Arizona republican., 1916-09-24

that the railroad question should have been arbitrated with the flat statement that he did not believe the eight hour day an arbitrable question.
 Means of preventing a repetition of the threatened railroad strike were taken up in detail. The president said:
 "It will be intolerable if at any time any group of men by any process should be suffered to cut society off | from the necessary supplies which sus- tain life"
 After talking for twenty minutes about the railroad problem, the presi- dent discussed business generally. He said that business men in America have had their real commercial strength put at their service by such measures as the federal reserve act and now are on their mettle. MT. Wilson spoke from the porch of Shadow Lawn. He was introduced by 1 W. P. Runyon, of Perthamboy, N. J., 1 who said that men in all parts of the country were organizing to secure the presidents reelection.
 ! After his speech the president stood | for thirty minutes on the porch and shook hands with everybody present. ] Mrs. Wilson stood by his side, and near by were Attorney General Greg { 1 Colonel F. M. House, Henry Morgen- 1 thau, former ambassador to Turkey, and Jacob Schiff.
 MT. Wilson today began making ar engagements for trips to the middle west in October to speak before non partisan organizations on public ques- tlonS. In addition to accepting def initely an invitation to speak in Omaha on October ,. tentative plans were be- gun for him to visit Chicago He all ready had decided to go to Indianapolis on October 12.
 | Attorney General Gregory discussed with the president the selection of United States district judges in Ohio, Louisiana and New Mexico. Walter Hines Page. American ambassador to Great Britain, who came here last night to see the president left this afternoon. President Wilson's speech in full follows:
 MT Chairman, Gentlemen of the Business Mems League, Ladies and Gentlemen:
 'l need not tell you what sense of qualification it gives me that you should come bearing this generous message which 1 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 busi- ness at the present moment can fail to i realize that a new breath and spirit l have come into the business of America
 There have been times when it Looked as if America were interested ] only in herself, but in these recent : years American business men have lift : ed their eyes to more distant horizons 1 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 Visita- i tion has come to them of what the development of the resources of Amer i ica means; of what the organization of American efficiency means; of why ! 1t was that American merchants and American manufacturers and American miners and all the multitude of men i who have developed the peaceful in dustries of America. were planted un- l der this free polity in order that they might look out upon the service of mankind and perform it.
 1 There never was a time when the i pulse oi energy and success beat so ] strongly in the veins of American | business as it beats today. And yet | l nope that all business men in Amer ! ica realize that We are only beginning | q new era. America has not played l it's proportionate part in the develop ment of the trade of the world. mean that it has not played part propoI tionate to the gifts of Amer- ! ga and that in the times to come, partly | because of the unhappy circumstances of recent years, but chiefly because America is now about to release her energies. the scope of American busi- ness will he on a scale hitherto not dreamed of, if American men know how to take advantage of the oppor- tunity.
 | The problems that are before Amer
 lcan business are world problems
 rather than American domestic prob lens. 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 charac.erized an age when we
 shut our doors against influences of
 the world
 But the chief cloud that is upon
 the domestic horizon is the unsatis-
 factory relations of capital and labnr
 There is only one way gentlemen ir
 which the relations of capital and
 labor can be rendered satisfactory
 That is by. in the first place, regard ing labor as a human relationship o1 men with men; and in the second
 place, to regard labor as part of the
 general partnership of energy, whicl
 is going to make for the success ot
 business and business enterprise 1T
 this country. So long as labor ant
 capital stand antaGonistic, the inter
 ests of both are injured and the pros
 perity of America is held back iron
 the triumphs which are legitimatell
 it's own.
 "You know that we have been legalistic people. I may with all du' . reSDeCt to some rrer for whom I hay,