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clude the usual deficiency estimates In
1917. and these additions would make
total deficit of some $2oT. 100000 II
the present taxes should be continued
throughout this year and the next.
however. there would be balance In
the treasury OF some ST65O0.000 at
the end of the present fiscal year and
deficit at the end OF the next year OF
only some $5o.00O,00o. or, reckoning In
So, 100000 for deficiency appropria-
lions and n safe treasury balance at
the end of the year, Il total deficit OF
some $l1oO0O.o0N The obvious moral
of the figures Is thar II Is 4 plain coun
sci of prudence to continue all of the
present taxes or their equivalents and
providing $ll2oo0,oo0 Of new revenue
rather than aa700o00o.
How Shall we obtain the new rev
enueg We are frequently reminded
that there are many millions of bonds
which the treasury Is authorized under
existing law to sell to reimburse the
sums paid out of current revenues for
Tue CUuStEuCtluu VI the 1Huutllu Cuiltt,
and 1t Is true that bonds for the
amount Of SOD. 49,, 900 are now avail
able for that purpose. Prior TO 1913
S13S.000.000 of these bonds had ac-
tually been sold to recoup the expendi-
lures Mt the isthmus. and now con.
stitute considerable item of the pub
lie debt But for one do not believe
that the people of this country approve
of postponing the payment OF their
bills. Borrowing money Is shortsight-
ed finance. 1t can be justified only
when permanent things are to be ac-
complished which many generations
will certainly benefit by and which 1t
seems hardly fair that single genera.
ton should pay for. The objects we
are now proposing to spend money for
cannot be so classified, except in the
sense that everything wisely done may
be said to he done In the interest of
posterity as web as In our own 1t
seems to me a clear dictate OF pru-
dent craftsmanship ana frank finance
that In what we are now. hope. about
to undertake we should pay as we go
The people Of the country are entitled
to know just what burdens of taxation
they are TO carry and TO know from the
outset now The new bills should be
maid nv intarnuI faxntinn
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department. an effective navy consist.
Ing of % battleships Of che first line.
battle cruisers. 25 battleships OF the
second line. 10 armored cruisers. Is
scout cruisers. first class cruisers,
second class cruisers. 10 third class
cruisers. los destroyers. is teet sub
marines. 157 coast submarines. Q mon
itors, 20 gunboats. supply ships. 10
fuel ships, transports, tenders to
torpedo vessels. 5 vessels of special
types and two ammunition ships. This
would be navy fitted to our needs
and worthy of our traditions.
But armies and instruments of war
sidered If we are TO consider the SUI
preme matter of national self sufficien-
cy and security hi all its aspects.
There are other great matters which
will be thrust upou our attention
whether we will or not There is. for
example, a very pressing question Of
trade and shipping involved in this
great problem Of national adequacy.
1t is necessary for many weighty rea-
sons of national efficiency and devel-
opment that we should have great
merchant marine The great merchant
feet we once used to make us rich,
that great body of sturdy sailors who
used TO carry our flag into every sea,
and who were the pride and often the
bulwark of the nation, we have almost
driven out of existence by inexcusable
neglect and Indifference and by hope
lessly blind and provincial policy OF
so called economic protection. 1t is
high time we repaired our mistake and
resumed our commercial independence
on the seas.
With u view TO meeting these press
ing necessities of our commerce and
availing ourselves at the earliest posi-.
BILE moment of the present unparalleled
opportunity of linking the two Ameri-
cas- together In bonds OF mutual inter.
est and service. an opportunity which
may never return again II we miss II
now, proposals will be made to the
present congress for the purchase or
construction OF ships to be owned and
directed by the government similar to
those made to the last congress, but
modified in some essential particulars.
/ recommend these proposals to you
for your prompt acceptance with tile
more confidence because every month
that has elapsed since the former pro-
posals were made has made the ne
cessity for such action more and more
manifestly imperative That need was
then foreseen. 1t Is now neutely felt
and everywhere realized by those for
whom trade IL waiting. but who can
find no conveyance for their goods. |
am not so much interested in the par
ticulars of the program as ! am IN
taking immediate advantage of the
great opportunity which awaits MS II
we Will but act in this emergency. In
this matter, as In all others. a spirit OF
common counsel should prevail. and
out of 1t should come an early soiu-
ton of this pressing uroblem
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SUGGESTS BROAD PLAN
FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE.
Increase Standing Regular Force-Four
Hundred Thousand Citizen Soldiers.

Increase Standing Regular Force--Four
Hundred Thousand Citizen Soldiers.
But war has never been a mere mat
ter of men and guns. 1t Is a thing
Of disciplined might If our citizens
are ever to fight effectively upon a
sudden summons, they must know
how modern fighting is done. and what
to do when the summons comes to
render themselves Immediately avail
able and Immediately effective. And
the government must be their servant
la this matter, must supply them with
themselves and of it, The military
arm Of their government, which they
will not allow to direct them, they NAV
properly use to serve them and make
their independence secure, and not
their own Independence merely, but
the rights also of those with whom
they have made common cause, should
they also be put in jeopardy. They
must be fitted to play the great role
III the world, and particularly in this
hemisphere. for which they are quail
fed by principle and by chastened am
bition to play.
1t is with these ideals In mind that
the plans of the department of war for
more adequate national defense were
conceived which will be laid before
you. and which ] urge you to sanction
and put into effect as soon as they can
be properly scrutinized and discussed.
They seem to me the essential first
steps, and they seem to me for the
present sufficient.
They contemplate an increase Of the
standing force of the regular army
from its present strength of 5.O23 off,
GERS and 102,9S5 enlisted men of all
services to a strength of 1916 officers
and 134,707 enlisted men, or 141 ,S43
all told, all services. rank and file. by
the addition Of fifty-two companies Of
coast artillery. fifteen companies of en-
gineers, ten regiments of infantry. four
regiments of field artillery and four
aero squadrons. besides $50 officers re-
quired for a great variety OF extra
service, especially the all important
duty of training the citizen force Of
which l shall presently speak. 792 non
commissioned officers for service In
drill. recruiting and the like aud the
necessary quota of enlisted men for
the qnartermaster corps. the hospital
corps. the ordnance department and
other similar auxiliary services These
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of individual liberty and OF the free
labor that supports life and the an
censored thought that quickens 1t.
Conquest and dominion are not in our
reckoning or agreeable TO our princi-
pies. But just because we demand un-
molested development and the undis-
turbed government of our own lives
upon our own principles OF right and
liberty. We. resent, from whatever
quarter II may come, the aggression we
ourselves Will not practice. We insist
upon security In prosecuting our self
chosen lines of national development.
We do more than that. We demand 1t
also for others We do not conline our
enthusiasm for individual liberty and
free national development to the incl
dents and movements of affairs which
affect only ourselves We feel it wher-
ever there Is people that tries to walk
in these difficult paths Of independence
and right From the first we have
made common cause with all partisans
of liberty on this side the sea and have
deemed it us important that our neigh
bors should be free from all outside
domination as that we ourselves should
be; have set America aside as whole
for the uses Of independent nations and
political freemen.
Out of such thoughts grow all cur
policies. We regard war merely as a
means of asserting the rights Of Il PEG
pie against aggression. And we are
as fiercely jealous Of coercive or dicta
torial power within our own nation
as of aggression from without. We
will not maintain standing army ex-
cept for uses which are as necessary
In times OF peace as In times OF war.
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PAN-AMERICANlSM HAS
NONE OF EMPIRES SPIRIT
Economic Adjustments Inevitable With
in the Next Generation.

Economic Adjustments Inevitable With
in the Next Generation.
The moral is that the states of Amer
lea are not hostile rivals, but coop
Grating friends, and that their grow
ing sense of community of interest,
alike in matters political and In mat
tiers economic. is likely TO give them a
new Significance as factors In interna-
tional affairs and in the political his
tory of the world. 1t presents them as
in very deep and true sense unit
In world affairs, spiritual partners,
standing together because thinking to-
gether. quick with common sympathies
and common ideals. Separated, they
are subject to all the cross currents Of
the confused politics of world of hos
tile rivalries: united i'll spirit and pur-
pose. they cannot be disappointed Of
their peaceful destiny.
This is -Americanism. 1t has none
of the spirit Of empire in it. 1t is the
embodiment she effectual embodiment,
Of the spirit of law and independence
and liberty and mutual service.
The president calls attention to the
meeting in Washington recently Of
representatives of the pan American
republics and says that economic adj
!ustment is inevitable in the next gen
grafton.
No one who really comprehends the
tpirit of the great people for whom we
are appointed to speak can fall to per-
ceive that their passion Is for peace.
their genius best displayed IN the prac-
tice Of the arts of peace. Great democ-
acies are not helligerent They do not
seek or desire wnr Their thought Is
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are the additions necessary to render
the army adequate for its present du-
ties. duties which It has to perform
not only upon our own continental
coasts and borders and at our interior
army posts, but also in the Philippines.
In the Hawaiian Islands. at the 18TH
mus and in Porto Rico.
BY way OF making the country ready
to assert some part OF its real power
promptly and upon larger scale
should occasion arise the plan also
contemplates supplementing the army
by force OF 100000 disciplined citi-
zens, raised in increments OF $4,000 a
year throughout period OF three
years. This 1t is proposed to do by
process of enlistment under which the
serviceable men Of the country would
be asked to bind themselves to serve
with the colors for purposes OF train
ing for short periods throughout three
years and to come to the colors at call
at any time throughout an additional
"furlough" period OF three years. This
force OF 100000 men would be pro
vided with personal accouterments as
fast as enlisted and their equipment
for the field made ready to be supplied
at any time. They would he assem-
bled for training at stated intervals at
convenient places in association with
suitable units Of the regular army.
Their period of annual training would
not necessarily exceed two months in
the year.
The president says It is up to the
patriotic young men OF the country to
reSnond Ia this call
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REGULATIONS 10 MEET
pa'i res~ r00nI EM
Need e MAJ. rs.
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pressing one in tdi1tsv. aks 49,,
has from time to time OF late been roa-
son to fear that our railroads would
not much longer be able to cope with
it successfully. ms at present equipped
and co-ordinated. suggest that Il
would be wise to provide for CON-
mission of inquiry to ascertain BY Z
thorough canvass OF the whole ques-
ton whether our laws AZ at present
framed and administered are as serv-
iceable as they might be in the s0lu-
ton Of the problem, II Is obviously
a problem that lies at the very foun-
dalton OF our efficiency as people.
Such an inquiry ought to draw out
every circumstance and opinion worth
considering, and we need to know
all sides Of the matter II we mean to
do anything In the field Of federal leg
islation.
No one, am sure. would wish TO
take any backward step. The regula-
ton Of the railways Of the country by
federal commission has had admirable
results and has fully justified the
hopes and expectations or those BY
whom the policy Of regulation was
originally proposed The question II
not, What should we undo? It IT,
whether there Is anything else we can
do that would supply us with effective
means. in the very process Of regu<
lation, for lettering the conditions uns
der which the railroads are Operate4l
and for making them more useful
ants OF the country as whole.
seems to me that 1t might be the part
of wisdom. therefore. before further
legislation In this field Is attempted,
to look at the whole problem OF c0-oKz
dination and efficiency in the full lElI
Of fresh assessment of circumstanc
and opinion, as guide to dealing VIII
the several parts Of 1t.
For what we are seeking now. Wh4<
In my mind is the single thought -
this message. is national efficiency 0r
security. We serve great naf100
We should serve 1t in the spirit o. FL
peculiar genius. 1t is the geniu4 ~
common men for self governments, ilr
dustry. justice. liberty and peaees M
should see to 1t that II lacks no h.
sTument. no facility or yig0r of iaW<
to make 1t sufficient to play itS part
with energy. safety and assured sue
cess. In this we are no parttsAns but
heralds and prophets ~ . new age
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE

National Preparedness Main
Theme of Head Of Nation.
Submits Definite Plan to In
crease Present Standing Force
Of Regulars and For Four Hun
bred Thousand Citizen Soldiers
Raised In lncrements of One
Hundred and Thirty-three
Thousand.
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SHOULD AGREE ON POLICY
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Recommends Early Adoption Of Meas
ures Giving Then, Fuller Justice.

~ 20 0'Nft9 thcff dHCf VhettGt
The president recommends the early
adoption Of bills for the alteration and
reform OF the government Or the Phil.
ippines and for rendering fuller polit-
ical justice to the peoplesnf Porto Rico,
which were submitted to the sixty
third congress The president refers
to the Increased cost OF CARRYING out
the plans for he armed forces Of the
nation and tells Of the fiscal problems
confronting the government.
On the 30th of June last there was
an available balance in the general
fund of the treasury of $l0f. 10. 1878
The total estimated receipts for the
year 1916, on the assumption that the
emergency revenue measure passed by
the last congress viii not he extended
beyond its present limit the 31st Of
December, 1915. and that the present
duty Of l cent per pound on sugar will
be discontinued after the LIST Of May.
1916. will be $67O,3G5, 500. The balance
of June last and these estimated rev
enues come therefore to a grand total
Of STA, 535 605.7S. The total estimated
disbursements for the present fiscal
year, including twenty-five millions for
the Panama canal twelve millions for
probable deficiency appropriations and
$50, 900 for miscellaneous debt redemp-
ance In the general fund Of the treas
ury will be reduced to $20644 COSTS
The emergency revenue act Ii contin
ued beyond its present time limitation
would produce during the half year
then remaining about forty-one mil
lions. The duty of ] cent per pound
on sugar If continued would produce
year remaining after the 1st of May
about fifteen millions. These two sums,
amounting together to fifty-six mil
lions, If added to the revenues of the
second half of the fiscal year would
yield the treasury at the end Of the
year an available balance Of S76.644.
605.7S
The additional revenues required to
carry out the program of military and
naval preparation of which / have
spoken would, as at present estimated.
be for the fiscal year 1917 $93 100000
Those figures. taken with the figures
for the present fiscal year which
have already given. disclose our 6nan-
cial problem for the year 1917 AS
Stunning that the taxes imposed by the
emergency revenue act and Theories
ent duty on sugar are TO be discontin-
ued and that the balance at the close
of the present fiscal year will be only
$40, COSTS. that the disbursements
for the Panama canal will again be
about s25.000000 and that the addi
tional expenditures for the army and
navy are authorized by the congress
the deficit In the general fund Of the
treasury on the Goth Of June. 1917
Will be nearly S235000 0n0 To this
sum at least s50000.oo0 should be add
ed TO represent safe WORKING balance
for the treasury and S120mnO0 TO In
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JoIul ScSolOll VI tHN SeIdlt anu
house at the beginning of the
Sixty-fourth congress-:
Gentlemen of the Congress-Si Since
last had the privilege of addressing
you on the state of the Union the war
Of nations on the other side of the sea,
which had then only begun to disclose
Its portentous proportions, has extend
ed its threatening and sinister scope
until 1t has swept within its fame
some portion Of every quarter OF the
globe, not excepting our own hemi-
sphere. has altered the whole face OF
International affairs, and now presents
prospect of reorganization and re-
construction such as statesmen and
peoples have never been called upon
to attempt before.
The president tells how this country
practiced neutrality and declares that
he hopes that when the time comes
for REIMBURSEMENT and recuperation this
country will be of infinite service. Re.
ferring to Central and South American
problems, the president declares that
we should retain undated the spirit
which has inspired us throughout the
whole life of our government land
which was so frankly put into words
by President Monroe
We have been put to the test in the
case of Mexico. and we have stood the
test Whether we have benefited Mex
leo by the course we have pursued re-
mains to be seen. Her fortunes are In
her own hands. But we have at least
proved that we will not take adyan-
tage of her In her distress and under
take to impose upon her an order and
government of our own choosing Lib
erty is often a fierce aud intractable
thing. to which no bounds can be set
and to which no bounds of a few
mems choosing ought ever to be set.
Every American who has drunk at
the true fountains Of principle and ira
dition must subscribe without reserva
ton to the high doctrine of the Vir-
ginia bill of rights. which In the great
days In which our government was set
up was everywhere among us accept
ed as the creed OF free men. That doc
trine is, THAT government Is or ought
to be instituted for the common bene-
it, protection and security OF the peo-
pie, nation or community" that ''of
all the various modes and forms of
government. that is the best which Is
capable of producing the greatest de-
gree Of happiness and safety and Is
most effectually secured against the
danger of administration, and that
when any government shall be found
inadequate or contrary to these pur-
poses a majority of the community
hath an lndubitable. inalienable and
indefeasible right to reform, alter or
abolish it in such manner as shall be
judged most conducive to the public
veal" We have unhesitatingly APP
piled that heroic principle to the case
of Mexico and now hopefully await
the rebirth of the troubled republic,
which had so much of which 10 purge
itself and so little sympathy from any
outside quarter In the radical but nee
essary process We will aid and be-
friend Mexico, but we will not coerce
her, and our course with regard to her
ought to be sufficient proof to all Amer
lea that we seek no political suzerainty
or selfish control.
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Declares That if Full Navy Pro-
gram Is Carried Out We viii
Have a Fleet For Defense That
Will Be Fitted to Our Needs
and Worthy Of Our Traditions"
Greatest Danger to Country
Comes From Within Our Bor-
ders.
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. GLOWING is the message of
President Wilson delivered at
joint session of the senate and
house nj the BEGINNING of the
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TELEGRAPH RRlEFs
New York. - Four auto b

New York. - Four auto bandits
bound three clerks in pawnshOp at
Sd av. and 85th st., and escaped with
jewelry valued at $4,000.
Milwaukee, Wis,-SeVeral reported
injured in wreck of passenger train
on c., NJ. & st. P. Ry., at lakewood,
IL miles south of here. One coach
turned over.
De Pere, Wis-Raymond Van Dem
huval, 16, and Albert Bruska crushed
to death in gravel pit cave in.
Milwaukee, Wis - Lillian Smith,
arrested charged with perjury dur
ing trial of Fred L. HerWig. hotel
man, charged with assaulting her,
swallowed sodium bromide in county
Jail; win recover.
!. ST. Louis. MO,-John Blair alias
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favor with the public by putting out
a few fne-soUnding phrases.
81 have said Mr.. Rockefeller is a
very pleasant young man. Well,
now we want performance. Good in
tentiOns are all right as paving
blocks but what we want is perfor-
nance and we want it now.
81 want my boys to be good Amer
leans. 1 hate violence. Yet in the
strike they shot down in cold blood
thirty of my boys and their wives and
children.
Nov the murderers have been
whitewashed and freed and the COM
panies have 200 of my boys indicted
for murder. l want young Mr.. Rock
efe1er. to understand this.
''Tm not going out to Colorado
with him. Why, they'd mob US at
every depot. They would think was
bringing him with me for protection.
/ don't need any protection.
eff Mr.. Rockefeller is sincere he
would realize that his new scheme is
a fraud, He says let the workers
elect one representative at each mine
and these delegates meet company
officials in Denver. These delegates
without any organization or a treas
ury behind them would be powerless
to enforce any demand they might
make"
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS
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Frank Hayden, arrested at Omaha in
connection with Staying of Police
Sergt. Gibbons night of Jan. 9.
New York. - Four auto bandits
bound three clerks in pawnshOp at
Sd av. and S5th st. and escaped with
jewelry valued at $4,000.
Washington. - Republican fiIibus-
ter against ship purchase bill contin-
ued this morning, with no sign Of
let-up. Senator Smoot held floor.
Philadelphia - EX-GoV. Penny
packer to head movement to prevent
removal Of liberty bell to San Fran
cisco exposition; claims it viii be
ruined.
GreenVilIe, Tex.-Union carpenters
lowered wage scale from 81 to So per
day, hoping to increase building; re-
duction will remain in force until
April 1.
Fort Smith, Ark.-W. J. Johnston,
postmaster and custodian Of federal
building, cited for contempt Of court
by Judge Youmans because court
room was cold.
Stockton, Cal. - George Keller
used head as battering ram on
strength testing machine in saloon;
dead; broken neck.
Washington. - Ship loaded with
food for famine threatened people Of
Palestine and Syria to leave U. S.
shortly; stores collected by provision
al Zionist committee.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Off
Gals denied charges Of Rep. HObson
that U. S. as price of peace with ia
pan, was preparing to eVacuate Phil
hppines in near future.
Cheyenne, Wyo-Mrs. Timothy
Ross seriously hurt, son Andrew
killed, when another son dropped
loaded shotgun.
San Francisco. - Mrs. Eta Stone
Greedy, suing for divorce, asked res
fOrafioO Of naidoD name prOmiood