Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-10
CONGRESS GETS
 WILSON MESSAGE Brief Document Tells Purpose Of
 Extra Session. MUST ALTER TARIFF DUTIES Lawmakers Asked to Square the Schedules With the Actual
 Facts of Industrial and
 Commercial Life.
MUST ALTER TARIFF DUTIES

Washington, April 8. - President Wilson's message, read today to the senate and house at the beginning of the extra session, was brief, point ed document setting forth in general terms what congress is expected to do in the matter of tariff revision. The message was as fellows:
 To the Senate and House of Repre-
 sentatives:
 I have called the congress together in extraordinary session because a duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent elections which it ought to perform promptly, in order that the burden carried by the people under existing law may be frightened as soon as possible and in order, also, that the business interests of the country may not be kept too long i'll suspense as to what the fiscal changes are to be to which they will be re- quired to adjust themselves. It is clear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered. They must be changed to meet the radical altera- tion in the conditions of our ecnomic life which the country has witnessed within the last generation.
 While the whole face and method of our industrial and commercial life were being changed beyond recogni- ton the tariff schedules have re- mained what they were before the change began, or have moved in the direction they were given when no large circumstance of our industrial was what it is today Our task is to square them with the actual facts. The sooner that is done the sooner we shall escape from suf- fering from the facts and the sooner our men of business will be free to thrive by the law of nature (the na- ture of free business) instead of by the law of legislation and artificial ar 
 Business Not Normal.
 We have seen tariff legislation wander very far afield in our day very far indeed from the field in which our prosperity might have had a nor nal growth and stimulation. No one who looks the facts squarely in the face or knows anything thaa lies be- meath the surface of action can fail to perceive the principles upon which recent tariff legislation has been based We long ago passed beyond the modest notion of protecting the industries of the country and moved boldly forward to the idea that they were entitled to the direct patronage of the government. For a long time B time so long that the men now active in public policy hardly remember the conditions that preceded tive have sought in our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or pro- ducers what they themselves thought that they needed in order to maintain practically exclusive market as against the rest of the world Consciously or unconsciously, we have built up set of privileges and exemptions from competition be- hind which it was easy by any, even he crudest, forms of combination to organize monopoly; until at last noth- ing is normal nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and econ omy, in our world of big business, but everything thrives by concerted ar Only new principles of action will save us from final hard of monopoly and complete loss of the influences that
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