The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-12-04
THE PRESIDENTS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
No Peace in Mexico Until Gen.
kuerta Lets Go.
WANTS MONEY BILL PASSED
Mr.. Wilson Also Urges the Enactment
Of Legislation to Make Farming
a More Efficient Business
Other important Points.

washington, Dec. 2.-Ihe lOllVWlnS
Is summary of President Wilson S
message delivered to Congress:
In pursuance of my constitutional
duty to give to the Congress in
formation OF the state of the Union,
i take the liberty OF addressing you
on several matters which ought, as it
seems to me, particularly to engage
the attention of your honorable bodies,
as of all who study the welfare OF the
nation.
shall ask your indulgence if L
venture to depart in some degree
from the usual custom of setting be-
fore you in formal review the many
matters which have engaged the at
tention and called for the action OF
the several departments of the gov
eminent or which look to them tor
early treatment in the future, because
the list is long. very long, and would
suffer in the abbreviation to which |
should have to subject it, | shall sub
init to you the reports OF the heads
OF the several departments, in which
these subjects are set forth in careful
detail, and beg that they may receive
the thoughtful attention of your com
mittees and of all members of the
Congress who may have the leisure
to study them. Their obvious impor
lance, as constituting the very sub
stance Of the business OF the govern
ment, makes comment and emphasis
on nv uarl unntcpSSary
The country, | am thankful to say,
is at peace with all the world, and
any happy manifestations multiply |
Hbout us of growing cordially and |
sense of community Ut interest among |
the nations, foreshadowing an age OF |
OF settled peace and good will.
Huerta Must Let Go.
There is but one cloud upon our
horis'.n. That has shown itself to the
south of us, and hangs over Mexico.
Their" can be no certain prospect oil
peace in America until General |
Huerta has surrendered his usurpI
authority in Mexico; until it is under
stood on all hands, indeed, that such |
pretended governments will not br
countenanced or dealt with by the
government of the United States. We
are the friends Of constitutional gov
eminent in America; we are more
than its friends, we are its cham
pions: because in no other way can
our neiShbors, to whom We would
wish in every way to make proCa OF
our friendship. work cut their own
development in peace and liberty.
Mexico has no government. The at
tempt to maintain one at The City o!
Mexico has broken down. and a mere
military deSpotism has been set up
which, has hardly more than the
sembance Of national authority.
Currency Reform.
turn to matters of domestic con
Germ. You already have under con-
sideratiOn Il bill for the reform of our
system of banking and currency, for
which the country waits with impati-
ence. as for something fundamental
to It's whole business life and neces.
sary to set credit free from Arbitrary
and artificial restraints. need not
say how earnestly hope for its early
enactment into law | take leave to
beg that the whole energy and atten
ton of the Senate be concentrated
upon it till the matter is successfully
disposed of. And yet | feel that the
request is not needed-that the mem
bers of that great house need no urg- {
ing in this service to the country.
l present to you, in addition. the
urgent necessity that special pro
vision be made also for facilitating
the credits needed by the farmers OF
the country. The pending currency
bill does the farmers great service. I
1t puts them upon an equal footing
with other business men and masters
of enterprise, as 1t should; and upon :
its passage they will find themselves
quit OF many of the difficulties which
now hamper them in the field OF
credit.
Let Sherman Law Stand. A
Turn from the farm to the world OF o
business which centers in the city and X
in the factory, and l think that all v
thoughtful observers will agree that B.
the immediate service we owe the
business communities Of the country q
b to prevent private monopoly more Il
than It has been pre- o
vented. think It will be easily agreed
that we should let the Sherman anti.
trust law stand. unaltered. as II is.
with it, debatable ground about IL, Il
but that We should ~ much as posi- q
De reduce the area Of that debatable y
ground by further and more explicit o.
and should also supple d
neut that great act By legislation Il
Nhich would not only clarity It but ',
Mo facilitate its administration and