Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-01-15
Wanted In the Administrator
Of the Nations Affairs
LOST CONFIDENCE OF PUBLIC
Can Only Be Restored by Business
Men-Pieads For Equal Access to
Credit and Says Banking System Of
the Country Has Been Convicted
strongly Opposed to Monopoly

Chicago, Jan. 13.-Big business in
terests in the United States have
nothing to fear from President ELECT
Wilson, but he is strongly opposed to
monopoly. He has made this plain
IN an address he delivered here to
350 men, representing the big in
dustrles and railroads of the middle
west Speaking under the auspices
OF the Commercial club, he made a
plea for equal access to credit and
asked the cooperation of the honest
business men in the administration of
the nations affairs.
Mr.. Wilson declared that until the
credit Of the country is extended, in
stead of confined to a few, there will
be monopoly and a need of reform
The extension of the credit will do
more to better business interests and
kill monopoly than anything else
The public has lost confidence to a
large extent in the business men of
the country because of recent prac-
tees, and the business men alone
can restore confidence. They should
take a new point of view of public in
terests, he declared.
Mr.. Wilson in his address said:
The raw material of this country
must be obtainabe to every one on
exactly the same terms. Absence of
discrimination is what we need want
to see the time when the hostile feel
ing the people of the country have
toward the business men will be wiped
out
The rank and file of the country
don believe that all are on equal
terms in this country. 1t is believed
that a poor man has a smaller chance
than a rich one.
God forbid that should be the
fact. You have got to clear your
selves before the general jury. That
is hard. 1t hurts my heart There
are some men whom | can't get to
take part in the government of the
country because they don't believe
the public trusts them"
Speaking of credit and banking, he
said:
The banking system Of this coun-
try doesn't have to be indicted. 1t
has already been convicted. | haven't
single idea of Indictment against
any one, but there are reasons to be-
| lieve that there are inner and outer
| circles of credit.
The future belongs with the men
who are not yet recognized by the
men in this inner circle.~ The next
| generation is now struggling for a
! foothold and it finds it difficult The
! bankers must see that the credit of
the country is open to all on equal
terms. That is the only solution of
the great puzzle Of this country.
IF the credits of this country were
open equally to all, the Americans
wouldn't have the impression that
they are not. We must be set free
from a future of monopoly. There
will be monopoly until the business
men cease to bring it about. l know
there are some men who deliberately
set up monopoly.
You can't carry water against com
petition. I don't care how big bust
ness gets so long as it is honestly
conducted.
4 hope the government will never
take up the business Of the country
because the people can do it them
selves.
What I want to say to you is TIA
just so soon as you say there viii be
no monopoly in this country there
won't be monopoly"