Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-12

longer to be catalogued no longer to
be found by dead reckoning; no longer
to be put in classes as IL their think
ing had been concluded and they were
no longer casting abroad for the things
which they should think and the things
| they should do.
The government cannot breed a
temper in men. The government cam
not generate thought and purposes.
And only the temper and Thought and
purpose of business men in America
is going to determine what the future
OF business shall be. There are many
things to do which you can do without
the assistance and without the whip of
the law. The thing which is done only
under the whip of law is done i'm
perfectly, reluctantly. sometimes sui
leniy, and never successfully"
Speaks on Conservation.
Speaking on conservation, Governor
Wilson said: Until the business men
OF America make up their minds both
to husband and to administer, as II for
others as well as for their own profit.
the natural resources of the country.
some of the questions ahead OF us win
When the government at Washing
ton undertakes in the future to develop
policy of this sort, the first thing II
must know is the state of mind Of the
men that it is dealing with That at
titude must be declared open and trans
parent. Do you not see that 1t is your
responsibility. not mine? I shall sit
there and try to preside over the mat
tGrS Ruf 7 =.
as l can judge the men l am dealing
with"
Governor Wilson laid down his belief
as to raw materials by saying: "If
raw materials are to be used in the
spirit of those who would serve the
whole country alike, without regard to
section or individual, then our future
is assured of an absence of the kind
of discrimination that the whole tenn
per Of this country has sternly risen
against. l want to take sterness out
of the temper of this country. I want
to see suspicion dissipated. l want to
see time brought about when the per-
fectly artificial condition now existing,
when the rank and file OF the citizens
OF the United States have somewhat
hostile attitude toward the business
men Oh the country. shall be absolutely
done away with and forgotten
perfectly honest, upright, patriotic
men, whom any one of us could pick
out, are at disadvantage now In
America, because business methods in
general are not trusted by the people
taken as whole. That is injurious to
you, 1t is injurious to everybody with
whom business deals and everybody
whom business touches.
They do not believe in the United
States--I mean the rank and file of our
people-that the men OF every kind are
upon an equality in their access to the
resources of the country, any more
than they believe that everybody is
upon equal terms In their access to the
justice of the country"
Credit Terms UNEQUAL.
Charging that credits are not extend
ed In terms of equality, Mr.. Wilson
said
Il want to say that I believe that
some of the gentlemen who are run
ming the game intend to run it fair
y, but there are gentlemen whom they |
know and some whom they do not |
know. There are some whom they rec
'gnize rs entitled to come in. And the |
future belongs TO the men who are not /
yet recognized.
This country is not going TO grow
'ieh In the future by the efforts of the
men who have not vet got in. 1t is a I
ruism to say that it is going to get /
'leh by the efforts of future genera
ions after this generation is gone. The
iext generation is now struggling for q +
'oothold and the next generation finds 4
extremely difficult to get a foothold. Il
THE credit of this country must be
opened upon equal terms and with
'qual redress upon the same terms to H
The bankers in their con-
rol must see to that first of all before
hey can expect to enjoy the confidence
# the country and to have the prob
ems peculiar to them settled without
prejudice against them"
That certain business men deliber- II
-tely set up monopolies was charged II
y Governor Wilson when he said:
There will be no monopoly in this 1
ountry when there are no important
usiness men in this country who in
end to bring 1t about l know that
here are some gentlemen who did go
bout 1t deliberately to set up mo-
opoly. ! know that they intended to
0 1t because they did 1t and because
ley did 1t in a way which Inevitably
ID TO monopoly; and We know It be-
ause they organized their business. or :
lther capitalized it, in such way that HI
ley could not endure competition and lll
I'D to set up monopoly. HI
You can't carry water against COM iii
HI
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