The Holt County sentinel., 1913-04-11
WILSON SUBMITS
FIRST MESSAGE
Congress in Extra Session Is
Told What President Ex.
poets Done
DOCUMENT UNUSUALLY BRIEF
Tariff Schedules, Says Chief Exseu.
tive, Must es Altered to Conform
With Modern Conditions Ae.
eerdins 70 Party's Pledge.

eoro'no TO Party's Pledge.
Washington, April Sin his first
message to congress. q document OF
unusual brevity, President Wilson to-
day told the senate and house what
he and the country expect In the way
Of revision Of the tariff, the task for
which mainly the extraordinary SEES
sion was called. Following is the
text Of the message:
To the Senate and House Of Repre-.
sentatives:
have called the congress together
In extraordinary session because
duty was laid upon the party now In
power at the recent elections which 1t
ought to perform promptly. In order
that the burden carried by the people
inder existing law may b. lightened
% soon as possible and IN order. ALEC,
,hat the business interests Of IL:
country may not be kept too long Ia
suspense as to what the fiscal change,
are TO be to which they will be re.
.uircd TO adjust themselves. II IL clear
10 the whole county that the tariff
juties must be al,..,l They must
t. changed to meet the radical altera.
on In the conditicrs of our ecnom..
80, which the country has witness
thin the last grH"ration.
While the whole face and method {,
oar industrial ana commercial ..
were being changed beyond rccog
ton the tariff schedules have e.
NAMED what they were before III"
change began, or have moved In the
direction they were given when no
large circumstance Of our industrial
development was what II is today
Our task IL to square them with the
actual facts. The sooner that Is done
the sooner We shall escape from suf
fering from the facts and the sooner
our men Of business VIII be- free to
thrive BY the law Of nature (the ma
ture Of free buslncssJ instead OF by
the law OF legislation and artificial ar.
rangement.
Business Not Normal.
We have seen tariff legislation
wander very far aileld In our day
very far indeed from the field In which
our prosperity might have had "a nor
NAL growth and stimulation. No one
who looks the facts squarely In the
face or knows anything that lies be
meath the surface OF action can fail 10
perceive the principles upon which
Z recent tariff legislation has been
based. We long ago passed beyond
y the modest notion of protecting" the
industries of the country and moved
! boldly forward to the idea that they
were entitled TO the direct patronage
OF the government. For long time
Il time 10 long that the men now active
IN public policy hardly remember the
II conditions that preceded tive hav,
sought In our tariff schedules to give
II each group OF manufacturers or pro
II ducers what they themselves thought
that they needed In order Il
maintain u practically eyclnsiv,
market as against the rest of the
world. Consciously or unconsciously
We have built up a set OF privileges
III and exemptions from competition be
hind which II was easy by any, even
III the crudest, forms OF combination &c
organize monopoly. until at last moth
Ing is normal, nothing II obliged Il
stand the tests OF efficiency and econ
n omy, In our world OF big business. bu
everything thrives by concerted ar
rangement Only new principles %
, action will save us from q final hare
!. capitalization OF monopoly and
= complete loss OF the influences tina
quicken enterprise and keep indie
, pendent energy alive.
II Is plain what those principle
a, must he. We must abolish eyerythinl
= that bears even the semblance of priv
ilcge or Of any kind of artificial al
vantage, and put our business mo-
and producers under the stimulation
, of u constant necessity to be efiicien,
economical and enterprising. masters
Of competitive supremacy, bette
workers and merchants than any IL
the world. Aside from the duties Iai,
upon articles which We do not. ant
probably cannot. produce, therefore
and the duties laid upon Injuries ant
merely for the sake OF the revenue.
they yield. the object OF the tariff du
ties henceforth laid must be effectiv,
competition. the whetting of Ameri
e can wits by contest with the wits o
:. the rest of the world.
Y Development, Not Revolution.
ID II would be unwlse to move TOWARD
:. this end headlong, with rockies,
n haste, or with strokes that cut at Tho
=, very roots OF what has grown W