Newspapers / Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, … / June 26, 1914, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
' A ' THE WEATHER Forcast For North CaroHiia Local ' Thunder showers Friday and probably Saturday, continued warm. vol. xcrv-yo. 86. ' yiira whole yrorrosat 13,677. - tTai C M T V- -" II Ii 1 1-, l J II M;" fl ill- I M-ii " -S -. " -1 -JDIirr 'Msiyr-: jrNiliA.JR? --TiiHsv. " uiiiQnM jinnRKQK I iapam ampripam ; I II II I 111 I I II lit I 1 1 1 111 Mill I Mil - - v IllLUUIl nUUIILUULU Uril Till nillLIIIUnll FIRE SWEEPS Half of Town Lies in Ruins as Result of Devastation" of Flames Started by Explosion in Leather Factory and Swept .Entire Manufacturing Section for Miles. Hying Brands Start Fires in Other Sections. BLOCK AFTER BLOCK IS BLOWN Uj IN EFFORTS TO CHECK 6NRUSH OF BLAZE But the Wind Whipped Flames Around and New Paths Cut by Firey Sword One Thousand Buildings Destroyed and Ten Thousand Persons Made Homeless With a Total Damage Estimated at Twenty Million Dollars No Deaths Reported Salem, Mass., June 25. Nearly .half the "Old Witch City" of Salem, rich in historic buildings anki traditon, was devastated today and tonight by a fire that caused an estimated loss of $20,41 000,000, destroyed one thousand build ings, including a score of manufactur ing establishments an'di made ten thou sand of the 45,000 residents homeless. The fire originated in the Korn lea ther factory on the west side of the city about 2 o'clock this afternoon and swept through, the shoe -and leather manufacturing district, ruining every huilding in a curving path two miles long and more than a half mile wide. Burning embers, carried by a strong northwest wind, started fires in. two other sections, the fashionable resi dential district adjacent to the LaFay ette etreet, and a tenement house dis trict x on . wthe peninsula bounded by Palmer's Ckve, South river' and the water front. Lte " in' the evening embers kindled a fourth, fire in the plant of the Salem Oil Company, in Mason street. The oil tank blew up with a terrific report and showers of sparks fell threaten ingly in a part of the town that before had not been in imminent danger. This fire, however, was checked af ter it had destroyed the oil compays plant and thirteen houses All Landmarks Escape. When the flames were believed to be under control at 11 o'clock tonight, all the historic and literary landmarks had escaped destruction. These in cluded the Peabody Museum, Essex Institute, Custom House where Nath aniel Hawthorne -diKl -much of his. litr erary work, and "the House of "the Seven Gables." made famous by the novelist. ... ... At midnight, the fire was burning on Derby street, not far from the Pea body Museum, but it was thought the building and its valuable collection of curios would be saved. . "The House of Seven Gables" also was in the danger zone. Several buildings were dynamite!, and late tonight it looked as though the fire had been checked. No fatali ties had been reported up to midnight but in the confusion it was 'impossi ble to determine the casualties. Some fifty injured persons were received at hospitals. Thousands of homeless were , camp ed on Salem Common tonight and the city was policed by militiamen. The great destruction was due to poor water pressure. - " Half of City Aflame. Half of the city of Salem was in flames tonight. Block after block was dynamited but the fire checked "in one direction, driven by ; shifting winds, found a new path of destruction. It was nearly 11 o'clock before the area of the conflagration reached Its limit. Starting about 2 o'clock this after noon as a result of an explosion in; the factory of the Korn Leather Company, Just east of historic Gallows Hill, where alleged witches were hanged two hundred years ago, the fire -spread Quickly through the shoe and leather manufacturing district, then south to the Boston and Maine railroad tracks, at Jefferson avenue and eastward to tie .water front. ' Late tonight fire brands carried into the business section started a second fire at North Street. A little later a tank of the Standard Oil Company in the extreme northwest of the city, was ablaze and presently a third fire was leveling the buildings in that vi cinity. Millions of Damags Done. ' No definite estimate of the money loss is possible tonight, hut it was placed near $20,000,000. The burned buildings include the plants of a score of manufacturing companies, among them the-big factory of the Naumkeag Cotton Mills, twice as 'many business places, ISit. Joseph's Rornn Catholic church, recently erected at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars, the orph an asylum and more than 200 resi dences and tenement buildings- Among these residences were colon ial houses which artists hare declared to be the' finest piece of architecture in the country. Several garages were dynamited after a tower in the- railroad' yard. had burned. " r ' ,- The entire district occupied by the Italian and Greek colonies was de vastated. Most of the 2,000 persons who had homes in .that district were housed temporarily at the Y. M. C. A. building, the State armory, police station and other public buttldings. The blaze was started by an un explained explosion in the factory of the Korn Leather Company at Proc tor and . Boston streets in the shoe and leather manufacturing district In the western part of the city. - It quickly jumped to adjoining proper ty. ' Fanned by a brisk northwest wind, it swept rapidly through the entire district, destroying more than 20 fac tory buildings and scores of 'dwell ings and small stores. There was a panic among employes in the Korn factory, but only one person was ser iously hurt. The first spread was on the West side of the city, at the front of Gal lews Hill. Territory about two miles long and more than half a mile wide, extending from Proctor and T Boston streets on the north to Jefferson avenue on the south, was devastated. - Residence District Aflame. In "the meantime falling embers started fires in South Salem and the more exclusive residential part of the city. One building after another burst into flames. Vj For several hours the fire in this district was confined to a small oval, but as evening approached It spread In all directions, destroying hundreds of residences, including many hand some homes. The city orphan asylum on LaFay ette street, sheltering 150 persons, was destroyed. All the children were saved. : The Salem hospital fell next. Pa tients were removed to safety on street cars. In- the excitement a daughter was born to Mrs. Rosette, an inmate. T There ..was no apparatus here to check the flames, which wiped out scores of tenements and high wooden apartment houses. . At the start water pressure was low: and then the fight had become desperate a great water main ; near the Beverly? Bridge broke, making the firemen virtually helpless. Mean time calls, for assistance had been sent to nearby . cities and, enormous quantity of apparatus responded,, A Manchester, N. H., engine under: took to pump .water from the ocean. "Boston, Lynn and other cities sent ap paratus and. details of police. But the combined efforts of the great aggre gation of fire fighting machines were lutule and- when darkness fell dyna mite was used, several blocks in the path of the flame were blown up in the hope of checking their progress,' but a fickle wind carried the destruc tion in a new direction. , DAY WITH NEWSPAPER MEN W JLf JLl VJSTLSJLJJLS EDITORS OF Slit Elect Him Preside of Press Association O. K. THE AMENDMENTS Proposed Changes In Slate Constitu tion are Endorsed Also Adair Bill In Congress Discus ions and Auto Drive The election of officers for the en suing year, the endorsement of the proposed constitutional amendments to the State constitution, and also of the Adair bill now before Congress, granting inter-State transportation by railroads In exchange for newspaper advertising, were the principal fea tures of a lengthy business session of the North Carolina Press Association yesterday morning. Hon. W. C. Hammer was unani mously elected as president and Mr. James H. Cowan, of Wilmington, was made first vice president. Mr. J. B. Sherrill, of Concord, for the 27th time was elected secretary of the organi zation. Preceding the election of officers and the adoption of a number of resolutions-there were several papers read on subjects of particular inter est to the editors. A free-for-all ex perience meeting on cash and credits plans proved to be a most interest ing feature. While the election of offi cers was largely a matter of endors ing those already holding office or simply elevating others who have al ready served, the adoption of the res olutions on the constitutional amend ments and on inter-State transporta tion was "oroduetlve of some heated argument and showed J conclusively tnat the Tar Heel editors are -men of I earnestness, anxious to serve the puuuu. .. -.v -, .... ... ' Officer: Elected. " . The officers elected to serve for the coming year are as follows: President Hon. W. C. Hammer, of Ashboro, editor of the Ashboro Cour ier and United States District Attor ney. First Vice President James H. Cowan, of Wilmington, editor of the Evening Dispatch. Second Vice President Bion H. Butler, of Raeford, editor of the Rae ford Journal. Third Vice President E. E. Brit ton, of Railegh, editor of the News and Observer. Secretary and Treasurer John B. Sherrill, of Concord, editor of the Concord Daily Tribune. Historian B. H. DePriest, of Shel by, Editor of The Highlander. Orator Santford Martin, of WSn-ston-Salem, editor of The Journal. Poet William Laurie Hill, of Char lotte, of the Presbyterian Standard. The executive committee is com posed of the president and secretary and H. A. London, editor of the Pitts boro Record; H. B. Varner, editor of the Lexington Dispatch and Southern Good Roads; J. H. Caine, editor of the Asheville Citizen, and T. J. Lassi ter, editor of the. Smithfield Herald. Interesting Papers Read. While the first day's session was devoted to a discussion of public af fairs, the meeting yesterday was on the more technical -side of the work of getting out newspapers. The meet ing was called to order in the conven tion hall of tho Oceanic Hotel shortly after 10 o'clock by President' Poe. Tlie, first paper was one advocating mutual fire insurance for North Car olina newspapers, prepared by Mr. H. C. Martin, editor of the Lenoir News, and read-Dy the secretary. Messrs. H. C. Martin, B. H. DePriest and T. J. Lassiter were appointed a commit tee to take up the matters discussed in this, paper. President Poe announced that Mr. O. F. Crowson, editor of the Burling ton News, had been requested to pre pare a paper on how to get more mon ey from legal notices and foreign ad vertising, but owing to the fact that he had recently been appointed post master or for some other reason was unable to be present. However, he had sent his; paper and he requested Mr. H. B. Varner to read it. This was an exhaustive discussion of the question and provoked considerable discussion, resulting In the decision to bring the matter of a graduating scale for . charges on legal : notices brought before the. next Legislature. A paper of much interest was read by Mr. Ora L. Jones,' editor of the Brevard News, , telling how s he had gotten every merchant but one In Mb town to advertise. Following the reading of these teapers the election of officers - was taken up. After this came the experience meeting on cash and credit plans, which was partici pated In by a number of . the editors. Early In the morning session Mr. J. P. Cook, of Concord, introduced a: res olution requesting the State Board of Agriculture to print in bulletin, form the splendid paper of Mr. Bion H. Butler, read at the first day's session, on North- Carolina opportunities. This brought a quick second from Mr.;W. C. Dowd, who suggested that it be amended to include a clause asking the State board to make more vigor ous efforts to secure Immigration into North Carolina. It was suggested that it would be wise to appoint. a commit tee to pass on . all? resolutions before they -should come formally before the a ecnciaHoTi and President Poe accord- itriv i nnrtintttii . resolutions commit tee Composed ' of Messrs. - Archibald HONOR MR.HAyiER BY INSPIRING ADDRESS Honor Guest of N. C. . . 'I Press Association Mr. Norman Hapgood, ; Editor of Harper's Weekly, New York, Who Last Night Delivered the Principal Address for the State Press Conven tioh at Wrightsville Beach, His StiV ject Being "The Southern - Editor's Big Job". . TV Johnson, R. R. Clark and H. B.. Var ner. Transportation and Advertising. Upon the conclusion of the discus-sidn- of business problems and the election of officers Mr. Clark present ed the report of the committee which included a number of resolutions. jth presenting the resolution of inter State transportation which provoked such heated discussion by the edi tors Mr. "Clark explained -that person ally he was opposed to the resolution, but did not think it" worth while to present a minority report. The reso lution which was finally adopted by a? big majority is as follows: . ?' -. "Whereas, There is now pending in the United States. Congress a bill in- i troduced!by; Mr. John. A. Adair, of In aiana, reiauve iQ granting. lnter-otaie transportation y railroads in ex change for newspaper advertising. "Therefore, Be it resolved, That the North Carolina Press Association at its regular meeting held at Wrights ville Beach, June 23-26,' 1914, hereby places itself on record as unqualified ly in favor of the "Adair bill, which by its provisions grants the right of the newspapers of the United States to accept inter-State transportation from the railroads of the United States in exchange for advertising in said pa pers. . "Be it further resolved. That the present law prohibiting newspapers and railroads from entering upon such contracs is in restraint of trade and an injustice to both parties; and the Adair bill amending, the Hepburn inter-State commerce wkt is entirely within the ethics of coltimon law and the rights of - free citizenship." Mr R. F. Beasley was opposed to the resolution because he thought that there is no consistency in advo cating taking away- from railroads special privileges and yet accepting privileges from them.. Mr.- H. G. Braxton, of Kinston, advocated a cash basis. Mr., Hammer thought that the newspapers should purify themselves and that there is no justice in 'theft taking in exchange for advertising an indefinite number of miles for an m definite amount of advertising. Mr. J. J. Farriss, of High Point, ex plained that" the gentlemen were mis taken in their idea about the resolu tion in that they were taking the ground that there was some criminal ity involved, whereas there was 'noth ing of the kind. The- bill in question is simply designed, he stated, to give to papers the right to make such con tracts with the railroads - as they think best. Mr. Johnson heartily sec onded the idea advanced by Mr. Far riss and declared, that it was simply an effort to restore to the papers a right which had been ruthlessly taken away from them. The Hepburn bill was an imputation of the honesty of the editors of the country, he thought, and while he knew that he could not be bought he would .not "Vesitate to enter into an agreement with the . rail roads on. an exchange basis. Mr. H. B; Varner also endorsed the explanation of these two gentlemen. Mr. W. C. Dowd explained that such arrangement as was .suggested was perfectly legitimate and he ' did - not see that It was extending the corpora tions any special privilege. He advo cated It strongly and. -vigorously, and engaged in ' a warm running, fire de bate with Mr. Beasley and. Mr. Ham mer. When the question was called for the resolution ;, was adopted. Constitulonal Amendments. The resolution ; on the Constitution al amendments which was also . adopt ed after a warm debate between Mr. Hammer and Mr. M.';L. .iShipman, com-, missioner of 4abor and printing, is as follows: ' -'' , "We favor the ' enactment of such laws as will give the people a full and free expression of 'their will in nam ing candidates- for offlce,; and the" en actment and rigid enforcement of Jaws that - will .prevent the ; use of money or any corrupt or improper influence to control primaries and elections.. ' We endorse - tne ? constitutional amendments nbw pending and urge their adoration by the people. Mr. Shipman opposed the resolution because he thought-that it. was a par tisan matter and he did not think that politics "should .-be ;. injected into . the press organization. - "v : - Mr. Hammer stated that while he had - not studied all of - the amend ments it hadjeen his observation that ;yiCConue4 on Page EtehtJ " - ; HAPGOOD DEFINES EDITOR'S BIG JOB Says Next Big Industrial Ex- ;ii da : c...u pCMlOI-VU Ti Ilk UC lit UUUU1 GET SPIRIT OF THE AGE Which is to Make Success and Virtue Identical and Truth Basis of Business This Southern Editors' Task. Predicting that the next big indus trial expansion will be in the South, Norman Hapgood, in his. address be fore . the North Carolina Press Asso ciation last night at the Oceanic Ho tel, Wrightsville, Beach, defined the task of the Southern editor tis being to catch the spirit of the age to make success and virtue the same thing, to make truth the basis of business and cp take the lead in setting the intel lectual pitch of the community in Which they live. He paid high tribute to President Wilson's administration, stating that" he doubted that if any previous administration had done as much to focus the ideas of the day in to action as his has done. The address was simple clear-cut and concise anu was heard with close attention by practically all the editors in attendance uponxthe convention as well, as by many people from the city. The address was delivered with that same grace and sincerity that have made Mr. Hapgood's editorials the most widely quoted in this country. With a trip down the Cape Fear river today as the guests of the South port Commercial Club and of Capt. John W. Harper, the clever master of the steamer Wilmington, the 42nd annual session of the North Carolina Press Association will come formally to an end. Ai few of the members left, last night for their homes, but the large majority will take the trip down the river today,; . Special cars will leave the Oceanic Hotel at 8:15 o'clock to take the editors to the boat at the foot of Princess street. Introduced by Mr. Poe. Mr. Hapgood was introduced to the audience by President Poe, who re called the fact that Mr. Hapgood had risen from a position on a daily news paper that paid $5 a week to the edi torship of one of the foremost week lies of the country. He had given that up because he would not sacrifice principle for monej. Air. Poe thought that he was the best example today of the personal journalist that is rap idly passing away. His editorials were quoted, he said, not because they appear in Harper's Weekly, but because they are written by Mr. Hap good. His paper is one of courage without sensation, of politics without demagoguery and Mr. Hapgood he de clared to be a man of vision without being a visionary. Spirit of the Age.' ' Mr. Hapgooa, in beginning his ad dress, which was brief, stated that he had come down to talk face to face with the editors and that he proposed to discuss his subject, "The Southern Editor's Big Job," from the standpoint of one who was interested in the de velopment of the South. He would fry to boil down in a few sharp points Borne of the great principles of his tory. The spirit of the day is shown not so much, he declared, in a subject or subjects as it is in an atmosphere. "I am glad that this is the era in which I am able to work and live," he declared. In saying that Presi dent Wilson's administration is doing more to focus the ideas of the pres ent age into action, than any previous one has done ue declared that he was not speaking in a partisan spirit. From a historical : standpoint he showed that' tnere have always been two parties, one of - conservatism and the other that of liberalism. The first has. looked at affairs from a timid view while the other has had the courage to have imagination, the hope to look forward- and to aid in advanc ing the welfare of the race. Not since the Civil War, he continued, has there been such a clear alignment of these two forces as at the present time. Why WHson is Radical. Some have defined .Wilson as a pro gressive scholar., .he said ,but he pre ferred to look upon him as a. scholar as a natiiral radical. In fact, no man could study the past with vision and hope without being a radical. Contin uing the speaker stated that the fol lowers of Wilson have wavered, not because he has failed to do what he was supposed to do, but because he had done the very things that the platform of his party called upon him to do. People have gotten so used to seeing propositions , laid, down in plat forms that are never, enacted into laws and definite policies, he 'declared, that they look with some distrust up on a man who takes a different view of the matter. Illustrating the message he would bring to the editors, the speaker showed how -Thomas Jefferson when he. came to write the epitaph - for his monument, did not mention the fact that he had Deen President or Vice President or any of the positions that he had held; but only named' two things, -the first being, the fact that he had penned a document in favor of the freedom of the human spirit and that he had .founded an Institution to help freedom and truth .to live. This to the speaker was the most striking thing in. the life of-this great thinker and . political leader. , i L The Cost of Freedom. "Freedom's . banner streams against the. wind," : was .one of .the striking , (Continued on Page Five) VIRGINIA Scribes of Old Dominion Visit White House. FREEDOM FOR BUSINESS President Declares That Trust Legis lation Will be Passed by Con gress and Predicts Great Business Boom. -Washington, June 25. Under a "new constitution of freedom" for business, given by anti-trust legisla tion soon to be passed by Congress, President Wilson today promised the country the greatest business boom in Its history. This was the Presi dent's final ans-veer to opponents of trust legislation at this session of Congress and to prophets of evil times, delivered with determined ex pression and every word emphasized with clenched fist. "We know what we are doing," said the President; "we propose to do it under the advice of men who un derstand the business of the country, and we know that the effect is going to be exactly what the effect of the currency reform was, a sense of re lief and security." The President spoke to a group of Virginia editors at the Wlhitfe House, but his assurances were intended for the country. There . was every indi cation that the speech was meant to be 6ne of the most important of the Administration., Responsible for Public Opinion. "I think it is appropriate, in receiv ing Vou," the President said, "to say just a word or two in assistance of your judgment about existing condi tions. You are largely responsible for the state of public opinion. You furnish the public with information and in your editorials you furnish it with the interpretation of that infor mation. We are in the presence of a business situation' which variously interpreted. Here In .Washington, through instrumentalities that are at our disposal and through a correspon dence which comes in to us from all parts of the nation we are perhaps in a position to judge of the actual con dition of business better than those can judge who are at any other single point in the country; and I want to say to you that as a matter of fact, the signs of a very strong business revival are becoming more and more evident from day to day. "I want to suggest this to you: Business has been in a feverish. and apprehensive condition in this coun try for more than ten years; I will not stop to point out the time at which it began to be apprehensive, but during more than ten years business has been the object of sharp criticism in the United States, a criticism grow ing in volume and growing in partic ularity; and as a natural consequence as the volume of criticism has in creased, business has grown more and more anxious. Feared the Operation. "Business men have acted as some men do who tear they will have to undergo an operation and are not sure when they get on the table the operation will not be a capital opera tion. As a matter of fact, as the diag nosis has progressed it has become more and more evident that no capi ta, operation was necessary; that at the most a minor operation was ne cessary' to remove admitted distem pers and evils. "The treatment is to be constitu tional rather than surgical, affecting habits of life and action, which have been hurtful. For on all hands it is admitted that there are processes of business or have been proces;rs of business in this country which ought to be corrected; but the correction has been postponed and in proportion to this postponement the fever has in creasedthe fever of apprehension. "There is nothing more fatal to business than to be kept guessing i-from month to month and from year to year whether something serious Is going to happen to it or not and what in particular is going to happen to it if anything does. It is impossible to forecast the prospects of any line of business unless you know what the year is going to bring forth. Nothing is more unfair, notmng has been de clared by business men- to be more harmful, than to keep them guessing. Constructive Correction. "The guessing went on, the air was full of interrogation points for ten years and more. Then came an ad ministration which for the first time has a definite programme of construc tive correction, not of destructive correction, but of a construction cor rection if admitted evid a clear pro gramme disclosed so far. as possible in- a general programme in its partic ulars, as well as in its general, fea tures. And. the adminstration pro ceeded to carry out this programme. "First, There was the tariff, and business shivered- 'We don't like to go in; the water looks cold.' but when the tariff had been passed it was found that the re-adjustment was pos sible without any serious disturbance whatever. 'So that men said with a sense of relief, 'well,, we are glad to get thaf behind us, aand it wasn't bad after all.' . - "Then came the currency reform. You remember with what resistance, with what criticism, with what sys tematic holding back, a large body of bankers in this country met the pro posals of that reform, and yotr lujow how, immediately after its passage they recognised its benefit and its beneficence and how ever since the passage of that 4 reform bankers throughout the United States have been congratulating themselves that! STORY PUBLISHED Simultaneously in Washing ton and Tokio BRYAN REMAINS FIRM Last Note Sent to Orient by Secretary of State Is Said to Reiterate . The American Government's Stand as Positive - Washington, June 25. Diplomatic: corespondence between the United States and Japan over the Callfor nie anti-alien land law, extending over a period of more than a year, was published today simultaneously. in Washington and Tokio by agree, ment of the two governments. It disclosed that a new treaty was discussed as one way to meet Japan's protest against what her dip lomatic correspondence characterized! throughput as "essentially unfair and( invidiously discriminatory'. On June 10th the Japanese ambassador Vis count Chinda, left with Secretary Bryan "instructions" from the Tokio foreign office that the projected treaty would tend to create new difficulties. The Japanese government therefore, the note said was "disinclined to con tinue negotiations looking to the' con elusion of a convention on the lines of the project under discussion, but they prefer to recur to the corres pondences which were Interrupted and they will now look for a answer to the note handed Mr. Bryan on the 26th of August last, hoping that in a renewal of the study of the case, a fundamental solution of the ' ques tion at issue may be found". The Japanese Note The Japanese note of August 26th last which Mr, Bryan was asked to answer, concluded: "The Imperial government claims for them (its subjects) fair and equal treatment and are unable dither, to ac- quiesce in the unjust and obnozlous discrimination complained of, or tc regard the question as closed so long as the existing state of things i3 permitted to continue.'' Two days age Secretary Bryan re plied to that . .communication,, . but publication of the note was withheld tctday because it could not be In cluded in the correspondence made public lat Tokio. It is understood Secretary Bryan reaffirmed the posi tion of the United States Jeaving the subject open for further dislomatic exchanges. iSo there the controversy stands, apparantly at a deadlock. There are intimations In diplomatic -circles that It is being worked around to a stage for arbitration at the Hague. A stand ard arbitration treaty with Japan Bow la In force, (hang only Vecenlb; been renewed. The proposed treaty halted by Japan's latest attitude ; it' is understood proposed to touch on the naturalization of those Japanese already owning lands. The corres pondence in full makes about 30,000 wods. . - it was possible to carry this great re form on sensible and solid lines. ; "Then we advanced the trust pro gramme and again the same . dread, the same hesitation, the same urgen cy, that the thing should be postpon ed. It will not be postponed; and it" will not be postponed because we are i the friends of business. We know what we are doing; we propose to dc -it under the advice, for we have been fortunate enough to obtain the advice of men who understand the business of the country, and we know that the effect is going to be exactly what the effect of the currency reform was, a sense of relief and of security. "Because when the, programme Is finished it is finished; the Interroga tion points are. rubbed off the slate; business is given its constitution of freedom and is bidden go forward un der that constitution. And juso so soon as it gets that leave, and free dom there will be a boom in thia country such as we never have wit nessed in the United. States. Agitation Fatal. "I, as a friend of business, and a servant of the country, would not dare stop in this programme and bring on another long period of agi tation with every letter in the word a capital letter. The choice is a sober and sensible programme now complet ed or months upon months of addi tional conjecture and danger. "I for, one could not ask this coun try to excuse a policy which subject ed business to longer continued agita tion and , uncertainty; and therefore ' I am sure that it is beginning to be evident that a constructive program at last is not only to be proposed but completed and that when it is com pleted business can get and will get what it can get In no other way rest, recuperation, and successful ad justment. "It is a matter of conscience as well as a matter of large public policy to do what this Congress I am now cer tain is going to do, ' finish' the pro gramme. And I do not think it is go ing to take a very long time. I be live that the temper of those engaged in this great thing is admirable, that the various ' elements sometimes ' in. antagonism In the Congress of the . United States are drawing together, and that we shall vithness an early statesmanlike . result for which we shall all have abundant .reason to be thankful." . ,:-.v.. . -, During : the day the President had received a letter signed by Champ Clark, of the House, and all the Dem ocratic Representatives rfrom Missou ri, pledging their support In his cam- paign for anti-trust legislation, and' promising they ' would Temain in Washington until the programme was nnishea. - He ;. ' replied - . expressing thanks and appreciation, , :. 1 , ! 4 i -fa h ) t 'I 5 "I ,$7, -..";' ?";".' .,'.':f--'; .' -' r:v ''"j.'..-'-,::.'X. "V
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 26, 1914, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75