The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-07-02
WILSON'S SPEECH.
The President Delivers Sound Reas-
oning to the Legislative Branch.


son, the following message:
Mr.. Speaker, Mr. President. Gen
tlemen of Congress: 1t is under the
compulsion of what seems to me an
clear and imperative duty that | have
the second time this session sought
the privilege of addressing you in per-
son. | know, of course, that the heat
ed 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 session length
ems. and that every consideration of
personal convenience and personal
comfort, perhaps, in the cases of
some of us, considerations of per-
sonal health even, dictate an early
conclusion of the deliberations of
the session; but there are occasions
of public duty when these things that
touch us privately seem very small
when the work to be done is so
pressing and so frought with big con-
sequence 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 oc-
casion. 1t is absolutely imperative
that we should give the business men
of this country banking and cur
reney system by means of which they
can make use of the freedom of en-
terprise and of individual initiative
which we are about 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 pro-
tectiye tariff Ever since the Civil
War they have been waiting for this
emancipation and for the free oppor-
tunities it will bring with il. 1t has
been reserved for US to give to them.
Some fell in love, indeed, with the
slothful security of their dependence
upon the government; some took ad-
vantage of the shelter of the nursery
TO set up a mimic mastery of their
own within walls Now both the ton
ic and the discipline of liberty are
to ensue. There will be some read
justments of purpose and point of
view. There will follow period of
expansion and new enterprise, fresh
ly conceived. 1t is for us to deter
mine now whether 1t shall be rapid
and facile and of easy accomplish
ment. This cannot be unless the re-
soureeful business men who are to
deal with the new circumstances are
to have at hand and ready for use
the instrumentalities and convenien-
ees of free enterprise which indepen-
dent men need when acting in their
own initiative.
1t is not enough to strike the
shaekles from business. The duty of
statesmanship is not negative merely
1t is constructive also. We must show
that we undertand what business is
in need of and that we know how
to supply 1t. No man, no matter how
casual or superficial his observation
of the conditions now prevailing in
the country, can fail to see that one
of the chief things that business now
needs, and will need increasingly as
it gains in scope and vigor in the
years Immediately ahead of us, is the
proper means by which to rapidly
vitilize its credit, corporate and in
diyidual, and its originative brains.
What will it profit us to be free If
we are not to have the best and the
most accessible instrumentalities of
commerce and enterprise? What will
it profit us to be quit of one kind
of monopoly if We are to remain in
the grip of another and more effec-
tive kind? How are we to gain and
keep the confidence of the business
community unless we show that we
know both how to aid and protect it?
What shall we say If we make new
enterprise necessary and make it so
very difficult by leaving all else ex-
cept the tariff just ss we found it?
The tyrannies of business, big and
little, lie within the field of credit.
We know that. Shall we not act
upon the knowledge? Do we not
know how to act upon it? If a man
cannot make his assets available at
his pleasure, his assets of capacity,
character and resource, what salts
faction Is it to him to see opportun-
ity beckoning to him on every hand,
when others have the keys of credit
in their pockets and treat them as all
but their own private possession? 1t
is perfectly clear that 1t is our duty
to upply the new banking and cur
rency system the country needs, and
that it will Immediately need more
than ever.
The only question is, when will we
supply it--now, or later, after the de-
mands shall have become reproach-
es that we were so dull and so slow?
Shall we hasten to change the tariff
laws and then be laggards about
making it possible and easy for the
country to take advantage of the
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