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LAWS FOR BENEFIT OF ALL.
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Washington. Fob. 3.?Coo p, rat km
bot worn business nnd the go\ eminent
In framing laws for the benoflt of all
the people was urged by President
Wilson tonight In an address before
several hundred representative busi?
ness men here attending the annual
convention of the Chamber of Com?
merce of the Cnlted States. He de?
clared that we must all pool our In?
torests" to discover the best means
f<>r handling pal lie problems.
The president urged the crention in
the I'nlted States in time of peace of
the same kind of united spirit which
moves nations during wars. He re?
called that "when peace Is as hand?
some as war there will be no wars,"
and that "when men engaged In the
pursuits of peace In the same spirit of
self-sacrltlce as they encage iu war.
wars will disappear."
The president predicted that, while
there Is a shortage of food In the
world now. the shortage will be much
greater later. He pointed out that
under the guidance of the departme nt
of agriculture efforts mtltt be made
by American farmers to grow more
an I more grnln. that the world may
be fed.
Speaking of the foreign trade of
the I'nlted States the president asked
that business men devise some way of
allowing American exporters to com?
bine and form common selling agen?
cies and to give long time credits In
such a way that these cooperative de?
vices may be open to the use of all.
He declared that apparently the anti?
trust laws prohibited such combina?
tions now, but that he would favor a
change If a method fnlr to nil could
be found. He spoke of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce's
work In "surveying the world" for the
benefit of all business men.
I'msiness men themselves are to
Jdume If Intelligent laws affecting them
are formed, the president asserted.
Ho added that they should come out
Into the open and use their knowl?
edge of conditions to bring about laws |
t > prevent bus! . evils.
The Mex'oan Ojgagtlofl was no q ?
ti-Tted t-v \!r WiV i us im ,
af tlu dMBeottg h- bad ;,4 getting ap-1
i u: .??? ii,ioi i., . ri.
"I woufd praiBf that you receive
mo as If for the time being I were
one of your own number." said the
president, "because the longer I oc?
cupy the oltlcc that 1 now occupy the
more 1 regret any linos of separa?
tion, the more I deplore any feeling
that one set of men has one set of
Interests and another set of men has
another set of interests; the more I
feel the solidarity of the nation, the
impossibility of separating one in?
terest from another without miscon?
ceiving it. the necessity that wo
nhonbl all understand one another In
? rder that we may understand our
selv? s.
"There is an Illustration which I
have used a great many times. I will
u>e it again, because It is the most
serviceable to my mind, We otten
speak of a man who can net lind his
wuy in some Jungle or some desert as
hnvlpg lost himself. 1 >t?l you never
rolled that that is the only thing he
has not lost? He Is there. He lost
the r?Ht of the world. Ho has no
llxod point from which to Maat*? Ho
does not know which is north, which
la south, which Im cast, which is west;
and. If ho did know, he is so con?
fused that he would not know In
which of those directions his goal
lay. nnd, therefore, following his
heart ho walks in a great circle from
right to left and comes back to whan
ho started, to himself again.
"To my mind It is a picture of the
world. If you have lost other in?
terests nnd do not know the relation
of your ?w n interests to those other
Interests, then >ou do not understand
your own Interests nnd have lost
yours. What ran want is orientation,
relationship to the points of the com?
pass, relationship to the other peo?
ple in the world, \itai connections
which hare fat the time betnn been
severed. And so I am particularly
glad to St press my admiration for
the kind of or.-unizStlon which you
ha\ ? drawn logt thar,
"I have attendee* banquets of ehawi?
bers of COfn CSS TOS In various parts of
the country and ha YS got the im?
pression at each of those banquets
that there was only one <itv in the
country. Ami it has Seemed to mc
that these associations were meant In
order Ii gsatro) m in's pvesaectlve, In
order to ieatroj his sense of relativ?
proportIons; Womt of all. if I ma)
be permitted to any so. they were in?
tended to boost something In Partien?
lar. T.oosting is ? ? ? r> unhandsome
thing. Advancing enlernrtnt lag very
handsome thing, but to exaggerate
local merit In onb r to etc it.- dlapTO
portion in the general development is
not a particularly handsome thing or
not particularly Intelligent thing.
"The advantage about a chamber ol
oommoree ol the Unll '<i Btatei Isthat
thorn i* only one Waj to boost the
United states and thai Im by seeing to
it that the conditions under which
business la done throughout tho coun?
try arc the best possible conditions.
There can not be any disproportion
about that. If you draw your sap
and your vitality from till quarters
then the more sap and vitality tin re
is in you the mote there is in tho
commonwealth as ? whole and every
time you lift at till you lift the whole
level of manufacturing and mercan?
tile enterprise,
".Moreover, the advantage of it is
that yot. can not boost the United
States In that way without undt r
?tandlng the United states. Yon learn
a great deal, i agreed with ? eol
league of nine In tho cabinet the
other day thai we had never attended
in t?ur lives before a school to com?
pare with that we are now attending
for the purpose of gaining a liberal
i ducatton.
"Of course, 1 learn a great many
things that are not so. Out the In?
teresting thing! about it is this:
Things that are not so, do not match.
If you le af enough Of them you BCC
if you hear enough of hem you see
there is no pattern whatever. It is a
crazy quilt. Whereas the truth al?
ways matches piece for piece. With
other parts of the truth.
"No man can lie consistently, and
he can not lie about everything if he
talks to you long. So that I would
guarantee that if enough lien talked
to you. you would get (he truth.
'I had somewhat that experience
about Mexico, and that was about the
only way in which I learned anything
that was so. for there have been
VtVtd Imagination! and many special
interests which have depleted thfrigi
as they wished me to believe them
to be.
"Now seriously, the task of this
body is to match all the facts of busi?
ness throughout the country, and sco
the Vast and consistent part of them.
That is the reason?and I think >ou
are to be congratulated upon tho fact
?that you can not do this thing with?
out common counsel. I have as];,
myself, before I came hero tonight,
what relation you could bear to ii
government of the United states and
what relation the government could
bear to you. There are two aspects
and activities of the government
which you will naturally < une Into
most direct contact,
"The- first '?? the government's po.\, i
ol Inoulry- i I ?matte and dlsluterest?
cd innplr?--und iu j owe <i den*
tide assistance. Tou "-ret an Illustra?
tion Of the latter, for example, iii the
department of agriculture, lias it oc?
curred to you. i wonder, that we art
just upon tho eve of a time when 0U1
department of agriculture will be of
infinite importance to the whole
world? I
"There is a shortage of food in the |
world now. That shortage Will be
more serious a few months from n<
than it is now. It is necessary that
we should., plant a great deal more.
It is necessary that our land should
yield neue p. r acre than it doci now.
It is necessary that there should not
be a plow or a spade i?11?? in this coun?
try if the world is to be fed; and tho
methods oi* our farmers must feed
upon like scientific information to be
d? rived from the state department of
agriculture and from that tap root of
ail. the United states department
of ngrtculture,
'The origin and use of that depart?
ment is to inform men Of the last
developments and disclosures of
science, with regard to all tho pro
oesnes by Which soils can be put t?>
their proper use and their fertility
made the greatest possible,
"Similarly With the bureau of
standards. It is ready to supply those
things by which you can set forms,
you can state bases for all tho scien?
tific proCOSOCS Of business.
"Tho government Of the United
States is very properly a great in?
strumentality of inquiry and informa?
tion. ?>n,. jibing we ar? Just beginning
to do that we ought to have clone
long ago. We ought long ago to have
had our bureau of foreign and do?
mestic commerce, Wo ought long ago
to have sent the best cyt's of the gov?
ernment out in the world where the
opportunities and openings of Ameri?
can commerce and American genius
were to be found; nu n w ho were
not sent out as the particular agents
of any s? t of commercial Industrie!
in the United Slates but who were
[eyes for the whole community,
"Mut there are other ways of using
the j.a<\ rnment of the United Stnl
ways thai have bur.- boon tried, though
I not always with conspicuous success
or fortunate results, Von can us<
? the government of tho United States
by Inlliienclns its legislation, That
has been a verj active Industry, but it
i i put ai'. ays been manage I a^ Hie
Intel, ii of t he w hole people, It It
Ivory Instructive and useful for the gov
ernment of the United Hintes to hnv
such menus ns y??u are rt ids to supply
for gettlns ? sort of concensus "f opln
||oii which proc edi from no particular
quarter, nnd original and with no par?
ticular Interest because Information is
the very foundation <>i all right action
in legislation.
'Men on the inside of business know
how business Is conducted and they
can not complain ir men on the out?
side make mistakes about business,
if they do not come from the inside
nnd give the kind of advice which is
necessary, The trouble In the past?for
I think the thing Is changing very
rapidly?lms generally been that they
came with all their bristles out. They
came on the defensive. They came to
see, not what they could accomplish,
but what they could prevent. They
did not come to guide, but they cam."
to block, and that is of no use What?
ever to the general body politic
"What has got to pervade us like a
great motive power is that wo can not
nnd must not separate our interests.
trom one another, but must pool our
interests. A man who Is trying to
light for his single hand Is lighting
against the community and not light?
ing with it.
"There* sire si great many dreadful
things about war, as nobody needs
to be told In this city of distress and
of terror. But there Is one thin-.,'
about war Which has a very splendid
side, and that is the consciousness that
a winde nation gets, that they must
.ill act as ;i unit, for the nation; sind
when peace is as handsome as war
there will be no war. When men, I
mean, engage in the pursuits of ptdce
in the same spirit of self ?sacrifice, and
Of Conscious service of the community
with which, at any rate, the common
soldier engages in war, then shall
there be wars no more. You have
I moved the vanguard for the United
state:. In the purposes of this associa?
tion just a little nearer that ideal.
That is the reason 1 am here, because
1 believe that.
"There is a specific matter about
which I. for one, want your advice.
Let me say. if 1 may say it without
dtsrepsect, that I do not think you J
are prepared to give it. rieht aw?y. I
You will have to make some rather
extended Inquiries before you are
ready to give it. What I am think?
ing of is competition in foreign mar?
kets as between the merchants of dif?
ferent nations.
I speak of ihe subject with .. cer?
tain degree of hesitation, because the
thing farthest from my thought is
taking advantage of nations now dis?
abled, from playing tin- full part in
that competition, and seeking a sud?
den selfish advantage because they are
for the time belni d\ abl< d. Praj i
llevs me, that ..? ?ught tu eliminate
i
all tv,->t though) ' ? ? oi our minds ; r. 11
?, n 4d i I hit nat tot as ;r w? and the |
ot hei ns Ion* of tin w ? rid . < re iu 1 h< j
normal circumstances of Commerce.
Tin rs is a normal circumstance of
commerce in which we are apparent?
ly at a disadvantage.
"(Um* anti-trust, laws apparently
.make it lllogal for merchants
iu the United states to form combi?
nations for the purpose of strengthen?
ing themselves in taking advantages
of the opportunities of foreign compe?
tition. That is si very serious matter
for this reason: There are some cor?
porations and some firms, tor all 1
know, whose business is rrr< at enough
Land whose resources are abundant
enough to enable them to establish
selling agencies in foreign countries
?.The question arises, therefore
how an- the smaller merchants, how
I are the .younger and weaker corpora?
tions, going to get s foothold as against
the combinations which are permitted
I smd even encouraged by foreign gov?
ernments in this very fed 1 of compe
, tltlon'.'
"American merchants feel that they
sire at a very Considerable disadvan?
tage in contending against that. The
matter has been many times brought
to my attention and i have each time
suspended judgment, because In thi
mutter '1 sun from Missouri,' und T
want to be shown this: 1 waul to b<
shown how'that combination can in
mad" ami conducted in a way which
won't close it Bgalnst the use ol
everybody who wants to use it.
"What I would like very much to
be shown, therefore, !s a method of
cooperation, which is not a method oi
combination, not that the two words
an mutually exclusive, but we have
come to have a special meafiing ot
tnched to the word 'combination.'
Most of our combinations have a
safety lock and you have to gi t the
combination to jet in. I want to
know how these cooperative methods
can bo adopted for the benefit of
everybody who wants to use them,
and I say frankly, ? 1 can be shown
that. I urn lor tin in.
"If I ( an mu he i liown that. 1 am
against them, und l hasten to add
that hopefully I ? xpci t t hat I cn u
I'.- show n."
Tin- president said tbat he hope i
the organisation would lake stops to
discover the opinion of the small
merchants und bankeri in the coun
i ry diet i i< Is on i he subject.
"As u matter ol fact," bo con?
tinued, "yon do not ha\ <? tIme i?
think in a city., .. ..
? Tin rc a iv i hink In? space i in this
country, und some ??! the thinking
done is very solid thinking Indeed;
i
the thin' in--, of the sort of men thai
I
nw all like beet, who think for them?
selves, who do 11<?i sec things as th?:
are told to see tin m, but lock- al
them and s< t> them tor themselves,
ami If iln y are told they are white
when they are not white, plainly say
that they are black; men with ej
and with a courage back of tin sc
eyes to toll what they see. The coun?
try is full of those nu n." . . .
I Experience has taught him. the
president said, not to try to dominate
any conference called to g. ! tin' be:;
j Solution of a problem because "com?
mon counsel" always brings the best
results . . .
"it is a splendid thing to he nart
>f a great wideawake nation; II is
a splendid thing to know that your
own strength is Infinitely multiplied
by the strength of other inen v ho
love the country; it is a splendid thin .
to feel that the wholesome blood of
a great country can be united in a
common purpose, and that by frankly
looking one another in 11.- face an:
taking counsel with one another,
prejudices will #imp away nnd hand
?om< understandings will arise and
a universal spirit iff service will be
engendered, and with this Increased
sense ol* community of purpose will
come a. vastly enhanced Individual
power of achievement for we will he
elevated by the w ind?- mass of which
We constitute a part.''
YOUTHS ROIt BANK.
Greenville, Feb. 3.?Q. W. Proffltt
and (J. L. Long, sons of prominent
farmers near Laurens, were arrested
by the police here today Upon B
charge of having robbed the Bank or
Waterloo in l.aureus county.
Long, the police Say, confessed that
he entered the bank at the noon hour
last Saturday and took the money
while all the doors were open. He
had part cd' the money in his posses?
sion when arrested, it is alleged.
Sheriff OwlngS of Laurens county
will come for the boys tomorrow.
it is probable Proffltt will net la.
charged with hank robbery as both |
said he had nothing to do with it.
They were going to the ^Yest Virgin- 1
ia coal fields, they stated.
EXTENDS TAX COLLECTIONS.
Columbia, Feb. 4.?The time for
the payment of State taxes withoul '
penally has keen extended to March 1 ;
by A. W. Jones, comptroller general, j
with the approval of Gov. Richard 1. I
i
Manning. A prev ious order extended i
firm from iTanvair 1 to Februar?'!
I. There wiii likely be ratll i d todj
t% pr 11 l. ?
follows yesterday to the several coun?
ty treasurers:
"Under und by virtue of power con?
ferred upon the comptroller general,
with the approval of the governor, in
section 707 of volume 1. code of law.
of South Carolina. 1 do hereby extend
the time for the collection Ol taxes,
without penalty, until the first day of
March, A. l>., 1915. You will goveri
yourself accordingly."
Without debate, the house passed
to third reading yesterday morning
the Nicholson bill from the senate
extending the time for the payment of
191 ? taxes wIthoul penaltj.
The tax extension bill, which will
i?e ordered ratified today, reads:
"Section L That the county treas?
urers of the counties of this State be,
und tin y arc cu<h hereby, authorise I
ami directed to receive without pen?
alty, all taxes due by taxpayers to the
county ?-r State. until April 1.
1915: Provided, That all tax execu?
tions Issui d by the county trt asurer to
the sh< riff or other officer charged
with the duty of colectlng same he j
returned to the county treasurer on I
er before July 1, 1916.
"See. 3, That on all tax execution'; j
issued for the year 1915 there shall
he added a penally of .". per ca nt, for
nonpayment of same."
SUMTER COTTON MARKET.
I
Corrected daily by Ernest Field,
Cotton Buyer.
Good Middling 8 l-*>.
Strict Middling 8,
Middling 7 7-8j
Strict Low Middling 7 3-8.
Low Middling '*> 7-s.
Staple Cotton, Nominal,
New York Cotton Market.
Open Close.
March.8.63 R.72
Get.
Chicago Produce Market.
Special to The 1 >aily Item.
Chicago, Feb. *'.? May wheat
11.60; corn. s I 1 -s'. oats, 59 5-8
pork i''. i ! I? rd, 11.40; ribs, I". 15,
' The Atlanta Coat I Line llailron
P.i ; spread imotlu i stirfai ? a \ ei In
' ,,| granite scro< nln ?s ov< r itu ai
|,roa< 111 h to the s;ati.m und h f. A
: up part of the yard used u ?? a hue
hI a ml, Tin- changes recently mad
ha> v done much mal e the yai
more presentable and to retno>
.former bad condition ;.
KKCOMMKXDATIOXti SOT XKW.
Dr. Dabrock Says Matters Referred to
In Herring Ro|H>rl Wore l?\>rnn rly
< 'allotI to Attention of Ucncral As?
sembly.
(\ lumbta, Feb. 3.? Dr. J. W. Bab
cock, former superintendent of the
State Hospital for the Insane, called
attention ton! jhl t<" the fact that the
greater part of the recommendations
made by Dr. A. P. II< rrlng, Lhe i n
ciency expert, w i i > > has just com?
pleted an investigation of conditions
at the asylum, wrerc mad< by him in
his testimony before ilio osyli m In?
vestigating committee on April
! I !?<?*.?, when in answer to a question
from the chairman, he gave his rea?
sons for asking for the Investigation.
Dr. Pabcock also referred to an ar
tic! written by himself for the Cen
: ; Editl m ot the News sad Cour*
ier, In which mo ol these same rec
< . im ndations v. . re made. He said he
though! ii only j u.>;ico to himself to
hi i thew facts out, as those rocom
m ndati >ns, he raid, were made to the
;??.] assembly several years ago,
n id thai they are only repeated by
Dr. Herring.
gen ral assembly, in company
with I; >v. Manning and Dr. Herring,
? ill ake a personal Inspection of the
[asylum tomorrow,
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RIIM2E WRECKER ON TRIAL.
Vanceboro, Me., Feb. i.?Werner
Vi n Horn,'the German bridge wrack?
er. was arrested today charges' with
I "wilful and w anton injury and de?
fect men! of buildings." He will be
tried this afternoon.
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