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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10

sentatives OF great people whose
thought Is not Of US, but Of what Amer
ica owes to herself and to all mankind
in such circumstances as these upon
which we look amazed and anxious
War has interrupted the means Of
trade not only. but also the processes
OF production. In Europe it is destroy
ing men and resources wholesale and
upon a scale unprecedented and ap
palling. 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 difficult to do for
their people what they have hitherto
been always easily able 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 before. and we
should be ready. more fit and ready
than we have ever been.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10

1t win be right eno1gn. rlgnr American
policy. based upon our accustomed
principles and practices, to provide q
system by which every citizen who
will volunteer for the training may be
made familiar with the use of modern
arms. the rudiments of drill and ma
newer and the maintenance and sant-
tation of camps. We should encourage
such training and make it means Of
discipline which our young men viii
learn to value
1t is right that we should provide Il
not only. but that we should make II
as attractive as possible. and so induce
our young men to undergo it at such
times as they can command q little
freedom and can seek the physical de-
velopment they need. for mere health's
sake. If for nothing more. Every
means by which such things can be
stimulated is legitimate, and such q
method smacks of true American ideas.
1t Is right. too, that the national guard
of the states should be developed and
strengthened by every means which IL
AOt tASouSiotCAt Will OuI OULlSuLlOuS
to our own people or with the estab-
ished policy of our government. and
this also not because the time or occa-
sion specially calls for such measures,
but because 1t should be our constant
policy to make these provisions for our
national peace and safety.
More than this carries with 1t a re-
versal of the whole history and char
acter Of our polity More than this.
proposed at this time, permit me to
say. would mean merely that we had
lost our self possession. that we had
been thrown off our balance by a war
with which we have nothing to do.
whose causes cannot touch us. whose
very existence affords US opportunities
of friendship and disinterested service
which should make us ashamed of any
thought of hostility or fearful prepare
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10

1t certain that transportation at req
sonable rates will be promptly pro-
Vlded. even where the carriage is not
at first profitable. and then. when the
carriage has become sufficiently profit
able To attract and engage private cap
ltal and engage II i'll abundance. the
government ought to withdraw
very earnestly hope that the congress
will be Of this opinion and that both
houses will adopt this, exceedingly i'm
portant bill.
The great subject of rural credits
still remains to be dealt with. and it
is matter of deep regret that the diff
fculties of the subject have seemed to
render it impossible to complete bill
for passage at this session But it can
not be perfected yet. and therefore
there are no other constructive meas
ures the necessity for which | will at
this time call your attention to, but
would be negligent of very mani
fest duty were / not to call the atten-
ton Of the senate to the fact that the
proposed convention for safety at sea
awaits its confirmation and that the
limit fixed in the convention itself for
it's acceptance is the last day of the
present month. The conference i'm
which this convention originated was
called by the United States The rep
resentatives Of the United States play
ed a very influential part indeed in
framing the provisions Of the proposed
convention, and those provisions are in
themselves for the most part admira-
BILE. 1t would hardly be consistent
with the part we have played in the
whole matter to let it drop and go by
the board as if forgotten and neglect
ed. 1t was ratified in May last by the
German government and in August by
the parliament Of Great Britain 1t
marks a most hopeful and decided ad-
vance in international civilization. We
should show our earnest good faith in
a great matter by adding our own ac-
ceptance of it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
GOVERNMENT ECONOMY
is VERY IMPERATIVE.
Urges Systematic Reorganization to
Gain Greater Efficiency.


Before l close may l say a few
words upon two topics much discussed
out of doors upon which it is highly
important that our judgments should
be clear. definite and steadfast?
One of these is economy in govern
ment expenditures. The duty Of econ
omy is not debatable. 1t is manifest
and imperative. In the appropriate tons
we pass we are spending the money
of the great people whose servants we
are-not our own We are trustees and
responsible stewards in the spending
The only thing debatable and upon
which we should be careful to make
our thought and purpose clear is the
kind of economy demanded Of US. !
assert with the greatest confidence
that the people of the United States
are not jealous of the amount their
government costs if they are sure that
they get what they need and desire for
the outlay, that the money is being
spent for objects of which they ap-
prove and that it is being applied with
good business sense and management
Governments grow piecemeai both
in their tasks and. in the means by
which those tasks are to be performed.
and very few governments are organ
lied, / venture to say, as wise and ex-
perienced business men would organize
them if they had clean sheet of paper
to write upon. Certainly the govern
ment of the United States is not
think TIT it is generally agreed that
there should be a systematic reorgani-
zation and reassembling of it's parts
SO as to secure greater efficiency and
effect considerable savings in expense.
But the amount Of money saved in that
way would. believe, though no doubt
considerable in itself, running. it may
be. into the millions. be relatively
small-small, | mean. in proportion to
the total necessary OUTLAWS of the gov
eminent 1t would be thoroughly
worth effecting. as every saving would.
great or small
Our duty is not altered by the scale
Of the saving. But my point is that
the people of the United States do not
wish to curtail the activities of this
government They wish. rather. TO en-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
POWERFUL NAVY IS
AMERICAN POLICY.
United States Will Continue to Remain
Strong on the Seas.

United States Will Continue to Remain
Strong on the Seas.
A powerful navy We have always
regarded as our proper and natural
means Of defense, and 1t has always
been of defense that we have thought,
never of aggression or Of conquest.
But who shall tell us now what sort
of navy to build? We shall take leave ,
to be strong upon the seas In the fu-
ture as In the past. and there will be
no thought of offense or Of provocation
in that Our ships are our natural
bulwarks. When will the experts tell
us just what kind we should construct.
and when will they be right for ten
years together, If the relative efficiency
of craft of different kinds and uses
continues to change as we have seen
it change under our very eyes In these
last few months?
But | turn away from the subject
1t is not new. There Is no new need
to discuss It, We shall not alter our
attitude toward it because some among
us are nervous and excited. We shall
easily and sensibly agree upon policy
changed its aspects because the times
are not normal. Our policy will not
be for an occasion. 1t will be cOnceiv.
ed as a permanent and settled thing
which we will pursue at all seasons
without haste and after a fashion per.
rrif hn 0P h0
world. the abiding friendship Of states
and the unhampered freedom Of all
with whom we deal. Let there be no
misconception. The country has been
misinformed We have not been neg.
Hgent of national defense. We are not
unmindful of the great responsibility
resting upon Us. We shall learn and
profit by the lesson Of every expert.
ence and every new circumstance, and
what is needed will be adequately
done.
| close, as | began, by reminding
you of the great tasks and duties Of
peace which challenge our best powers
and invite us to build what will last,
the tasks to which we can address our
selves now and at all time with free
hearted zest and with all the finest
gifts of constructive wisdom we pos
sess. To develop our life and our re-
sources, to supply our own people and
the people of the world as their need
arises from the abundant plenty of
our fields and our marts Of trade, to
enrich the commerce of our own states
and of the world with the products Of
our mines, our farms and our facto-
ries. with the creations of cur thought
and the fruits of our characteristic
is what will hold our attention and
our enthusiasm steadily now and in
the years to come as we strive to
show in our life as nation what lib
erty and the inspirations of an eman
cipated spirit may do for men and for
societies, for individuals, for states and
for mankind.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10

large them. AMI with every enlarge
ment. with the mere growth. indeed
of the country itself. there must come
of course, the inevitable increase of ex
pense. The sort of economy we ought
to practice may be effected. and ought
to be effected, by careful study anu
assessment of the tasks to be per
formed. and the money spent ought tn
be made to yield the best possible re
turns in efficiency and achievement
And. like good stewards. we should so
account for every dollar of our appro
priations as to make it perfectly eyi
dent what it was spent for and in
what way it was spent
1t is not expenditure but extrava
gance that We should fear being crit
cised for. not paying for the legiti
mate enterprises and undertakings of
a great government whose people com
mand what it should do, but adding
what will benefit only a few or pour
ing money out for what need not have
been undertaken at all or might have
been postponed or better and more
economically conceived and carried
out The nation is not niggardly: it is
very generous. 1t will chide US only
if we forget for whom we pay money
out and whose money it is We pay
These are large and general standards.
but they are not very difficult Of appli
cation to particular cases.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
COASTS OF ALASKA
SHOULD BE SURVEYED.
Present Dangers to Navigation Ought
to Be Removed by Charts.

to Be Removed by Charts.
There is another matter of which |
must make special mention, if l am to
discharge my conscience, lest it should
escape your attention 1t may seem a
very small thing. 1t affects only
single item Of appropriation. But
many human lives and many great en-
terprises hang upon it. 1t is the mat
ter Of making adequate provision for
the survey and charting of our coasts.
It is Immediately pressing and exigent
in connection with the immense coast
line of Alaska, coast line greater
than that of the United States them
tant indeed with regard to the older
coasts of the continent,
We cannot use our great Alaskan
domain, ships will not ply thither, If
those coasts and their many hidden
dangers are not thoroughly surveyed
and charted The work is incomplete
at almost every point Ships and lives
have been lost in threading what were
supposed to be well known main chan
nels. We have not provided adequate
vessels or adequate machinery for the
survey and charting. We have used
old vessels that were not big enough
or strong enough and which were so
nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors
would not have allowed private own
ers to send them to sea- This is a
matter which, as have said, seems
small. but is in reality very great Its
Importance has only to be looked into
to be appreciated.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
AMERICA FACES NEW
MARKETS FOR TRADE.
Merchant Marine Must Be Built Up to
Meet Opportunity.

Meet opportunity.
1t is Of equal consequence that the
nations whom Europe has usually sup
piled with innumerable articles of man
ufacture and commerce of which they
are In constant need and without which
their economic development 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 partic-
ularly 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 con
tinent Of Europe. do not stop to in.
quire why or to make any comment on
probable causes What interests us
just now Is not the explanation. bur
the fact and our duty and opportunity
IN the presence OF It Here are mar
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10

kets which we must supply, and we
must find the means of action The
United States, this great people for
whom we speak and act should be
ready as never before to serve itself
and to serve mankind, ready with it's
resources. its energies, it's forces of
production and its means of distribu-
ton.
1t is very practical matter. mat
ter of ways and means. We have the
resources, but are we fully ready to
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, gen
erously. 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 at their 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 debat-
ed, without end or conclusion, 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 door shut fast at which
thousands of vigorous men, full of
initiative, knock DANGEROUSLY for ad-
mittance. The water power of our nav
igable streams outside the national
domain also. even in the eastern states,
where we have worked and planned
for generations, is still not used as it
might be, because we will and we
won't; because the laws we have
made do not intelligently balance en-
enlargement against restraint. We
withhold by regulation.
| have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis
sionS, even at this short session of q
congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The
time and the circumstances are eX
traordinary. and so must our efforts be
also
Fortunately two great measures, fine
~ conceived, the one to unlock, with
proper safeguards, the resources of the
national domain. the other to encour
age the use of the navigable waters
outside that domain for the genera.
ton Of power, have already passed the
house Of representatives and are ready
for immediate consideration and &C
ton by the senate. With the deepest
earnestness urge their prompt pas
sage. In them both we turn our backs
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
No Standing Army, but a
Trained Citizenry For War,
I'VE Have Not Been NegIl
gent of National Defense.
A Powerful Navy Needed,
but Who Shall Tell Us
Whal Sort Of Navy to BuiId?'
To Learn and Profit by the
Lesson Of Every Experience.

as a whole, and we as clearly owe the
other in fulfillment of our repeated
promises that the water power of the
country should in fact as we'll as in
name be put at the disposal of great
industries which can make economical
and profitable use OF it, the rights Of
the public being adequately guarded
the while and monopoly in the use pre-
vented. To have begun such measures
and not completed them would indeed
mar the record of this great congress
very seriously. l hope and confidently
believe that they will be completed
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
GATES OF TRADE MUST BE
OPENED.

The government must open
these gates Of trade, and open
them wide, open them before it
is altogether profitable to open
them or altogether reasonable
to ask private capital to open
them at venture. 1t is not a
question of the government mo-
nopolizing the field. 1t should
take action to make it certain
that transportation at reason
able rates will be promptly pro-
vided, even where the carriage
is not at first profitable, and
then. when the carriage has be-
come sufficiently profitable to at
tract and engage private capital
and engage it in abundance, the
government ought to Withdraw.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
1--WE NEED SHIPS; WE HAVE
NOT GOT THEM"
. GLOWING is President Viii
sons annual message, deliver
ed at the beginning of the
short term of the Sixty third

The United States, this great
people for whom we speak and
act, should be ready as never
before to serve itself and to
serve mankind; ready with it's
resources, it's energies, it's forces
of production and it's means of
distribution. We arc
not ready to mobilize our re-
sources at once. We are not
prepared to use them imme-
diately and at their best. with
out delay and without waste.
To speak plainly, we have
grossly erred in the way in
which we have stunted and him
dered the development of our
merchant marine, and now, when
we need ships, we have not got
them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10

upon hesitation and makeshift and
formulate genuine policy of use and
conservation in the best sense of those
words We owe the one measure not
only TO the people OF that great west
ern country for whose free and sys-
tematic development. as 1t seems TO
me. our legislation has done so little
but also to the people Of the nation
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
The Chief Executive D0p|Ores
the Lack of Ships, Declares
That the Government Must
Open the Cafes of Trade and
Urges Passage of the Pend
ing Shipping Bill Rural
Credits and Safety at Sea.
Self Government For FiIipinOS
Again Recommended.

- GLOWING is President vii,
sons annual message, deliver
ed at the beginning of the
short term of the Sixty third
congress:
Gentlemen Of the Congress-The SEES.
sion upon which you are now entering
will be the closing session Of the Six
ty-third congress, a congress, | ven
ture to say, which will long be remem-
bered for the great body of thoughtful
and constructive work which it has
done in loyal response to the thought
and needs Of the country. | should
Ike I'm this address to review the nota-
BILE 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 to
ward it.
Moreover. orr 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
OOne TOT our own d0u anu our own
people we did with the best that was in
us. whether OF character or of intelli
gence. with sober enthusiasm and
confidence in the principles upon which
We were acting which sustained US at
every step Of the difficult undertak
ing. But it is done. 1t has passed from
our hands. 1t Is now an established
part OF the legislation of the country.
Its usefulness, it's effects will disclose
themselves In experience. What chief
~ strikes us now, as we look about us
during these closing days of year
which will be forever memorable in the
history Of the world, is that we face
new tasks, have been facing them
these six months. must face them in
the months to come-face them without
partisan feeling, like men who have
forgotten everything but common
duty and the fact that we are repre-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
SELF GOVERNMENT FOR
FILIPINOS Is URGED.
President Says Senate Should Pass
Measure Now Before Senate.


Measure Now Before Senate.
And there is another great piece Of
legislation which awaits and should re-
ceive the sanction of the senate.
mean the bill which gives a larger
measure of self government to the peO-
pie of the Philippines How better in
this time of anxious questioning and
perplexed policy could we show our
confidence in the principles Of liberty
as the source as we'll as the expression
of life; how better could we demon
strate our own self possession and
steadfastness in the courses Of justice
and disinterestedness than by thus 60
ing calmly forward to fulfill our prom
ises to a dependent people. who will
now look more anxiously than ever to
see whether we have indeed the liber-
atty, the unSelfShneSS, the courage,
the faith we have boosted and profess
ed? l cannot believe that the senate
will let this great measure of construc-
tive justice await the action Of another
congress. It's passage would nobly
crown the record of these two years
of memora BILE labor
But think that you will 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
/ have spoken if we have not the
ships? How are we to build up great
trade if we have not the certain and
constant means of transportatio ton upon
MERGE depends? And how are We to
get the ships if we wait for the trade
to develop without them? To correct
the many mistakes by which we have
discouraged and all but destroyed the
merchant marine of the country. to re-
trace the steps by which we have, it
seems almost deliberately, withdrawn
our flag from the seas, except where,
here and there, ship of war is hidden
carry it or some wandering yacht dis
plays it, would take a long time and
involve many detailed items Of legis-
lation, and the trade which we ought
Immediately to handle would disap-
pear or find other channels while we
debated the items
The, case is not unlike that which
confronted us when our own continent
was to be opened up to settlement and
industry. and we needed long lines of
railway. extended means of transpor-
tation prepared beforehand. if develop
ment was not to lag intoerabIy and
wait unfortunately. We lavishly sub
sidized the building of transconti-
mental railroads. We look back upon
that with regret now. because the sub
sides led to many scandals of which
we are ashamed. but we know that
the railroads had to be built. and if
we had it to do over again we should
of course build them, but in another
way. Therefore l propose another
way of providing the means of trans
portation, which must precede. not
tardily follow. the development OF our
trade with our neighbor states OF
America. 1t may seem a reversal OF
the natural order of things, but it is
true. that the routes of trade must be
actually opened-by many ships and
regular sailings and moderate charges
before streams of merchandise will
flow freely and probably through
them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-12-10
TRAINED CiTIZENRY FOR
DEFENSE.

We must depend in every time
of national peril upon
citizenry trained and accus.
toned to arms. We
should encourage such training
and make it a means of disci-
pline which our young men will
learn to value. It 10
right, too, that the national
guard of the states should be
developed and strengthened by
every means which is not in
consistent with our obligations
to our own people or with the
established policy of our gov
eminent.