Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-04-08


WASHINGTON, April S,-Presl-
dent Woodrow Wilson today com
munlcated his first message to the
sixty-third congress, convened in ey-
traordnary session, 1t was an un-
usually brief document, dealing ex-
cusiyely with the need Of thor
ough, moderate and well considered
revision Of the tariff The president
drew attention to the necessity for
an early reform in the banking and
currency laws but refrained, he said,
from urging, for the present any
other legislation that might divert the
energies Of congress from its clear
ly defined duty" toward the tariff
question
The message referred to no par
tcular schedule, mentioned no rates
and included no statistics. 1t was
an enunciaton OF the presidents prin
ciples on tariff revision His spe
cifie views and ideas as TO rates ant
duties, II has been generally accepted
will be contained In the tariff bill
itself which he is now considering II
detail The presidents decision {,
put the weight of the administrs
TONS influence behind the bill witt
It's various schedules as drawn b!
the house ways and means committee
caused him to omit specific refer
ence 10 tariff rates until the meas
ure was finally agreed upon in tn
sparing days of the present session
The message urged that speeia
privilege and exemptions from cor
petition be cut out Of the nation
tariff system and that the revision b
made "to square with the facts a
they are" At the outset, the pres
dent called attention to the party
pledge for tariff reduction.
The message in its entirety 70
lows.
70 the Senate and House Of Repr'
senttiyes.
have called the congress togethC
IN extraordinary session because
duty was laid upon the party no
in power at the recent election
which It ought to perform prompt
IN order that the burden carried !
the people under existing law ma
be lightened as soon as poss'O
and in order, also. that the busineI
interests OF the country may "a
be kept too long in suspense at
what the fiscal changes are 20 be
which they will be required to adju
themselves. II is clear to the Wao
country that the tariff duties mu
be altered. They must be chang
to meet the radical alteration in Z
conditions of our economic life viii
the country has witnessed within [
last generation While the who
face and method of our industr
and commercial life We're bel
changed beyond recognition the Z
III schedules have remained vi
they were before the change beg
Or have moved in the direction th
we're given when no large eireu
stance Of our industrial developm
was what it is today Our task
to square them with the actual fat
The sooner that is done he sool
we shall escape from suffering II
the facts and the sooner our y
Of business will be free to thrive
the law OF nature (the nature ef 7
buslness) instead Of by the law
legislation and artificial arrangfsmt
We have seen tariff legislat
wander very far afield in our
very far indeed from the eield
which our prosperity might have
normal growth and stimnlat
No one who looks the facts sdusi
in the face or knows anything
lies beneath the surface OF ac'
can fail to perceive the princil
upon which recent tariff legisia
has been based We long ago pas
beyond the modest notion of "
tectlng" the industries Of the c,
Try and moved boldly forward to
IDEA that they were entitled to
nlreet patronage of the governm
FOR long time-a time so
mat the men now active in pr
policy hardly remember the &C
uons that preceded tive
sought in our tariff schedules to
each group of manufacturers or