Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-04
GOVERNMENT IN NEED OF
ADVICE FROM BUSINESS
MEN OF COUNTRY

Continued From PaEe Three
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question arises. therefore. how are
the smaller merchants, how are
younger and weaker corporations. GO
ing "a get q f0othold as against the
combinations which are permitted and
even encouraged ~ foreign govern
menis ~ The very fieid ~ compcti-
tom
Wants 60 b. shown.
American merchants feel that they
are "a very consider Bile disadvaut-
aee IN contcnding against that The
matter has been many times brought
% my attention and ] have each time
suspended Judgment because. in this
matter. = am from Missouri and
want to he shown this ! want 90 be
shown how that combination can be
made and conducted IN "a way which
won't close Il against the use Of ey-
eryhody who wants 40 use IT, A COM
hination has a tendency 10 exclude
new members. When "a group Of men
get control 81 a good thing they do
not see any particular point in letting
other people into the good thing
what ! would ike very much 10
be shown, Therefore. Is a method u
coordination which Is not a method
~ combination, not that the two
words are mutually exclusive. bat we
have come 10 have a special mean
ing attached 10 the word combina
ton. Most Of our combinations have
safety lock and you have to get
the combination "a get In. ! want 10
know how these cooperative meth
DDS can be adopted for the benefit OF
everybody who wants 10 use them,
and / say frankly II / can be shown
that ! am for them.
III ] cannot be shown that | am
against them. aud ! hasten to add that
! hopefully expect that can be
shown"
The president said that he hoped
the organization would take steps 10
discover the opinion Of the small
merchants and bankers in the coun-
try districts on the subjects.
Opinions by Contagion.
"As matter OF fact" he contin-
ued, you do not have time to think
IN a city II takes time TO think. You
can get what you call opinions by
contagion In city aud get them very
quickly. but you do not always know
where the germ came from. You have
no scientific laboratory method by
which Ia determine whether II is a
good germ or bad germ.
There are thinking spaces in this
country and soi1e q the thinking
done is very solid thinking indeed
the thinking Of the sort Of men that
we I'll love best, who think for them
selves. who do mol see things as they
are told 20 see them, but look at
them for themselves, and II they are
told they are white when they are
not white. plainly say that they are
black men with eyes and with
courage back u those eyes 10 tell
what they see
eThe country is full Of those men
They have been singuiarly retieent
some times. singuiarly silent Bui The
country Is fun If them and what !
rejoice in is that you have called
them into the ranks Your methods
are bound to be democratic ia spite
Of you did not mean democratic
with a big u, though I have a private
conviction that yuu cannot be demo
cratic with a small d long enough
without becoming democratic with .
Ing y. sin that is Just between OUT
selves The point is that when we
have a consensus Of opinion, when We
have this common counsel then The
legislative processes Of this govern
ment viii be Infinitely illuminated"
Common Counsel Best.
Experience has taught some. the
president said, not TO try 10 dominate
any conference callea to get the best
solution OF a problem, because com
mon counsel always brings the best
results,
Many minds aFe necessary to COM
pound a workable method of life IN
various and poulous country he
said. "as ! think about the whole
thing and picture the purposes, the
infinitely difficult and complex pur-
poses which We might conceive and
carry out not only does IL minister 90
my own modestY / hope, OF opinion.
but It also fills me with q very great
enthusiasm.
"lt is "a splendid thing 90 be a part
of great witiesawake nation il is (
splendid thing to know that your
own strength is infinitely multiplied |
hy the strength Of other men who I
love the country it is a splendid thing /
10 feel that the wholesome blood Of /
a great country can be united in a /
common purpose. and that by frankly /
looking one another in the face and I
taking counsel with one another 4
preiudices will drop away and hand (
universal spirit Of serviceS90S .....
some understapdngs will arise and 4
"a universal spirit Of service will be 4
engendered aud with this increased /
sense IF community Of purpose viii 4
come "a vastly enhanced individual /
power of achievement. for we VIII be 1
elevated hy the whole mass of which I
We constitute part