Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-25
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/ BUSINESS URGED
View Jersey State Chamber of
{ Commerce Holds Annual
a Banquet Here.
FAVOR WIDER SCOPE FOR,
B INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Head Hits Washington's Pol
icy-Officers Elected.

! Business cooperation in New Jer-
; ley was urged by the speakers at the
7 second annual banquet of the New
) Jersey State Chamber OF Commerce
asst night About 800 members and
gliests attended the affair. which was
; reid in the Washington. A business
meeting preceded the banquet.
General William c. Heppenheimer.
PRESIDENT Of the Trust Company of
New Jersey. of Hoboken. was re-
4lected president
Governor James F. Fielder who
vas scheduled to deliver an address
u the banquet. sent n telegram ex-
messing his regret at not being able
attend
Il The address of Alba B. johnson. Of
philadelphia. president of the Bald
win Locomotive Works. on The In
tustrifl Situation of Today" excited
considerable comment Mr.. johnson
q mestioned the apparent well-meant
lnnrbing of big business by the ad-
1ninistration at Washington. His
ak was fraught with criticisms Of
be policy that has continued during
ODE administrations of Theodore
Roosevelt. William Fl. Taft and
Nooddow Wilson. during their re-
pectiye White House occupancy.
II Officers Elected.
a z'!is officers elected besides General
oHeppenhelmer were George A Vie
pnann. New Brunswick Forrest r.
horyden, Newark; Arthur S. Corbin,
tcassaic. and Allen X. White, Atlantic
nifty. e-presidents; Robert d. Kent,
eoassaic. treasurer; Marcus A. Bee
!, ian, Jersey City, secretary, exeeu-
Slve committee. Christian ". Feigen-
opan, Newark: Ernest r. Alderman,
'ainfield r. {. Jeffcott, Somerville;
CO c. Jenkinson, Newark; Karl G.
totoebling, Trenton: w. Parker Run
on, Perth Amboy; Walter Wood.
klamden.
OF The trustees for three years chosen
Ut the general meeting were:
al Ernest r. Alderman, Plainfeld;
lenjamin Atha, Newark ]. d. Bedle,
Jersey City; u. N. Bethell Upper
z9dontclair; Palmer Campbell Hobo
len; Austen Colgate. Jersey City;
70, )ebacher, Hoboken; Philip s. Dyer,
hillipsburg; Thomas A. Edison,
Vest orange: Robert d. Foote Nor
mdstown: Peter II. Fowler. Bloom
fiv,eld; Herbert p. Gleason, Newark:
,ntarlton Godfrey. Atlantic City; Au-
addstus V. Hamburg, Newark r. c.
effcott, Somerville; Richard {. Jen-
Sinson Newark; Charles A. McCor-
.neick, New Brunswick. Hudson
staiaxin, Maxim Park Landing: w. II.
IS ioyes, Tenafy; w. l.. Saunders.
S'ortb Plainfield: George T. Smith,
onersey City. Arthur Il. Wendell Rah-
Iee1ay and Allen X. White Atlantic
-9ity.
81 After dwelling on the fact that the
or lnited States, in the half century
lnkfnoa fx-iJ
Sdchest nation in the world. Mr.. John
hepn continued:
X First, let us frankly admit that
re have been passing through a
% eriod of evolution. during which ex-
Nesses We're committed in some lines
business which we cannot defend
enind can only regret. Certain corpora
1bIons undertook by unfair means to
N6rush out their competitors. Rail-
Dads were often managed with refer
nee to the intense competition for
he business of certain large ship
vners, rather than with reference to
he rights of small shippers and
& bose of the public at large The
/, Ulcers of the large public utility
90 Operations exercised powers against
10 'hich individuals We're helpless.
So brown arrogant In the possession of
mower. they ignored the rights of
lone pubic whom III theory they
erved. and became their masters.
:. took loug to reetify the abuses
Sehus created. but the work Of recetfl-
aglation Is, l. am confident. now COM
cti1ete. Let Us then turn to the future,
yeccepting the heritage which we have
Seieceived from the past. and make
rnhe best of it,
We Business Men Cautions.
se, III, tnen, our country is inun-
en- fcally so rich why is it that during
past five Years or more we have
enjoyed less than our share of the
;an' orld's prosperity prosperity that
,hi ,uring the same period has been con
ia, picuously great in England and in
Germany? Is II not because of the
y act that during the past eight or
~. inc years the feeling has grown
- imongst business men that the power
eait washington is not their friend, but
~ heir enemy? One after another,
alpemagogues have risen to high
ieplaces in the gift of the people, be-
eiiause of their professed hostility to
; he business interests which have
ems