Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-15
WILSON APPEALS
TO BUSINESS MEN
PreSident-EIect Declares Monop-
oily Must Be Ended.
ASKS SUPPORT IN REFORMS
Intimates That Force Is Last Thinu
He Wanted to Employ to Carry
Out Ante-EIection
Pledges.

Chicago, Jan 14.-Woodrow Wilson,
the president-elect, delivered an ap-
peal and a warning to the business
men of the country at a banquet Civ
en- by the Commercial club of Chicago.
To the 300 bankers, merchants. law
yers, railroad men and operating Off
Gals of public utilities, Mr.. Wilson de-
clared that monopoly must end, that
the sins of the banking world must be
committed no more, and that exploita-
ton of public resources for the few at
the expense of the many had seen the
end of it's days
Plea for Business Mems Support.
Throughout the entire address ran a
plea for support from the business
men of the country to make these re-
forms possible. With such support,
the president-elect declared the ills
would vanish without the necessity of
invoking the law.
He declared that things done under
duress never were we'll done and init
mated broadly that force was the last
thing he wanted to employ to carry
out the pledges he made before cleo
ton.
Sounds MonopoIy's KneII.
eve must arrange that every par
ticle of monopoly is squeezed remorse-
lessly out of every business in Arneri-
ca he said.
men who have to do with admin
istering big business of the country,
which, in the aggregate, make up the
commercial life of the nation" he said,
in substance, mustard they shall
administer that business just as
though they were trustees under q
court of the affairs of others. This
does not seem to stir enthusiasm
"It is regretful, not because it fore
casts any doubt that ultimately that
thing will come to pass, but because it
appears, almost to invite the neces-
sity of duress to bring it about.
'And that truly would be unfortu-
nate" continued the governor in sub
stance, because it appears to divide
forces against each other which are
working for one end.
Opportunity Not Equal.
ct has come to be believed-and l
want to say that the American peo-
pie do not believe things which are
not so-that the poor man has not
equal opportunity in his appeal to JUS
tice that the rich man has.
1T has come to be believed, and l
repeat what is generally believed to
be true is true, that the raw materials
the resources of the country as yet
undevelOped-are not as available to
the poor man who needs them most as
to the rich man whose need is for
material to exploit to his further gain
These things are wrong. We must
not try to say how justice must be
melted out or how resources may be
available, but we must see that they
are equally available.
Did Not Start Right.
Some of our difficulties have arisen
from the fact that we did not start
with the correct premise We must
remember, and you must not cause
people to believe otherwise, that reser-
walton is not conservation.
Preservation is not conservation,
where national life grows as rapidly
and as surely as American life grows
For mere reservation-which is
synonym for delay-and preservation,
which is old-fashionedism in the fu-
ture, are not true conservation.
Conservation is the maintenance,
as a beacon to light the struggle of
the needing with the hope of attain
ment, of all that will fill the needs of
the needing"