Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-08

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Washington, Dec. S.--Departing from
the prepared text Of his carefully ar.
ranged address to congress, President
Wilson this afternoon delivered di-
rect message to the business interests
Of the country. In effect, he declared
his administration had completed its
business legislative program, and that,
hereafter, business interests would have
n rest fran restrictive and corrective
legislation.
The statement was unexpected. For
moment II seemed as if the point of
his declaration had been lost on tae
audience. But many senators and rep.
resentatives who had been sitting
slumped down in their chairs suddenly
sat up, showing by their attitude they
realized the great Importance of his
utterances. 1T was evident to congress
that President Wilson had written
fms y o1 his so.called regulative pro-
gram.
The announcement was taken to mean
that business may proceed, secure in
the knowledge that, if IL shapes its
atfalfs to existing laws, il will not
find itself confronted by sudden
changes resulting from new laws. Al.
most at the start, the president di.
gressed from the set address as orig.
nally furnished the press Of the nation.
lie declared the business program Of
congress has been completed, and bust
ness now knows where il stands.
The goal at last lies clear and fair
before business" said the president.
1T is the road to unclouded success.
It is the road that every honest man,
every man interested in the welfare of
the nation, may walk in perfect safety.
What we have done in our own land
and for our oyn people we have done
for The best
- What chiefly strikes MS now as we
look pack ON n closing year-a year that
will be memorable in hislory-is that
we face new tasks, They are import.
ant tasks and we must face them with.
out partisan feeling, We must realize
that America owes great deal td her.
self and also a great deal to mankind. ~
Warm applause chiefly from the
democratic side, greeted the declaration,
we are not ready TO become nation
Of men trained to arms. " The entire
reference TO militarlsm, especially the
declaration that the country was not
threatened fruu any outside source, was
punctuated with applause although il
came mostly from the democrats
Washington, Dee. S.--Gontemen of
the Congress- The session upon which
You are now entering will be tne clos.
ing session of the sixty.third congress,
q congress, ! venture to say, which viii
long be remembered for the great body
Of thoughtful and constructive work
which It has done, in loyal response to
the thought and needs Of the country.
should like In this address to review
the notable record and try to make adc.
Qna'e assessment Of 1t; but no doubt
we stand toe near the wOrl, that has
been done and are ourselves too mncn
part OF It to play the part Of historians
toward it,
Moreover our thoughts are now more
Of the future than Of the past. While
we oare worked at our tasks Of peace,
the circumstances Of the whole age
have been altered by war What we
have done for our own land and our
own people we did with the best that
was in us, whether of character or of
intelligence, with sober enthusiasm and
confidence in the principles upon
which we were acting, which sustained
MS NC every step Of the difficult under.
takinsi but 1t Is done 1t has passed
from car hands, II is now an cstab.
lishcd part of the legislation of the
country ltN usefulness, IFS effects
viii disclose themselves In experience.
What chiefly strikes IN now a. we lool,
about these closing days Of year
whien has been forever memorable In
the history Of the world, is that we
idee new tasks, have been facing them
these SIX months, must face them In
the molths 10 comc-lAce them without
partisan feeling-like men who have
forgotten everything but common
duty and the fact that we are rcproscn.
tottcs of great people whose thought
Is not Of MS but Of what America owes
| to herself aud TO all mankind in such
circumstances az these upon which we
lool, amazed aud anXiuis,
Must Help Europe.
War has interrupted the means of
trade not only but also, the proccssc,
OF production In Europe 1t is destroy
ing men aud resources wholesale and
upon a scale unprecedented aud appnll
ing. There Ia reason TO fear that the
time is near IT. Il be not already al
hand, when several 1T the countries OF
Europe will find u difficult to do foi
their people what they nave hitherto
been always easily able to do-man,
essential and fundamental things, Al
any rate, they will need our hclp an,
our manifold services as they hav,
never needed them before, aud W,
should be ready, more fit and read,
than We have ever been,
II Ia Of equal consequence that IN,
nations whom Europe has usually sup
/ piled with innumcmhlo articles Of man
uiOctuie and commerce Of which thcl
are N constant need aud without whicl
thoF economic development balts an,
stands stu can nov yet only small
part Of what they formerly inportc,
and eagerly look to us to supply theii