Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-02-05
MAKES CONFIDENT PREDICTION
THAT COUNTRY SOON WILL
ENTER UPON PERIOD OF
GREAT PROSPERITY.
MAZE THAT CHECKED
ENTERPRISE is CLEARED
Uncertainties Are Being Removed,
Common Understandings Are Pos.
sibIe and Universal Coop.
GRAFTON, He Asserts, Out
lines Progress.

Washington, Feb. Another con.
fident prediction that the country soon
Will enter upon new era of enter.
prise and prosperity was voiced by
President Wilson i'm a speech before
the convention of the American Elec-
trio Railway Association.
Speaking to the business men and
through them to the world of business
generally, the president outlined what
the Democratic congress has tried to
accomplish through its trust legislation
and declared that while test period
would be required to determine
whether the correct remedy had been
applied, he believed "the maze of in
terrogation points" which had checked
enterprise for 20 years had been
cleared away.
No One to Be Suspicious.
With a common understanding re-
garding business reached, he said,
henceforth nobody is going to be sus-
picious Of any business just because
it is big. He gave some of the rules
of the game" which he thought ought
to be followed, heading the list with
publicity-"not doing anything under
cover"
Il have always maintained that the
only way in which men could under
stand each other is by meeting one
another.
If believed all read in the news
papers / would not understand any
body. l have met many men whose
horns have dropped away the minute
was permitted to examine their char
acter.
Sees Prosperity at Hand.
1t seems to me that can say with
good deal of confidence that we are
upon the eve of new era of enter
prise and of prosperity. Enterprise
| has been checked in this country for
| almost 20 years because men were
moving amongst a. maze of interroga-
ton points. They did not know what
was going to happen to them. All
| sorts of regulations were proposed and
1t was matter of uncertainty what sort
| of regulation was going to be adopted.
ALI sorts of charges were made against
business, as if business were at fault,
H|hen most men know the great ma
jOrity of business men were honest,
were public spirited, were intending
the right thing, and the many were
made afraid because the few did not
do what was right.
Necessary Thing is to Agree.
"The most necessary thing, there
fore, was for us to agree, as we did by
slow stages agree upon the main par.
ticulars Of what ought not to be done,
and then to put our laws in such shape
as to correspond with that general
judgment. for one have never doubt
ed that all America was Of one prin.
ciple. have never doubted that all
Americans believed in doing what was
fair and honorable and of good report.
But the method, the method of con-
troll by law against the small minority
that was recalcitrant against these
principles was thing that it was diff
cult to determine upon. And it was a
very great burden, let me say, to fall
on particular administration Of this
government to have to undertake prac.
tically the whole business of final def
milton. That is what has been at
tempted by the congress now about
to come to close. It has attempted
the definitions for which the country
had been getting ready, or trying to
get ready. for nearly half genera.
ton.
Uncertainties Being Removed.
1T will require a period of testi.
mony to determine whether they have
successfully defined them or not, but
no one needs to have it proved to him
that 1t was necessary to define them
and remove the uncertainties, and that
the uncertainties being removed, com.
mon understandings are possible and
q universal cooperation.
vetoes immigration Bill.
Washington, Jan. 29.-President Will
son vetoed the immigration bill and
sent special message to Congress soy
ing he disapproved the measure be.