The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1916-09-25

Long Branch, Sept. 25.-In his speech
to the Business Mems league here
Saturday, President Wilson said:
"Mr. Chairman, gentlemen Of the
Business Mems league. ladies' and
gentlemens q svzs.
'T need not tell you what a sense Of
gratihcation it gives me that you
should come bearing this generous
message which have just heard from
your chairman. There Is a sense in
which the business men of" America
represent America because America
has devoted herself time out of mind
to the arts and achievements of peace,
and business is the organization of
the energies of peace. No one who
looks about upon the field Of American
business at the present moment can
fail to realize that a new breath and
spirit have come into the business of
America. ..
There have been times when i
looked as If America were interested
only in herself, but in these recent
years American business men have
lifted their eyes to more distant hori-
IONS and have seen how the markets
of the world were waiting for their
service, and as they have sought and
obtained entrance into the markets a
new vision has come to them, of what
the development Of the resources of
America means; of what the organiza-
tion of American efficiency means; of
what 1t was that American merchants
and American miners and all the
multitude of men who have developed
the peaceful industries of America,
We're planted under this free polity in
order that they might look out upon
the service of mankind and perform
It.
Beginning of New Era.
There never was time when the
pulse Of energy and success beat so
strongly in the veins of American
business as 1t beats today. And yet
hope that all business men in America
realize that we are only at the begin
ming of new era. America has not
played its proportionate part in the
development Of the trade of the world.
] mean that it. has not played part
proportionate to the gifts of Americans
and the resources of America, and that
in the times to come. partly because
OF the unhappy circumstances Of re-
cent years, but chiefly because Ameri-
ca is now about to release her energies,
the scope Of American business will
be what men have hitherto not
dreamed Of. IL American men know
how to take advantage Of the OPP
portunity.
.'The problems that are before
American business are world prob
lens rather than American domestic
problems. America must understand
the world in order to subject it to it's
peaceful service. And yet when we
look upon the field Of American busi-
ness there are some things that dis
turb us. Some men seem to think
that the way to advance American
business is to walk backwards and to
attempt again the provincial policies
which have characterized an age
when we shut our doors against in
duences of the world.
The Chief Cloud.
"But the chief cloud that is upon
the domestic horizon Is the unsatis-
factory relations of capital and labor.
There is only one way, gentlemen, in
which the relations of capital and
labor can be rendered satisfactory.
That is by, in the first place, regard
ing labor as human relationship OF
men with men; and. in the second
place. to regard labor as part of the
general partnership OF energy which
is going to make for the success Of
business and business enterprise in
this country. So long as labor and
.,ital stand antagonistic the inter-
ests of both are injured and the pros
perity Of America is held back from
the triumphs which are legitimately
its own.
"You know that we have been q
legalistic people. I say with all due
respect to some men for whom / have
much under the guidance Of lawyers,
and that the IaWvar has always re-