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Show oo CONSTANT NAGGING INJURING BUSINE8S. That the Democratic administration l injuring business by Its constani hi rging at big business Is the opinion ol Jarh suiiivan in Colliers Weekly, who rays It must be admitted that both among the leaders at Washington and throughout public opinion general! there is some apprehension about the consequences of keeping up the present pres-ent policy toward the New Haven and other railroads and toward organ lzed business generally, The securi ties of the railroads, now In receiver ship aggregate more than a billion dollars. Many of these securities are held by savings banks, trust COmpa-' COmpa-' and, most menacing of all, life insurance companies The consequen j ces of any fundamental Impairment Of these securities are extremely uncomfortable un-comfortable for sober-minded persons to contemplate Persons of not very j sober responsibility who insist upon going ahead assume that the only j pei ou who would bes Injured by tile worfcl that nn happen would be pluto j crats of various degrees. A a mat-1 ter of fact, the distress through ini-pn ini-pn rraeut of the assets of life insur ance companies and savings banks i would be practically universal The j in ji:r to these securities is not at all B rfcessar.v result of the about face in the attitude of the government or the conduct of railroads. It will be rather a result of the panic and lack of confidence apt to be caused by continued public hostility to some forms of private property It will be bj President Wilson truly said, 'psychological" 'psy-chological" These are the consider? tions which move sober minded people peo-ple toward hesitancy. Some other who are merely politicians also take the same view that it is time to veer toward conservatism. This latter group, being politicians, have a sense of public moods, and they feel that th- public mood Just now Is a little tired of that very agitation which has been so agreeable to the public mood for a long time past." oo 1 |