Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-07-03
WILSON CURRENCY MESSAGE

fency Legislation at his pes
sion.
Washington, Especial "A fxec
determination to have currency
Legislation passed at this session
OF Congress was accepted by mem
bers of the House and Senate to.
day as President Wilson'S text fol
Che currency message, which ne
personally presented to Congress
assembled In joint session in the
House chamber.
Both Democrats and Repubh.
cans saw in the carefully worded
appeal Of the President an earnest
conviction that the situation must
be dealt with before Congress adj
iourns, and preparations were
made to begin committee work on
the administration bill which will
soon be introduced in the House
by Representative Glass and in the
Senate by Senator Owen.
The Address.
MIR. Speaker, Mr. PreSlQenC, Oen-
tlemen of the Congress:
SIT is under the cOmpulsion OF
what seems to me a clear and I'M
perative duty that | have a second
time this session sought the privi-
aege of addressing you in person.
i know, of course, that the heated
season of the year is upon us, that
work In these chambers and In the
committee rooms is likely to be-
come q burden as the season
lengthens, and that every consid-
GRAFTON of personal convenience
and personal comfort, perhaps, in
the cases of some of us, considera-
ton Of personal health even, die
tate an early conclusion of the de-
alterations of the session but
there are occasions of public duty
when these things which touchus
privately seem very small when
the work to be done is so pressing
and so fraught with big conse-
Quence 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. 1t is absolutely
imperative that we should give the
business men of this country a
and currency system by
means of which they can make use
of the freedom of enterprise and
Of individual initiative which we
are about to bestow upon them.
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 trannels of
the protective tariff. Ever since
the civil war they have waited for
this emancipation and for the free
opportunities it will bring with it.
ct has been reserved for US to give
to them. Some fell in love, in
deed, with the slOthfm security Of
their dependence upon the govern
ment; some took advantage of the
shelter of the nursery to set up a
mimic mastery of their own within
its walls. Now both the tonic and
the discipline of liberty and ma
turity are to ensue. There will be
some readjustments of purpose
and point of view. There will fol
low a period Of expension and new
freshly conceived. 1t
Is for us to determine now whether
it shall be rapid and facile and of
easy accomplishment. This it can
not be unless the r~esourceful bus
mess men who are to deal with
the new circumstances are to have
at hand and ready for use the in
Strumentalities and conveniences
of free enterprise which indepen-
dent men need when acting on
their own initiative.
"It is not enough to strike the
shackles from business. The duty
of craftsmanship is not negative
merely. 1t is constructive also.
must show that we understand
what business needs and that we
know how to supply it. No man,
casual and superficial his
observation of the conditions now
prevailing in the country, can fail
to e that, one of the chief things
business needs now, and will need
increasingly as it gains in scope
and vigor in the years Immediately
ahead of us, is the proper means
by which readily to vitalize it's
credit, corporate and individual,
and it's originative brains. What
will it profit us to be free if we are
not to have the best and most &C
cessible instrumentalities of COM
merca and enternriSe2 What will