Arizona republican., 1914-12-09

and they are still locked up. The 1 key is still turned upon them, the
 door shut fast at which thousands of vigorous men, full of initiative,
 knock clamorously for admittance.
 The water power of our navigable
 streams outside the national domain
 also, even in the eastern states,
 where we have worked and planned l for generations, is still not used as it might be, because we will and we won't; because the laws We have I made do not intelligently balance encouragement against destraint We withhold by regulation.
 have come to ask you to remedy and correct these mistakes and omis- sions even at this short session of congress which would certainly seem to have done all the work that could reasonably be expected of it. The time and the circumstances are
 extraordinary, and so must our ef forts be also. 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 navigabe waters outside that domain for the generation of power, have already passed the house of representative and are ready for immediate consid- eration by the senate. With the deepest earnestness I urge their
 prompt passage. In them both we turn our backs upon hesitation and makeshift and formulate st 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 western country for whose free and systema-
 tic development, as it seems to me
 our legislation has done so little, but also to the people of the nation 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 well 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 ade- quately guarded the while, and mo
 llopOlN III lItc use prevented. 10 have begun such measures and not
 completed them would indeed mar
 the record of this great congress
 very seriously. l hope and confi- dentiy believe that they will be com pleted.
 And there is another great piece of
 legislation which awaits and should receive the sanction of the senate I mean the bill which gives larger measure of self government to the
 people of the Philippines. How bet
 ter, in this time of anxious question ing and perplexed policy. could we show 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 disinterest edness than by thus going calmly forward to fulfill our promises to a dependent people, who will now look
 more anxiously than ever to see whether we have indeed the liberali ty, the unselfishness, the courage, the faith we have boasted and pro- fessed. l can not believe that the senate will let this great measure of constructive justice await the ac
 ton of another congress. us pas sage would nobly crown the record
 Of these two years of memorable la
 bor
 But l think that you will agree
 with me that this does not complete
 ,b.o +,lI I,,+, to carry our goods to the empty mar
 kets of which 1 have spoken if we have not the ships? How are we
 to build up q great trade if we have
 not the certain and constant means
 of transportation upon which all
 profitable and useful commerce de-
 bends? 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 des- troyed the merchant marine of the
 country, to retrace the steps by which we have. it seems almost deliberate ly withdrawn our flags from the seas, except where. here and there, ship of war is bidden carry it or some wandering yacht displays it,
 would take long time and involve
 many detailed items of legislation,
 and the trade which we ought inn
 mediately to handle would disappear or find other channels while we de-
 bated the items.
 The case is not unlike that which confronted us when our own conti- nent was to be opened up to settle
 ment and industry and we needed long lines of railway extended means of transportation prepared before
 hand, if development was to lag in- tolerably and wait interminably. We lavishly subsidized the building of trans continental railroads. We look back upon that with great regret now, because the subsidies led to many scandals of which we are ashamed; but we know that the rail-
 roads had to be built, and if we had it to do over again we should of
 course build them, but in another
 way. Therefore I propose another way of providing the means of trans 1 portation, which must precede, not | tardily follow, the development of our trade with our neighbor states of America. It may seem a rever-
 sal of the natural order of things, 1 but it is true that the routes of | l.