Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — Public Ownership The Remedy. [ARTICLE]

Public Ownership The Remedy.

In a paper by Henry Laurens Call, on “The Concentration of Wealth," read at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement o's Science at Columbia university, the speaker declared that the modern corporation was responsible for the concentration of the wealth of the nation into a few hands. The corporation, he said, was a monstrosity, and th wealth of Jtockefeller and other enormously rich men is the product of this vicious institution. The remedy, according to Mr. Call, was the public ownership of public utilities. The law must correct the conditions brought about by the corporation. It should be made co-operative instead, as now, the instrument of private greed.