The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-04-10
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WasAiastoa. April tia his asst
0esea0o . congress. . document Of
haHsual brevtty. PrssiAsat Wilson To-
lAy told the senate ssA house what
- and ths country expect In the way
u revision Of The taFi1. the task for
Which mAinly the sxtraordinaly sss-
0a0a was called. Following 10 the
1oxt OF the message:
10 the Senate and House Of Repre-
0ontatives:
have called the congress together
IN extraordinary session because =
duty was laid upon the party now In
Bower At the recent elections which It
ought to perform promptly. In order
that the burden carried BY the people
sndsr existing law may be lightened
- soon a. possible and in order. also.
that the business interests of the
country may not be kept too long in
suspense ~ to what the fiscal changes
are to be to which they will be re-
Quired to adjust themselves. 1t Is clear
to the whole country that the tariff
duties must be altered. They must
be changed to meet the radical altera-
kisn In the conditions of our ecnomic
life which the country has witnessed
within the last generation.
While the whole face and method OF
our industrial and commercial life
we're being changed beyond recogni-
ton the tariff schedules have re-
mained what they were before the
Ah hav IN thn
direction they were given when no
large circumstance of our industrial
development was what 1t is today.
Our task 10 to square them with the
actual facts. The sooner that is done
the sooner We shall escape from suf-
fering from the facts and the sooner
our men of business will be free to
thrive by the law Of nature (the ma
ture Of free business)s instead Of by
the law Of legislation and artificial A.
fan9ement.
DusInsss Not Normal.
We have seen tariff legislation
wander very far aneld in our day
very far indeed from the field in which
our prosperity might have had nor
NAL growth and stimulation. No one
who looks the facts sQuarely In the
face or knows anything that lies be-
meath the surface Of action can fail to
perceive the principles upon which
recent tariff legislation has been
based. We long ago passed beyond
the modest notion Of protecting" the
industries Of the country and moved
boldly forward to the idea that they
were entitled to the direct patronage
,of the government. For long time
n time 80 long that the men now active
conditions that preceded tive have
sought in our tariff schedules to give
each group of manufacturers or pro-
Iducers what they themselves thought
that they needed in order to
maintain practically exclusive
market as against the rest of the
world. Consciously or unconsciously
we have built up a set of privileges
and exemptions from competition be-
hind which it was easy by any, even
the crudest. forms Of combination to
organize monopoly: until at last moth
ing 10 normal. nothing is obliged to
stand the tests Of efficiency and econ
omy, in our world of big business, but
everything thrives by concerted ar
rangement. Only new principles Of
action will save US from a final hard
capitalization of monopoly and a
complete loss of the influences that
quicken enterprise and keep indie
pendent energy alive.
1t is plain what those principles
must be. We must abolish everything
that bears even the semblance Of priv
ilege or of any kind of artificial ad-
vantage, and put our business men
and producers under the stimulation
of . constant necessity to be efficient
economical. and enterprising. masters
OF competitive supremacy. better
workers and merchants than any in
the world. Aside from the duties laid
upon articles which we do not, and
probably cannot produce. therefore.
and the duties laid upon luxuries and
merely for the sake of the revenues
they yield, the object Of the tariff du-
ties henceforth laid must be effective
competition, the whetting Of Ameri-
can wits by contest with the wits Of
the rest Of the world.
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