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Show m . The President's Business Speech H Q OMETIMES we think that men who read tho H e speeches and writing from a distance, of great H men, who never see their faces and only know H them by their words, get a clearer vision of their H real characters than those who are personally ln- Wm , timate with them. Hfl ' 1 We all, sometimes, take an immediate dislike BH ( to a stranger when first mooting him. With close H ' association that wears off. We become friendly H and reproach ourselves for our -first distrust of H i him. But somttimes a simple incident is enough H ., to make clear that the ilrst impression was right H and never should have permitted the intimacy. H We know some of the men who were great H In their lives, better than did the men who saw H , them day after day, though they have been long H dead. H The speech made by President Wilson before H the grain men of Baltimore seems to us a dis-H dis-H tinct revelation of the character of the man Wil-H Wil-H , son. He began by entreating his hearers to for-H for-H get that there was a campaign in progress in the H ' country and consider only the business of the H country, and then proceeded to make the most H adroit and subtile political campaign speech that H he has ever in his life made. H ' Wo hope that every shrewd and thoughtful H man will read and then analyze it. H He opened with the hope that business men H would realize the situation and "open up a new H era for the nation," and further that in framing H measures for the country's good partlsanism M should be ignored, and for the day "should divest H . ourselves of the consciousness that we are In the M i 4 midst of a political campaign." fl J r He came to talk business and wanted "all the H . vapors of passion cleared away" while he talked. ' Then he noted that the export of grain had 4 been diminishing of late years, and ascribed it m ' to increased home consumption, but hoped In the H ' next two decades that the present area planted H to grain would double in yield. M The inference intended was that somthing had B been started calculated to double the yield of our B grain fields. He did not explain what that was, B for he could not. He forgot to mention that be-B be-B fore his party came into power, the world had B been seurched for better qualities of grains and fl s new valuable plants, for antidotes to ward off M .X ' the diseases of plants and animals; that accepting B government advice the corn raisers of the old B west had added several per cent to the yield of B A . their fields, that government experts had taught B I the men of Arizona and California how to suc-B suc-B j cessfully raise silo, etc., and he could not name B Y one new "result which his own party had achieved. B Then ho discussed our banking laws and how H we had fallen behind in foreign countries. B i That has been discussed for years by enlight-B enlight-B " ened newspapers in connection with the determl-B determl-B nation of the Democratic party to never have our B merchant marine restored, their position being the B same as expressed by our old Terre Haute com-H com-H missloner Carton, who said: "A ship on the sea B is the same as a camel on land, a burden bearer M merely, and we ought to employ the camel that Hj will carry our fi eight cheapest." B Then the president wanted a fetter apprecla-B apprecla-B tion of knowledge which sounded well, but which M does not count for much when partisanship makes H mien oblivious to facts. Then he discussed "The B Bureau of Commerce and the Federal Trade Cornel Corn-el mission," but did not name one advance from tho H .old routine; then he came to the tariff. The B "burden of what he said was a desire "to see B Americans seek, not to exclude, but to excel, and H that he was not afraid to say that tariff laws had 1 been framed on theories." He said that, too, H after the experience of this country for four-score M I' years, in which every free trado measure, like H the present Underwood law, has never failed to M wreck tne country, drain It of money and All it B' ' with foreign goods and turned over skilled labof- M BB 'S K i ers out to starve, as would bo thq case now, except ex-cept for foreign purchases of war munitions. lie wants American brain to assert itself. What chance has American brain when brought in direct competition with naked savages and foreign ship subsidies? But if anything Is wrong the president is sure the tariff commission will cure it. That tariff commission has been advanced for many years, but the president's party has voted steadily against it until within the past half year." But tho climax of his speech va. his tearful picture of the need of a gre,at merchant marine. Hear him: "Suppose that a man who had a great department depart-ment store did not have any delivery wpgons and depended upon his competitor in the same market to deliver his goods to his customers. You know what would happen. They would deliver their own goods first and they would doliver youis enly if yours wore to be delivered upon the r.mtes followed fol-lowed by their wagons." Does not that sound, familiar? Almost In the same words, Goodwin's Weekly has been repeating repeat-ing that since before Mr. Wilson was nominated for president the first time. The president further explains that the government govern-ment was now going to undertake the work, but only because private enterprise would not. Strange that Americans will not put on ships to carry freight to foreign markets in competition with English subsidized ships! England has paid $340,000,000 in subsidies In the past thirty years. Mr. Wilson will not consent to subsidies. He g prefers to pay the deflicit from tho general ex- 9 pense account. 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