The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-06-27
PRESIDENT WILSON
TALkS0N CURRENCY.
Delivers Message in Person to
the Congress
INSISTS THAT CURRENCY CUES.
TION BE SETTLED AT ONCE.

Tariff Question Will Soon be Out OF
Way-Extra Session Will Probably
Last all Through Summer Months.
Washington-A fixed determination
to have currency legislation passed at
this session OF congress was accepted
by the members Of the house and SEN
ate as President Wilson's text for the
currency message, which he PERSONAL
~ presented to congress assembled in
joint session in the house chamber.
Both Democrats and Republicans
saw in the carefully worded appeal OF
the president an earnest conviction
that the money situation must be
dealt with before congress adjourns
Preparations were made to begin COM
mlttee work on the administration bill
which soon will be introduced in the
house by Representative Carter Glass
and in the senate by Senator Owen.
From the rOstrum of the house
chamber the president read the brief
message.
.sy'1t plainly is clear" he said, "that
N Is our duty to supply the new bank
ing and currency system the country
needs and that it will be Immediately
needed more than ever.
We must act now at whatever sac
rlfice to ourselves. 1t is duty which
circumstances forbid us to postpone.
should be recreant to my deepest
convictions of public obligation did
not impress it upon you with solemn
and urgent insistence.'
The president defied the custom Of
100 years for the second time by de-
: 'live1fng the message In person. '=s
A joint committee, led by Majority
Leaders Underwood and Kern met the
president and escorted him to the
clerks desk on the rostrum The full
text Of the messageT Tollows:
Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. President, gentle
men of the congress.
1t is under the compulsion of what
seems to me clear and imperative
duty that | have second time this
season sought the privilege of ad-
dressing 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 become a. burden as the
season lengthens and that every con-
sideration 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 press
ing and SO fraught with big conse-
quences 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 occa-
sion. 1t is absolutely imperative that
we should give the business men of
this country banking and currecy
system by means of which they can
make use of the freedom of enterprise
and of individual initiative which we
are about to bestow upon them.
We are about to set mem 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 1t will bring
with 1t. 1t has been reserved for us
to give it to them. Some feel in love,
indeed, with the siothful 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 maturity are
to ensue. There will be some read
justments of purpose and point of |
view. There will follow a period of |
expansion and new enterprise, freshly |
conceived 1t ia for lls tn dotermine |
now whether 1t shall be rapid and
facile and OF easy accomplishment |
This 1t cannot be unless the resource
ful business men who are to deal with
the new circumstances to have at |
hand and ready for use the instrument
talities and conveniences of free e1a-
terprfse which Independent men need
when acting on their own initiative.
1t is not enough to strike the shack
les from these. The duty Of states
manship Is not negative merely. It is
constructive also. We must show that
We untiorstand what business needs /
ana that We know how to supply II.
No man, however casual and superfi-
cial his observation Of the conditions
now prevailing IN the country. can i
tall to see that one Of the chief things L
business needs now and will need In
creaslngly - 1t gains IN scope and In
vigor In the years Immediately ahead
or ~ 10 the proper means by which |,
readily to vitA1ixe its credit. corporate |,
and Individual, and it, originativel Il
What will 4 profit Us to BE- frse il
(ccntinusd On Pass ~ !