Woodrow Wilson: “We have swung out, my fellow citizens, into a new business era in America.”

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…