Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-11
PRESIDENT IS
INSISTENT ON
TARIFF CUTS
Message Talks of Avoiding De-
Struction but Emphasizes
Party Pledges


Copies Of President wilson's mes
sage at the opening of the extraordi-
nary session of congress, delivered on
April 8. were received by mail today
from Washington. The message deals
with revision of the tariff.
The message referred to no partic-
ular schedule, mentioned no rates,
and included no statistics. 1t was an
enunciation of the presidents princi-
pies on tariff revision His specific
views and ideas as to rates and duties,
1t has been generally accepted, viii be
contained in the tariff bill itself which
he is now considering in detail. The
presidents decision to put the weight
of the Administrations influence be-
hind the bill with its serious schedules
drawn by the house ways and means
committee, caused him to omit specific
reference to tariff rates until the
measure was finally agreed upon in
the opening days of the present ses-
sion.
The message says:
To the Senate and House Of
Representatives
81 have called the congress together
in extraordinary session because q
duty was laid upon the party now In
power at the recent elections which
it 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 inter-
ests of the country may not be kept
too long in suspense as to what the
fiscal changes are to be which they
will be required 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 alteration In the conditions Of
our economic life which the country
has Witnessed within the last genera
tion. While the whole face and
method OF our industrial and com
mercial life were being changed be-
yond recognition the tariff schedules
have remained what they were before
the change began, or have moved I'm
the direction they were given when
no large circumstance of our indus
trial development was what 1t is to.
day. Our task Is to square them with
the actual facts. The sooner that is
done the sooner we shall escape from
suffering from the facts and the
sooner our men of business will be
free to thrive by the laws of nature
(the nature of free business) instead
of by the law Of legislation and
artificial arrangement
I'VE have seen tarif legislation
wander very far afeld In our day
very far indeed from the field iii which
our prosperity might have had a nor
NAL growth and stimulation. No one
who looks the facts souareIy I'm the
face or knows ANYTHING that lies be-
meath the surface of action can fail to
perceive the PRINCIPLES upon which re.
cent tariff legislation has been based.
We long ago passed beyond the mod
est notion of protecting the indus
tries of the country and moved boldly
forward to the idea that they we're en-
titled to the direct patronage of the
For q long tirne-a time
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