Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-10
WILSON
 TELLS HIS STORY

quicken enterprise and keep inde pendent energy alive.
 It is plain what those principles must be- We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of priv ilege or of any kind of artificial ad- vantage, and put our business men and producers under the stimulation of a constant necessity to be efficient, economical, and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any in the world Aside from the duties laid upon articles which we do not, and probably cannot, produce, therefore, and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield, the object of the tariff du- ties henceforth laid must be effective competition, the whetting of Ameri can wits by contest with the wits of the rest of the world.
 Development, Not Revolution.
 It would be unwise to move toward this end headlong. with reckless haste, or with strokes that cut at the very roots of what has grown up amongst us by long process and at our own invitation. It does not alter a thing to upset 1t and break it and deprive it of chance to change. It destroys it. We must make changes In our fiscal laws, in our fiscal system, whose object is development, a more free and wholesome development, not revolution or upset or confusion. We must build up trade, especially for sign trade. We need the outlet and the enlarged field of energy more than we ever did before. We must build up industry as we'll and must adopt freedom in the place of arti- ficial stimulation only so far as 1t will build, not pull down. In dealing with the tariff the method by which this may be done will be a matter of judg- ment, exercised item by item.
 To some not accustomed to the ex- elements and responsibilities of greater freedom our methods may in some respects and at some points seem heroic, but remedies may be heroic and yet be remedies. It is our business to make sure that they are genuine remedies. Our object is clear If our motive is above just challenge and only an occasional error of judg ment is chargeable against us, we shall be fortunate.
 We are called upon to render the country a great service in more mat ters than one. Our responsibility should be met and our methods should be thorough, as thorough as moderate and well considered, based upon the facts as they are, and not worked out as if we were beginners. We are to deal with the facts of our own day, with the facts of no other, and to make laws which square with those facts. It is best, indeed 1t is neces- sary, to begin with the tariff. I will urge nothing upon you now at the opening of your session which can ob- scure that first object or divert our energies from that clearly defined | duty. At later time I may take the | liberty of calling your attention to re forms which should press close upon he heels of the tariff changes, if not | accompany them, of which the chief | is the reform of our banking and cur rency laws; but just now I refrain For the present, put these matters on one side and think only of this one thing-of the changes in our fiscal system which may best serve to open l once more the free channels of pros perity to a great people whom we 1 would serve to the utmost and ! throughout both rank and file
 WOODROW WILSON.
 The White House, April 8, 1913.