The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-09
PRESIDENT NELSON DELIVERS
ANNUAL iAnDRBSS 20 CONGRESS-
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means Of distribution" We are will
ing, 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 resources at
once. We are not prepared to use
them immediately and al. THEM best.
without delay and without waste.
To speak plainly. we have grossly
erred In the way In which we have
stunted and hindered the development
OF our merchant marine. And now,
when we need ships, we have not got
them. We have year after year de-
bated. without end or conclusion. the
best policy to pursue with regard TO
the use OF the ores and. forest 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 turn
ed upon them, the door shut fast at
which thousands OF vigorous men. full
of Initiative, knock clamorously for
edmittance. The water power of our
navigable streams outside the ma
tional domain also, even in the cas-
tern States. where we, have worked
and planned fer generations, fs still
not used as II might be, because we
will and we swon,t; because the laws
we have made do not inteJligently ball
ance encouragement against restraint.
We withhold by regulation,
have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis.
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congress- which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected OF 1t. The time
and the circumstances are extraordi-
nary. and 80 Eiust Our ef;ests be aieo.
Fortunately, two great measures,
finely conceived, the one to unlock.
with proper safeguards. the resources
OF the national domain, the other TO
encourage the use OF the navigaDle
waters outside that domain for the
generation OF power, have already
passed the house Of representatives
and are ready for immediate consider
alton and action by the senate. With
the deepest earnestness urge their
prompt passage, In them both we
turn our backs upon hesitation and
makeshift and formulate q genuine
policy Of use and conservation, in the
best sen5e Of those words. We owe
the one measure not only to the peo-
pie Of that great western country for
whose free and Systematic develop
nient, as 1t seems to me, our legisla-
ton has done 80 little, but also to
the people of the nation as a whole;
and we as clearly owe the other in,
futfllment Of our repeated promises
that the water power of the ountry
should In fact as wei as IN nams be
put at the disposal OF great industries
which can make economical and pros
fitable use Of II. the rights Of the pub
lice being nsieuuately guarded tne.
while and monopoly In the ueo pre-
vented. 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 viii be completed.
And there is another great piece
OF legislation which awaits and should
receive the sanction OF the senate: !
mean t.he hill which gives q larger
measure or self-government to the
people of the Philippines. How bet
ter, in this time of anxious question
ing and perpiexed policy. could we
shcw our confidence in the principles
OF liberty, as the source as well as
the expression OF life, how better
could we demonstrate our own self
possession and steadfastness In the
courses Of justice and disinterested-
ness than by thus going calmly for
wnrd to fulfill our promises 10 de-
pendent people. who will now look
more anxiously than ever TO see
whether We, have Indeed the liberal
ity. the tinselfshness, the courage, the
faith we have boasted afd professed.
I cal, not believe that the senate will
let this great measure OF constfnc-
tive Justice await the action of an
Eother congress. It's passage would
snobiy crown the record OF these two
years OF memorable labor.
But I think that you Will agree with
me that ahis does not compiete the
toll OF our duty. How are we Ia carry
our goods TO the empty markets cf
which have spoken II we have not
the ships? How are we to build M
q great trade n we have not the car-l
tain and conetant means or transpor-
tation upon which ali profitable and
usefGi commerce depends? And how
are VIC to get the ships III we wait
fos the frads to develop without them |?
To correct the main mistakes by which
We nayo discourage dand al but de-