The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-12-12
HUERTA MUST GO
ASSERTS WILSON
President Talks on Trusts, Cur
rency, Mexico, Peace.

MANY Women in :Attendance-Doc-
ument Read in Person While
Great Assemblage Listens.
Washington, Dec. 2.-For the lourrn
Wilson today personally addressed
Joint session of the house OF leR.esen'"
lives and senate of the United states.
s,o Inc In naw the REPRESENTATIVES chamber.
wbither the senators marched, two py
Two with Vice President Marshall ana
Sergeant at Arms Higgins IN a. tne en .ea Can
;tol BY automobile, directly from me
White House. Vice President MaTsnai -
and Speaker Clark had been named as q
ing him at the entrance to the chamDe
they escorted him to his place besi i;
the speakers desk, where he read ms
message in the clear. c ulaudGeo af,i a the
lawmakers have grown so well &C.
nuainted. The address follows in part:
Gentlemen of the Congress-In pur.
suance Of my CONSTITUTIONS! ouey ~ 10
"give to the congress information oI tHe
state Of the union," I take the liberty
Of addressing you on several matters
which ought, as it seems to me, partlc-
ularly to engage the attention OF your
honorable bodies, as OF az t Mno , stluy
I shall ask your indulgence II 1 ven
ture to depart in some degree from the
usual custom Of setting before you N
have engaged the attention and called
for the action Of the several depart
ments Of the government or Wh1cn LOOK
to them for esG thy St is iong
long, and would suffer in the abDrevIa.
ton to which should have to subject
it. I shall submit to you the reports
of the heads of the several departments,
in which these subjects are set forth
in careful detail, and beg that they may
receive the thoughtful attention OF your
e eomms.ee Who a may have the leisure to
study them. Their obvious importance
as constituting the very substance OF
the business of the government, makes
comment and emphasis on my part I'M
necessary.
At Peace With the World.
The country, I am thankful to say, is
at peace with all the world, and many
happy manifestations multiply about US
of growing cordially and sense OF
community OF interest among tne e+t ha7
peace and good will. More and more
readily each decade do the nations mani
fest their willingness to bind tnem-
selves by solemn treaty to the processes
of peace. the processes Of frankness and
There is only one possible standard
tween S the United States and other ma
lions, and that is compounded Of these
two elements: Our own honor and our
obligations to the. peace OF the world.
made to govern both the establishment
Of new treaty obligations and the In
depreciation Of those already assumed.
Cloud on Southern Horizon.
There is but one cloud upon our hor-
lion That has shown itself to the
south Of US, and hangs over Mexico;
peace in America until General Huerta
has SURRENDERED his usurped authority
in Mexico; until it Is understood on all
ernments will not be countenanced or
United States We are the friends Of
we are more than it's friends, we are
it's champions. because in no other way
can our neighbors, to whom we would
wish in syery way to make proof OF
velopment in peace and liberty. Mex
leo has no government. The attempt
to maintain one at the City of Mexico
despotism has been set up which has
hardly more than the semblance Of ma
tional authority; It originated in the
after D a Brief attempt tAt to play s the part
Of constitutional president, has at last
cast aside even the pretense Of legal
right and declared himself dictator. AS
a consequence, condition OF affairs
now exists in Mexico which has made
it doubtful whether even the most ele-
mentary and fundamental rights either
other countries resident within her ter
guarded, and Which threatens, il long
eqf to an %pe h fa st
lands Immediately to the south Of US.
Even If the usurper had succeeded in
I his purposes, in despite Of the con
Of it's people, he would have set up moth
ing but a precarious and hateful power,
which could have lasted but q little
would have left the country in a more
deplorable condition than ever. But he
has not succeeded. He has forfeited
the tn resp respect and the moral support even
to see him succeed. Little by little he
has been completely isolated. BY lit
tie every day his power and prestige
far away. We shan not, I believe, be
obliged to alter our policy Of watch
ful waiting. And then, when the end
tional order restored in distressed Mex
leo by the concert and energy Of such
Of her leaders as prefer the liberty Of
their people to their own ambitions.
Country Waits With Impatisncs.
l turn to matters Of domestic con-
Germ. You already have under consider
alton a bill for the reform Of our sys-
tenn OF banking and currency, for which
the country waits with impatience, as
Tor something fundamental to its whole
business life and necessary to set credit
free from arbitrary and artificial re-
stralnts. need not say how earnestly
l nope Tor its early enactment into law.
l take leave to beg that the whole en-
ergy and attention Of the senate be con-
centrated upon 1t till the matter is sue
that the request Is not needed-that the
members Of that great house need no
urging In this service to the country.
Production Of Food.
1t has, singularly enough. come to
pass that we have allowed the Industry
OF our farms to lag behind the other
ment. need not stop to tell you how
fundamental to the life OF the nation
ts the production Of its food. Our
thoughts may ordinarily be concentrated
upon the cities and the hives OF indus-
try. upon the cries OF the crowded mar
but it is from the quiet interspaces1 II
the open valleys and the free hilisides
that we draw the sources Of life and al
prosperity. from the farm and the ranch
from the forest and the mine. Without
these every street would be silent. every
once deserted. every factory fallen into
disrepair. And yet the farmer does not
stand upon the same footing with the
forester and the miner In the market
OF credit He Is the servant Of the
seasons. Nature determines how lon
ne must wait Tor his crops. and will mi
Dsva nussled an her processes He may