Tulsa Daily World

WILL SOME ONE PLEASE ELUCIDATE?
Do we, as a nation, know what it is that causes us to complain? That is to say, can we put the matter in cogent, easily understood terms?
Well. It hasn't been done. For instance: There is a somewhat urgent demand for less politics and more business in government That's sound, spiritually and understood. But literally construed It isn't
If we understand correctly all the things that are being said and most of the things developed by legislative investigations and other investigations not legislative the principle thing the matter Is because we have been having rather too much business in government.
It was an overdose of business that caused all the corruption and rottenness in the Lorimer Investigation.
It is the over-activities of business interests that put a lemon over on us in the Payne-Aldrich article. on the other hand we do need business principles, to the exclusion of partisan methods, in the postoffice department. but this is not overlooking the fact that most of the trouble that has been caused by business demanding and even taking a trifle too great a percentage of the profits.
In one sense of the word we are quite sure that the government has mixed too much in business, while in another sense it is also true that there has not been enough business. Will you kindly make the distinction?
Not content with having beat it to a frazzle Mayor Carter Harrison has instituted a six-hundred thousand-dollar libel suit against the Chicago Tribune Fame sometimes comes high, but we must have it.