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Show MUST BO WTO PUBLIC SENTIMENT Kansas City, "aro., SepL 9. That tho future welfare of the country depends largely on tho manner In which corporations cor-porations shall be conducted, A. "V. Green, of New York. In an address here today, said it behooved every officer of a corporation to so manage man-age its affairs that It shall commend Itself to tho public sentiment of the country all tho people of the countryto coun-tryto the end that the attltudo of tho people toward those corporations shall not be hostile, but friendly. Officers Of-ficers of corporations, he declared, must enrry Into the management of their concerns the same rules that thoy apply to their private lives. The occasion was an elaborate luncheon tendered by the National Biscuit company, of which air. Green Is president, at their now plant In this city. Three hundred prominent business bus-iness men Xrom Now York, Chicago and SL Louis, Including forty bank aud railroad presidents, wore among; tho guests. F. L.. Hlne, president of tho First National bank, New York, also was a bpoaker. "In this age," said Mr. Green, In parL "business must, and will, be done through corporations. Tho Individual, Individ-ual, as an independent business map In large enterprises, is fast disappearing disappear-ing from tho faco of tho land. In his place has come the corporation. "These corporations have a great mission to fulfill In th.ls country. Whether for wealth or woe, thoy aro hero and hero to stay. They have become be-come great factors In business Ufa of thlB republic of ours which wo all Jove so much, and In which froo Institutions Institu-tions arc entering Into the socond century of their trial. "What theso corporations will do and how thoy shall act will gTcatly determlno tho result of this trial of froo Institutions." |