BUSINESS The business of the people of the United States, performed by the Government of the United States, is a vast and a most important one; it is the house-keeping of the American Nation.

As a business proposition it does not attract anything like the attention that it ought.
Unfortunately we have come into the habit of considering the Government of the United States as a political organization rather than as a business organization.
Now this question, which the Governors of the States and the representatives of great interests were called to Washington to consider in 1908, is fundamentally a business question, and it is along business lines that it must be considered and solved, if the problem is to be solved at all.

Manufacturers are dealing with the necessity for producing a definite output as a result of definite expenditure and definite effort.

The Government of the United States is doing exactly the same thing.

The manufacturer's product can be measured in dollars and cents.