Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-30
Object of Antitrust Program.
Is to End Era Of Suspicion
That Existed for More Than.
Decade.
SAYS GOVERNMENT is
NOT RUNNING AMUCK
Administration Has Tried to
Bring All Questions Into
Clearing House So That
Balance May Be Struck,


Washington. July 29.-Defending
the administrations antitrust pro-
gram President Wilson today told "A
large delegation Of business men rep
resenting large wholesale arpaniza-
tions that he was seeking to end an
era Of suspicion and reerimination
by putting into law what the moral
judgment of the community has said
ought to be there"
He assured them that the govern
ment was not running amuck." The
wholesalers laid before the president
a prepared argument against several
features of the Clayton antitrust bill
and the trade commission bill. but
said they approved the general pur-
poses of the proposed legislation MIR
Wilson entered into detailed discuss
sion of the bills and promised to lay
his callers suggestions before the
proper committees of the senate.
The president also talked Of busi-
ness conditions and the antitrust bills
with Hugh Chalmers, Detroit man
ufacturer, who agreed with the presi-
dents views and said that prosperity
would come as soon as the present
uncertainty was relieved.
Agitation should Stop.
In speaking to the wholesalers the
president said
I'VE have had ten or fifteen years
of ceaseless agitation about business.
During that time we have read stories
in the newspapers and in the maya :
zines of the extravagept wrong-do-
Jugs that We're going on, and an at
nosphere of almost universal suspi-
cion has been created. so that If a
man became a business man in a big
way he had the uncomfortable feeling
that his fellow men probably looked
upon him as not coming by his money
in the right way.
II think | am right in saying that
what the present administration has
tried to do has been to bring all these
questions TO a clearing house and set
up the balance of Judgment 1t may
have seemed sudden 10 do so many
things in one congress, but wasn't IL
high time2 Wasn't it high time to
Just have a clearance and settle these
things? | am not maintaining that
they are settled in the wisest way in
which they could be settled. but GER
tainly the men engaged have tried TO
stltie lleH III the interest OF the
country and ! think in the main they
have succeeded. We had money con-
ditions banking conditions, of which
the country said they are wrong
Now we have undertaken to give a
remedy and until that was done bust
ness could not settle down to any
thing. because the agitation was sure
TO come again.
Hopes for Early Adjournment.
II Just want to leave that thought
with you, that we are not running
'amuck'; we are trying to close this
era of suspicion and Of recrimination,
by putting in the law what the moral
Judgment Of the community has said
ought 10 be there. And | honestly be-
lieve that when 1t is done-and hope
II will not be more than six weeks now
when II is 1one-we can all take off
our coats and get to work and look
each other in the face and say This is
a nation Of honest men and we are
going to do business as such.
Don't you think that Is a reasona-
BILE view to take OF the present sit
uation?"