The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-30
CHAL. MFRS FAvORS
 WlL S0N'S PROGRAM FOR '1TRUSTD LAWS
Automobile Manufacturer Sup- ports President In Dis
 solution Plans.
Other Business Men See Execsz- tive of Nation As to
 Business.

Business.
 Washington, July S0-President Wilson made a strong statement yes terday of the purpose Of the adnninia- traitor to bring to an end the period of uncertainty in the business world The President had two important con- ferences with business men The first was with Hugh Chalmers. the auto
 mobile n1anufacturer. Mir. Chalmers turned out to be supporter of the Presidents determination to conclude the trust program at this session and he made some optimistic predictions that prosperity is at hand.
 The second conference was with 3 representatives of half as dozen whole sale dealers associations. who came to discuss anti trust legislation. These men talked little about bl1sin ess condf- tionss the only reference being to the hcondition of the glass Industry. 4 representa Of the eIsss distrfbu- though the Underwood -Silnmons tar1n had cut duty on glass in half it had not damaged the industry
 To the wholesalers representatives, the President made the following re- marks:
 we have had 10 or 15 years of lceaseIess agitation about business. During that length of time we have read stories in the newspapers and in l the magazines of the extravagantly wrong tl1ings that were going on and an atmosphere of almost universal suspicion has been created ESQ that if a man became business man in a big way he had the u11eomfortab1s feeling that his fellowmen probably looked upon him as not coming by his money in the right way.
 think am right in saying that | tried to do has been to bring all these questions to a clear understandings and settle up the balance Of judgment. It l may have seemed sudden to do so many. things in one Congress but wasn't it high time to just have a. clearance and settle these things
 am not aafnta1ning that they are settled in the wisest way in which tthey could be settled. but certainly l the men engaged have tried to settle them in the interest of the country and think in the main they have
 we had many conditi ons. ban king conditions economic conditions, Of which the country said they are Iswrong Now we have undertaken to give 2 remedy and until that was done business could not settle down to any thing because the agitation was sure to come again.
 ssI just want to leave that thought with you. that we are not running
 a.mnck's we are trying to close this era of suspicion and of recrinination by putting in the law what the moral ought to be there. And honestly believe that when 1t is done-a7ld E hope it will notabe more than six weeks from now when it is done we can all take off our coats and get to work and look one another in the face and
 
 and we are going to do business as such. Don't you think that it is a reasonable view to take of the present situation 2,
 sented a brief opposfng the one price'' and exclusive agency features of the Clayton bill and several sections of the Trade Commission bill They told MT. Wilson that they approved of the pending Legislation in a general way and athougiat it necessary. to prevent. unfair competition, but feared some Of it's features would Interfere seri- onsly with business organizations operated on a small scale
 For more than half an hour the President and the business men had plained his view of the purposes of the legislation. and afterward the leaders of the delegation said they were greatly encouraged by his atti- tude.
 ! Yesterday's callers included these delegates from the National Trade As- sociation of Wholesalers
 National Hardware Assoeiatio w. w. Taylor. C7eveland; A Bihler.f Pittsburgh: George L. Irwin. Balti- more James F'ernley. B. Baum. l and Paul A Griffith, Philadelphia.; Charles H Watkins and John Donnan. Richmond; 70. B. Barker. Lynchburg:: Charles H. Ireland, Greensboro, N. c.
 National Wholesale Dry Goods As socfation-CaIvfn NG- Snyth. PhiladeI- phia, J. R. Thompson. James M. Eas- I ter, and John c. Rouse. Baltimore. National Wholesale Jewellers As l sociation-Loufs Sickles. Philad elphia; NJ. J. Averbeck. New York; J. EngeI. ! Baltimore.
 Glass Distributors Association-- I George L. Heater. Toledo; William s. Kinney, Chicago; H. S. Binswanger. Richmond; Warren Hire Turner. Phil- adelplnia; H. D. Condie. St Leuis. National Supply and Machinery Dealers Associatio ionC Charles S Far 1 qulaar, Boston; Charles Bond, Phila- delphia.
 Sheet Metal C1ub-Edgar Lyon. l Baltimore; w H. Abbott, Wheeling 1 National wholesale Drug Associa- I tfon-Harry B. French, Philadelphia Plumbing Supply Associations Harvey Borton. John 6. F7eck and
 E. s. Thompsons PhiladeIphia~