Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-08
wilson OUTLINES
CONGRESS WORK
II Brief Message President
Tells of Plans for Nations
Government.


win its resources, its energies, its
forees of production, and its means
af distribution.
1t is a very practical matter a
matter or ways and means. We have
TIE resources, but are we fully ready
10 use them? And, Il we can MAKE
ready what we have. have we the
means at hand to distribute it? We
ara not fully ready; neither have We
che means of distribution. We are
willing. but we are not fully able.
we nave the wish to serve and TO
serve greatly, generously; but we are
not prepared as we should be. we
are net ready TO mobilize our re
sources at once; We are not pre-
pared to use them Immediately ana
af their best, without delay and with
u, waste.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
SIRED in the way in which We nave
stii1ted and hindered the develop
lnent of our merchant marine. And
nov when we need ships, We have
moi gof them. We have year after
ear debated, without end or con-
elusion. the best policy to pursue with
regard 10 the use OF the ores and
forests and water powers Of our ma
flonal domain in the rich States of
he West. when we should have acted'
nd they are still locked up. The key
i ztll turned upon them, the door
shut fast at which thousands of VigoF-
ous men. full if initiative. knock
DANGEROUSLY for admittance. The
wafer power Of our navigable streams
outside the national domain also, even
>, The Eastern States, where we have
4 for
- still not used as it might be, be-
cause we win and we won't, because
me laws we have made do not intell-
.ssstlv balance encourag cement against
restraint. We withhold by regula-
Ion
An Extraordinary Time.
have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omls-
siaus even at this short session OF
Congress- which would certainly seem
Ia have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected Of It, The
limo and the circumstances are ex-
rraordinary, and so must our efforts
be also.
Fortunately two great measures
6rslv conceived, the one to unlock,
With proper safeguards, the resources
Of the national domain, the other 10
encourage the use of naVtgable
waters outside that domain for the
generation Of power have already
passed the House Of Representatives
and are ready for immediate consld-
Grafton and action by the Senate.
With the deepest earnestness / urge
heir prompt passage. In them both
re turn our backs upon hesitation
aud. uakeshift and formulate a genu-
me policy of use and conservation, in
.hs best sense of those words We
owe the one measure not only to the
people OF that great western country
FOR whose free and systematic de-
elopment as it seems to me, our
lsa1slation has done so little, but also
20 the people Of the nation as a whole;
md we as clearly owe the other in
fuifillmeut of our repeated promises
that the water power of the country
should in fact as we'll as in name be
nut at the disposal of great industries
which can make economical and
profitable use of Z, the rights of the
pahlic being adequately guarded the
Shile, and monopoly in the use pre-
vented To have begun such meas
ores 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 larger
measure Of government TO the
people of the Philippines How bet
ier, in this time of anxious question
ing and perpleXed policy, could We
show our confidence in the principles
10 a e
The expression OF life, how better
could be demonstrate our own self
possession and steadfastness in the
courses Of justice and disinterested-
uess than by thus going calmly for.
ward to fulfill our promises to de-
pendent people who will now look
moro anxiously than ever TO see
whether we have indeed the liberaiity,
rhe unselfishness, the courage. the
faith we have boasted and protested.
I cannot believe that the Senate will
let this great mea sure of construc-
tive justice await the action of an
other. Con ress. Its passage would
nobiy crown the record Of these two
years of memorable labor.
American FIsg Missing from Seas.
But I think you viii agree with me
that this does not complete the toll
Of our duty. How are We to carry
our goods to the empty markets Of
which I nave spoken II we have not
the ships? How are we to build up
a. great trade If We have not the GER
tain and constant means of transpoc-
5ation upon which all profitable and
useful commerce depends? And how
are we to get the ships il we wait
for the trade TO develop without
them? To correct the many mis-
takes by which we have discouraged
ana all but destroyed the merchant
marine of the country, to retrace the
steps rs which we have, 1t seems al
most deliberately. withdrawn our bag
from tire seas. except where, here and
there, a ship Of war Is hidden carry
il or some wandering yacht displays
Il, would take a long time and in
yOIve many detailed items Of legis-
lation. and the trade which we ought
Immediately to handle would disap-
pear or find other channels while VIC
debated the items.
The cage is not unlike that which
confronted us when our own CONT
nsnt was TO be opened up to settle
1aent and industry. and we needed
long lines Of railway, extended means
Of transportation prepared before
hand, if development was not TO lag
infollerably and wait unfortunately.
We lavishly suhslzed the building Of
transcoutinental railroads. We look
back upon that with regret now, be-
cause the subsidies led to many
scandals of which we are ashamed;
bot we know that the railroads hao
70 be built. and II We had it to dc
5ver agair we should of course, build
hem but in another way There
scfe I propose another way Of pro
Wiling he means Of transportation
Which must precede, not tardily fol
low, the development of our trade
With our neighbor states of America
1t may seem a reversal of the natura
order of things, but it is true, thu
The routes of trade must be actual!