The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-01-17
PRE:S|DEENT-ELE|:CT IN CHICAGO

lhe presldent-e!ect made q
speech in Chicago on Jan. II,
before the Commercial club of
Chicago, in which he is said to
have taken a fall out of the
hosts" He said in the course
If his remarks that he did not
care how big business grows,
crowded it grows big in contact
With opposition.
He also said that he wanted to
take sternness out of this coun-
Try. | want to see suspicion dis
sipated. / want to see the time
brought about when the storm
attitude Of the rank and file Of
the citizens of the United States
toward the business men of the
country shall be absolutely done
away with and forgotten. Per-
fectly honest men are now at
disadvantage in America because
business methods in general are
not trusted by the people, taken
as a whole. That is unjust to
you; it is unjust to everybody
With whom business deals and
everybody with whom business
touches.
''They do not believe in the
United States Il mean the rank
and file Of our people = that men
)f every kind are upon an equal
:ty in their access to the resour-
ces of the country, any more
than they believe that every
body is upon equal terms in his
access to the justice Of the coun-
Try. 1t it believed in this coun-
try that a poor man has less
chance to get justice administered
20 him than a rich man. God
forbid that that should be gen
orally true.
And then, in addition, and on
5op of all this, we must see to it
hat the business of. the United
States is set absolutely free of
every feature of monopoly"
Here Governor Wilson paused,
1ooked around the banquet room
and added:
u notice you do not applaud
that. | am somewhat disap-
pointed because unless you feel
that way, the thing is not going
20 happen, except by duress,
which is the worst way to bring
anything about, because there
will be monopoly in this country
until there are no important busi-
ness men who intend to bring it
about. | know that when they
are talking about that. they say
1here is not anybody in the
United States who ever intended
20 set up a monopoly. But |
know there are some gentlemen
Who did deliberately go about to
set up monopoly. We know that
'1hey intended to do it. because
they did it.
Il do not care how big a par
ocular business gets, provided
that it grows big in contact with
sharp competition, and know
-hat a business based upon genu-
me capital which has not a drop
Of water in it, can be conducted
with greater efficiency and econ
omy than business that is load
ed with water. "
Touching on conservation, he
said:
"A policy of reservation is not
one Of conservation
Applause greeted this state
ment, and Mr.. Wilson added
that the government at Wash
ington had been suspicious of
verybody who approached it for
water rights and the privilege Of
conservation generally.
The governor proclaimed
policy of accessibility to the raw
materials of the country to every
body on the same terms. A con-
policy. he said, should
,ee free from discrimination.
Law ought to be based
upon a premise that only the
man exceptional in character is
going to circumvent the law
he continued. IF only the crooks
tried to circumvent the law, not
much law would be necessary.
But there are some men who per-
mitted themselves to circumvent
the law who were not crooks" ="
Concluding. the governor said
the nation had taken change
of venue" and now the govern
ment case was to be tried before
a jury composed Of the people. "