The Monte Vista journal., 1913-04-12
GETS
| WILSON MESSAGE
Of Document Tells Purpose OF
Extra Session.
UsT ALTER TARIFF DUTIES
u,k.rs Asked to Square the
Schedules With tho Actual
Facts of Industrial and
Commercial Life.

SOllAlllS' S'es'
Washington, April s. - President
sons message, read today to the
ate and house at the beginning OF
extra session, was brief, point
document setting forth in general
ms what congress is expected to do
the matter of tariff revision. The
ssage was as follows:
the Senate and House of Repre-
entatiyes:
have called the congress together
extraordinary session because a
n was laid upon the party now in
yer at the recent elections which 1t
hit to perform promptly, In order
/ the burden carried by the people
er existing law may be lightened
Boon as possible and in order, also,
| the business interests of the
ntry may not be kept too long in
pense as to what the fiscal changes
to be to which they will be re-
red to adjust themselves. 1t is clear
the whole country that the tariff
les must be altered. They must
changed to meet the radical altera-
in the conditions of our ecnomic
which the country has witnessed
bin the last generation.
Phile the whole face and method Of
Industrial and commercial life
fe being changed beyond recogni-
the tariff schedules have re-
med what they were before the
nge began, or have moved In the
Pction they were given when no
fe circumstance of our Industrial
elopment was what 1t is today.
task is to square them, with the
pal facts. The sooner that is done
sooner we shall escape from suf-
hg from the facts and the sooner
men Of business will be free to
We by the law of nature (the ma
Of free business) instead Of by
law of legislation and artificial ar
cement.
Business Not Normal.
e have seen tariff legislation
pder very far afield in our day
lar indeed from the field in which
prosperity might have had a nor
growth and stimulation. No one
looks the facts squarely in the
or knows anything that lies be-
III the surface Of action can fail to
'eVe the principles upon which
'n' tarln legislation has been
~ we long ago passed beyond
INQUEST notion Of protecting" the
nSules OF the country and moved
's forward to the idea that they
entitled to the direct patronage
Ae government. For a long time
Pne 50 long that the men now active
.lllc puOllc policy hardly remember the
u'uohs that preceded tive have
Ut In our tariff schedules to give
soup OF manufacturers or pro-
'' Nhat they themselves thought
'ney needed in order to
a'n a practically exclusive
Ae' as against the rest of the
u Consciously or unconsciously.
ne "s Duilt up a set of privileges
AeIpuons from competition be-
cr'a n''n II was easy by any, even
1'St' forms of combination to
Ie ~ monopoly; until at last moth
S Normal nothing Is obliged to
sue tests Of efficiency and econ
ry,l, Our world of big business. but
s~lns thrlyes by concerted ar
|on ~eHL 'n, Only new principles of
,,l,' %'ll save us from a final hard
kpIs,a l',loh Of monopoly and 4
t"a loss OF the Influences that
'Va' energy alive.
pain what those pripciples
baa e' We must abolish everything
q Or =, even the semblance Of priv.
3ays =" any Kind Of artificial ad-
Ise' 11, and put our business men
! seer' eora,r' under the stimulation
konlo'ta necessity to be efiicient,
comaa,,., and enterprisins, masters
kler, uiuVe as1 supremacy, better
World merchants than any In
b srtlo,. ''uo from the duties laid
sbL ,'s o'" which we do not, and
ssanos produce, therefore.