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Show REED SCORES TRUST PROBES Stifling of Business by Useless Use-less Government Meddling Meddl-ing Is Condemned KANSAS CITY. March 31. A government gov-ernment that attempts to stifle non-monopolistic non-monopolistic bupine initiative Invites disaster, United State Senator lames A. Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, de-C de-C tared in an address here Wednesday nlsrht before the chamber of commerce. "Business exists because it Serves in accordance with economic laws. If government gov-ernment undertakes regulation it must offer as efficient a control as Individuals Individ-uals can guarantee." said Senator Reed. !.PI KlIMt l I Kli. "Business not a natural monopoly is hotter off In the hands of the men who created It. than ln the files of some unwisely created bureau. . "Government control Is a restricted form of Socialism,'' he said. "If wo are to adopt Socialism let's make it apply from the blue skv to the root.s of the grass." Senator Reed criticism adversely promiscuous official investigations, declaring de-claring that "often an 'expert' who couldn't make a living In his home town docs the probing." RECALLS l n Ho cited investigations of the railroad rail-road and coal Industries and said of the latter: "We started a probe to determine de-termine a coal trust, a combination of extortionist. Instead of finding that c found the coal supply was adequate for 6 thousand years; that distribution was hampered by strikes and lack of iransportatlou; that both these delays wero the dlievt result of rules and orders of theorists." "This nation, the greatest in history." his-tory." ho continued, "did not become so through the superiority of Its founders. found-ers. It was through trio unshackled ei forts of thp Iim-.s and brains of its people that that grew." |