The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-02-06
LAWS FOR BENEFIT OF ALL.
PRESIDENT SAYS THERE MUST
BE COOPERATION BETWEEN
EGISLATION AND BUSI.
NESS.
Effort Must BE Made by Farmers Tn
der Direction of Department of Ag-
riculturc to Grow More Grain for az
Close of Conflict World Must BE
Fed.

between business and the government
In framing laws for the benefit Of all
the. people was urged by President
Wilson tonight in an address before
several hundred representative busi-
ness men here attending the annual
convention of the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States. He de-
clared that 1--WE must all pool our in
terests" to discover the best means
for handling public problems.
The president urged the creation in
the United States i'm time of peace of
the same kind of united spirit which
moves nations during wars. He re-
called that when peace Is as hand
some as war there will be no wars"
and that when men engaged in the
pursuits of peace in the same spirit of
self-sacrifice as they engage in war.
wars will disappear"
The president predicted that, while
there Is shortage of food in the
world now, the shortage will he much
greater later. He pointed out that
under the guidance OF the departing Mt
OF agriculture efforts must be made
by American farmers to grow more
AMI more grain. that the world may
be fed.
Speaking OF the foreign trade of
the United States the president asked
that business men devise some way of
allowing American exporters TO com
bine and form common selling agen-
cies and to give long time credits I'm
such n way that these cooperative de-
vices may be open to the use of all.
He declared that apparently the anti
trust laws prohibited such combina-
tions now. but that he would favor q
change II a method fair TO all could
be found. lie spoke of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce's
work in surveying the world" for the
benefit Of all business men.
Business men themselves are to
blame IL intelligent laws affecting them
are formed. the president asserted.
He added that they should come out
into the open and use their knowl-
edge of conditions to bring about laws
t1 prevent business owls.
The Mexican question was mon.
tioned bv Mr. Wilson as an exo,nrls
ot the difficulty he had ia getting &C.
ourate information.
II would prefer that you receive
me as IL for the time being I were
one OF your own number" said the
president. because the longer I oc-
cupy the Office that / now occupy the
more j regret any lines of separa-
ton. the more / deplore any feeling
that one set OF men has one set of
interests and another set of men has
another set Of interests; the more |
feel the solidarity OF the nation, the
impossibility of separating one in
terest from another withoat miscon-
ceiving II. the necessity that we
should all understand one another In
order that we may understand our
selves.
There Is an illustration which I
have used n great many times. will
use II again. because II is the most
scrviceable to my mind. We often
speak OF n man who can not find his
way In some jungle or some desert as
having lost himself. Did you never
reflect that that Is the only thing he
has not lost? lie Is there. He lost
tho rest of the world. He has no
fixed point from which to steer. He
does not know which Is north. which
Is south. which is east, which is west;
and. IL he did know, he is so con-
fused that he would not know in
which OF those directions his goal
lay. and, therefore, following his
heart he walks i'm n great circle from
right TO left and comes back TO where
he started. To himself again.
"To my mind 1t is a picture of the
world. III YOU have lost other IN
terests and do not know the relation
OF your own interests to those other
interests. then you do not understand
your own interests and have lost
yours. What YOU want Is oricntation.
relationship 10 tho uoinfs of tho cor,-
pass. relationship TO the other pco-
pie i'm the world. vital connections
which have for the time being been
severed. And so | am particularly
glad to express my admiration foI
tho kind OF organization which you
have drawn together.
II have attended banqucts Of cham
bers of commerce ln various parts oi
the country and have got the i'm
preston 1t p1Ch of fbpgc I1puutCt,