The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-14
DAVID LUBIN, GREATEST OF
 ACRICULT LTURAL|STS, PRAISES CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF, NATION
Fearlessness and Efficiency of President Causes Expert to Laud Him-Relates Difference Between Adminis- traton of Office He Has Observed in Roosevet's and Incumbent's Time.

tgeneral manager of the nations bus
 iness. He was effective, he was eff.
 cient.
 Let me give you another instance
 A couple of years ago twenty-sever
 men, Commissioners of Agriculture
 distinguished men, representing the
 great agricultural interests of Amer. lea, went to him. They were urging a measure similar to that which is SC
 enective in Canada, to improve the l quality and enhance the value, and ir
 general extend the whole principle o1
 crop reports. He went over thei,
 petition with them. with a kind o1
 grim humor lighting up his face as he
 waded through that bill punching a
 hole in it here, criticizing it there
 pointing out the weakness of this
 phrase, the vagueness of that clause For while these big agriculturalists didn't know how to take him. They thought he was merely criticizine their proposed Nbill He was tearing it to pieces. but before he got through these men saw that almost al
 once he had got their point of view and was helping them by putting in a word here, striking out phrase there adding one here, helping them draw a
 bill more efficient to perform the work they wanted than one they themselves had devised. .~
 President Wilson brings a scholarly | mind to business. He knows that good politics and good economics are the. same thing. That is why MT Wilson is such a good politician, in the highest sense of that much abused 1 term. And he is fearless. In all my l relations with him, direct or indirect, fail to find anything or anybody he is afraid of.
 Under President Wilson America is beginning to lead the world inVinter- n9tionalism. Internationalism Is a new conception. We have not yet got used to it. Like every new thing, it makes headway slowly because hu- man nature is such that it shiks at the new as g. colt shies at suddenly operi- ed umbrella. That Is a biologic reac- ton.
 When I speak of internationalism' I have not in mind some sticky senti- mentalism or highfaIuting altruism- nothing of that kind I mean that internationalism which intimately and absolutely is connected with the homo economies, the very life of every man. every laborer every banker, every preacher, the whole world. President Wilson sees this in a big, practical spiritual way.
 It is hardly to be expected that iin- ternatfonalism should mean much to many people. There are many to-day who hardly grasp the idea 'nation.A It was not so very long ago, as human history is reckoned. that we were not Ia nation, F We had not learned to think nationally. The United States meant an entirely diffetent thing in 1900 from what it does to-day. The average citzen of all civilized nations still thinks of his flag in almost the very terms that his savage ancestors thought of their tribal totem Ma tions are still merely big tribes and most of them are obsessed with tribal prejudfces and passions. Walk the way walk or I'll kill you,' still dom- mate the impulses of too many na- tions.
 America is very far advanced in some ways, in others very backward. In the application of business methods of agricultural distribution, America until the present administration, was about 150 years behind Germany and several decades behind France.
 And yet. in the very things in which America is backward she should lead the world. Lead, because she is a democracy and 8 new country and a great commercial leader. It should not be possible in democracy for any Eiique or special interest to dictate opinion or control legislation. It should be possible in new country for new ideas to be born easily and pro- pagate rapidly. Unfortunately in our democracy public opinion is too much controlled-entirely too much-by spe- cfal interests. So cleverly and so powerfully have these monetary in- terests s-big bankers, big packers, big corporations - manipulated politics through, the bosses of the Republican party and nodded opinion through the subsidized press, that the average man Is hypnotized; his critical faculties have become dulled and he accepts as his own the ready-made opinions handed him from all sides. Then lie, too, joins the status quo crowd. He knows of God; hears about Him in the pulpit or elsewhere, but after all the tangible person that he respects and fears is Armour or Morgan or Rocke- feller
 All this is bad. A man who be- lieves in the status quo is not a conser- vative, he is a radical petrifaction. Whenever the human race or any sec ton of it says, Let it alone, this is good enough for me-" a brake has been set on progress and an impedi- ment placed in the way of human de- velopment-especia1ly in a democ- racy.
 Internationalism is a great thing the next step in the march of human progress. It has not come before be- cause we were not ready for it. We've had first to trim our own lamps. We've had to restore the equilibrium in American life, to bring about the re- adjustment necessary because of our long years of protection for certain pet industries. President Wilson has done wonders here in helping to get the tariff out of politics and place it where. it belongs and make it what it should be-a matter of domestic econ omy.
 Hamilton, the father of protection, saw that the rural out-weighed the urban population. To counterbalance this preponderance of country life he felt Justified in taxing the land by in- troducing protection to encourage cer- tain industries, which would naturally