The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-02
Departs in Some Degree from the
Usual Custom of Giving Formal
Review Of Departmental Work
MEXICO Is THE ONE CLOUD
UPON THE HORIZON
Hopes to See Constitutional Order
Restored by the Concert and Energy
of Such of Her Leaders as Prefer
Liberty to Ambition-Uraes Senate
to Concentrate Upon Currency Bill
Until Passed - Rural Credits to
Farmers Advocated.

Until Passed - Rural Credits to
Farmers Advocated.
Washington, D. C.-The annual adj
dress of President Wilson, delivered
at a joint session of the two houses
of Congress at the beginning of the
second session of the Sixty-third Con-
gress, was as follows
Address of the President.
Gentlemen of the Congress-
In pursuance Of my constitutional
duty to give to the Congress informa-
ton of the state of the Union" l
take the liberty of addressing you on
several matters which ought, as it
seems to me, particularly to engage
the attention of your honorable bodies,
as of all who study the welfare and
progress of the Nation.
| shall ask your indulgence if !
venture to depart in some degree from
the usual custom of setting before
you in formal review the many mat
tiers which have engaged the atten-
ton and called for the action of the
several departments of the Govern
ment or which look to them for early
treatment in the future, because the
list is long, very long, and would suf-
fer in the Authorization to which l
should have to subject it. l shall sub
NIT to you the reports of the heads of
the several departments, in which
these subjects are set forth in care
full detail, and beg that they may re-
ceive the thoughtful attention of your
committee and of all Members of
the Cc-sT IS who may have the leisure
to ST. = aem. Their obvious import
ance, as constituting the very sub
stance of the business of the Govern
ment, makes comment and emphasis
on my part unnecessary.
The country, l am thankful to say,
is at peace with all the world, and
many happy manifestations multiply
about US of growing cordially and
sense of community CT interest among
the nations, foreshadowing an age
of settled peace and good will. More
and more readily each decade do the
nations manifest their Willingness to
bind themselves by solemn treaty to
the processes of peace, the processes
of frankness and fair concession. So
front of such negotiations. She will,
I earnestly hope and confidently be-
1ieve give fresh proof of her sincere
adherence to the cause of international
friendship by ratifying the several
treaties of arbitration awaiting re-
newal by the Senate. In addition to
these, it has been the privilege of
the Department of State to gain the
assent, in principle, of no less than 81
nations, representing four-ifths of the
population of the world, to the ne
gotiation of treaties by which it shall
be agreed that whenever differences
of interest or of policy arise which
can not be resolved by the ordinary
processes of diplomacy they shall be
publicly analysed, discussed, and re
ported upon by a tribunal chosen by
the parties before either nation de
termines its course of action.
There is only one possible standard
by which to determine controversies
between the United States and other
nations, and that is compounded Of
these two elements: Our own honor
and our obligations to the peace Of
the world. A test SO compounded
ought easily to be made to govern botf
the establishment of new treaty OBJ
legations and the Interpretation O
those already assumed.
There is but one cloud upon ou
horizon. That has shown itself t
the south of US, and hangs over Mex
leo. There can be no certain pros
pect of peace in America until Gen
Huerta has surrendered his usurpet
authority in Mexico; until it is un
derstood on all hands, indeed, tina
such pretended governments will no
be countenanced or dealt with by tn
Government of the United States. w
are the friends of constitutional gov
eminent in America; we are NOR
than its friends, we are its champions
because in no other way can on
neighbors, to whom we would wis
in every way to make proof of ou
friendship work out their own de
velopment in peace and liberty. Me>
ico has no Government. The attemp
to maintain one at the City of MeXic
has broken down. and a mere militar
despotism has been set up which ha
hardly more than the semblance of NJ
tfonal authority. 1t originated in III
usurpation of Victoriano Huerta, whC
after brief attempt to play the par
of constitutional President has 8
last cast aside even the pretense c
legal right and declared himself dit
tator As a consequence, a conditio
of affairs now exists in Mexico whic
has made it doubtful whether eve
the most elementary and fundaments
rights .either of her own people c
of the citizens of other countries res
dent within her territory can long b
successfully safeguarded, and whic
threatens. II long continued. to in