The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-23
So That Business Men, "Set
Free Should Not Be Left
Without the Tools Of Ac-
tion - Expressed Conf
dence That Congress
Would Act This Session

a personal plea for immediate action b.
Congress to revise the banking and cur
rency laws SO that business may be aid
ed in meeting tariff revision, Presiden
Wilson for the second time went t.
the House of Representatives to-day ant
personally read his address on the sub
ject to both houses of Congress assem-
bled in Joint session.
His address was an appeal to every
member of the House and the Senat,
to lay aside personal considerations anc
sacrifice comfort and even health, if nee
essary, to secure at once the revision
and reform of the nations banking sys
tenn. Only in that way, he declared
could the country secure the benefits
of tariff revision soon to be completed.
The vigor and strength of President
Wilson's short message held the rigid
attention Of the large audience through
out its delivery.
Pres. Wilson said:
"Mr. Speaker, Mr.. President, Gentle
men of the Congress:
'Tt is under the compulsion OF what
seems to me a clear and imperative
duty that | have second time this
session sought the privilege of address
ing ybh III ptiSDU. 4 kHtN. VI NuuTSts
that the heated season of the wear is
upon us, that work in these chambers
and in the committee rooms is likely
TO become burden as the season length
ems, and that every consideration of
personal convenience and personal COM
fort, 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 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 it against any point of personal
sacrifice.
"We are now in the presence of such
an occasion 1t is absolutely impera-
tive that we should give the business
men of this country banking and cur
rency system by means of which they
can make use of the freedom of enter
prise and of individual initiative which
we are about to bestow upon them
'fWe 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 government; some took adj !
vantage of the shelter of the nursery /,
to set up mimic mastery of their |
own within its walls.
Now both the tonic and the disci |
pline of liberty and maturity are to en-
sue. There will be some readiustments
of purpose and point of view. There
will follow a period of expansion and
new enterprise. freshly conceived. II
is for us to determine now whether IL
shall be, rapid and facile and OF easy
accomplishment. This it cannot be un-
less the resourcefu business men who
are to deal with the new circumstances
are to have at hand and ready for use
the instrumentalities and eonveniences
of free enterprise which independent men
need when acting on their own initia
tive.
Tyranny of Business in Credit.
ut is not enough to strike the shackles
from business. The duty of statesman
ship is not negative merely. II is con
structive also. We must show that we
what business needs and
that we know how to supply il. No
man. however casual and superficial his
of the conditions now pre-
vailing in the country, can fail to see
that one of the chief things business
needs now. and will need increasingly
as it gains in scope and vigor in the
years Immediately ahead of MS. is the ,
proper means by which readily to vi
talize its credit. corporate and individ
nsl. and its originative brains. What
will il profit us 10 be free if we are
not 10 have the best and most acces- !
.ible instrumentalities of commerce and
,nterprisef What will il profit us 10
be quit Of one kind of monopoly If we
ire to remain in the grip Of another and ]
more effective kindt How are we 20 y
yain and keep the confidence OF the busi- c
ness community unless we show that a
Ne know how both to aid and TO pro- i
Get itt What shall we saw II We make J
'resh enterprise necessary and also
make il very difficult by leaving all '
'lse except the tariff just as we found ;
e Il
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