Show i t DUTY BEFORE MANUFACTURERS I 1 1 By JAMES A A. A E EMERY IERY General Counsel Manufacturers Manufacturers' Association Under the modern forms of business the manufacturer represents not himself alone but millions who whose e savings and investments are to his supervision and direction Public expenditures unless checked soon will consume one-fifth one of the national income Business Businessmen men must assert their right to study and analyze the thc nature and effect cITed of legislation on industrial operations Fifteen years ago one-fourteenth one of the thc national income was devoted to the purpose of government Today seventh one of our national income is devoted to public expenditure It reaches the colossal sum of annually the equivalent of more than each working day and has been increasing at the rate of a year car This means that unless checked public expenditures will within a brief time consume one-fifth one of the national income Apart therefore from the numerous and critical questions of authority and regulation which our voluminous and intricate statutory enactments present the cost of misdirected policy presents one of the chief issues of public policy in our day |