Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Emery Sellers Tells of Advantages of Corporations. [ARTICLE]

Emery Sellers Tells of Advantages of Corporations.

There are a lot of people who do not oppose corporations as a general proposition, who realize that they form the greatest stepping stone of our advancement and have made possible accomplishments that private capital, could never have undertaken. It is where the corporations exist a« monopolies and in restraint of trade and in violation of law that they are obnoxious and dangerous. Emery Sellers, who is an attorney for the defendants In the railroad suit now being tried in the Jasper circuit court, and who has given much thought to legislative and governmental affairs, is frank to say that if it Were not for corporations the people in this part of Indiana would be hauling sand from Michigan City in wheelbarrows. No individual Would undertake the construction of a railroad. But where the corporation uses its power to secure unfair advantages and undeserved profits it must be halted and its officials punished. =~Mr. Sellers is in no sense an insurgent. He is neither a Bryanite nor a Teddyite. He says that we have been able to establish the best form of government that the world has ever known and that at the very time when conditions are the most favorable to

all classes of people there is a movement to destroy it and to set the country back a half century. Mr. Sellers is a democrat Schyler Colfax Jones, of Kentland, is a publican. Each belongs to the conservative element of their party. In a friendly discussion at the court house Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Sellers held Bryan to be the greatest menace to stable government, with Roosevelt a close second. Mr. Jones placed Roosevelt at the bead of the list with Bryan in second place. They both agreed, however, that It was somewhat of a "shake them both in a bag” proposition.