The Forrest City times., 1913-04-11
WILSON SUBMITS
 FIRST MESSAGE
Conuress in Extra Session Is Told What President Ex-
 poets Done
DOCUMENT UNUSUALLY BRIEF
Tariff Schedules, Says Chief Execu- tive, Must Be Altered to Conform With Modern Conditions Ac-
 cordine to Party's Pledge.

Washington, April 8.-ln his first message to congress, document of unusual brevity, President Wilson to- day told the senate and house what he and the country expect in the way of revision of the tariff, the task for which mainly the extraordinary ses- sion was called Following Is the text of the message:
 To the Senate and House of Repre-
 sentatives:
 have called the congress together in extraordinary session because a duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent elections which 1t ought to perform promptly, in order that the burden carried by the people under existing law may be frightened as soon as possible and in order, also. that the business interests of the country may not be kept too long in suspense as to what the fiscal changes are to be to which they will be re- quired to adjust themselves It is clear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered They must be changed to meet the radical altera- ton 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 were beng changed beyond recogni- ton the tariff schedules have re- mained what they were before the change began, or have moved in the direction they were given when no large circumstance of our industrial development was what it is today. Our task is to square them with the actual facts, The sooner that is done the sooner we shall escape from suf- 1erlng from the facts and the sooner our men of business will be free to thrive by the law of nature (the na- ture of free business) instead of by the law of legislation and artificial ar engagement
 Business Not Normal.
 We have seen tariff legislation wander very far afield in our day very far indeed from the field in which our prosperity might have had a nor nal growth and stimulation. No one who looks the facts squarely in the lace or knows anything that lies be- heath the surface of action can fail to perceive the principles upon which recent tariff legislation has been passed, 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 or the government. For a long time tune so long that the men now active h public policy hardly remember the conditions that preceded tive have sought In our tarif schedules to give each group of manufacturers or pro oucers what they themselves thought 'Aat they needed in order to maintain practically exclusive market as against the rest of the world Consciously or unconsciously, We nave built up set of privileges ana exemptions from competition be- u4hd which it was easy by any, even ene crudest, forms of combination to oreahlze monopoly; until at last noth- Ing Is normal. nothing is obliged to S'dHu the tests of efficiency and econ oily' III our world of big business but ever tnlng thrives by concerted ar 4anSement Only new principles of @0'lon Will save us from a final hard e'!Sta'hzation of monopoly and a complete loss of the influences that 4u'cAen enterprise and keep inde- pendent energy ~e
 pialh those principles 0S' De We must abolish everything .naI pears even the semblance of priv "ese or Of any kind of artificial ad
 n'@se' and put our business men anu producers under the stimulation
 constant necessity to be efficient.
 oHoihlcal, and enterprising, masters competitive supremacy. better "o'kers and merchants than any in eNe world Aside fire n the duties laid 1pou articles which we do not, and P-ooaDiy cannot, produce, therefore, anu the dt ies laid upon luxuries and .nereiy for the sake of the revenues yield, the object of the tariff du- HeS henceforth laid must be effective competition, the whetting of Ameri Dan Wits by contest with the wits of tue rest of the world
 , OeVeiopment, Not Revolution.
 It would be unwise to move toward ba '9 end headlong, with reckless @s'e' or with strokes that cut at the
 roots of what has grown up 'nsst us by long process and at
 own invitation. It does not alter