Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-12-08
by Associated PresS1

,by Associated Press.D
WASHINGTON, Dec S-The presi-
dents address to congress follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
The session upon which you are
now entering will be the closing ses-
sion of the sixty-third congress,
congress-, venture to say, which
Will long be remembered for the
great body of thoughtful and con-
slructive work which it has done.
War has interrupted the means of
trade not only, but also the process
of production. In Europe 1t is de-
stroying men and resources whole
sale and upon scale unprecedented
and appalling There is reason to feel
that the time is near, If 1t be not
already at hand, when several of the
countries of Europe will find 1t diff
cult to do for their people what they
have hitherto found it easy to do
many essential and fundamental
/ things At any rate, they will need
our help and our manifold services
as they have never needed them be-
1 lore, and we should be ready, more
fit and ready than we have ever
been.
Commercial Gains.
Ii is of equal consequence that the
nations whom Europe has usually
supplied with innumerable articles
and manufacture and commerce OF
which they are in constant need and
without which their economic devel-
opment halts and stands still can
now get only a small part of what
they formerly imported and eagerly
look to us 10 supply their all but
empty markets. This is particularly
true of our own neghbors, the states
great and small, OF Central and South
America Their lines OF trade have
hitherto run chiefly athwart the seas
not to our ports, but to the ports Ot
Great Britain and of the older con
tinent of Europe. What interests us
Just now is not the explanation, but
the fact and our duty and opportun
ity in the presence of it. Here are
markets which we must supply, ant
which we must find the means O.
action.
Merchant Marine.
To speak plainly, we have great!
/ erred in the way in which we have
stunted and hindered the develop
, ment of our merchant marine. Ant
, now, when we need ships, we hav,
not got them. We have year afte
year debated, without end or conclu
sion, the best policy to pursue wit
, the use of ores and forests an
water powers of our national domai
in the rich states of the west, whe
we should have acted; and they ar
still locked UP. The key is sti
turned upon them; the door shut fas
at which thousands of vigorous mel
4 full of initiative, knock clamorousl
| for admittance The water power {
> our navigable streams outside th
national domain also, even in tn
eastern states, where we have worl
D ed and planned for generations,
still not used as 1t might be, becauf
we will and we won't; because II
laws we have made do not intel
gently balance encouragement again
, restraint. We withhold by regul
: ton.
Using National Resources.
u have come to ask you to remeC
- these mistakes and omissions, eve
" at this short session of a congre
Z which would certainly seem to ha'
done all the work that could reaso
ably be expected of it. The tin
and the circumstances are eXtraC
binary, and so must our efforts
also. Fortunately. two great mef
r ures. finely conceived, the one
= unlock, with proper safeguards. I
L resources of the national domain, {
other to encourage the use of t
r nayigable waters outside that donna
for the generation of power, ha
already passed the house of rep
sentatives and are ready for imme
ate consideration and action by t
of senate. With the deepest earne
ee ness urge their prompt passage.
of And there is another great pie
nd of legislation which awaits a
I'M should receive the sanction of
Is, senate; / mean the bill which civ
on a larger measure of self-governmt
er- to the people OF the Philippines.
"But think you will agree W
ME that this does not complete
toll of our duty. How are we
carry our goods to the empty m
ng kets of which | have spoken If
he have not the ships. How are
he to build up great trade II we hi
not the certain and constant mel