New Ulm review., 1913-04-09
First MESSAGE N.
WILSON WASTES FEW WORDS IN
TELLING coNoREss WHATlT
SHOULD 90.
TARIFF REVISION HIS TOPIC
President Says the Schedules Must %
Radically Changed 70 Square With
Present Conditions, but Work Re-
quires Careful Consideration.

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Il Washington. April S.-Presiden
, Wilson's first message to the Sixty
third congress, assembled In extraor
6nary session, was read in the senate
and house today. 1t WAS surprising
ly short, being In full a. follows:
To the Senate and House OF Repre-
sentatives:
| have called the congress together
in extraordinary session because Z
duty was laid upon the party now in
power at the recent elections which II
ought to perform promptly. in order
that the burden carried by the people
under existing law may be lightened
as soon as possible and in order, also.
that the business interests of the
country may not be kept too long in
suspense 40 to what the fiscal changes
are to be to which they will be re.
quired to adjust themselves. 1t 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
lie 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
development 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-
ferng from the facts and the sooner
our men OF business will be free to
thrive by the law of nature (the ma
ture Of free business) instead of by
the law OF legislation and artificial ar.
rangement
Business Not Normal.
We have seen tariff legislation
wander very far atield in our day
very far indeed from the field in which
our prosperity might have had nor
who looks the facts squarely in the
face or knows anything that 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 long time
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 a set of privileges
and exemptions from competition be- !
hind which 1t was easy by any, even !
the crudest, forms Of combination to |
organize monopoly; until at last moth !
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 a final hard !
crystallization Of monopoly and \
complete loss of the influences that |
quicken enterprise and keep inde-
pendent energy alive.
1t is plain what those principles
must be- We must abolish everything |
that bears even the semblance of priv
ilege or of any kind Of artificial ,ad-
and. put our business men
and producers under the stimulation !
of a constant necessity to be efficient,
economical and enterprising. masters
OF competitive supremacy. better |
and merchants than any in
the world. Aside from the duties laid
upon articles which we do not. and
probably cannot, produce, therefore.
and the duties laid upon Injuries and
merely for the sake of the revenues
they yield, the object of the tariff du-
l1GS uSuCSlOItU idlU uIuSl Uc SuCCSAvV
the whetting of Amer-
can wits by contest with the wits Of
the rest of the world.
Development. Not Revolution.
1t would be unwise to move toward
this end headlong. with reckless
haste, or with strokes that cut at the
very roots OF what has grown up
amongst US by long process and a.
our own Invitation. It does not alter
, thing to upset II and break ii and
deprive 1t Of a chance to change. It
destroys It, We must make changes
in our tlscal laws, in our fiscal system.
whose object is development, more
free and wholesome development, not
revolution or upset or confusion. We
must build up trade. especially for
eign trade. We need the outlet and
the enlarged field Of energy more
than we ever did before We must
build up industry rs we'll and must