Arizona republican., 1913-06-24

ehdl lie would call another extra
 session of congress if necessary to ldispose of the matter.
 Although a house caucus has been
 called for this week it is probable it will not take definite action on ,the currency bill.
 In his message President Wilson !said
 1 MT. Speaker, MT President, Gen
 tlemen of the congress:
 | It is under the compulsion of what
 seems to me clear and imperativc c duty that l have a second time this season sought the privilege of ad 1 dressing you in person. I know of l course that the heated season of the
 year is upon us, that work in these
 chambers and in the committee rooms | is likely to become q burden as the i season lengthens, and that every con sideration of personal convenience and l personal comfort. perhaps. in the | cases of some of us considerations of i personal health even dictate an early conclusion Of the 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 fraught with big consequences that we know that we are not at liberty to weigh against 1 it any point of personal sacrifice. We are now in the presence of such an occa sion It is absolutely imperative that we should give the business men of this country a banking and cur rency system by means of which they could make use of the freedom of enterprise and of individual initia- tive which we are able to bestoW on them.
 We are about to set them free; we
 are about to set them free by re- moving the trammels of the pro- tective tariff Ever since the civil
 war they have waited for this emancipation and for the free op-
 portunities it will bring with it.
 It has been reserved for us to give
 it to them. Some fell in love. in
 deed. with the slOthful security of
 their dependence upon the govern
 ment: some take advantage of the
 shelter of the nursery to set up
 mimic mastery of their own within
 it's walls Now both the tonic and
 the discipline of liberty and maturity
 are to ensue. There will be some
 readjustments of purpose and point of
 view There will follow a period of
 expansion and new enterprise, fresh
 lX conceived IL IS TOT us to Otlti
 mine now whether it shall be rapid
 and facile and of easy accomplish
 ment. This it cannot be unless the
 resourceful business men who are to
 deal with the new circumstances are
 to have at hand and ready for use
 the instrumentality and cOnyenience
 and Of free enterprise which inde-
 pendent men need when acting on their own initiative.
 It is not enough to strike the shackles from business. The duty of
 statesmanship is not negative merely
 It is constructive also. We must
 show that we understand what busi
 ness needs and that we know how
 to supply it. No man, however casual and superficial his observation
 of the conditions now prevailing m the country can fail to see that one of the chief things business needs now and will need increasingly as it gains in scope and in vigor in the wears immediately ahead of us, is the proper means by which readily to vitalize its credit. corporate and individual. and it's originative brain What will it profit us to be free II
 we are not to have the best and most accessible instrumentalities of com merce and enterprise? What will It profit us to be quit of one Kind or monopoly if we are to remain III the grip of another and ssore effective kind? How are we to gain and keep the confidence of the business com munitv unless We show that we know how both to aid and to protect II What shall we say if we make freSh enterprise necessary and also make it very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff just as we found II The tvrannies of business big and little. lie within the field of credit l We know that Shall we not act upon the knowledge? Do we not 1 know how to act upon it. If man | cannot make his assets available at | measure his assets of character and | of resource. what satisfaction is 1t to | him to see opportunity beckoning to | him on every hand when others have the key of credit in their pockets and treat them as all their own prlNate possessions? It is perfectly clear that if is our duty to supply the new banking and currency system the country needs and that it will inn mediateIy need it more than ever
 The only question is, when shall we supply it-now or later after the demands shall have become re breaches that we were SD uoii anu '' slow? Shall We hasten to chanSe the tariff laws and then be laggards about making it possible and easy for the to take advantage or the change? There can be only one an syver to that question. We must act now at whatever sacrifice to our selves. It is a duty which the cir forbid us to postpone. l should be recreant to my deepest of public obligation did not press it upon you with solemn nsistence The principles upon which we should act are also clear The country has sought and seen It's oath in this matter within the last 'ew years-sees it more clearly now han if ever saw it before-much