The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-26
WILSON APPEALS
TO CONGRESS FOR
CURRENCY LEGISLATION

It is under the colnpulsion of what
seems to me a clear N imperative
duty that I have a second time this
session sought the privilege of address
ing you in person. i know, of course,
thai the heated season Of the year is
upon us, that work in these chambers
and in the committee rooms is likely
TO become a burden as the. season
lengthens, and that every consideration
OF personal convenience and personal
comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some
OF US, consideration of personal health
even. dictate an early conclusion ofgthe
deliberations of the session: but there
are occasions of public duty when these
things which touch us privately seem
very small; when the work to be done
is so PRESSING and SO frauaht with big
consequences that we know that we are
not at liberty to weigh against it any
point of personal sacrifice. We are now
in the presence of such an occasion. II
is absolutely imperative that we should
give the business men of this country
a banking and currency system by
means of which they can make use of
the freedom of enterprise and of in
dividual initiative which we are about
to beStoW upon them.
Would End Long Wait.
We are about to set them free; we
must not leave them without the tools
of action when they are free. We are
about to set them free by removing the
trammels of the protective tariff. Ever
since the civil war they AVE waited
for this emancipation and for the free
opportunities it will bring with it. 1t
has been reserved for MS to give It to
them. Some fell in love. indeed. with
the sIothfuI security of their denend-
snce upon She government; Some took
advantage of the shelter of the nursery
TO set up a mimic mastery of their own
within It's walls. Now both the tonic
and the discipiine of liberty and rnatur-
ity are to ensue. There will be some
readiustments of purpose and point of
view. There will follow a period of ex-
pansion and new enterprise. freshly
conceived. 1t is for us to determine
now whether it shall he rand and facile
and of EASY ACCOMPLISHMENTS This If
can not be unless ther esourcefnl b1lsi-
ness men who are ia deal with the new
circumstances are to have AT hand and
readv for use the and
conveniences of free enterprise which
~dependa men need when acting on
their own Initiative.
Dury or ratesmanshI
1t IS mol enough to strike the shackles
Irofn business. The duty of statesman
snip is not negative merely. 1t is con-
structlve also. We must show hat we
-, N'AN
ina we know now to supply 1T. No
man, however casual and superficial
ms observation of the conditions now
IN the country, can fail to
see that one OF the chief things bust
ness needs now, and will need increas-
lnsiy as 1t gains in scope and vigor in
the nroner peans Nv whist raaa;i. -
v~itaIize its credit. cornora+e and ;nd;s
viduaI. and its o~rininatiya hr.;ns WIZ
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to have the best and most accessib1e
Observation-Disclosures of and en-
terprise? What will it profit MS to be
quit of one kind of monopoly If we are
to remain in the grip of another and
more effective kind? How are we to gain
and keep the confidence of the business
community unless we show that we
1Snow how both to aid and to protect
it? What shall we say if we make
fresh enterprise necessary n also
make it very difficult by leaving all
else except the tariff Just as we found
it? The t%yrann;es of business bio and
little, lie within the field of credit.
We know that. Shall we not act upon
the knowledge? Do you not know how
to act upon it? If a man can not make
his assets available at pleasure, his as
sets of capacity and character and re-
source, What satisfaction is it to him
to see opportunity reckoning to him on
every hand, when others nave the keys
of credit in their pockets and treat
them as all but their own private pos
session? 1t is perfectly clear that it is
our duty to supply the new banking
and currency system the country needs,
and that it will Immediately need it
more han ever.
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- H"sWer.
Tue Only question IS, Wnen snali we
supply ltLnow' Or iater, altef the De
Inands shall nave become Teproaches
that we were SO gun ana SO slow? Snail
we hasten 70 change the tariff laws
n lhen pc laggards ABOUT making 1t
possible n easy Tor the country to
take OF the There
can be only n answer to that ques-
sanri6cs 10 on-rsa,yes is q d,,tv
which the circumstances forbid ne 10
postnone shauld he recreant ~ NV
deepas+ conv;ctions of nuhI;c ohjins+;on
did NOT nress Il mon You wifi soIeron
end uraent insistence.
The principles upon which we should
act are also clear The country has
sought and seen it's path in this mat
ter within the last few vears-sees t
more clearly now than it ever saw it
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