The Mena weekly star., 1913-10-09
THE PRESIDENTS PLEASURE.
Woodrow Wilson Feels He Has
 Hclnrd Do Nation a Service.

When President Wilson attached .his signature to the new tariff Dlll' he made a short talk to those pres puf including Vice President Mar shall and Secretary of state Bryan He said:
 "Gentlemen, I feel very pecu- liar pleasure." said the president ~in what I have just done by way of taking part in the completion ol a great piece of business. It IS d nleasure which is very hard to eN- nress in words which are adequate to express the feeling; because the feeling that I have is that we nave done the rank and file of the peo- ple of this country a great SerVlce' Ii is hard to speak of these things without seeming to go of mo cain- naign eloduence. but that Is not my feeling. It is very profound, a feel ing of profound gratitude that working with the splendid men who have carried this thins through with studious attention and doing justice all round. l should have had part in serving the people of this country, and we have been striving to serve them ever since I can remember.
 "I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy, and know men standing around me who can say the same thing-Who have been waiting to see the things done which it was necessary to do in or der that there might be justice Tn the United States: and so 1t IS a solemn occasion that brings such a business to conclusion, and nope I will not be thought to be demand- ing too much for myself or my col leagues when 1 say that this, great as it is. is the accomplishment or only half the journey. We have set the business of this country free IfrOp those conditions which have made monopoly not only possible, but in a sense easy and natural. But there is no use taking away lhe conditions of monopoly if we do not take away also the power to create monopoly. and it is financial, rather than a merely tircunstan- tal and economic power.
 The power to control and guide and direct the credits of the coun- try is the power to say who shall and who shall not build up the in dustries of the country. in which direction they shall be built and in which direction they shall not be built. We are now about to take the second step. which will he the final step. in setting the business of this country free. That is what we shall do in the currency bill. which the House has already passed. and which I have the ut most confidence the Senate will bass much sooner than some pesSi- mistic individuals believe Be- cause of the question. now that this piece of work is done will arise all over the country for what do we wait| why should we wait .to crown ourselves with consum- Innate honor? Are we so self .donyinc that we do not wish tO .cOmplete our success?
 T was quoting to some of my colleagues in the Senate those lines from Shakespeare which have al- ways appealed to me: If it be a sin to covet honor, then am I inc most offending soul alive and am happy to say that I do not covet for myself alone. I covet it with equal ardOr for the men who are associated with me, and the honor is going to come from them. I am their associate. I can only com plete the work which they do. I can only counsel when they ask for my counsel. I can come in only when the last stages of the busi- ness are reached, and I covet the honor for them quite as much as l coVet it for myself: and I covet it for the great party of which I am a member, because that party is not honorable unless it redeem it's name and serve the people of the United States.
 "So I feel tonight like a man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey. and that in the morning, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey end like men with a quiet con science, knowing that we have served all our fellow men and have thereby tried to serve God"