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Title: The National Civic Federation review
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: National Civic Federation
Subjects: Labor and laboring classes
Publisher: New York : (The Federation)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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oming volume of the proceedings willbe not only a contribution to economic literature, butalso to the literature of politics in the larger senseof dealing with some of the fundamental conceptsof our national life and government- Were the re-marks of the several speakers welded into one, theywould appear as a plea for a larger intervention ofthe national government in the business and com-mercial life of our people. Not that the strictlybusiness and commercial interests are desirous ofgovernment interference, but recognizing under ex-isting conditions the inevitability of government In-tervention! 11k- desire that such intervention shouldproceed from the nation rather than the State, wasvery marked. An increase of the activities of theFederal Government In dealing with questions of in-dustrial life was accepted practically as a matteroT course by a large majority of the speakers. Among(he legal members of the conference, who gave ut- February. 1908. The National Civic Federation Review
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OFFICIOUS AXJ) SPEAKERS, NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS. 20 The National Civic Federation Review February, 1908. terancc to some very acute analysis of the FederalConstitution, there was some diversity of opinionas to whether the increased power needed by thenation to meet the national questions now arisingcould be obtained by a reasonable interpretation ofthe clauses of the Constitution, or whether the morecumbersome form of constitutional amendment mustbe adopted. Here, again, It may perhaps be esti-mated that the weight of opinion was with thosewho believed that the nation already has in theConstitution adequate power to meet the situationsso far as they can now be foreseen, arising from theprodigious development of trusts and combinationsof all kinds in our country. The general attitude of the conference being thusunderstood, the resolutions adopted by it assume agreat significance. Considering the care devoted totheir preparation and the unanimity with which theyw

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