The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-07
VIII SON WHIPS HYPHEN

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national defenses. The program in
cluded the army and navy plans al
ready made public by Secretaries Car
rison and Daniels; legislation Tor gov
eminent owned merchant ships; a ru-
raj credit law: the Philippine and For
to Rico bills which failed of final pass
age at the last session; conservation
legislation; a law giving federal ana TO
industrial and vocational education,
and the creation of a commission to
inquire into the transportation prop
lem.
Naturalized and native born Amer
leans who sympathizing with belIger-
erfs abroad. have plotted and con-
spired to violate their own country
neutrality were scathingly denounced
by the President, and Congress was
urged to provide adequate federal laws
to deal with such offenders
Internal taxation was proposed as
the means of providing the money
necessary to add to the naval and MIL
itary establishments Sources OF tax
alton suggested were incomes, Saso-
line naphtha. automobiles and internal
explosive engines. fabricated IRON ana
steel, and a stamp tax on bank cneckS.
Extension of the war revenue blI ana
continuance of the present tariff on
sugar were recommended, and the sale
of bonds opposed
wilson's Longest Message.
This message was the longest Mr.
Wilson has ever delivered to Congress.
He began with a statement that s-nce
he last addressed Congress:
THE European war has extended us
threatening and sinister scope until
it has swept into its flame some por-
ton of every quarter of the GLOBE
not excepting our own hemisphere,
has altered the whole face OF inter-
national affairs, and now presents
prospect of reorganization and recon-
struction such as statesmen and peo-
pies have never been called upon 10
attempt before"
The United States has remained
neutral, he said. because it had no
interest in the causes and because 1t
was the duty of the nations of the
western hemisphere to prevent coIlec-
tive economic ruin.
The president pointed to the atti-
tude of the United States towards
Mexico as proving that this country
has no selfish motives in its interest
in countries in Central and South
America. There was a time, he said,
when the United States looked upon
itself as a sort of guardian of the re-
publicS to the south as against the en-
croachment or efforts of political con-
troll from Europe.
But" he added, ''it was always diff
ficuIt to maintain such a role without
offense to the pride of the peoples
whose freedom of action we sought
to protect, and every thoughtful man
of affairs must welcome the altered
circumstances of the new day in
whose light we now stand. when
there is no claim of guardianship or
thought of wards, but. instead, a full
and honorable association of partners
between ourselves and our neighbors,
in the interests of all America, North
and South.
80 Our concern for the independence
and the prosperity of the states of
Central and South America is not al
tered. We retain undated the spirit
that has inspired us throughout the
whole life of our overnment and
which was so frankly put into words
by President Monroe We still mean
always to make a common cause of
national independence and of politi-
cal liberty in America. But that pur-
pose is now better understood so far
as it concerns o. Ives. 1t is known
known to have in it no thought of tax
ing advantage of any government in
this hemisphere or playing its political
fortunes for our own benefit. All the
governments of America stand so far
as we are concerned, upon a footing
Of genuine equality and unquestioned
independence"
= 1--WE have been put to the test in
the case of Mexico, and We have stood
the test declared the president He
added that it remained to be seen
whether Mexico had been benefited
by the course taken by the administra-
ton, out LnaL we nave at least proved
that we will not take advantage of
her in her distress and undertake to
impose upon her an order and govern
naent of our own chosing''
American States Not Hostile.
1.-THE moral is" continued the presi-
dent that the states of America are
not hostile rivals but cooperating
friends, and that their growing sense
of community interest, alike in mat
tiers political and in matters economic
canoe as factors in international af-
fairs and in the political history of
the world. 1t presents them as in a
very deep and true sense a unit in
world affairs, spiritual partners
standing together because thinking