arouses their ambition which h can be aroused aroused aroused a- a roused only by competition and the opportunity for personal gain Russia started out as a Socialist government not perfect perfect perfect per per- of course therefore it must the same as any other government but out instead of evol evol- I toward socialism it is ev- ev I ev-I toward capitalism Why I Simply because competition Is I the natural law of or economics and the effort to do away with competition competition competition com com- petition is an effort to repeal natural natural natural na na- na- na tural law Let us oppose the two extremes c Let us regulate competition and natural law will take talce care of us while either etcher effort to destroy competition is an effort to destroy destroy des des- troy progress I T Fi |