Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-13
WILSON FAV0RS
Real Partnership w
Capital and Labor.

Chicago, Dec. 13:-Woodrow Wilson,
Governor-elect of New Jersey, and Gov
ernor W. R. Stubs, of Kansas, deliv-
cred addresses of a decidedly antithet-
zeal character at the Illinois Manu-
facturers' Association banquet here
last night. Mr.. Wilson made a calm
and philosophical speech on Business
and Politics. Governor Stubs I'M
sationally attacked the railroads and
the trusts. His vas a steady wallop
throughout.
In no part of his addressdid Mr.. Will
son say anything that smacked of the
sledge hammer. Mr.. Stubs, on the
other hand, handled business conditions
without gloves. He declared that the
advanced freight rates demanded by the
railroads were agreed to by the com
bined railroads, and are therefore
clearly in violation of the Sherman
Anti Trust law He said that "the
relation of the federal government to
unlawful institutions organized for
spoils and plunder is one of the most
humiliating and disgraeeful chapters in
American history
Woodrow Wilson'S Address.
Woodrow Wilson in his address said.
in part:
"The trouble with politics, in so far
as it has concerned itself with an eff
fort to regulate business, has been that
the problems of readjustment between
private and public interests have not
been fully comprehended. In the field
of legislation, which is the field of ad-
justment, we have experimental first IN
one direction and then in another.
First, legislation has tried to hold one
set of interests and check another set;
it has tried to shift its barriers
and transfer its bounties and favors. 1t
has been a game of alliance, first with
one set of forces and then with
another. They have been set off against
one another and their rivalries empha-
sized and enhanced.
"No one can speak with confidence
as to how the accommodation is to be
brought about, but certainly we can say
that it is accommodation we seek and
not mere offsetting of force against
force. What we need is very frank In
quiry and "a thorough public eonsidera-
ton, without fear or favor, of every
thing involved. Well-served eommuni-
ties make prosperous business. Merely
profitable business may in many cases
mean not only ill-served communities
but communities that have been crush
ed under q competition which destroys
the very substance business ought to
rest upon.
"We are working in the interest of
business, not against it when we
oblige all to regard it's action as a pro-
cess of service, not exploitation. Ev-
cry great business man knows this to
be true and makes the interest of those
he serves the center of all his plans. In
order to carry out such purposes in the
field of legislation it is necessary that
it should be universally understood that
our purpose is not war, but peace and
accommodation; not destruction, but the
building together, as well as the build
ing up of the forces that constitute our
strength.
"There. must be q very real partner
ship>between capital and labor if mod
ern business is to be put upon its right
footing, just as there must be beyond
that a vague but nevertheless thought
full partnership between business and
the general public. The business of ex.
plotting anybody or anything for pri.
vate profit must be abandoned for the
larger, more wholesome principle of.
profitable service, the more profitable
as it is genuine and faithful"