The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-30
Confident Prediction That
Country Soon Will See
Vast Industrial Uplift Is
/ Made by the President
ENTERPRISE HAS BEEN
CHECKED FOR ALMOST.|
20 YEARS, HE DECLARES
Wilson Speaking Before the
Electrical Railway Asso-
/ citation in Capital Sends
Message of Cheer toPeople
WILSON

Washington, January 29.-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 Ameri-
can Electric Railway association.
Speaking to business men and through
them to 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 required
to determine whether the correct remedy
had been applied, he believed the ''maze
of interrogation points,. which had
checked enterprise for 20 years had been
cleared away. With a common under
standing regarding business reached. he
said, henceforth nobody is going to be
suspicious of any business just because 1T
is big. He gave some of the "rules of the
game which he thought ought to be fol-
lowed, heading the list with publicity
mot doing anything under cover
.T have always maintained that the 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, I would not
understand anybody 1 have met many
men whose horns dropped away the mo-
ment 1 was permitted to examine their
character.
Upon Eve of New Era
"It seems to me that 1 can say with a
good deal of confidence that we are upon
the eve of a new era of enterprise and of
prosperity. Enterprise has been checked
in this country for almost 20 years, be-
-suse men We're moving amongst maze
or Interrogation points. They did not
know what was going to happen to them.
All sorts of regulations were proposed,
and it was a matter of uncertainty what
sort of regulation was going to be adopt
ed. All sorts of charges were made
against business as If business we're at
fault. when most men knew that thS. great
majority of business men were hopest,
were public-spirited, were intending the
right thing, and the many We're made
afraid because the few did not do what
was right.
1.-The most necessary thing, therefore,
was for lis to agree, as we did by slow
stages agree, upon the main particulars of
what ought not to be done and then to
put our laws in such shape as to corre-
spond with that general judgment. l for
one have never doubted that all America
as of one principle. 1 have never doubt
NJ that all America believed in doing
what was fair and honorable and of
good report. But the method, the method
of control by law against the small mi
Iority that was recalctrant against these
principles, was thing that it was diff
1lcut to determine upon. And it was a
very great burden, let me say, to fall
upon particular administration of this
government to have to undertake practi-
caly the whole business of final definition.
That is what has been attempted by the
Congress now about to come to a close 1t
has attempted the definitions for which
the country has been getting ready or try
ing to get ready for nearly half a gen.
Grafton.
Test Required
"It will require a period of test to
determine whether they have successful
ly defined them or not, but one needs
to have it proved to him that it was
necessary to define them and remove the
uncertainties, and that the uncertainties
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