The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 05, 1913, Page 2, Image 2
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WILSON'S MESSAGE
IS WARMLY PRAISED
(Continued from Page One.)
and declared himself dictator. At
a consequence a condition of affair:
now exists in Mexico which lias mad*
it doubtful whether even the tnos
elementary and fundamental right:
either of her own people or of th*
citizens of other countries residen
within her territory can long be sue
cessfully safeguarded, and whicl
threatens, if long continued, to iin
peril the interests of peace,.order am
tolerable life in the lands immediate
ly to the south of us. Even if th<
usurper had succeeded in his pur
poses, in despite of the constitutioi
of the republic and the rights of it
people, lie would have set up noth
ing but a precalous and hateful pow
er, which could have lasted but i
little while, and whose eventua
downfall would have left the countr;
in a more deplorable condition thai
ever. But he has not succeeded. II<
has forfeited the respect and tin
moral support even of those wh<
were at one time willing to see liin
succeed. Little by little he has beei
romplotly isolated. By a little ever]
day his power and prestige, are crum
bling and the collapse is not fa
away. We shall not, I believe. b<
obliged to alter our policy of watch
ful waiting And then .when the em
comes, we shall hope to see constiu
tional order restored in distress* <
Mexico by the concert and energy o
such of her leaders as prefer the lib
ertv of their people to their own am
bitions.
DOMESTIC AFAIRS.
I turn to matters of domestic con
rern. You already have under con
sideraOon a bill for the reform 01
our s\?tem of banking and currency
for which the country waits with im
patience, as for something funda
mental to its whole business life anr
necessary to set credit free from ar
bitrarv and artificial restraints. ]
need not say how earnestly I hop*
for its early enactment into law. 1
take leave to beg that the whole en
ergy and attention of the senate hi
concentrated upon it till the mattei
is successfully disposed 01. aihi vpi
I feel that the request Is not needer
?that the members of that greai
house need no urging In this servici
to the country.
I present to you. in addition, th<
urgent necessity that special provis
ion be made also for facilitating thi
credits needed by the farmers of tin
country. The pending currency bil
does the farmers a great service. I
puts them upon an equal footing witl
other business men and masters o
enterprise, as it should, and upon it
passage they will find themselve
quit of many difficulties which no\
hamper them in the field of credil
The farmers, of course, ask an
should be given no special privilege
such as extending t othem the credi
of the government itself. What the
need and should obtain is legislatio
which will make their own abundar
and substantial credit resource
available as a foundation for join
concerted local action in their ow
behalf in getting the capital the
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must use. It is to this we should i
now address ourselves.
It has, singularly enough, come to j
pass that we have allowed the industry
of our farmers to lag behind the
| other activities of the country in its
development. 1 need not stop to tell
you how fundamental to the life of j
the nation is the production of its I
_ food. Our thoughts may ordinarily !
3 be concentrated upon the cities and
* ! the lives of industry, upon the cries
? of the crowded market place and the
t clamor of the factory, but it is from |
s the quiet interspaces of the open j
3 valleys and the free hillsides that we !
t | draw the sources of life and of pros
perity, from the farm and the ranch,
i j from the forest and the mine. With
out these every street would be silent,
1 every office deserted, every factory
- | fallen into dispair. And yet the far9
mer does not stand upon the same
- I footing with the forester and the
i , miner in the market of credit. He
s is the servant of the seasons. Nature |
. determines how long he must wait
. for his crops and will not be hurried
i in her processes. He may give his
1 note, but the season of its maturity
Y depends upon the season when his
i , crop matures, lies at the gates of the
3 market where his products are sold,
a And the security he gives is of a
) character not known in the broker's
i office or as familiarly as it might be
) on the counter of the banker.
' HELPING THE FARMER.
r The agricultural department of the
3 government is seeking to assist as ;
. never before to make farming an effl- !
1 cient business, of wide co-operative !
. effort, in quick touch with the mar- I
1 kets for foodstuffs. The farmers and j
f the government will henceforth work
. together as real partners in this
. field, where we now begin to see our
way very clearly and where many
intelligent plans are already being
put into execution. The treasury of
" ; the tT?nited States has, by a timely
" and vfell-considered distribution of
( its deposits, facilitated the moving
of the crops in the present season and
prevented the scarcity of available
" ftinds too often experienced at such
times. But we must not allow our"
selves to depend upon extraordinary
' expedients. We must add the means
by which the farmer may make his
credit constanly and easily available
" and command when he will the cap*
V'al by which to support and expand
" his business. We lag behind many
. other great countries of the modern
world in attempting to do this. Svs'
terns of rural credit have been studied
and developed on the other side
of the water while we left our farm?
ers to shift for themselves in the or"
dinary money market. You have but
to look about you in any rural dis?
trict to see the result, the handicap
and embarrassment which have been
j put upon those who produce our food.
f Conscious of this backwardness
s and neglect on our part, the Congress
s recently authorized the creation of a
v special commission to study the vart.
ious systems of rural credit which
d have been put into operation in Eus,
rope, and this commission is already
it prepared to report. Its report ought
y to make it easier for us to determine
n what methods will he hest suited to
it our own farmers. I hope and believe
is that the committees of the senate and
t, house will address themselves to this
n matter with the most fruitful results,
y and I believe that the studies and re
I
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THE LANCASTER NEWS,
centlv formed plans of tho depart- c
meat of agriculture may be made to j s
serve them very greatly in their work 11
of framing appropriate and adequate 1
legislation. It would be Indiscreet ) 1
and presumptuous in any one to dog- ; <j
matze upon so great and many-sided ! |
a question, but I feel confident that ; r
common counsel will produce the re- j 1
suits we must all desire. a
ANTI-TRUST LAWS. )?
Turn from the farm to the world 1 1
of business which centres in the city l ?
and in the factory, and I think that 1
all thoughtful observers will agree , c
that the immediate service we owe <
the business communities of the coun- I *
try is to prevent private mouopoly | f
more effectually than it has yet been 1
prevented. I think it will be easily '<
agreed that we should let the Sher- j 1
man anti-trust law stand, unaltered, j >
as it is, with its debatable ground jf
about it, but that we should as much 8
as possible reduce the area of that j j
debatable ground by further and 1
more epllcit legislation; ann suouiu
also supplement that great act by
legislation which will not only clari- |
fy it but also facilitate its administra- |
tion and make it fairer to all con- |
cerned. No doubt we shall all wish, |
and the country will expect, this to
he the central subject of our deliberations
during the present session,
but. it is a subject so many-sided and j
so deserving of careful and dlscrlm- ,
mating discussion that I shall take '
the liberty of addressing you upon It :
in a special message at a later date
than this. It is of capital importance
that the business men of this country
should be relieved of all uncertain- |
ties of law with regard to their enterprises
and investments and a clear
path indicated wyhich they can travel .
without anxiety. It is as important
that they should be relieved of em- j
barrassment and set free to prosper |
as that private monopoly should lie
destroyed. The ways of action should ,
be thrown wide open.
I turn to a subject which I hope
can be handled promptly and without
serious controversy of any kind.
I mean the method of selecting nominees
for the presidency of the United
States. 1 feel confident that I do not
misinterpret the wishes or the expectations
of the country when I urge I
the prompt enactment of legislation |
which will provide for primary elec- |
tions throughout the country at '
which the voters of the several parties
may choose their nominees for '
the presidency without the interven- I
tion of nominating conventions. I I
venture the suggestion that this legislation
should provide for the retention
of party conventions, but only
for the purpose of declaring and accepting
the verdict of the primaries
and formulating the platforms of the
parties; and I suggest that these conventions
should consist not of delegates
chosen for this single purpose,
but of the nominees for Congress, the
nominees for vacant seats in the sen
ate of tho United States, the senators
: whoso terms have not yet closed, the
i national committee, and the candidates
for tho presidency themselves,
j in order that platforms may be framed
by those responsible to the people
j for carrying them into effect.
OUR DEPENDENCIES.
These are all matters of vital domestic
concern, and besides them,
outside the charmed circle of our own
national life in which our affections
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1 and so will YO
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leek Homespun 4^C
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Full line of
POPLINS,
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and *
WOOLENS
THE RIGHT PRICE
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It LEADS THE
Where You Get
DECEMBER 5, 1913.
ouimand us, as well as our cou- admin 1
clences, there stand out our obliga- nals it
ions toward our territories over sea. terest
iere we are trustees. Porto ltieo, for tin
lawaii, the Philippines, are ours, iu- the coi
leed, but not ours to do what we | But
(lease with. Such territories, once only tl
egarded as mere possessions, are no in the
onger to be selfishly exploited; they , throw 1
ire part or the domain of public con- the doi
iclence and of serviceable and en- Ces Qf
ightened statesmanship. We must is ano
idminlster them for the people who take tl
ive in them and with the same sense calling
>f responsibility to them as toward policy
>ur own people in our domestic well-ct
iffairs. No doubt we shall success- theory
ully enough bind Porto Kico and the expedb
Hawaiian Islands to ourselves by ties proble
>f justice and interest and affection, a freer
>ut the performance of our duty to- , jem jn
vard the Philippines is a more difil- the Un
:ult and debatable matter. We can object
satisfy the obligations of generous touch
ustlce toward the people of Porto Gf the
tico by giving them the ample and There
amillar rights and privileges accord- I ns bet,
>d our own citizens in our own lerri- ojes. f
ories and our obligations toward tho difTere
jeople of Hawaii by perfecting the j t),p r,
irovisions for self-government al- ; ,l5,p,j.
eady granted them, but in the uped. 1
Philippines we must go further. We ; narrov
nust move toward the time of the in- j :igains
lependence as steadily as the way can ' muniti
>e cleared and the foundations! Worke<
houglitfullv and permanently laid. | C0HSi0i
Acting under the authority con- SOurce
erred upon the President by Con- sipate
tress, I have already accorded the doubt;
jeople of the islands a majority in . rpguln
joth houses of their legislative body ceptab
jy appointing five instead of four ment8
mttve citizens to the membership of to
he commission. 1 belie\ e that in J natlon
his way we shall make proof of their
apacity to counsel and their sense our ro
>f responsibility in the exercise of ; |)urpo?.
jolitical power, and that the success ,,.1Sy.
if this step will b esure to clear our ( ^hr
, iew for the steps which are to fol- | jpiport
ow. Step by step we should extend j that, v
ind perfect the system of self-gov- j jn rjo<
rnment in the islands, making test 0
>f them and modifying them as ex- Pnu|Dll
jerience discloses their successes and I p.!on .
heir failures; that we should more ; rpn(jor
ind more put. under the control of i .. (
he native citizens of the archipelago min'
he essential instruments of their life,
heir local instrumentalities of gov- .
irnment, their schools, all the com- s,.rv.l(
uon interests of their communities. jJps
ind so by counsel and experience set '
lp a government which all the world . ; .
will see to be suitable to a people
whose affairs are under their own EMI
control. At last, I hope and believe. ^yp
we are beginning to gain the confiilence
of the Filipino .peoples. By _rov|d
their counsel and experience, rather pmp|0
than by our own, we shall learn how v
hest to serve them and how soon it wj'jj p
will be possible and wise to withdraw ^loso
our .supervision. Let us once find nf ^ G
tlin nnth nnd set out with firm and 1 . ..
confident tread upon it. and we shall eXDorj
not wander from it or linger upon it.
DUTY TO ALASKA. We
A duty faces us with regard to meetii
Alaska, which seems to mo very justlc<
pressing and very imperative?per- accom
haps I should say a double duty, fos nomic
it concerns both the political and the first,
material development of the terri- reallz;
tory. Te people of Alaska should be pressc
given the full territorial form of gov- An
ernment, and Alaska, as a store house discus
should he unlocked. One step t oit safety
is a system of railways. These the don a
government should Itself build and goveri
JOW AT H
?U. for HE has RED
a FEW of the M.AH
-The RIGHT GOODS at th
Knickerbocker ^
Pants for Hoys 1
Nuii^ - - SJh*
Men's Pants 89c
Extra good value in
Men's Suits
all wool
$8.95
Come and get one.
> SHOES for the BABIES.
POINTING Finger
WAY
the BIGGEST BAI
ster, and the ports and termi-1 slons of that
should itself control in the in- 1 and conaidei
of sill who wish to iiKfl thorn ntirsolvos ill
I (l? Hid I *3 PUK". * III r? in Oil ??? j
Lant part of the work of con- The tax
ion of human life and energy I October 15,
en nearer to our interest than one per ce
enervation from waste of our jn January,
lal resources. ruary and
LOVERS' LIABILITY LAW. In school
1 U I 1 5 I W v
owe it. In mere justice to the two (2) ml
v employes of the country, to ^os. 2> 3,
e for them a fair and effective and 48 8p
yers' liability act, and a law jn districts
!e can stand by in this matter 23 21, 31
e no less to the advantage of four H
who administer the railroads 24, 33 i
country than to the advantage (5) mHiB.
>se whom they employ. The special ti
enee of a large number of the ;^) mm
abundantly proves that. 32, 46 and
ought to devote ourselves to mills. In <
lg pressing demands of plain ten (10) e
? like this as earnestly as to the special tax
Iillclimnnt r>f nnlltienl nrwl ocn- Kl~ 91
reforms. Social justice comes half (2%)
Law is the machinery for its between th'
?tion and is vital only as it ex- are subject
>s and embodies it. three ($3)
international Congress for the and all m
sion of all questions that affect ages of 21 i
at sea is now sitting in Lon- one dollar
t the suggestion of our own
nment. So soon as the concluH
iUCED the PRICES
fY LOW PRICES xs
e RIGHT TIME and at RIC
Ladies9
Coat
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Suits
in styles up-to-dat<
some going at
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a service and development of prompt allev
intry and its people. ' unjust and
the construction of railways is which now t
le first step; is only thrusting of sailors a
key to the storehouse and , difficult to i
ng back the look and opening spirited and
or. How tlie tempting resour- every ship i
the country are to be exploited haudled anc
ther matter, to which I shall | May I no
le liberty of from time to time piea8ure I h
your attention, for it is a erating with
which must be worked out by jnK w|th it t
msidered stages, not upon | v|ce> to wh
, but upon lines of practical so unreserv<
ency. It is part of our general m0nths of \
m of conservation. We have tlon upon tli
hand in working out the prob- gureiy it is
Alaska than in the states of part of my r
lion, and yet the principle and unUm" to e
are the same, wherever we tjie dtltgenc
it. We must use the resources tjie fuu com
country, not lock them up. which has
need be no conflict or jealousy foQth the
ween state and federal author- may not i
or there can be no essential intrusion ol
nee of purpose between them. jf j gay witl
psources in question must Vie stant satlsft
but not destroyed or wasted; Beif Gf the
but not monopolized upon any time and <
v idea of Individual rights as au^e jn coll
t the abiding interests of comes.
That a policy can be ?
d out by conference and con- q i
1 which will release these re- QUUbCl
s and yet not jeopardize or dis
them. I for one one have no
and it can be done on lines of ' rouP
tion which need be no less ac- Croup is
le to the people and govern- tacks chlldi
of the states concerned than very apt to
people and government of the proper ret
at large, whose heritage nothing bet
resources are. We must bend King's New
nnsels to this end. A common berlain, of
?e ought to make argreement about his c
severe atta
ee or four matters of special would die,
Lance and significance I beg a certain re
ou will permit me to mention covery is, w
dng. on it for ci
bureau of mines ought to be So can you.
>ed and empowered to render tie should 1
uore effectual service than it druggists,
s now in improving the condi- Philndelphk
>f mine labor and making the
more economically productive
I .... Tl,la I o nn oil- 1
congress can be learned i 1
red we ought to address 'M
nonj? other tilings, to the
iation of the very unsafe,
burdensome conditions
.urround the employment
nd render it extremely
obtain the services of
competent' men such as
leeds if it is to be safely
I brought to port,
t express the very real
ave experienced in co-opi
this Congress and sharhe
labors of common serich
it has devoted itself
?dly during the past seven
incomplaining concentrale
business of legislation?
a proper and pertinent
eport on "the state of the
xpress my admiration for
e, the good temper, and
prehension of public duty
already been manifested
houses; and I hope that
ie deemed an Impertinent . :Vrl
' myself Into the picture
i how much and how con
icuon i nave avanea myprivllego
of putting my
pnergy at their disposal
nsel and in action .
ibe for The News.
aiul Cough Remedy.
a terrible disease, it at- .
pen so suddenly they are ^
> choke unless given the
nedy at once. There is
ter in the world than Dr.
Discovery. Lewis ChamManchester,
Ohio, writes
ihildren: "Sometimes in
cks we were afraid they
but since we proved what
medy I)r. King's New Disre
have no fear. We rely
oup, eouglits and colds."
50c and $1.00. A bot5e
in every home. At all
H. E. Bucklen & Co.,
ii and St. Louis.
TAX NOTICE.
books will be open from
1913, to March 15, 1914.
nt penalty will be added
, two per cent in Febseven
per cent in March.
1 districts Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6,
and 4 3 a special tax of
Ills is levied. In districts
7, 8, 19, 22, 26. 34. 45
>clal tax three (3) mills.
Nos. 10. 11. 17. 18, 20,
, 39, 42, and 47 special
i) mills. In districts Nos.
ind 36, special tax Ave
In districts No. 14
ix six and one-half
s. In districts Nos. 12,
4 9 special tax eight (8)
llstrlct No. 38 special tax
allls. In district N >. 40,
eleven (11) mills. In dls- A
I in A inu auu u u 17- 1
mills. All male citizens
e ages of 21 and 66 years
to a capitation tax of
dollars for road purposes,
ale citizens between the
and 60 years are liable for
poll tax.
T. L. Hli.TON,
County Treasurer.
EfI
I of OUR
rhich will
;ht prices.
t OUR prices
.st pay
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