Arizona republican., 1915-01-30
Speaking Before the Amer ican Railway Association, Outlines What the Demo cratic Congress is At tempting to Accomplish
BUSINESS NOT BAD
 BECAUSE IS BIG
Henceforth, He Declares, Nobody is Going to Be Suspicious of Any Bus mess Because It May Be Large
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29-Another confident prediction that the coun- try will enter new era of enterprise and prosperity was voiced by the president in a speech before the con- vention of the American Electric Railway Association. The president outlined what the democratic con- gress is attempting to accomplish through trust legislation. He declar- ed while a test period will be requir- ed to determine whether the correct remedy has been applied. he believed "the maze of interrogation points" which has checked enterprise for twenty years has been cleared away
 With common understanding re- gardng the business reached, he said henceforth nobody is going to be suspicious of any business just be- cause it is big He gave some rules of the game" which he thought ought to be followed heading the list with publicity-"Not doing anything under cover
 Declaring that business, big or small. should be given an equal chance, but that all be made to ob- serve "the rules of the track" the president said
 There have been times-I do not specify them. but there have been tmes-when the field looked free, but when there were favors received from the managers of the course. when there were advantages given, inside { tracks accorded. practices which would block the other runner and rules to exclude the amateur who wanted to get in. That may be a free field, but there was favor, there ! was partiality there was preference. of somebody and while it looms very well from the grandstand. there were men whom you can find who were not allowed to get into the track and test their powers against the other men who were racing for the honors of the day.
 | The president said he did not mean that business should now be penalized or barred because it was big and strong
 i T have always maintained that the l only way in which men could under stand one another was by meeting one another said the president. If I be- lieved all that I read in the news- papers, l would not understand any 1 body I have met many men whose horns dropped away the moment was permitted to examine their char acter.
 Tt seems to me that I can say with good deal of confidence that we are upon the eve of a new era of enter prise and of prosperity. Enterprise has been checked in this country for almost twenty years, because men were moving amongst a maze of in terrogation points. They did not know what was going to happen to them. All sorts of regulations were proposed and it was matter of uncertainty what sort of regulation was going to be adopted. All sorts of charges were made against business as if business were at fault, when most men knew that the great majority of business men were honest. were public spirit ed, were intending the right thing and the many were made afraid be- cause the few did not do what was right.
 "The most necessary thing, there
 fore. was for us to agree, as we did by slow stages agree, upon the main 1