PUNISH THE BIG LAW BREAKERS

...The recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases demonstrates that the next greatest problem before the country is the enactment of legislation which will provide broad, well-defined, legal avenues through which dynamic mentality with centralized wealth can operate with the greatest efficiency, but with necessitated recognition of the general welfare of the people, the rights of employees and employers, insuring to the small stockholders their pr onate share of the increment incident to the operation of the capital in the aggregation of which they have participated...

...publicity and not secrecy one of the methods...

...the highest possible reward for legitimate efficiency and rigid obedience to the law with personal punishment to the individual breaking the laws, the result...

...collation of opinions from practical employees, employers and economic students, the second...

...the enactment of legislation, embodying conclusions, the fourth...

...analysis and deduction, based on the ascertainment and collation of views, the third...

...Centralization of people, government and business is an economic evolution incident to our civilization...

...ascertainment rather than investigation, prosecution rather than persecution, the goal...

...Man cannot prevent but can provide legal avenues through which these great forces must operate with the greatest benefit to the general welfare and the least injury to the individual...

...co-operation between law-makers and business interests, on the lines of ascertainment of the best legislation procurable, with resultant protection of the general welfare of the people and co-operative rights of employee and employer, the desideratum...

...Ascertainment of existing methods and conditions should be the first step...

...The substitution of popular fob delegated government is rapidly accomplishing this result, thus substituting general welfare for selfish interest as the motive power of government and goal of the public servant...

...The legal avenues should be as broad and well defined as possible, but barriers should be erected along the roadways providing for the imprisonment of any individual who attempts to break through them...

...Punish the Big Law Breakers Senator Bourne States Hi$ Views on Trust Control DISCUSSING MEANS for securing effective legislation preventing misuse of centralized wealth, Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., recently issued the fallowing statement: "The greatest problem before the country is to make the people responsible for the enactment of laws by giving them power to legislate under the initiative and to veto under the referendum in case the legislative branch of any state fails to truly represent the general welfare of the people, and also to make the people responsible for the selection of public servants under efficient primary and corrupt practices laws, thus making all public servants directly accountable and responsive to the composite citizen, individual unknown...