The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-22
BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE
In Support of Wilson-PurpoSe Is to
 Secure Safety and Sanity.''

w R. Messenger, General Secretary of the National League of Business that the Executive Committee of the League and the State Presidents in forty nine (491 states are planning to
 make the League permanent organ ization Cleveland M Dodge, the. Pres ident, strongly favors the plan. En- rollment in the League is only one dol lar and all busi ness men, whether manufacturers, merchants, retailers or jobbers.. or engaged in any department of trade or industry, are invited to7in- mediate1y send their names for enroll, ment to the headquarters of the Ma tional League of Business Men at Fifth Avenue Building, New York.
 The following are some of the bus mess men of this state who are al- ready enrolled:
 A. w: Belanger. sprague; pr. c. Goldstein. Ansonia; E. c. Benedict, Greenwich; Joh B. Prick, Wfllimantic; New Britain; Joseph M. Ha1loran, New Britain; H. N. Heft, Bridgeport; Geo. IF. McNamara. Angonia: Richard Mea- ney, Danbury; Edward Mu1an,~~Put- nam; C.. F. O'Brien, Ansonia; James Smith, Ansonia; Frederick w. Warner. Wethersfield; Dwight s. Russell, An son1a; 1a payld snea, GolecnesteE; We5eht 3ehn Bridgeport; J. IF. WEhitcomb. Bridge. port.
 proved the plan for the committee of One Hundred New York Business Men to make 8 tour of the country as far as Denver with special train, pro- ica1 necessity for it. Cleveland. M. Dodge, President of the League. said to-day:
 q believe that such a trip of New York Business Men would be great advantage ito American business and strongly urge the commercial advan- tages of the trip. but Governor Wilson is so strong that I doubt if there is any necessity for it from a political Standpoint. g
 The plan now proposed by D. R. League and unanimously endorsed, is that the committee of One Hundred New York Business Men postpone the tour until the inaugilra tion;2 March 4th and that the route of the tour be first to Washington, D. C., and then west through Ntfle southern and southwest ern states to the Pacific coast. visiting the site of the Panama Pacific Inter national Exposition to be held in. San Franciseo in 1915 and in which a great many New York ma1ufacturers will pc turning east through the central and northern states.
 This League has been organized for the purpose of concentrating the sen timent and activities of men repre- senting all business interests in the United States who favor the election of Woodrow Wilson for President, and Thomas R. Marshall for Vice-Presi- dent of the United States.
 The chief aim of the League is to in sure safety and sanity in government al action as affecting business inter eSts.
 Governor Wilson has written: 1T am very glad to learn of the organization of this National League. No study of the history of government can be candidly made which will not lead to the conclusion that the very thing that government cannot let alone is business, for business underlies every part of our life. The problem of pol itics is cooperation, and ann very sure that just as soon as the business of this country has general free well come acces to the councils of govern ment all the friction between business and politics will disappear