Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-12-08
[Bv United Pressl

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Presi-
dent Wilson personally read his mes
sage to congress today. A popular
interest was taken in its delivery and
admission cards were at premium.
Many members of congress were aD-
sent, but the galleries were crowded
to the limit Following is the me =
sage in full:
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, watch will
be long remembered for the great
body OF Thoughtful 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
adequate assessment of it; but no
doubt we stand too near the work
that has been done and are ourselves
too much 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 have 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 char
acter or of intelligence, with sober
enthusiasm and confidence in the
principles upon which we were act
ing which sustained us at every step
oi the difficult undertaking; but il J.
done. 1t has passed from our hands.
Ii is now an established part of the
legislation OF the country. Its use
fulness, its effects will disclose them
selves in experience. What chiefly
strikes us now as we look about
these closing days of year which
will be forever memorable in the his
tory of the world, is that we face
new tasks, have been facing tnem
these six months, must face them in
the months to come-face them
without partisan feeling, like men who
have forgotten everything but COM
mon duty and the fact that we arc
representatives of great people
whose thought is not of us but OF
what America owes to herself and to
all mankind in such circumstances
as those upon which we look amazed
and anxious
War has interrupted the means OF
trade not only but also the presses
of production. In Europe it is de-
stroying men and resources whole
sale and upon a scale unprecedented
and appalling There is reason to
fear that the time is near, If it be not
already at hand, when several of the
countries of Europe will find it diff
fcult to do for their people what they
have hitherto been always easily able
to do-many essential and funda-
mental things. At any rate, they will
need our help and our manifold SER
vices as they have never needed
them before; and we should be ready,
more fit and ready than we have ever
been.
1t is Of equal consequence that the
nations whom Europe has usually
supplied with innumerable articles Of
manufacture and commerce ,i
which they are in constant need and
without which their economic devel-
opment halts and stands still can
now get only small part OF what
they formerly imported and eagerly
look to us to supply their all but
empty markets. This is particularly
true of our own neighbors, 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 of Great Britain and of the
older continent of Europe. do not
stop to inquire why. or to make any
comment on probable causes. What
interests us just now is not the ex-
planation, but the fact, and our luty
and opportunity in the presence of i.
Here are markets which we must
supply and we must find the means
Of action. The United States, this