The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-12-05


WASHINGTON, Dec 5.-The joint
committee appointed to inform the
President that the Flfty-ninth Con.
4ress has convened called at the White
House this morning and formally dis
charged their duty. The members
were Senators Allison and Morgan and
Representative Williams, Littauer and
McCleary.
At twenty minutes before noon to-
day the Secretary to the President,
Rarnes, accompanied by executive
Clerk Young, and a messenger, left the
White House in carriages for the cap.
1tol taking with them the printed cop
les Of the Presidents annual message
to Congress to be read from the ros-
trum in the Senate and House and dis
tr:buted among the members.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5y-The read,
ing Of the Presidents message in the
House began at 1928, eight minutes
later than in the Senate. The clerks
say It will consume three hours in the
reading.
The message is in part as follows;
To The seaate and House of Repre-,
sentatiyes:
The people OF this country continue
to enjoy great prosperity Undoubted-
Iy there will be ebb and flow in such
prosperity and this ebb and flow will
be felt-more or less by an members of
the community, both hy the deserving
and the undeserving. Against the
wrath of the Lord the wisdom Of man
can not avail; in times Of food or
drought human ingenuity can but par
tally repair the disaster, A general
failure of,crops would hurt all of US.
Again, II the folly of man mars the
general well-being, then those who are
innocent Of the folly will have to pay
part Of the penalty incurred by those
who are guilty Of the folly. A panic
brought on by the speculative folly Of
part of the business community would
hurt the whole business community,
But such stoppage of welfare. though
it might be severe, would not be last
ing. In the long run the one vital fac
tor in the permanent prosperity of the
country is the high individual charac-
ter of the average American worker,
the average American citizen, no mat
ter whether his work be mental or
manual, whether he be farmer or
wage.worker, business man or profess
sional man.
In our Industrial and soCla! system
the interests of all men are so close
" intertwined that in the immense
majority Of cases a stralsht-dealing
man who by his efficiency by his in
geuaity and industry, benefits himself
must also benefit others. Normally
the man Of great productive capacity
who becomes rich by guiding the labor
Of many other men does so by en-
abling them to produce more than
they could produce with out his guild
ance; and both he and they share i'll
the benefit, which comes also to the
public at large. The superficial fact
, that the sharing may be unequal must
never blind us to the underlying fact
that there is this sharing, and that the
benefit comes Ia some degree to each
pan concerned. Normally the wage
worker, tho man of small means, and
the average consumer. as well as the
average producer, are all alike helped
I,y making conditions such that the
man Of exceptional business ability re-
calves an exceptional reward for his
ability. Something can be done by
legislation to help the general prosper
ity; but no such help Of a permanent
" beneficial character can be given to
the less able and less fortunate, save
as the results of a policy which shall
inure to the advantage Of all indus
trious and eaiclent people who act de-
Gently; and this is only another way
81 saying that any benefit which comes
IL the less able and less fortunate
must OF necessity come even more to
tha more able ana more fortunate: Is