Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31
WILSON SEES new
ERA OF PROSPERITY
President Again Makes Confident
Prediction Of Approaching
Good Times.
OPEN WAY FOR BUSINESS NOW

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O-Another
confident prediction that the country
soon will enter upon a new era of
enterprise and prosperity was voiced
today by President Wilson in a speech
before the convention Of the Amer
lean Electric Railway association.
Speaking to business men and through
them 10 the world OF business generally,
the president outlined what the demo-
cratic congress has tried to accomplish
through its trust legislation, and declared
that while a test period would be re-
quirSd TO determine whether the correct
remedy had been applied. he believed the
maze Of Interrogation points" which had
checked enterprise for twenty years had
been cleared away
With a common understanding regard
ing business reached he said, henceforth
nobody is going TO be suspicious OF any
business just because Il il big. He gave
some OF the rules OF the game" which
he thought ought to be followed. heading
the list with publicity-"not doing any
thing under cover"
Horns Fade Away.
only way IN which men could understand
one another was by meeting one another"
said the president IF believed all that
I read in the newspapers, would not
understand anybody. / have met many
men whose horns dropped away the mo-
naent I was permitted to examine their
character.
1T seems to me that can say with a
good deal Of confidence, that we are upon
the eve Of new era Of enterprise and
OF prosperity. Enterprise has been
checked in this country for almost twenty
years. because men were moving amongst
maze OF Interrogation points.
They did not know what was going to
happen 10 them. All sorts of regulations
we're proposed, and 1t was a matter of
uncertainty what sort of regulation was
going to be adopted. All sorts Of charges
were made against business. as II bus
mess were at fault, when most men knew
that the great majority OF businessmen
wero honest. were publlc-spirited. were
intending the right thing. and the many
were made afraid because the few did
not do what was right.
Agree on Particulars.
The most necessary thing, therefore,
was for us to agree, as we did by slow
stages agree, upon the main particulars
OF what ought not to be done. and then
put our laws In such shape as 10 CORE.
spond with that general Judgment. I. for
one. have never doubted that all America
was of one principle. have never
doubted that all America believed In
doing what was fair and honorable and
or good report. But the method. the
method of control by law aRainat the
small minority that was recalcitrant
against these principles, was thing that
u wss' difficult TO determine upon. And
IL was a very great burden, let me saw.
10 Iall upon a principle administration,
OF TINS government to have TO undertake
practically the whole business OF final
definition. That is what has been at
tempted by the congress now about to
come 70 close. II has attempted the
oetinitions for which the country had
been getting ready. or trying TO get ready
Tor nearly half generation"
Some men are going to get beaten
because they have not the brains; thew
have not the Initiative; they have NOT
the skill; they have not the knowledre.
they have not the same capacity that
otner men have" the president said |
rney VIII have to be employees; they
VIII have to be used where they can be
used We do not need to conceal from
ourselves that there are varieties of ca
paeity in the world. Some men have
heads. but they are not particularly fur
nlshed."
concluding with reference to his belief |
IN freedom OF speech. the president said:
have been subjected 10 free speech |
myself and 1t is hard TO endure some
umes' because the office OF the president
seems to be the clearing house for original
IDEAS. am brought more original ideas
per diem. dare say. than any other per-
son IN the country and therefore pay the
penalty OF free speech"
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