The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-01-23
WILSON GIVES
HIS MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS
Government and Business Are
Now In Accord Says
President.
TRUSTS MUST
OBEY THE LAW
Corporations Must Not Inter
lock Their Direc-
torates. :

w SHINGT'l.%, Jan. 20.--Presidont
Wis pers .ail! lad before a .oii
sessi.p of Congress today the fuRda-
rrenta pribcIp.-sS - the DsEltCr:tic
a4nli- istratio,As IA gram for dealing
With trusts al. tx business: +" Z IL:
P.-asie emit presented The case. he said
as it lies i'm the t1cught of the eoun-
try reiterating It "priva An,'t:p-
oily Is indef eu: g and int0ierahie
and declaring tpa conscien. Gas tdss
mess men thc t.si out the nation
wo'.id not be sa;isGsd until practices
now deprecate % public opinion as
r.:straints of trade and commerce
we're corrected.
We are now sbcut to write the
al iuonal articles of our constitution
eff peace said the President, the
peace that is honor and freedom and
prosperity"
Besides suggesting the scope of leg
islation. the President made a person
al appeal for an atmosphere Of friend
illness and cooperation in Congress
while handling the problem.
The antagonism between business
and government is over" he said.
10 the best judgment of America, to
what we know to be the business con-
science and honor of the land. The
government and business men are
ready to meet each other halt way
IN a common effort TO square business
methods with both public opinion anu
the law"
The President spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: In
nay report, On the State OF the
Union which / had the privilege of
reading to you on the I'd of December
last, / yentured to reserve for discus
sion at a later date the subject of ad-
ditional legislation regarding the very
difficult and intricate matter Of trusts
and monopolies. The time now
seems opportune to turn to that grea'
question; not only because the cur
rency legislation, which absorbed
your attention and the attention OF
the country in December, is now dis
posed of, but also because opinions
seem to be clearing about us with sin
gular rapidity in this other great HelC
of action.
"In the matter of the currency il
cleared suddenly and very happily
after the much-debated act was
passed; IN respect of the monopolies
which have multiplied about us and
In regard to the various means by
which they have been organized anc
maintained. 1t seems to be coming
to a clear and all but universal agree
ment In anticipation Of our action, al
if by way of preparation, making the
way easier to see and easier to Sc
set out upon with confidence and with
out confusion of counsel.
LEGISLATION has its atmosphere
IKE everything else, and the atmos
mere of accommodation and nutua
understanding which we now breathe
With 60 much refreshment ID matter
TO make our task very much less diff
cult and embarrassing than 1t uouit
have been had we been obliged to &C
amidst the atmosphere OF suspicion
and antagonism which has SO lonl
mode it impossible to approach sucl
questions with dispassionate fairness
Constructive legislation, when sus
cessful, is always the embodiment o
convincing experience and Of the ma
ture public opinion which finall.
springs out OF that experience. Leg
tSAdlhOu Is q OuSkuSoo VI ln~OA PA 90
tion, not of origination, and it 1
now plain what the opinion Is {
which we must give effect in thi
matter. 1t is not recent or hast,
OPINION W SPRINGS ont of the expert
ence OF the whole generation
1T has clarified itself by long COZ
test, and those who for a long tim
oattlei with it and sought to chang
II are now frankly and honorabl
yielding to 1t and seeking to conforr
their actions to it.
"The great business men who OF
Sanized and financed monopoly an
those who administered it in actus
everyday transactions have year afte
year, until now, either denied It's e.
istence or justified 1t as necessar
for the effective maintenance and IL
velopment of the vast business pr
cesses Of the country in the moder
circumstances of trade and manufa.
ture and finance; but all the Will
opinion has made Roadway agains
them. The average business man
convinced that the ways or hDert
are also the ways of peace and TN
ways Of success as well and at la
the masters Of business ON the grets
scale have begun to yield their pre-
erence and purpose, perhaps the
Judgment, also, IN honorable sure
der.
''What we are 2urpesing to q
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