Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-01-17
PRESENT D|STRUST
MUST Be CHANGED
BY BUSINESS men
President-elect Tells Chicago Mer-
chants They Alone Are Re-
sponsible for Feeling.
He Enumerates Four Essential
Changes-Declares Reserva-
ton Is Not Conservation.

I. RESERVATION NOT 4
! CONSERVATION, SAYS +
!: GOVERNOR WILSON. I.
I: Touching on conservation, 4.
!: Wilson said: I.
): "A policy of reservation is +
+ not one of conservation" +
!. Applause greeted this state +
! ment, and Mr.. Wilson added +
: that the government at WASH I.
!. ington had been suspicious Of +
!. everybody who approached it +
!. for water power rights and the I.
!. privileges of conservation gen. I.
+ orally" =
!: The governor proclaimed I.
!: policy of accessibility to the raw I.
!. materials of the country to ev- I.
!. erybody on the same terms A +
+ conservation policy, he said, +
!: should be free from discrimina- I.
!. ton. +
j. He also said four things must ::
+ be done, either by the business 4.
!. men voluntarily or under the 4.
!. whip Of the law" These are: +
!. Natural resources must be +
!. conserved and also used for the +
+ common good. =
I. Raw materials must be put =
i at the disposal Of every person =
:: in the United States-on equal =
!. terms.
+ Banking credit must be put =
!. on terms of equality to al.
+ Business must be free Of ev- =
+ cry form or Of every kind Of =
+ monopoly"
+ + 4. i. + + + + !. = I. = :. = =
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-President-e lect
Wilson tonight told big gathering Of
the richest men in the Central West
bankers, beef barons, railroad presi-
dents, etc.--that it was up to them to
prove to the rank and file Of the people
of the country that the rank and Me
have no cause to distrust business and
business men Of the country.
"That is your business said the
chief executive. 1T is not mine"
The occasion was his speech It the
annual banquet Of the Chicago Com
merciaI club. Mr.. Wilson said TINT
whether or not the people were justt.
ned In distrusting business and busi-
ness men. It was : fact that they did
distrust them. That. he said. was one
Of the great obstacles to the accom-
plishment Of the four prime reforms.
Governor Wilson was loudly ~
plauded when he said:
'I'm not indictin~ the banking meth
DDS Of this country. The banking -
tenn Of this country does not need to ~
indicted. 1t has been convicted"
Celebrating the four essential points,
Governor Wilson said:
america has come to new way Of
Independent thinking and IL going to
think its way out to triumphant con-
clusion. Very few men have devoted
themselves to outstanding the resources
Of the country for the common good,
but many Of them have devoted them
selves to exploiting them.
"The rank and file in the United
States do not believe everybody II on
equal terms. You have got to clear
yourselves Of that great general jury.
That Is your job, not mine.
1.-THE hope Of America Is in the
changing attitude Of the business men
OF this country towarr the things
which they have to handle in the fu-
ture. II that temper had not changed
things could not have happened which
have happened In recent months. For
what we have witnessed within the last
two months Is not merely q political
change. It is q change In the attitude
and judgment of the American people.
THE government cannot breed tenn
per In men. The government cannot
generate thought and purpose. And
only the temper and thought and pur-
pose OF business men in America is go
ing to determine what the future Of
business shall be. There are many
things to do which you can do without
the assistance Of and without the whip
of the law. The thing which is done
only under the whip of the law Is done
imperfectly, reluctantly, sometimes sui
lenly and never successfully.
One of the most Interesting of the