The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-16
WILSON MAKES A
 TALK TO CAPITAL
All Monopoly Must Stop, President Elect Chicago Captains of Industry Did Not Applaud Senti-
 ment-Me Mentioned DUPeSS.

dent-elect said at a Commercial Club dinner here last night
 Big business, it's right to growth and it's duties to the country were discussed by Mr. Wilson.
 T don't care how big a business grows, provided it grows big in contact with keen competition" he said.
 The governor made an appeal for a dissolution of what he said were prejudices in this country between capital and labor. Among his audi tors were bank presidents, railroad presidents and heads of great busi- ness enterprises. Seated near him were Governor Deneen a Republi- can, and GOVernOr-elect Dunne, Democrat.
 Open Credit and Resource to All.
 Mr. Wilson said the success of en- terprise depended upon the open ing up to the rank and file of the nation not only its physical re- sources. but the business credit as well. Men had testified under oath, he said to the existence of an in ner circle" to whom credit was ob- tainablc to the exclusion of those against whom that inner circle sought to discriminate.
 T am not darwing an indictment against the banking system" he said. That already has been con- victed. But do refer to the basis of credit in business.
 q tell you frankly that if I per mitted my thoughts to dwell upon the responsibility that will fall up on me would be daunted. I came here 10 ask your counsel and as sistance.
 Hope in Business Reform.
 The business future of this country does not depend on the gov ernment of the United States, it is dependent on the business men. The government cannot breed a temper, it cannot generate thought and pur- pose.
 Things done under the whip of the law are done sullenly, somewhat reluctantly and never successfully. The hope of America is the chang ing attitude of the business men to- ward the things they have to handle i'll this country.
 T want to take slernness out of this country. ] want to see suspi- eion dissipated. l want to see the time brought about when the rank and file of the citizens of the United States who have a stern attitude to- ward the business men of the cOun- try shall be absolutely done away with and forgotten.
 Honest Hen at a Disadvantage.
 ~Perleclly honest men now are at a 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 whom business touches.
 They do not believe, in the Unit cd States-I mean the rank and file of our peOple-that men of every kind are upon an equality in their access tO the resources of the cOun- try, any more than they believe ev- erybOdy is upon equal terms in his access to the justice of the country. It is believed in this country that poor man has less chance to get justice administered 10 him than a rich man. God forbid that such should be generally true.
 And then in addition, and on top of all that, we must see to it that the business of the United States is set free absolutely of every feature of monopoly"
 Doesn't Like DuresS, But
 Here Governor Wilson paused, looked about the banquet room and then added:
 q notice you do not applaud that I am somewhat disappointed, be- cause unless you feel that way the thing is not going to 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 they say there is mo- body in the United States who ever intended to get up a monopoly. But I know there are some gentlemen who did deliberately go about to set up monopoly We know that they intended to do it because they did it.
 q don't care how big a particular business gets, provided it grows big in contact with sharp competition, and I know that a business based upon genuine capital which has not drop of water in it can be con- ducted with greater efficiency and economy than a business that is loaded with water"
 His View of Conservation.
 Touching on conservation, Cover nor Wilson said:
 "A policy of reservation is not one of conservation"
 Applause greeted that statement and the speaker added that the gov ernment at Washington has beer suspicious of everybody who ap- preached it for water-power right: na K1u a Ea I {