Permanent commissions should be placed over them with the right and duty of interfering officiously in their business.

Taxation should be made to bear heavily upon them.

Competitive services should be established wherever this could be done without any excessive loss.

They should be annoyed and worried in every legal way; and all those burdens should be imposed upon them with the explicit understanding that they were measures of war.

In adopting such a policy a community would be fighting for an essential condition of future economic integrity and well-being, and it need not be any more scrupulous about the means employed (always "under the law") than would an animal in his endeavor to kill some blood-sucking parasite.