Show A SLOPING G UP 11 AS inevitable the trend of business is still downward it is leveling off as if not to deop too low forecasts continue to be that the anter will be hard slow and difficult employment is naturally swinging downward the alief problem will be grave this winter it appears that the trend is to put the burden of what relief must be given on the counties countie and state where it belongs and should be rather than on oil wash ington too much politics and jobs really for nothing but an orgy of spending aou ou hae hane witnessed the inevitable result of political and I libor ibor radicalism a definite slowing up of business for some years it has his been considered popular politics to be capital whoever has ten cents is a rascal must be for he couldn coulden t have got it otherwise nothing has been too drastic in legislation taxation in artificial arti fical restrictions to hinder oppose penalize business and the man who has mon ey under such a bombardment is there any wonder capital hunts a shelter holec madame keitans comes to salt lake in the past week and smiles oh so bewitchingly on business saying king X but the words are hardly dry when she had said the sit strike is not illegal and she plainly showed what was the dis position of her and other branches of government at washington and in an issue cf a daily paper was a cartoon showing a dog now wagging his tail but the growl still reverberating from his throat with the caption which end shall we believe mrs perkins now says there is no quarrel between capital and labor which canant be adjusted amicably A far cry from one attitude to the other by the action of class hatreds stirred up of unfavorable legislation of a front opposed to business and businessmen the coach of progress is mired in a man made the horses that pull the load have been whipped and lashed until they are balking from the extremity of it the passengers you and I 1 are becoming fearful it will be stuck in the mud and are walk ing to the dry land of safety in further investments the owners of the coach investors in stocks who furnished the capital are seeking a way out and are wondering how in common sense a government go can ask them to put more horses on the very coach that hostile has stuck in the mud they kno know that unless the attitude of government is cha changed liged the horses in dollars they put to the wheel will be lashed and yanked and clubbed just as in the past and they want a more cool bertei and more experienced driver it s only common sense some of the load will have to be dumped off if the coach Is to run and different drivers will handle the reins too much washington in business too much socialism the order of enoch dropped dead socialism social ibm is possible only where ambition is killed it was tried here once and dropped if tried again it will again be dropped government can show its hand that it will make laws law to bind labor just as strongly to a right course as it wants to bind capital both need it and labor canant expect a one sided attitude from government if government will only adopt a policy of encouragement of let alone instead of implied hate industry will not drag as it is now dragging government can assume the impartial attitude be an umpire rather than master let government do something to encourage business show impartiality toward business abolish undivided profits taxes let up on corporations abolish the capital gains hindrance BOLSTER public confidence balance its own oan budget be fore it asks business to sweep its back porch definitely do balance the budget not gab about it and finally really mean and do those things which support the lip service words business can sit in the parlor not have to go out in the woodshed for only too lately that persons person s agents were waiting with a strap in th woodshed for use when business was shoved in |