Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-31
.INGERSOLL PULLS FOR
ELECTION Of WILSON
ON BUSINESS REASONS
Watch Manufacturer Says
Democratic Administration
Has Been Champion of the
Small Business Man

NEW YORK, Oct. S0.-Charles H.
Ingersoll, watch manufacturer, an Of
ficer of the Wilson Business Mems Ma
tional league, president of the Wood
row Wilson Advertisers league, today
made public a statement urging the re-
election of President Wilson as the
first champion of the small merchant
and business man.
Mr. Ingersoll said that the statement
would be printed at once in a pamphlet
and mailed to many thousand retailers
throughout the country.
As manufacturer who sells direct
ly to the retailer, Mr.. Ingersoll has
studied the problems of the retail mer-
chant, and made common cause with the
small business man in his struggle for
a fair field.
The statement made public today re-
cites in terse and forceful terms Presi-
dent Wilson's record of accomplishment
in freeing business from artificial and
unfair competition and leaving every
enterprising merchant a fair field.
Big business is little business in
the aggregate" said Mr. Ingersoll. "All
but q negligible minority of the goods
Dor in vast quantities finally trickles
to consumers in small lots, across the
counters of Americas million and more
retail stores-most Of them small bust
nesses.
MADE CONDITIONS BETTER.
Safeguard American men against
unfair competition and they will take
care of themselves said Woodrow Will
son at Philadelphia, on october 90, 1912.
Lnr G-a6 IAx~1 -r1iT
Gus predatory price cutting, when they
have to meet Misrepresentation of val
ues in the advertising appeal to their
customers by INSCRIPTIONS competitors,
when bank and trade credits are stiff
and inelastic and manipulated in favor
of those with close relations with the
money power, when unreasonable and
discriminatory inside prices are granted
to the favored few-then the country
cannot expect them to be in condition
to contribute as they can so nightly
do. under proper conditions, to the pros
perity and welfare of it's business.
Let the merchant observe how the
massage by the Wilson administration
of the federal reserve act and the UNI
fair competition act, and the creation
of the federal trade commission, the
Clayton law, the rural credits bill, the
tariff commission, and the good roads
and child labor acts, as we'll as the
Wilson appointees to the United States
supreme court and other impOrtaar
posts, have helped to bring about BET,
ter conditions, which are felt already.
and which will be increased tenfold IF
those who created these agencies are
continued in office to see them develop
10 full usefulness.
Until the Wilson administration TOOK
office, i'm 1918, no party ever had recog-
nized the place and importance of the
multitude of small businesses in Amer
lean affairs. No preceding administra-
ton has had a practical insight into
the improper and discouraging handi-
caps which were placed i'm the way of
the average merchant.
Naturally, the Republican party,
with its eyes glued to the interests of
the great corporations from which 1t
has always drawn fat campaign con-
tributions and in exchange for which
it has devoted it's attention to legisla.
tive protection, has scant time for or
appreciation Of the needs or Importance
Of the host of small businesses not
heavily represented on its list of con-
tributors.
FRIENDLY TO ALL BUSINESS.
But with the advent Of President
Wilson and the Democratic congress
came a new spirit-friendly to ali
wholesome and legitimate business.
whether big or little, yet with a spe-
cially sympathetic understanding Of
the problems of the smaller man, and
with faith In the value of maintaining
conditions in which he could thrive AMI
preserve his independent initiative.
Evidence of this will be seen clearly
from brief summary Of the effects Of
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