Proceedings Of The Twenty Fifth Annual Convention PDF Download

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention: Held at Washington, D. C., October 28-31, 1913 Looking back, we observe the results which have come from the efforts of the past and the progress that has been made since last we met. That progress has been and is being made cannot be denied. I have an abiding faith that the good already accomplished is of a lasting nature and that further progress and good will result from future efforts. Viewing the present, we recognize as old friends some of the troublesome problems that have been with us for a long time and to which much thought and effort have been given. If we can see that these problems are nearer solution than they were when last we discussed them, or that the conditions affected by them are improved and improving, we can feel that our labors have not been in vain. As we look forward, we realize more and more the profound magnitude and far reaching importance of these problems, and, taking heart from counseling with one another, we go forward with renewed energy and fresh courage to the work that is before us. We all occupy positions of tremendous responsibilities and are invested with unprecedented authority. Upon our zeal, patriotism, efficiency and judgment, rests largely the commercial welfare of our country. In this as in other lines of public work, we find the extremists on both sides who, unless their ideas arc accepted and followed, exercise to its full extent the Americans prerogative of criticism. Their criticism is often founded in lack of knowledge as to facts and sometimes in a willingness to disregard the rights of others. Such criticism creates misunderstandings and misconceptions, but if we are not broad enough to refrain from being influenced or swerved by it, we are lacking in true capacity and fitness for the positions which we occupy. The situation that existed when regulation was undertaken was permitted to grow up. State and Nation could have prevented it. But it was a long time before public sentiment, which is really the power of the State and of the Nation, awakened to the facts and roused itself to the task of establishing equity in place of gross and unjust discrimination, and law in place of license. The multitude of evils could not be eliminated nor the wrongs corrected by one heroic action. Under the conditions that then existed such things grow rapidly and easily. The attempt to eradicate them involves the interests of many who had nothing to do with creating or fostering them, as well as the interests of the carriers whose agents, in co-operation with the representatives of favored ones, created and nourished the wrongs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.