The Natchitoches enterprise., 1915-02-04
President Wilson Voices Confident
Prediction Of New Era
of Prosperity.

OuIlIiiCu WtldU JtIO bClllOOFnlIN SOh
gress has tried to accomplish
through it's trust legislation, and
declared a seyeral-y years period
would be required te.determine
whether the chief remedy had
been applied. He said he believed
the maze of Interrogation points
which had checked enterprise for
twenty years had been cleared
away.
With a common understanding
regarding business reached, he
said, henceforth nobody is going
to be suspicious of any business
just because it is big. He gave
some of the rules of the game
which he thought ought to be fol-
lowed, heading the list with pub
licity-not doing anything under
cover.
Entering New Era.
Il have always maintained that
the only way in which men could
understand one another was by
meeting one another said the
President. IF belle Jed all that
| read in the NEWSPAPERS | would
not understand anybody.
I have met many men whose
horns dropped away the moment |
was permitted to examine their
characters. At this 6ime can
say with a good deal of confidence
that we are Oh a new era of enter
prise and prosperity. Enterprise
has been checked in this country
for almost twenty years, because
men were moving among maze
of interrogation points. They did
not know what was going to
happen to them.
All sorts of regulations were
proposed and it was q matter of
uncertainty what sort of regula
ton was going to be adopted.
"All sorts of charges were made
against business as If business
were at.-fault, when most men
knew that the great majority of
business men were honest, were
public spirited, we're intending the
right thing and that many were
afraid because the few did what
was right.
The most necessary thing,
therefore, was for us to agree, as
we did, by slow stages; agree upon
the main particulars on what
ought not to be done and then put
our laws in such shape as to CO.
operate with that general agree
ment.
Work Of Congress.
For one. / have never doubted
that all America was of one peo-
pie. | have never doubted that
all of America believed in doing
what was fair and honora Die and
of good report. But the method.
the method of control by law
against the small minority that
was recalcitrant against these prin-
ciples was thing that it was diff |
cult to determine upon. And it i
was a very great burden, let me
say, to fall upon and handicap the
administration of this government
TO undertake practically the whole
business Of final definitions. That
S what has been attempted by
now about to come to a
,lose. 1t has attempted the def
liTions for which the country had
1een getting ready or trying to
get ready for nearly half a gener.
ltion. 1t will require a period of
est to determine whether they
rave successfully defined them or
lot. but no one needs to have it
proved to him that it was neces-
ary to define them and remove
he uncertainties and that the un-
ertainties being removed, COM
non UNDERSTANDINGS are possible
nd universal corporations.
Suspicion Removed.
In the first place | feel that {
he mists and miasmic of suspicion {
hat have filed the business world {
ave now been blown away. /
elieve that we have passed the
ra of suspicion, and have come )
ow into the era of confidence. !
showing the elements we have to c
cal with, we can deal with them; t
nd with that confidence of know S
,dge, we can have confidence of b
1terDrises. And that enterprise t