The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-04

state branch of the Wilson Business
 Mems National League. This infor-
 nation comes from Edward A. Eli
 lene, of New York, chairman of the
 executive committee of the national organization, who also announces the
 selection of state directors as follows:
 Walter Leigh, New Haven; James A
 Miles, Derby. These gentlemen, to-
 gether with other prominent business men of the state of Connecticut will meet in the immediate future for the purpose of perfecting the state organ | ization, and engaging actively in the
 work of re-electing resident Wilson, which, the league contends, will mean four more years sof prosperity for the business interests of this country.
 The Wilson Business Mems National League. which has its national head quarters at A2S0 Madison avenue, New York city, is a healthy, well de- veloped organization, non-parhsan m character, Wilsonian in avowed pur- pose, already national in scope, ana composed of some of the most repre- sentative business men of America, whose various business interests stretchs from coast to coast, and from Canada. to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Its national officers, are men of big affairs whose names are known ma tionally, and who, like the entire en- rollnent of the league, are in 1t, not because they are Democrats, but TOT the reason that they believe MT. Will sons administration, as it relates to business, to be responsible for their individuaIEas well as for the national prosperity, which they also hold, will not prove transient, but permanent, in the event. of his reelection in sNo- vember.
 These officers are - President, Charles R. Crane, of the Crane Co.,, Chicago; vice presidents, George F. Johnson, Endicott, N. Y.; W. L. Saun- ders, New York city; Calvin Tomp- kins, New York City, and c. H. In gersoll, New York City; treasurer, Jesse Isldore Strauss, New York city; secretary, W. F.. ,Messehger, New Y ork city.
 The executive committee is com- posed of Edward A. Filene, J. Spen- cer Smith, George A. LaMonte, w. E. Tuttle, c. H. Ingersoll, RobeTt Gr1er Monroe, W. R. Messenger, Jesse 1s1- dore Strauss and Calvin Tompkins-
 Tn each state in the union a chair man and five directors have been ap- pointed, and the New York national headquarters Is keeping'in close touch with them. Reports to date are of a most encouraging character, even from the state, that, in former cam paigns have been listed as doubtful Members of the, league are confident of President Wilson's reelection, but their efforts will not be relaxed until the end of the campaign
 The league is distributing a book" let, Wilson and Permanent Business Prosperity" setting forth many of it's reasons for supporting the President Tthis pamphlet can be obtained by writing to any of the state or na- tional directors.
 The league, at the outset, calls att tention to the fact that President Will ] son has never run amuck," upsetting the business of the nation The pamphlet continues:
 ITO the mass of business men, on whose success is built the prosp9rity of the nation, the Wilson administra- tion has opened the channels of credit and given full sweep at opportunity.
 Business complained for years about a nationwide lack of conf1- dence. Abuses existed and reforms were needed-desperately needed but ''reformers'' seemed to the busi- ness world to be dangerous men. It remained for Woodrow Wilson as President to adjust without disorgan- izing, to return without destroying. He recognized the need for business confidence-and he restored it.
 "A11 the recognized indices of busi- ness conditions tell the same. story. Official statistics of bank deposits and bank clearingA postal receipts. build ing operations. gold supply. exports and imports. ship building, wages. in- come tax receipts, railway earnings and the national wealth, separate and in combination, go to show the amaz- ing and unprecedented volume of the nations commerce and industry.
 And this prosperity is due largely almost entirely, to internal conditions, it is domestic prosperity. It Is the prosperity that Woodrow Wilson fore saw before he became President, when he outlined program for unshackling business and giving it access to the commerce of the world. When the world war, which no man could fore |see, threatened the prosperity of all nations, President Wilson made it pos sible for the pnited States to realize domestic prosperity by keeping the country out of war. That he has done through the most trying period of the worlds history, when our own gov ernment was beset with perplexitfes and complications from every side.
 Analysis of the facts proves that this prosperity is natural and perma- nent, and not due primarily to the Eu- repean war, The value of our exports of war munitions for the last fiscal year amounted to less than one per cent. of our total manufacturers"
 The pamphlet goes on to show, by listing the increase in bank deposits dhGt this prosperity with it's steady growth, is shared by every geographic section of the United States. It cited the Federal Reserve Act which, it de- syAses, has "cured us of financial fits s-a~ national disease of panics." This act, it is claimed, through the creation of the Federal Reserve Board, has brought about a well balanced control of interest rates, and of the expension and contraction of currency. and has terminated a system under which the reserve money of the country was concentrated in two or three great money centres, where it was used for stock speculation rather than to ac- cemmodate commerce, industry.
 Among other 1aOiS1atiO of fho