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Show COMPETITION IS HUMAN NATURE Will Exist In the World aa Long as the Law of the Survival of the Fittest Endures, Says Hill. Washington. For the hem fit of the Stanley committee and the public at large, James J. Hill on Tuesday gave his views on the proper way to on duct the government, making tue an nouncemeut that only once in bis life did he try to be a monopolist, and that was when he organized the Northern Securities company, became he need ed $90,000,000 to save his Great Northern North-ern from Harriman, and did not have that sum of money about him at the time. Mr. Hill's philosophy of gov ernment, as he expounded It to the committee w hen he had concluded his testimony, la aa follows: "Before we can have government control of Industries that will eliml nate competition, we shall have to change human nature by eliminating the selfish motives which dominate not only human beings but every other form of life. "Competition will exist in the world as long as the law of the survival of the fittest endures and that law wl I last long after our prevent laws have been wiped off the statute books. II the federal government undertakes tc eliminate competition It will be a short step to the time when there will be no federal government, but rule by the mob." |