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Show TOO LATE IN THE DAY. The administration has taken a new tack and representatives of "big business" busi-ness" have been invited to the "White house either to air their views on the "state of the nation" or to be told by President TVilson what the futuro has in store for them in the way of legislation, leg-islation, An inspired administration statement declares that the reason business men have not been called into council before is that the president feared he would be accused of taking advice from men who knew what they wore talking about, but who nnfor-j nnfor-j innately were possessed (if great wealth 1 or represented corporations doing an immense amount of business. So he , waited until the so-called antitrust bills were hatched before giving the men most deeply interested a chance to be heard, j jVuw that !ie house bus taken action j on thf'pe measures and the senate has f hrm under c on si dr rat ion, Mr. TVilsou feds Winl il- would be Ood politics to confer with bankers, merchants and manufacturers just for the looks of the thing, not that any good can possibly result, for the flat-footed atatement is made that the programme of the administration ad-ministration wil not be abated one jot 1 or tittle. So these "White house conferences confer-ences axe a sham and hollow mockery to begin with. J. P. Morgan waa first to respond to the president's invitation, but it will bo noted that very little was given out concerning what transpired. The significant statement was made, however, how-ever, that the Kew York banker declined de-clined or at leart failed, to Bay what he thought of existing conditions or whether, in his opinion, business was good, bad or indifferent. Perhaps the fae-t that be was a guest of the president presi-dent prevented, an honest expression of opinion in. the premises. Bo far as practical esults are concerned the Morgan Mor-gan visit was valueless from every point of view. . Henry Ford, the Detroit manufacturer, manufactur-er, is to visit the IWhite house next week and soon after a delegation from the Chicago Association of Commerce will be called into conference by the president. Others will likely follow in procession if they can be induced to make the trip to "Washington to gratify Air. SVllson's whim. Ordinarily business men are not prone to go upon wild goose chases, but as the occasion is most extraordinary and business dull to the point of stagnation, they may take a day or two off in order to listen to the excuses for the existing "psychological "psy-chological depression" or other Democratic Demo-cratic mental phenomena. |