Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-04-09
f}7 MESSAGE IN
-, WASTES FEW WORDS IN
',,se CONGRESS WHAT 1T
SHOULD DO
Iurf REVISION HIS TOPIC
,,.,, Saws the Schedules Must Be
.,g.,Ily Changed to Square With
,..,.,t Conditions, but Work Re-
,J... Careful Consideration.

,,.ssnt Conditions, pGC "OEh ne
.I,.. Careful Consideration.
remington April 8.-President
a.,,s first message to the Sixty
|, congress. assembled in extraor-
session, was read in the senate
sorse today. It was surprising
.sovt being In full as follows:
no Senate and House Of Repre-
ssatiVes:
have called the congress together
extraordinary session because a
! was laid upon the party now in
at the recent elections which it
m to perform promptly, in order
I, tho burden carried by the people
.ssr existing law may be lightened
,ooD as possible and in order, also,
!, the business interests Of the
..,try NAV not be kept too long in
-,,epse as to what the fiscal changes
y 70 be to which they will be re-
-i-sd to adjust themselves. 1t is clear
be whole country that the tariff
mics must be altered. They must
changed to meet the radical altera-
m in the conditions of our economic
Ne which the country has witnessed
within the last generation.
While the whole face and method of
r Industrial and commercial life
ue being changed beyond recogni-.
Ion the tariff schedules have re
nained what they we're before the
hmge began, or have moved In the
Erection they were given when no
are circumstance Of our industrial
AgeOpment was what it is today.
0E task is to square them with the
lltlal facts. The sooner that is done
he sooner We shall escape from suf-
sring from the facts and the sooner
our men Of business will be free to
thriye by the law of nature (the ma
urs Of free business) instead of by
he law of legislation and artificial ar.
Business Not Normal.
We have seen tariff legislation
Ealder very far afieId in our day
'ery far indeed from the field in which
U prosperity might have had a nor
nal growth and stimulation. No one
no looks the facts squarely in the
ICE or knows anything that lies be-
cath the surface of action can fail to
eFceiye the principles upon which
s'ent tariff legislation has been
lsed, We long ago passed beyond
le modest notion of protecting" the
dustries of the country and moved
'ldy forward to the idea that they
ere entitled to the direct patronage
Inc government. For a long time
ume so long that the men now active
public policy hardly remember the
ndltlons that preceded tive have
usat IN our tariff schedules to give
On group Of manufacturer or pro-
GERS what they themselves thought
at they needed in order to
intaln a practically exclusive
dSet as against the rest of the
Tia. Consciously or unconsciously,
nave built up a set of privileges
exemptions from competition be-
ID which it was easy by any, even
cfudest, forms of combination to
ianlze monopoly; until at last moth
IS normal, nothing is obliged to
10 the tests of efficiency and econ
y IN our world of big business. but
AEIhlng thriyes by concerted ar
cement Only new principles of
ION Will save US from a final hard
sanitation Of monopoly and a
lp'e'e loss Of the influences that
CAen enterprise and keep indie
aent energy alive.
Is plain what those principles
81 De- We must abolish everything
pears even the semblance of priv
e OF OF any kind of artificial ad-
'@se' and put our business men
producers under the stimulation
constant necessity to be efficient,
DOHlical, and enterprising, masters
competitive supremacy, better
Aers anu merchants than any in
world Aside from the duties laid
Z articles which we do not. and
'aoly cannot, produce, therefore,
,"e duties laid upon Injuries and
q! Tor the sake of the revenues
''eld the object Of the tariff du-
Aencetorth laid must be effective
.Seuuon, the whetting of Ameri-
WIS by contest with the wits of
.eSl Of the world.
development. Not Revolution.
would be unwise to move toward
eno headlong, with reckless
~ Ut with strokes that cut at the
1ools Of what has grown up
asst US by long process and at
y. s"1 invitation. II does not alter
lns 10 upset it and break it and
ave II Of a chance to change. 1t
roEs IT, We must make changes
" ~scai laws, in our fiscal system.
. oOlect is development, q more
e., anu wholesome development. not
'0Ou or upset or confusion. We