Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-06
S. WILL FIGHT,
BUT CAUSE MUST BE
JUST, SAYS WILSON

CONTINUED From First PaSe.)
nave TO be careful about is that We do
his thing In Il new way.
bliss 1t is in these days for an
american to be alivc---and to be young
must be very heaven-because all the
lcstiny into whose great fruitions
america has promised to lead the world
now open to be achieved under her
leadership. II she will see and take the
way.
Sometimes we deceive ourselves by
linking that the commerce Of recent
ears has chiefly. consisted in exports
stimulated by the war. II will he
worth your while to look into the
lgurcs. Our exports have been about
II this proportion: an increase in cx-
lorts during these years Of some two
thousand millions. expressed In dollars
md All increase In the national wealth
Il forty thousand millions-twenty
ines the increase OF our exports. Can
IN increase in our exports OF TWO thou
and millions produce so stupenduous
III effect as to multiply itself twenty
lines in our national! wealth? The fact
5. that the world has poured it's wealth
ipon us by reason OF the fact that we
ire at last waking up to the fact that
he world has need Of the wealth that
ye possess. and that, therefore, tho
cal business Of legislation Is 10 relca Sc
hcsc forces and To see to !: that i'm
,cdiments. new or old. shall not bc
placed In the way. That Is the rca
son IL has been the studious endeavor
II recent years to see to II that bust
iess men got ria of the belief which
home OF them had that the law was
Intended to restrain them. and not in
ended 10 serve them.
ANTITRUST LAWS NO
sHACiiLES no FAIR BUSINESS
Take the antitrust laws, for cx-
nipple. Cntil recently, venture to
ay most American business men
poke OF the antitrust laws with n
urse under their breath-just as men
hink OF shackles. Just as men think
4 being deprived OF opportunity.
Md we heard u great deal OF talk
bout big business getting no sympa-
by. That was not the trouble. Big
business had plenty Of sympathy. but
pad business ought not TO have had
ny sympathy, and what our laws stood
n need OF was the definition OF what
was good and what was bad. What
hey stood in need of was distinct eX-
preston of the idea that was back of
hem. That idea was merely this: un-
air competition is intolcrabic. But IL
he competition Is fair, the scale upon
Which 1t is carried on is not only OF no
oncern to the lawmakers. but the
igGer the scale tho more splendid the
esult-always provided II is con-
ucted with fairness and honor and
Some of these days. gentlemen.
when the great tides of business are
unning free in this country, you will
ook back upon the last three years
nd say. That was when the channels
E.ere dug for this great time As
ompared with the verdict of the next
wenty five years. do not care Il
epper corn about the verdict of 1916.
ecause ! know how those laws were
onceved.
america is to be congratulated upon
avinG achieved business cmancipa-
ion Now it is up to you men and
is up to all business men in the
United States to make something of
and il il cannot be made something
in this part of the country, in parts
f the country where. like this, men
ave been accustomed to taking care
f themselves, nave been accustomed
planting States and cities. and max
,g communities tell with all the force
/ their Intelligence, 1t cannot be born
nywherc.