The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-02-04
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.
slble and a Universal Coop
Grafton, He Asserts, Out
lines Progress.

Washington, Feb. Another con
fdent prediction that the country soon
will enter upon a new era of enter
prise and prosperity was voiced by
President Wilson In 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
ard declared that while a 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 90 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
II 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. | 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
a 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 20 years because men were
moving amongst a maze of i~nterroga.
ton points. They did not know what
was going to happen to them. All
sorts of regulations were proposed and
it was a 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 know the great ma
jority of business men were honest,
were public spirited, we're 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 tne 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-
ci2le. ] 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 a thing that ii was diff
cult to determine upon. And it was a
very great burden, let me say, to fall
on a 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 a close. 1t has attempted
the definitions for which the country
had been getting ready, or trying to
get ready. for nearly half a 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 N needs to have it proved to him
that II was necessary to define them
and remove the uncertainties, and that
the uncertainties being removed, COM
mon understandings are possible and
a universal cooperation.