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PHYSICAL LABORATORY CHEMICAL LABORATORY
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The real secret, then, of this marvelous American activity is not greed nor thought of gain but the spirit of initiative which the pioneers of our country bequeathed to their sons and daughters. Is it worth while to foster, to preserve this spirit, or shall it he allowed to die out. smothered by the power of capital and corporation? Individual proprietorship was once the day-star of every American boy. The farmer's son looked anxiously forward to the time when he should | ossess a farm of his own; the artisan owned his small shop, and his apprentice toiled hard for little or no money, hut with the joyful expectation of sometime being himself the master. Then every clerk behind the counter or at the desk was eagerly awaiting the moment when he might be the proprietor of an establishment of his own. That day has gone, and with it has gone the best hope of the American boy, that of an individual career. The corporations own half of the country. The trust has untold power. It can, at will, force any business to sell out at its own terms. Should one dare to refuse, it would Ik- swept out of existence. Even the farmers, the most independ-ent class of ] cople in the United States, are compelled to accept the dictation of the trust. Figures show that in recent years individual enterprises have become fewer and fewer, and the number of men in the service of the corporations greater and greater. Skilled labor forms only the more intricate parts of the mechanical network. Conditions are threatening; a great problem is to Ik.- solved. 'Flic American people arc not asking that corjiorations shall Ik- done away with or that competition shall cease; but they are asking that the country's corjxjration |K licy be reformed, that the government, by a national commission or by direct legislation, shall exercise a real power over these vast business interests, and that every man shall have the op| ortunity to share in the fruits of his own toil. Unless this is done there is no other |K ssibility but that Americans shall become a race of dependents. I hojK , not merely for my own sake because I am young, not alone for the sake of the many thousands of American lx ys who are facing the future with me, but for the sake of our country. America, that you and I shall not see the day when individual hope and prospect shall Ik numlx-red among the memories of the past; when the young man who starts in life jxx r shall see before him no independence, but only years of servitude stretching on to the grave. May our country grow in knowledge and in power, but may she be spared the time when, oppressed by the grandeur of factories which supply the world, cloyed with the beauty of public halls and rulers’ palaces, her people shall l x»k back with longing eyes upon the farms and the little shops and stores of their forefathers which gave every man a chance. When the rulers of the United States, amid dangers and temptations, are seeking to curb the jxmers of boundless wealth, may they remember that in their hands lies the spirit of American Independence. Grit.form G. Kinusiu'ky.
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