The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-04
The President S Message

Social Justice comes flrSt this is the KEY
note of President Wilson's message to the Sixty
third Congress which went into regular session
last Monday, a document that maintains the
high standards of simple and lucid language so
characteristic of his utterances.
We are moving toward world peace, he says
in substance, and the United States is rightfully
in the lead. If we wish for standard by which
to test all arbitration and treaty making we
have it in "Our own honor and our obligation to
the peace of the world
But great menace to peace lies in that
cloud which has long hung Mexico Vic
toriano Huerta is but a pretender at best and
has lately come forth boldly as mere dictator.
Until he is eliminated, Mexico can have no peace.
We have adopted the policy of "watchful wait
ing Developments have justified this attitude
and may confidently expect to see this I'M
just dictatorship crumble of it's weight.
Meanwhile we have urgent problems of our
own, foremost at this time among which is the
currency question. It is necessary that every
other matter be laid aside by Congress that both
bodies may concentrate all their energies
this.
That done the next necessary step will be to
arrange to give farmers some adequate form of
credit. The producers of our food are necessary
above all others, yet they do not stand on an
equal footing in the credit market with the for
ester and the miner. Of course we shall grant
them special privileges, but must give
them their due. We have long Jagged behind
European nations in this, but the Congressional
Committee appointed some time since to inquire
into foreign methods of agricultural credits is
about ready to report and will then enable us,
doubtless, to frame suitable legislation.
But the large task confronting us is the fur
Their prevention of monopoly. The Sherman law
should stand, but the debatable ground that sur
rounds it must be reduced by more specific legis-
lation. This is SO important problem special
message will be needed concerning it.
The President then speaks in behalf of the
direct nomination of candidates for the presi-
dency. He believes that political conventions
should be held after nomination and should in
clude all those candidates who are made respon-
sible in carrying out party's platform.
The executive message then sweeps out to
insular possessions and lays down the doctrine
that are not owners, but trustees of these is
lands and that our policy should make steady
progress towards their full and complete self
government.
Alaska, also, needs attention and should be
given a well rounded territorial government
Means for supplying an outlet to her vast stores
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eminent built and operated railway is best fitted
Also steps must be taken to prevent private mo-
nopolizing and exploitation of Alaskan resources
His special recommendations covered a plea
for a more adequate equipment of the Bureau of
Mines, for railway employers liability act, and
for measures looking to safety at sea-
He closes by congratulatng Congress on its
energy and its progressive spirit and promises
his own hearty cooperation in all these matters
of Importance to the nation.
Former-President Roosevelt was greatly
pleased with cartoon exhibiting a work-worn
farmer reading his favorite book'-a copy of
the presidents message We believe the same
farmer and all the rest of us besides will take as
much pleasure in this present message in any
preceding ones.