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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, j no j at ' ' Members of b.'ird Congress Adressed: usi Personally by Cliief Executive. j ')e< i \va In delivering his annual message j at the closing session of the 63rd j congress in the hall of the house ofj representatives President Wilson t v spoke as follows in part: ' ! no Gentlemen of the congress: The nQj session upon which you are now en-j A * - - 1 nf 1 lermg win ue me nuoiug g. the 63rd congress, a congress, I ven_lref ture to say, which will long be re-jfor membered for the great body of 1 thoughtful and constructive work J th( which it has done, in loyal response: * to the thought and needs of the j. country. 1 should like in this ad-!^ dress to review the notable record I ^ and try to make adequate assess-1 j. ment of it, but no doubt we stand! too near the work that has been I . j str done and are ourselves too much aia]g part of it to play the part of his- . torians toward it. f Our programme of legislation with . regard to the regulation of business WQ is now virtually complete. It has m? been put forth as we intended, as a whole, and leaves no cdnjecture as to ^y what is to follow. The road at last lies clear and firm before business. It is a road which it can travel with- gio out fear or embarrassment. It is I i i v>o tn nneriirigred. unclouded! mo A wwu v~ o ?" ' success. In it every honest man, every man who believes that the ^ public interest is part of his own in- t terest, may walk with perfect con- ^ fidence. j Moreover, our thoughts are now ^ more of the future than of the past. While we have worked at our tasks Qf. of peace the circumstances of the whole age have been altered by war. What we have done for our own land and our own people we did with the ?oc P best that was in us, whether of character or intelligence, with sober enthusiasm and a confidence in the ^y. principles upon which we were act- tjie ing, which sustained us at every step of the difficult undertaking, but an( it is done. It has passed from our -n hands. It is now an established part 4 of the legislation of the country. Its usefulness, its effects will disclose pec themselves in experience. What try chiefly strikes us now, as we look . * about us during these closing days of a year which will be forever mem so orable in the history of the world, , is that we face new tasks, have Deen ot}. facing them these six months, must _ pre face them in the months to come? ^ face them without partisan feeling, . like men who have forgotten every- &re thing but a common duty and the eCQ fact that we are representatives of a great people, whose thought is not CJUc of us, but what America owes to noi herself and to all mankind in such h circumstances as these upon which _ cor we look amazed and anxious. the Effects of European War. ver War has interrupted the means of ly trade not only, but also the processes pie of production. In Europe it is destroying men and resources whole- ( sale and upon a scale unprecedented gn] and appalling. There is reason to ecQ fear that the time is near, if it be .f not already at hand, when several pri of the countries of Europe will find it difficult to do for their people spp what they have hitherto been always <ir easily able to do?many essential ar(j and fundamental things. At any ^ rate, they will need our help and our gh(, manifold services as they have never ^ needed them before, and we should be ready, more fit and ready than agg we have ever been. ^ It is of equal consequence that the are nations whom Europe has usually gOA supplied with innumerable articles ^ of manufacture and commerce, of sir< which they are in constant need and .g . without which their economic dethe velopment halts and stands still, can apr now get only a small part of what ma they formerly imported and eagerly look to us to supply their all but emp- . . DOt ty markets. This is particularly true of our own neighbors, the States, * for great and small, of Central and are South America. Their lines of trade WIS * *Al * ~ ?'? TT athn'art I nave nuuenu i uu vmt..,. ?v.. the seas^ not to our ports but cJe to ports of Great Britain and of the j older continent of Europe. I do not stop to inquire why, or to make any . comment on probable causes. What interests us just now is not the ex- reg planation, but the fact, and our duty and opportunity in the presence of it. ^ Here are markets which we must ^ supply, and we must find the means . of action. The United States, this ? doi great people for whom we speak and . ^ "act, should be readv, as never be- .. tiv? fore, to serve itself and to serve ^ mankind: readv with its resources, . lay its energies, its forces of production, and its means of distribution. eve It is a very practical matter, a qu mattpr of wavs and means. We have!,,.. - j ui the resources, but are we fully ready j tjie to use them? And. if we can makejnot ready what we have, have we the .j means at hand to distribute it? WeL to are not fully ready: neither have wet, _ j Jar; the means of distribution. We are will-! .n^ ing:. but we are not fully able. have the wish to serve and to serve . inc greatly, generously: but we are not prepared as we should be. We are( (( t ready to mobilize our resource once. We are not prepared ti a them immediately and at tliei st. without delay and withou ste. Ships Xeeded To speak plainly, we have grossl; ed in the way in which we havi mted and hindered the develop <nt of our merchant marine. An< w, when we need ships, we havi t got them. We have year afte: ir debated, without end or conclu n. the best poiicy to pursue witl card to the use of the ores ant ests and water powers of our na nal domain in the rich States o 3 West, when we should have act : and they are still locked up. Tin r is still turned upon them, tin 3r shut fast at which thousand: -Pull r?f initiotivo VlgUlUUO U1CU, A.KAIL Vi ii*tV4Mv?> V ock clamorously for admittance e water power of our navigabh earns outside the national domaii o. even in the Eastern States ere we have worked and plannec generations, is still not used a: might be. because we will and w< n't; because the laws we hav< tde do not intelligently balanc< couragement against restraint ) withhold by regulation. [ have come to ask you to remed: 3 correct these mistakes and omis ns, even at this short session o congress which would certain!} (m to have done all the work tha lid reasonably be expected of it e time and the circumstances ar< raordinary, and so must our ef ts be also. Fortunately, two great measures sly concieved. the one to unlock h proper safeguards, the resource: the national domain, the other t( jourage the use of the navigable ters outside that domain for the leration of power, have already ised the house of representative: 1 are ready for immediate consid ition and action by the States th the deepest earnestness I urge ;ir prompt passage. In them both turn our backs upon hesitatior 1 makeshift and formulate a gen e policy of use and conservation the best sense of those words. We e the one measure not only; to the pie of that great Western counfor whose free and systematie e'.opment, as it seems to me, oui islation has done so little, but alto the people of the nation as z ole; and we as clearly owe the lers in fulfillment of our repeated mises that the water power ol country should in fact as well as name be put at the disposal ol at industries which can make nomical and profitable use of it i rights of the public being adeitely guarded the while, and mo>oly in the use prevented. Tc ;e begun such measures and noi npleted them would indeed mai i record of this great congress y seriously. I hope and confidentbelieve that they will be comted. Economy. Dne of these is economy in govment expenditures. The duty 01 nomy is not debatable. It is man5t and imperative. In the approatious we pass we are spending i money of the great people whose vants we-are?not our own. We trustees and responsible stewIs in the spending. The onlj ng debatable and upon which we ?uld be careful to make out iught and purpose clear is the d of economy demanded of us. 1 ert with the greatest confidence t the people of the United States > not jealous of the amount theii ernment costs, if they are sure ,t they get what they need and dei for the outlay, that the monej being spent for objects for which v auDrove. and that it is being )lied with good business sense and nagement. jovernments grow, piecemeal h in their tasks and in the means which those tasks are to be permed, and very few governments i organized, I venture to say, as ;e and experienced business mer uld organize them if they had a an sheet of paper to write upon -tainly the government of the ited States is not. I think that il generally agreed that there should a systematic reorganization and ssembling of its parts so as tc ure great efficiency and effect conerable savings in expense. Bui i amount of money saved in thai y would, 1 believe, though nc ibt considerable in itself, running nay be, into the millions, be rela?ly small?small, I mean, in protion to the total necessary outs of the government. It would thoroughly worth effecting, as ry saving would, great or smau. r duty >s not altered by the scale the saving. But my point is that i people of the United States do wish to curtail the activities ot 5 government; they wish, rather, enlarge them: and with every engement. with the mere growth, eed. of the country itself, there st come, of course, the inevitable rease of expense. The sort oi Continued on page 6, column 1.) s M I Ili5?P?WMBIB ' I Suits and Overcoats Made to Order I RIGHT IX OUR SHOP FOR ! I $15.00 AJiP 5 0 You are invited to visit our tailor shop and see how we make r g Clothes. j I If your Overcoat or Full Hress <'o:*t needs new silk facing, we 8j can do it. I DIXIE TAILORS I I 9 j Tellepltone 108 Bamberg, S. 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