Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-12-12
DIRECT PRIMARY FOR
CHOOSING PRESIDENT
IS uRCEDBY WILSON
Need Of Anti Trust and Rural
Credits, Is Shown in
His Message.
FAvoRs FEDERAL RAILWAY
Chief Executive Maps Out Ambitious
Program for consress-Wouid
Not Upset the shsr-
man Law.
fAvoRs FEDERAL RAILWAY

Not Upset the Sher.
man Law.
Gentlemen Of the Congress: In pur-
9uance of ms constitutional duty to give
to the congress information Of the state
Ct the union" l take the liberty of adj
ought. as 1t seems to me. particularly to
engage the attention Of your honorable
bodies. Gs OF all who study the welfare
and progress of tho nation.
1 shall ask your indulgence IL I venture
20 depart. In some degree from the usual
custom Of setting before you in formal re-
view the many matters which have en-
gagged the attention and called for the
action OF h several departments OF the
government or which look to them for
early treatment in the future, because the
HIST 10 n very long. and would suffer
IN the ~abbreviation to which I should have
to subject 1t. I shall submit to you the
reports OF the heads OF the several de-
partrnents. In which these subjects are set
forth In careful detail. and beg that they
may receive the thoughtful attention Of
pour committees and Of all members Of
to study them. Their obvious importance.
As constituting the very substance OF the
business of the government, makes COM
mont and emphasis on my part unneces-
sary.
AZ Peace With World.
The country, I am thankful to say, is
st peace with all the world. and mar
happy manifestations multiply about us
OF q growing cordially and sense OF com-
Munity OF interest among the nations.
1~oreshadowing an age OF settled peace and
FOOD VIII. More and more readily each
decade do the nations manifest their will
!ngness to bind themselves to solemn
treaty TO the processes of peace. the
processes OF frankness and fair conces-
sion: So far the United States has stood
at the front of such negotiations. She
VIII. / earnestly hope, and confidently be-
EVE. give fresh proof of her sincere adj
nerence to the cause OF international
OF arbitration awaiting renewal by the
Senate: In addition to these, 1t has been
the privilege of the department of state
TO gain the assent, In principle, of no less
than 81 nations, representing four-fifths
OF the population ofefhe world, to the ne
eotiation Of treaties by which 1t shall be
terest or Of policy arise which can not he
resolved by the ordinary processes of
diplomacy they shall be publicly analysed,
Siscussea, and reported upon by a tri-
bunal chosen by the parties before either
nation determines its course of action.
Inere Is only one possible tanda by
Wnlcn TO determine controversies between
the United States and other nations, and
that Is compounded of these two elements:
our W nonor and our obligations to the
peace OF the world. A test SO compounded
establishment of new treaty obligations
and the Interpretation OF those already as-
0umed.
Oenouncement Of Huerta.
Inc:e Is but one cloud upon our horizon.
That has shown itself to the south of us.
ana hangs over Mexico There can be no
certain prospect of peace in America UNI
gu General Huerta has surrendered his
understood on all hands, indeed, that such
pretended governments will not be coun-
nan or dealt with by the govern
ment or the United States. We are the
friends Of constitutional government in
America; we are more than its friends,
we are Its champions: because in no 9TH
er way can our ~neighbors. to whom we
our friendship. work out their own devel-
opment In peace and liberty. Mexico has
n at the City Of Mexico has broken
down. and q mere military despotism has
beeA set up which has hardly more than
the semblance Of national authority. It
Huerta. who. after a brief attempt to play
the part Of constitutional president, has
Ct last cast aside even the pretense Of le-
gal right and declared himself dictator.
Ar q consequence, q condition OF affairs
now exists In Mexico which has made it
doubtful whether even the most element
ary and fundamental rights either of her
own people or b citizens OF other coun-
tries resident within her territory can long
b successfully s~afeguarded.. and which
interests Of peace. order. and tolerable
life in the lands Immediately to the south
Of US. Even II the usurper had succeeded
In his purposes. In despite Of the cOnstitu-
ton Of the republic and the rights Of it,
people, he would have set up nothing but
Q precarfous and hateful power, which
whose eventual downfall would have LEFT
the country In q more depl0rable condition
than ever. But he has not succeeded. He
has forfeited the respect and the moral
support even OF those who were at one
time willing to see him succeed. Little
BY little he has been completely isolated.