Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-12-05


and declared himself dictator. AS
consequence, a condition of affairs
| now exists in Mexico which has made
1t doubtful whether even the most
| elementary and fundamental rights
either of her own people or Of the
| citizens of other countries resident
| within her territory can long be sue
/ cessfully safeguarded, and which
threatens, If long continued, to inn
peril the interests of peace, order and
tolerable life in the lands immedi-
ately to the south of us. Even If the
| usurper had succeeded in his purposes,
| in despite of the constitution of the
republic and the rights of its people.
| he would have set up nothing but
| precarious and hateful power, which
could have lasted but a little while,
and whose eventful downfall would
have left the country in a more de-
plorable condition than ever. But he
has not succeeded. He has forfeited
the respect and the moral support
even of those who were at one time
willing to see him succeed. Little by
little he has been completely isolated.
BY little every day his power and
prestige are crumbIing and the col
lapse is not far away. We shall not
l believe, be Obliged to alter our pol
icy of watehful waiting. And then.
when the end comes, we shall hope to
see constitutional order restored in
distressed Mexico by the concert and
energy Of such OF her leaders as pre-
fer the liberty of their people to their
own ambitions
Rush Currency Bill.
I turn to matters of domestic con-
cern. You already have under con-
sideTation bin for the reform of our
system of banking and currency, for
which the country waits with impati-
ence, as for something fundamental
to its whole business life and neces-
sary to set credit free from arbitrary
and artificial restraints. I need not say
how earnestly I hope for its early en-
actment into law. take leave to beg
that the whole energy and attention
of the senate be concentrated upon it
till the matter is successfully disposed
OF And yet feel that the request is |
not needed-that the members of that
great house need no urging in this
service to the country.
present to you, in addition, the
urgent necessity that special provision
be made, also for facilitating the cred |
its needed by the farmers of the coun-
try. The pending currency bill does
the farmers a great service. 1t puts
them upon an equal footing with other
business men and masters of en-
terprise, as it should; and upon its |
passage they will find themselves quit |
of many Of the difficulties which now |
hamper them in the field of credit. |
The farmers, OF course, ask and |
should be given no special privilege, |
such rs extending to them the credit |
of the government itself What they |
need and should obtain is legislation |
which will make their own abundant |
and substantial credit resources avail
able as a foundation for joint. con-
certed local action in their own be- |
half in getting the capital they must |
use. II Is to this we should now adj |
dress ourselves.
1t has, aingularly enough. come to |
pass that we have allowed the indus |
try of our farms to lag behind the |
other activities of the country in its
development. ] need not stop to tell |
you how fundamental to the life of |
the Nation is the production of its
food Our thoughts may ordinarily |
be concentrated upon the cities and |
the hives of industry, upon the cries |
of the crowded market place and the |
clangor of the factory, but it is from |
the quiet interspaces of the open val |
leys and the free hillsides that we |
draw the sources of life and of pros |
perity, from the farm and the ranch,
from the forest and the mine. With |
out these every street would be ST. |
lent, every office deserted, every fac |
tory fallen into disrepar And yet |
the farmer does not stand upon the |
same footing With the forester and the |
miner in the market of credit He is |
the servant of the seasons. Nature |
determines how long he must wait for |
his crops and will not be hurried in
her processes. He may give his note, |
but the season of its maturity depends |
upon the season when his crop ma
lures. lies at the gates of the market |
where his products are sold And the |
security he gives is of a character not |
known in the brokers' Office or as IA |
miliarly as it might be on the counter |
of the banker.
The Farming Interests.
The agricultural department of the |
government is seeking to assist as
never before to make farming an eff !
cient business, of wide cooperative eff |
fort, in quick touch with the markets |
for foodstuffs The farmers and the |
government will henceforth work to- |