New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN GAN
 MASTER WORLD, ,SAYSWlLSON
President in Columbus o. Address Declares There Will be "No Patched Up Peace" Following European
 War-Defends Mexican Policy.

I manship of enterprise. For your or. l ganiZation for the purpose of pre-. l venting successful competition is no
 in moral level any higher than run 1 ming politics upon the basis of or. ganization rather than upon the basi: | of statesmanship and achievement Organization is necessary to politics
 and it is necessary to business, but the object of organization ought not 1 to be exclusion; it ought to be eff. ciency. The only legitimate object o1 organization is efficiency. It can nevc, be legitimate when it is intended fo, hostile competitive purposes. I have never entertained the slightest jeal- ousy of those processes of organiza- tion which led to greater and greater competency, but I have always been
 jealous of those processes or organi-
 zation which were intended in the
 spirit of exclusion and monopoly, be-
 cause the spirit of exclusion and moIl- opoly is not the American spirit. The American spirit is spirit of opportunity and of equal opportunity and of admitting every man to tho race who can stand the pace. So | say that we have reason to look back
 
 with some dissatisfaction; but l for my part look forward to the future of American business with greatest confidence.
 American business has altered its point of view, and in proportion cs it has altered it's point of view 1t has gained in power and in momen- tum. I have some times heard ex- hortations to the effect that politics ought not to be injected into busi- ness. It is just as important that you should not inject business into poli- tics, because so far as the business Ot this country is concerned there ought not to be any politics.
 Military Democrat.
 "I, gentlemen, am a democrat, as you probably have heard, and I am militant democrat, but it is because I believe that the principles of de- mocracy will be of more service to the country than any other kind of principles. Not because I believe democrats are better than republi- cans; it is because I think republicans are mistaken and democrats right. and I hope and believe that I hold that conviction in no narrow partisan spirit. I am one of few among my acquaintances who absolutely believe every word, for example, of the Vir- ginia bill of rights. Most men use them for Fourth of July purposes and use them very handsomely, but I be- ieve them. For example, the Virginia pill rights-I cite that because tt vas one of the first bills of rights; he others were largely modelled lpon it or run them. For example, he Virginia bill of bill of rights says hat when a government proves un- uitable to the life of the people Ter it q am not quoting the lang age, but the meaning,) they have right to alter or abolish it in any way that they please. When things were perhaps more debatable than hey are now about our immediate leighbor to the south of us, I do not 1now how many men came to mo lnd suggested that the government If Mexico should be altered as we bought it ought to be altered, but ,eing a subscribed to the doctrine oc he Virginia bill of rights, I could nay not know what to do with their but that is none of our business; and so long as I have tho power to prevent it, nobody shall butt n' to alter it for them. That Is what
 mean by being a democrat built ! m the original plan of the bill of tights.
 Opposed to Monopoly.
 'Now those bills of rights say some hings that are very pertinent to busi- less. They assert the absolute equal ty of right on the part of individuals o access to opportunity. That is the eason I am opposed to monopoly, not hat monopoly does not produce some xce1lent results of a. kind, but be- l ause it is intended to shut out a l ot of people who ought not to be l ut out; and I believe that democ- acy is the only thing that vitalizes a l whole people instead of vitalizing only 1 ome of the people of the country. | am not fit to be the trustee of pros l 'erity for this country; neither are ou; neither is any group of men fit 1 o be the trustees for the economical, uidance of this country. I believe | n the common man. I believe that | enius of America to be that the ommon man should be consulted as 0 how he is governed and should be iven the same opportunity with every ther man under his government. elieve that that spirit is the spirit f the average business man in America. I am sure that it is the pirit of the average business man l America, because, although it is a urrent theory that the President of he United States is a very much se- luded person, a. good many people ak to him, I assure you and he takes articular pains to know what the eople are talking about who do not ak directly to him. Nobody who as been bred in the atmosphere of lmerican societies, from one end of his continent to the other, can mis- ake the spirit of the average man, nd I am for the average man. The ountry consists of him. He is the