New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
WILSON DECLARES
U.S.. MUST RALLY
TO WORLD NEED
Nation Should Help Pre-
vent Patched Up
Peace" He Says.
MUST BREAK BONDS
OF PROVINClALISM
President Spends Busy Day in
Columbus-SuffragiStS ASK
Amendment Support.

Amendment support
Columbus. Ohio, Dec. 10.-President
Wilson expressed to-day the opinion
that there would be no patched up
peace" following the European war. In
an address before the Columbus Cham
Der Of Commerce he urged American
business men TO mobilize their re-
: sources in order that the United States
might be prepared 10 play more impor-
tant part in tho worlds affairs ana
bring about justice after the present
war
The President spent eighteen hours
in Columbus, during which he was ac-
tive every minute. His reception was
enthusiastic and pleased him greatly.
In addition TO the Chamber of Com
merce speech, he delivered an address
tonight before the Commission on
Church and Country Life of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ in
America, shook hands with more than
q 900 persons at a reception In the
State Capitol, spoke briefly to a large
crowd from the steps Of the Capitol
and took long walk about the streets
Of Columbus. The entire city and
many persons from surrounding towns
greeted him.
Mr.. wilson's Chamber of Commerce
address was delivered before more than
400 men and women in the Masonic
Temple, patriotically draped with
American flags for the occasion. Near
him sat Governor Willis, Ex-Governor
Judson Harmon, Senator Pomerene,
Representative Brumbaugh and others
Of 0hio's leading men. His speech
was frequently interrupted by applause.
After he arrived at his hotel Colum-
lus suffragists sent the President
large bouquet of roses. With the roses
was a card saying the suffragists sup
ported the Susan B. Anthony cOnstitu-
tiopal amendment introduced in both
houses of Congress at Washington, pro-
viding for nationwide woman suffrage.
Business and Politics Mingled.
Il want first to express my very
deep gratitude to you,' said the Presi-
dent, "for the cordial manner in which
YOU have greeted me and my sense of
20 speak about some Of the things in
which we are mutually interested. You
gentlemen are perhaps more interested
IN those matters of policy which affect
the business of the country than in any
others; and yet 1t has never seemed to
me possible TO separate the business of
country from it's essential spirit and
the fe Of its people. The mistake that
some men have made has been in sup
Iosing that business was one thing and
ifo another, whereas they are inseps-
able in their. principles and in their
expression.
~ must say that in looking back anon
She past there is something about the
history of business in this country
which is not wholly satisfactory. IL is
interesting 70 remember that in the
early years Of the republic we felt
ourselves more 8 part of the general
world than we have felt since then.
Down to the war of 1912 the seas were
full of American ships. American en-
tcrprise was everywhere expressed in
American commerce when we were q
little nation; and yet now that we are
a great nation the seas are almost bare
Of our ships and we trade with other
countries at the convenience of the
carriers Of other nations.
"The truth is that after the war of
1912 We seem deliberately to have
chosen to be provincial. to shut our
selves in upon ourselves, exploit our
own resources for our own benefit,
rather than for the benefit Of the rest
Of the world. and we did not return TO
address ourselves to foreign commerce
until our domestic development had so
Learly burst its Jacket that there was
no straitjacke in which it could be
confined.
"Now American industry in recent
years has been crying for an outlet into
the currents of the world. There were
some American minds, some American
business men-not few-who were
not built upon the provincial type, who
did find their way into foreign markets
and made the usual American peaceful
conquest in those foreign markets, but
others seemed deliberately TO refrain
or not to know that there were oppor-
iunities TO be availed of.
&c.. No American Banks Abroad.
Until the recent banking act, you
could not find, so far as Lam informed,
a branch of an American bank any
where outside of the United States.
whereas other nations of the world
we're doing their banking business on
foreign shores through the instru-
mentality Of their own bankers. | was
told at b. meeting Of the American
Bankers Association that much Of the
foreign banking business, the business
in foreign exchange, had 10 be done in
our ports by branches of Canadian
banks established among ourselves.
Being literalists, we interpreted the
national banking act 70 mean, since II
did not say that the national banks
would engage in this business, that
they could not engage in II, and some
Of the natural, some Of the necessary,
functions of banking were not per-
sormed by American bankers.
II refer D, this merely as an evil
dence Of what ! take leave to call our
provincialism. Moreover during this
period this very interesting thing
happened, that American business men
were so interested 20 be protected
against the competition OF other bust
ness men Ia other countries that they
proceeded by organization TO protect
themselves against each other and en-
Gagged in the politics Of organization
father than in the statesmanship OF
enterprise.
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