... from public responsibility. If the business world is not characterized, first, by public spirit and a sense of public duty in general, and, second, by the special and technical sense of public ... require of them the exercise of a true public spirit. The man of public spirit is he who is able at a given moment, under certain conditions, to set the public welfare before his own. Furthermore, ... derive their power. Publicity should rule now. Publicity, and not secrecy, will win hereafter, and laws will be construed by their intent and not killed by their letter; otherwise public utilities...