Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-04
Wilson Sees a New
Day for Business Ahead!
Says the New Day Of Prosperity Must Be Accompanied by a new
Day Of Comprehension Of the Needs of Business, Encourage
ment for the Aims Of the Business World, Recognition Of
the Sincerity Of Purpose Of Business Men. MIL
From New York Independent, Novemb

because a time of just dealing aln
cooperation between men made equal
before the law in fact, as well as in
name" i
In his conclusion that the time has
come when we must proceed from the
task of destructive criticism to the
work of constructive npbnilding, Pres
ident Wilson is overwhelmingly right.
Ten years ago there was much thai
needed to be torn down-monopoly,
special privilege, injustice by the
few toward the many. Today there
is much that needs to be built up
prosperity, confidence, justice of the
many toward the few.
Must Mobilize Resources.
Long vistas open before us. The
swift disaster of the war, which dis
located credit. stifed business and
menaced prosperity, promises to
bring to us on the rebound, as it
we're, great opportunities for business
expansion and increased trade. In Or.
der to avail ourselves Of them, it is
necessary, as Mr.. Wilson says, that
the United States ''mobilize its re-
sources in the most effective way
possible and make her credit and hel
usefulness good for the service OF
the whole world" It is far from be.
ing a merely selfish opportunity that
lies before us. The nations Of N,-
rope. by going TO war, have cut. them.
selves off from the service which 1t
has been their good fortune to per,
form for the rest Of the world. That
service must still be, performed. The
people OF South America and Asia
and Africa still need what Europe
has estOpped itself from continuing to
supply. It is natural they should look
to us. If we open our eyes to the
situation in the earnest realization,
that it involves serious responsible
ties, as well as promising opportuni-
ties, they should not look in vain.
But we must mobilize our resources.
We must work together. We must en-
courage business, not harry it. We
must substitute cooperation for crit
icism, mutual hclpfulness for class
antagOnism.
MI. Wilson has pointed out n d.
rection in which action should be tax
en- in the new spirit:
THE railroads Of the country are
almost as much affected, not so much
because their business is curtaile6,
as because their credit IS called n
question by doubt as to their e~arnins
capacity. There is no other interest
so central to the business welfare OF
the country as this. No doubt in the
light Of the new day, with it's new
understandings, the problems of the
railroads will also be met and dealt
with in a spirit of ,,candor and JUS
Justice For Railroads.
There was a time when it was es-
sential that the principle Of public
control Of common carriers and gov
eminent regulation Of railroad rates
should be firmly established. In
bringing about this desirable end i;
was inevitable that there should aris.
an atmosphere OF antagonism between
the railroads and the public. But thai
time is past. The principle is immov-
ably fixed. The railroads accept it as
completely as their most ardent crit
les Of the past. The atmosphere OF
antagonism should be blown away.
The time is here to use the machinery
first set up to protect the public from
the railroad, to defend the railroads
from the menace Of untoward condi.
We have compelled the rail-
roads to do justice to us. We must
see to it that we do not hesitate to do
to them. ..5E a
President Wilson is right. "A new
day is dawning. We shall hasten its
coming just in proportion as we real
iZe that a new time demands a new
understanding, a new cooperation, "a
new spirit.
AS business prospers, we all pros
per. In the misfortunes Of business
we all suffer. The new day of pros.
must be accompanied by a new
day Of comprehension of the needs
Of business, encouragement for the
of the business world, recogni.
ton of the sincerity of purpose of
business men 4