Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — Great Problems Simplified. [ARTICLE]

Great Problems Simplified.

The scheme of forbidding men to do business with each othe>- is absurd in the lighf of business growth under our wide American liberty. It is too European—too Russian. Everybody should be free to do business bis own way, with everybody who is willing to do business with him. Free to enter into all the combination he finds to his interest; taking the responsibility of answering in the courts for his trespass on the rights of others. , If you want to correct the evil of monopoly, reduce the tariff to a simple revenue tax and reduce the monopoly of a patent to a fair compensation to the actual inventor. —Lewiston (Me.) Sun. According to Judge Gary, the Steel Trust has been so much absorbed In its “moral responsibilities” that the (Wonder is it should find time to manufacture steel and iron for purely commercial purposes.