Word: hise
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Charles R. Van Hise, h. '08, Ph.D., LL.D., of the University of Wisconsin, spoke under the auspices of the Wisconsin Club on "Concentration of Industry" in Emerson D yesterday afternoon. The speaker was introduced by president Lowell...
President Van Hise opened his address with a discussion of monopoly. Before the 19th century transportation was so poorly developed that it was possible to have monopoly in small areas of country, and it was therefore natural that monopoly should be controlled and even prices fixed by law. Within the last century, however, prices began to be regulated by competition; and, with the growth of transportation, commodities fell into the hands of a few men and corporations. Thus, transporation which prevented monopoly in the old days, now helped its growth on a much larger scale...
...closing, President Van Hise discussed the objections raised against this plan and showed that they were of little consequence. Finally, he emphasized the point that these proposals do not restrict competition in business, but only apply to competition in prices, and that they are not proffered in behalf of socialism, but of social responsibility...
...President Van Hise of University of Wisconsin in Emerson...
...WISCONSIN CLUB. "Concentration of Industry". Charles R. Van Hise, LL.D., President of the University of Wisconsin. Emerson...