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Show oo BIG BUSINESS IS WELL PLEASED. President Wilson has made his peace with "big business.'' Henry Clews is the authority for, the following: follow-ing: 'Home conditions are distinctly better bet-ter than a year ago Of much encouragement encour-agement is the shifting attitude of the government towards big business from one of open hostility to one of friendly regulation. Harsh investigations investi-gations and prosecutions have ceased. So also has corporation-baiting, because be-cause it no longer pays politically, and hurts industrially. The new Federal Commission is at work endeavoring to tackle the stupendous job of regulating regulat-ing the commercial affairs of the Unit ed States in the spirit of 'fair play. Its great difficulty will beto decide what is and what is not faur competition competi-tion Many of the old political issues which throttled enterprise for years have ceased to exist, and It is years since business had so little to fear from unintelligent hostility as now. While this change Is partly due to recognition of the injury to capital and labor alike from such hostile policies, poli-cies, the war was undoubtedly powerful pow-erful factor In this evolution because it diverted, attention from old problems prob-lems and forced attention upon the new. In place of tariff, banking and other problems we now have such questions as preparedness, revenue, shipping, etc , all of which can be ttaced directly to the European struggle. strug-gle. Tho year 1916, will be a presidential presi-dential year and consequently a year of much talk and little action in tne legislature, but in spite of this ttio political outlook so far as business is concerned Is less disturbing than "a year ago." |