Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-04-10

est message to the sixty-third
~ ,aaress. delivered in person to the two
~" ,sss in joint session in the house
0' This afternoon, in full, follows:
NO. %. .hs Senate and House OF Repre-
..;,os. | have called the congress
.ho, in extraordinary session be-
duty was laid upon the party
ow in power at the recent elections
~. !, ought to perform promptly,
dor that the burden carried by the
.an,e under existing law may be
n.onea AS soon as possible, and in
%, also. that the business interests
The country may not be kept too
one in suspense as to what the fiscal
..noes are to be to which they will
!. required to adjust themselves 1t
clear that the whole country ex-
...oa the tariff duties to be altered.
rhsv must be changed to meet the
sdeal alteration in the conditions o.
\, eeonomic life which the country
:. witnessed within the last genera
ion.
Face Present Facts.
While the whole face and method of
mr. industrial and commercial life
we're being changed beyond recogni-
inn the tariff schedules have remained
yhat they were before the change be-
ian. or have moved in the direction
hey were given when no large cir
.nmstances of our industrial develop
neut was what it is today. Our tasks
IN souare them with the actual facts.
The sooner that is done the sooner we
hall escape from suffering from the
acts and the sooner our men of bust
ness will be free to thrive by the law
II nature (the nature Of free business
instead of by the law of Legislation
nd artificial arrangement.
We have seen traiff legislation wan
aer very far afield in our day-very
lar, indeed, from the field in which
BUR prosperity might have had a nor
nal growth and stimulation.
Encouraged Exclusiveness.
No one who looks the facts squarely
n the face or knows anything that
les beneath the surface of action ean
fail to perceive the principles upon
which recent tariff legislation has bean
based. We long ago passed beyond
he modest nation of protecting the
Industries of the country and moved
boldly forward to the idea that they
we're entitled to the direct patronage
bf the government. For long time
time so long that the men now active
IN public policy hardly remember the
conditions that preceded tive have
fought in our tariff schedule to give
zach group of manufacturers or nro.
ULCERS what they themselves thought
hat they needed in order to maintain
practically exclusive market as
lgainst the rest of the world.
Consciously or unconsciously, we
ave built up set of privileges and
Exemption from competition behind
which it was easy by any, even the
rudest, forms of combination, to or.
Fanize monopoly, until at last nothing
normal, nothing is obliged to stand
be tests of efficiency and economy
our world of big business, but ev.
rything thrives by concerted arrange
hent
Must Adopt New Principles.
Only new principles of action will
ave us from a final hard crystalliza
ION OF monopoly and complete loss
the influences that quicken enter
PRISE and keep Independent energy
live.
1t is plain that those principles
must be. We must abolish everything
nat bears even the semblance of priv
'eee or OF any kind OF artificial ad
antage, and put our business men and
'todacers under the stimulation of q
instant necessity to be efficient, eco
'0"'lcal and enterprising, masters OF
o"petltlve supremacy, better work
!" and merchants than any in the
'orld. Aside from the duties laid up
y articles which we do not. and prob
wy can not, produce, therefore, and
~ duties laid upon Injuries anc
,ereiy for the sake of the revenues
.ey yield, the object of the tariff du
go henceforth laid must be effective
.'petitlon, the whetting of American
nus by contest with the wits of tn.
sst of the world