The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 17, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, j no
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' ' Members of b.'ird Congress Adressed: usi
Personally by Cliief Executive. j ')e<
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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!,,..
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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
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