Arizona republican., 1914-06-26
Emphatically Answers Op- ponents of Trust Legisla- tion and Prophets of Hard Times in Speech to Virginia Editors.
TRUST MEASURES
 NOT POSTPONED
Program to Be Carried Out for Benefit of Business Under Advice of Men Who Know Financial Condition of Country.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl

WASHINGTON, June 25.-Under the new constitution of freedom for business given by the antitrust leg islation soon to be passed by con- eress. President Wilson has promised the country the g.eatet boom in its history. This was the president final answer to the opponents ot trust legislation at this session, and to prophets of evil times, delivered with determined expression, and ev- cry word emphasized with clenched fist.
 We know what we are doing, said the president, and we purpose to do it under advice, for we are fortunate enough to obtain the ad- vice of men who understand the business of the country, and we know the effect is going to be eX- actly what the effect of the curren- cy reform was: d sense Of rehel and a security
 The president spoke to a group of Virginia editors. News or the Ciaflin failure had reached the White House previously, but the president did not mention the incident.
 The presidents assurance was h. tended for the country.
 As a matter of fact, the signs of q very strong business revival are becoming more evident from day to day" he said. Business men have acted as some men do who fear they may have to undergo an operation, and who are not sure that when they get on the table the operation will not be capital.
 There has been the same heslta- ton by business in regard to trust legislation as there was concerning the tariff and currency measures. which they now do not object to. There is the same urgency that the thing be postponed. It will not be postponed, because we are friends of business As a friend of business and d servant of the country, l would not dare to stop in this pro- gram and thus bring on anothe- long period of agitation. The choice is between d sober and sensible pro gram now completed, or months upon months of additional conjecture and danger"
 The president said:
 Here in Washington, through the bureau of commerce and other instrumentalities that are at our dis rosal and through correspondence which comes in to us from all parts of the nation, we are perhaps in position to judge the actual condition of business better than those can judge who are at any other single point in the country; and 1 want to say to you that as a matter of fact the signs of a very strong business revival are becoming more and more evident from day to day
 T want to suggest this to you: Business has been in a feverisf and apprehensive condition in this country for more than ten years; 1 will not stop to point out the time at which it began to be apprehen- sive; but during more than ten years business has been the object of sharp criticism in the United States, criticism growing in volume anu growing in particularity; and as natural consequence as the volume of criticism has increased business has been growing more and more anxious "On all hands it is admitted that there are processes of business, or have been processes of business in this country which ought to be cor rected, 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 l business than to be kept guessing (Cnntinued on Page EiVHl