Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-12-08
MESSAGE, READ BY PRESIDENT,
Ab0UNOS WITH COMMON SENSE
Favors Autonomy of Some Kind to
Philippines, Advocates Increased
Merchant Marine, But Sets Seal
of Disapproval On Proposition to
Maintain Large Standing Army

great people for whom we speak and
act, should be ready, as. never before
to serve itself and to serve mankind
ready with its resources, its energies
its forces of production, and its
means of distribution
1t is very practical matter, mat
ter OF ways and means. We have the
resources, but are we fully ready 10
use them? And, if we can make
ready what we have, have we the
means at hand to distribute it? We
| are not fully ready, neither have we
| the means of distribution. We are
willing, but we are not fully able.
! We have the wish to serve and to
serve greatly, generously; but we are
| not prepared as we should be. We
are not ready to mobilize our re-
5, urces ar once. We are not pre-
pared to use them Immediately and
at their best, without delay and with
out waste.
To speak plainly, we have greatly
! erred in the way in which we have
stunted and hindered the develop
n,ent of Our merchant marine And
row, when we need ships, we have
rot got them We have year after
Jcar debateoi without end or conclu-
sion, the best policy to pursue with
regard to the use of the ores and
forests and water powers of our
national domain in the rich states OF
the west, when we should have acted :;
and they are still locked up. The
key is still turned upon them, the
or shut fast at which thousands o!
vigorous men, full of initiative, knock
c l,morously for admittance. The
water power of our navigable
streams outside the national domain
a so. even in the eastern states
where we have worked and planned
tCr generations. is still not used as
it might be, because we vii, and we
won't: because the las we have
made do not intelligently balance en-
cCuragement against restraint. We
With hold by regulation.
have come to ask you to remedy
end correct these mistakes and omis-
Sions, even at this short session of .
congress which would certainly scent
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The
time and the circum stances are eX-
| traordinary and so must our efforts
~. also.
In the senate. two great measures,
finely conceived, the one to unlock
x3, ,th 70. I'd tho D..
of the national domain the other 10
encourage the use of the navigable
waters outside that domain for the
| generation of power, have already
passed the house of representatives
and are ready for immediate consid-
Grafton and action by the senate.
| With the deepest earnestness | urge
| their prompt passage. In them both
+, we turn our backs upon hesitation
ana makeshift and formulate gen
ulne policy of use and conservation,
IN the best sense of these words. We
owe the one measure not only to the
people of that great western country
for whose free and systematic devel-
orment. as it seems to me. Our legis-
l2t,on has done So little, but also TO
the nation as whole, and we also
lowe them the fulfillment of our re-
peated promises that the water power
of the country should in fact as well
as name be, put at the disposal Of
great industries which can make eco
nomical and profitable use OF it, the
rights of the public being adequately
guarded the while, and monopoly in
tie use prevented. To have begun
such measures and not completed
them would indeed mar the record of
this great congress very seriously.
hope and confidently believe that
they will be completed
! And there is another great piece of
Legislation which awaits and should
receive the sanction of the senate.
mean the bill which gives a ls.-rer
measure of self-government So she
people of the Philippines. How bet
ter, in this time of anxious question
ing and perplexed policy. could we
show our confidence in the principles