glories in it and has a genius for it, will be given a
peerage in England perhaps. But he would not really care. The thing
itself would be a peerage enough and either in America or England he
would rather be rewarded by being singled out by the government for
special rights and distinctions in conducting his business. The best way
a democracy can honour a man who has served it is not to give him a
title or to make a frivolous, idle monument of bronze for him, but to
let him have his own way.

The way to honour any artist or any creative man, any man a country is
in need of especially, is to let him have his own way.

* * * * *

We are told that the way to govern trusts is to untrammel competition.

But the way to untrammel competition is not to try to untrammel it in
its details with lists of things men shall not do.

This is cumbersome.

We would probably find it very much more convenient in specifying 979
detailed things trusts cannot do, if we could think of certain
sum-totals of details.

Then we could deal with the details in a lump.

The best sum totals of details in this world that have ever been
invented yet, are men.

We will pick out a man who has a definite, marked character, who is a
fine, convenient sum-total that any one can see, of things not to do.

We will pick out another man in the same line of business who is a fine,
convenient sum-total of things that people ought to do.

The government will find ways, as the Coach of Business as the Referee
of the Game for the people, to stand by this man until he whips the
other, drives him out of business or makes him play as good a game as he
does.

* * * * *

When a child finds suddenly that his father is not merely keeping him
from doing things, that his father has a soul, the father begins to get
results out of the child.

As a rule a child discovers first that his father has a soul by noticing
that he insists on treating him as if he had one.

Of course a corporation that has not a soul yet does not propose to be
dictated to by a government that has not a soul yet. When corporations
without souls see overwhelmingly that a government has a soul, they will
be filled with a wholesome fear. They will always try at first to
prevent it from having a soul if they can.

But the moment it gets one and shows it, they will be glad. They will
feel on firm ground. They will know what they k