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Show UNDER A NEW ORDER OF THINGS. This country of ours will never com-pletely com-pletely return to the old conditions existing prior to the war. In nearly every branch of business great transformations trans-formations are taking place and many of the changes will continue after the war. What may be expected in certain lines is thus set forth by one of the I leading industrial writers of the United Unit-ed States Concentration, combination and cooperation co-operation are the order of the day in Great Britain and in Germany. They must likewise be the watchwords of the United States, though doubt k.-s each country will apply these ideas In different ways and in varying de-In de-In all three countries a period of reconstruction wQl immediately follow fol-low the war. In this country a mass Isting lecislation will undoubted-: undoubted-: Ide. Many of our laws are oven now a dead letter. The Sherman Sher-man Antl-trast law and the LaFollette shipping bill ;iro both in the scrap b( ;p. So is much of our railroad legislation, legis-lation, which has been a nightmare for ' Of what consequence now Is the oneo dreaded interstate commerce commission? Where is the tariff, and whal are; we going to do with it? What about our foreign treaties and foreign policies after the war? What about the activities of our department of commerce and d'-purtment of agrieul-ture agrieul-ture and the war hoard? How far will thej be maintained or expanded!' These and many other like problems mast shortly be met: for we are al-on al-on the vprge of the reconstruction reconstruc-tion period which means so much for the industrial future of the United States. |