The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-23
ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE
RELIEF BE FORTHC OMING
Must Show County That Party In Pow
er Knows What The Country Needs
And is Ready to Supply it-Means
Needed to vitaiize country's Credit.
(By Associated Press.,

Washington. June 23.---Bearing a
personal plea for immediate action by
Congress in revising ths banking and
currency laws, President Wilson went
to the House of Representatives for
the second time today. He read his
address on subject to a joint session,
Of both houses of Congress. The
address was personal appeal to every
member of Congress to lay aside pri.
vate considerations and work together
to secure at once sound revision of
the fiscal laws.
The vigor and strength of his short
address held the large audience close
ly attentive. The President made no
direct reference to the Glass bill, but
indirectly made it known 1t had been
prepared with his counsel and ap.
proval
Presidents Message.
The Presidents message was as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Speaker, MIR. President, Gentlemen
of the Congress:
II is under compulsion of what seems
to me clear and imperative duty that
l have a second time this session
sought the privilege of addressing you
in person. 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 burden as the season length
ems, and that every consideration of
personal convenience and personal
comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some
of US, considerations of 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 consequence 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 It is absolutely
imperative that we should give the
business men of this country bank
ing and currency system by means of
which they can make use of the free
dom of enterprise and of individual
initiative which we are 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 trammels 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. 1t has been reserved for us
to give it to them. Some fell in love,
indeed, with the slothful 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 muturity are
to ensue. There will follow a period
of expansion and new enterprise, fresh
ly 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 resource
full business men who are to deal with
the new circumstances are to have at
hand and ready for use the instrumen-
talities and conveniences of free en-
terprise which independent men need
when acting ON their own initiative
It is not enough to strike the shack
les from business. The duty Of states
manship is not negative merely It Is
constructive also. We must shoW thai
We understand what business needs
and that we know how to stnplx +
No man, however casual and super
ficial his observation of the COM tons
now prevailing in the countr1
fail to see that one Of the chief lNE&
business needs now, and will nee ii
.creasingly as Il gains IN scope
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