Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-04

Restored by the Concert and Energy
of Such Of Her Leaders as Prefer
Liberty to AmbitIon-urees Senate
to Concentrate Upon Currency Bill
Until Passed - Rural Credits to
Farmers Advocated.
Washington, d. C.-The annual ad-
dress of President Wilson, delivered
at a Joint session Of the two houses
of Congress at the beginning of the
second session of the Sixty-third Con-
gress, was as follows
Address Of the President.
Gentlemen of the Congress-
In pursuance of my constitutional
duty to give to the Congress informa-
ton of the state of the Union" !
take the liberty of addressing you on
several matters which ought, as it
seems to me, particularly to engage
the attention of your honorable bodies,
as of all who study the welfare and
progress of the Nation.
/ shall ask your indulgence if !
venture to depart in some degree from
the usual custom of setting before
you in formal review the many mat
tiers which have engaged the atten-
ton and called for the action of the
several departments of the Govern
ment or which look to them for early
treatment in the future, because the
list is long, very long, and would suf-
s-- hn nhh q n I
should have to subject it. l shall sub
NIT to you the reports of the heads of
the several departments, in which
these subjects are set forth in care
full detail, and beg that they may re-
ceive the thoughtful attention of your
committees and of all Members of
the Congress who may have the leisure
TO study them. Their obvious import
ance, as constituting the very sub
stance of the business. of the Govern
ment, makes comment and emphasis
ON my part unnecessary.
o,va sss e rnrSS5,s am thankfrS ea?1say:
II at psace with all the . in
many happy manifestations multiply
about us Of a growing cordially and
sense Of community Of interest among
the nations, foreshadowing an age
of settled peace and good will. More
and more readily each decade do the
nations manifest their willingness to
bind themselves by solemn treaty to
the processes of peace, the processes
of frankness and fair concession. So
far the United States has stood at the
front of such negotiations. She will.
/ earnestly hope and confidently be-
lieve, give fresh proof of her sincere
adherence to the cause of international
friendship by ratifying the several
treaties of arbitration awaiting re-
newal by the Senate. In addition to
these. it 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 of the world, to the ne
gotiation of treaties by which it shall
be agreed that whenever differences
of interest or Of policy arise which
can not be resolved by the ordinary
processes of diplomacy they shall be
publicly analysed, discussed, and re-
ported upon by a tribunal chosen by
the parties before either nation de-
termines it's course of action.
There is only one possible standard
by which to determine controversies
between the United States and other
nations, and that is compounded OF
these two elements: Our own honor
and our obligations to the peace of
the world A test so compounded
ought easily to be made to govern both
the establishment of new treaty OBJ
legations and the Interpretation of
those already assumed.
There is but one cloud upon our
horizon. That has shown itself to
the south of us, and hangs over Mex
ico There can be no certain pros
pect of peace in America until Gen.
Huerta has surrendered his usurped
authority in Mexico; until 1t is I'M
derstood on all hands, indeed, that
such pretended governments will not
be countenanced or dealt with by the
Government of the United States. We
are the friends of constitutional gov
eminent in America; we are more
than its friends, we are its champions;
because in no other way can our
neighbors, tc whom we would wish
In every way to make proof of our
friendship, work out their own de-
velopment in peace and liberty. Mex
leo has no Government. The attempt
to maintain one at the City of Mexico
has broken down, and mere military
despotism has been set up which mas