The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-13
lgq )W Wilson Says There l Oo Much Exp|Oita-
 lion of Business
CITATIONS OF PRESENT
 .MAND CONSIDERATION
esae to Regulate Business Through as. lticnI Channels Is Very Poor Policy According ts
 pr. Wilson

s.i.. 20 December 12.--GoV.-elect Wood- an yilson of New Jersey and Gov 1w Stubbs of Kansas were the prin- eiraf ipeakers at the annual banquet of tie Illinois Manufacturers association, I,d aere tonight. MT. Wilson declared tisa5 business had been too much ex- n.asal In this country's recent period of sAlr ordinary expansion, with too little ses+i for the permanent interests of <4..ey. Governor Stubbs took up the seal tt of railroad freight rates and the e on of rates to the welfare of the ntess at large.
 Wilson spoke on Business and f,i cs," and said in part:
 .ioked at from the point of view of
 ldent of public affairs. business is f conomic service of society for profit
 are two partners in 1t, the busi- lsas concern Itself and the public. Poli- J is the adjustment of all affairs to common interest; it, therefore, must ern itself with the forces of busi-
 in order that the force enlisted there
 we'll as elsewhere, may conform to
 common principle of the public wei
 fodern business is not done upon the rlo5lest scale of a generation ago-it is ised in great organizations. These or y izations cover continents and affect
 ie between nations. Their connections re, therefore universal, not local. Their control is a sort of minor statesman
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 Undoubtedly, the trouble with busi- 1ess in this recent period of extraordi- ary expansion has been too much ex- )itation, too little regard for the per anent interests of society and all con
 rned. Good business rests upon a com , unity of interests.
 Ut will not do, either, to make of the orking man mere instrument instead ' a partner. The conditions which de- srnine the relation of employer and hploye havU radically changed within
 generation. Working men are no Pnger dealt with individually by indi- viduals in their employment They are marshalled in gangs and masses Their dealings with their employers are im- personal for the most part, whether they Geal with corporations or with individ- uals. There is no true or conscious hu- man sympathetic relationship involved ex- cept in the rarest instances.
 Since Worlxngmen being dealt with in bodies they must be dealt with upon principles of reciprocity and partner ship which did not have to be considered. Wherever they are so dealt with the bus incss prospers in an unusual degree ana the usual antagonisms between labor and capital do not occur. There must be a very real partnership between capital ana labor. if modern business is to be put upon its right footing.
 'The trouble with politics insofar as 1t has concerned itself with an effort to regulate business, has been that the prob lems of readjustment between private and public interests have not been fully com Irehended. We are only slowly ap- preaching full understanding of the ele- lnents of the legislation We are trying to effect. In the field of legislation, wich is the field of adjustment, we have cxperimented first in one direction and then in another. First, legislation is tried to help one set of interests and check another set, then it is tried to shift its barriers and transfer it's bounties and fayors. It has been a game of alliance 4 first with one set of forces and with another. They have been set off against one another and their rivalry is inn paired and enhanced.
 "No one can speak with confidence as tr how the accommodation is to be brought about; certainly we can say if 1t is accommodation we seek and not mere off-setting of force against force What we lack is knowledge of all the conditions involved.
 For this enterprise We need the will and candor to see and to accept the facts as we see them, courage in ac- tion, justice in Judgment and through cut all the process, the purpose not to testroy, but to rectify and make safe every undertaking of our life. This is counsel of perfection, but it is only by seeing, our goal that we can move to- ward it."