Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-23
LESSONS MAY STILL BE FOUND
 IN TEACHINGS OF WASHINGTON
Underwood Pays EncOniumS to the First President and Points Out the Wisdom and Foresght of is Utter ances and the Message " hich He Left

PHILADELPHLA. Feb. 22:-Con- gressman Oscar w. Underwood, of Alabama. Chairman of the ways and means committee Of the house. deliv- cred an address in this city tonight al the annual banquet or the state so- ciety of the Cincinnati club. His sub- 5ect was George Washington. and he said in part:
 Washington did not foresee all the perplexing problems with which we have to deal today. in our tariff or in our great corporations. in our cur repcy, iu our foreign possessions. or in q reconciliation of the rights of labor and capital. he did not forsee the vast task We all have. whether native or foreign born, Of taking the new material constantly coming to our shores and assimilating il into our growth and moulding it into loy al and intelligent support of our in stitutlons: he did not see the men snce oT destructive socialism nor the extent to which, unfortunately. we were to go in substituting party inter- est for political principle. though as to this he gave us paternal warning Nevertheless he did foresee sufiicint Of our problems to be able to com mend to us a course, the principles of which, if steadily adhered to- should bring us safely through all the perils to which we may be exposed While he did not outline the by laws, so to speak. that must, from time to time, he framed and adopted for the detailed life Of this country. he did understand, as no one else understood the organic principles upon which were to rest the security and the wei fare of our national life. And subject always to his urgent advice against permanent alliances with foreign pow ars like high priest among men, he preached the gospel of tolerance, of benevoienCe, of peace, of reasonable ness and of righteousness towards all peoples.
 Knew Needs of Country.
 ''Washingtou's distinguishing com mon sense and practical turn Of mind served him Swell in the adninfsttation of his high office. Few, if any, mere geueralities or qulxotic schemes for action were suggested by him; bat. on the contrary he seemed to be mas Ter of the underlying principles of tDt DuSiutSN utchn Ul AlAC NOu4ills Os he had been of the plans of his cam. paigns- At a time when so many of us are disposed to put upon the sta tute books nostrums for relief from our industrial and financial and eco homie evils. 1t will be well for us td call to mind the striking contrast be tween the moderate volume and tenn perate character Of laws enacted dur ing his presidency and so much of our present day legislation of the CT perimental sort, rejecting often mere ly 8, view of today that'is likely to be the heresy of tomorrow, and attempt ing to deal with the objectional tend ency before it is seen that it will not be arrested for itself, or before we have sufficient understanding Of it 10 be in & position to know or apply the appropriate rdmedy According ly the recommendations and the lesis ,ation of Washington's administration wefe not along guess work lines; but the elements of sobeTness, patience and wisdom which he so invariably manifested were typical of the plans he favored and adopted to bring order out of financial and industrial ctaOs, promote industry among the people and restore their energies by open ing up new sources Of revenue and prosperity, and by assuring men that they should gather and be secure in the possession Of the harvest of their labor.
 Transition Is too Easy
 There Is a great need too for US in this day when constitutional re straint has become irksOme 10 many, never to turn deaf ear to the stirring aDpeal of Washington to his people