Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-07-03
WILSON PROMISES
NATION BIG BOOM
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it is admitted that there are processes
of business, or have been processes
of business, in this country, which
ought to have been corrected, but the
correction has been postponed, and
in proportion to the postponement
the fever has increased-the fever
of apprehension.
There is nothing more fatal to
business than to be kept guessing
from month to month, and from year
to year, whether something serious is
going to happen to it or not, and
what in particular is going to happen
to it, If anything does. 1t is impossi-
BILE to forecast the prospects of any
line of business unless you know what
the year is going to bring forth. Moth
ing is more unfair. Nothing has been
declared by business men to be more
harmful than to keep them guessing.
Fears Proved Groundless.
"The guessing went on; the air was
full of Interrogation points for 10
years and more. Then came an ad
ministration which for the first time
had definite program of construc-
tive correction; not of destructive cor
rection, but of constructive correction
of admitted evil, clear program, dis
closed, so far as possible in d general
program, in it's particulars as in its
general features. And the admins
tration proceeded to carry out this
program.
First there was the tariff, and
business shivered. We don't like to
go in; the water looks cold' but
when the tariff had been passed it was
found that the REIMBURSEMENT was pos
sible without any serious disturbance
| whatever. Then men said, with q
sense Of relief, Well, we are glad to
| get that behind us and it wasn't bad
after ALL
! You remember with what resistance,
I with what criticism. with what syste-
matte holding back a large body of
bankers in this country met the pro-
posals of that reform, and you know
how, Immediately after it's passage,
they recognized it's benefit and it's
/ beneficience and, moreover, since the
passage of that reform bankers
throughout the United States have
been congratulating themselves that
it was possible to carry out this great
reform upon sensible and solid lines.
Friends Of Business.
"Then we advanced to the trust
! program and again the same dread,
/ the same hesitation, the same urgen-
cy that the thing should be postpon-
ed. 1t will not be postponed; it will
! not be postponed because we are the
friends of business. We know what
we are going to do. We propose to do
! it under advice, for we have been
fortunate enough to obtain the advice
of men who understand the business
of the country, and we know that the
effect is going to be exactly what the
effect of the currency reform was, a
sense of relief and security.
Because when the program is fin
ished, it is finished; the interrogation
points are rubbed off the slate; bust
ness is given it's constitution of free
dom and hidden go forward under
that constitution and just SO soon as
it gets that lieve and freedom there
will be boom of business in this
country such as we have never wit
messed in the United States.
Long Delay Would Be Fatal.
II as friend of business and SER
want of the country, would not dare
stop in this program and bring on
another long period of agitation
Agitation longer continued would be
fatal to the business of this country
and if this program is delayed there
will come agitation with every letter
in the word capital letter. The
choice either is a sober and sensible
program completed now or endured
months on months of conjecture and
danger. l for one could not commit
the country to a policy which would
submit business to longer continued
agitation and uncertainty, and l am
sure it is becoming evident to the
whole country that a constructive pro-
gram is at last not only to be pro-
posed but completed, and that when
it is completed business can get and
will get what it can get in no other
way--rest, recuperatiOn and success
full adjustment. l cannot get rest
if you send me to bed wondering what
is going to happen to me in the morn
ing; but if you send me to bed know
ing what the course of business is to