The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-07
CHASTISES "HYPHENS"
MOST VIGOROUSLY
Pleads for Building Up of
Merchant Marine to Make
United States Independent
on the High Seas-Speaks
Very Friendly to South
America

Washington, ID. c., Dec. THE gal
leries of the House of Representative
were crowded with spectators to-da,
when President Wilson appeared anc
read his message to Congress, while hun
dreds, disappointed at their inability Il
secure admission, stood in the corridors
to see the president as he passed. Ht
Frequently was applauded as he read.
Rumors that the suffragists might at
tempt to make a demonstration, given
color by the reports that lawyers repre-.
senting the women had made an exami.
nation OF precedents governing contempt
! in the House, resulted in extra guards
being placed in the public galleries and
scattered about among the throngs in the
corridors and elsewhere about the capi-
tol. but there was no demonstration.
Every recommendation embodied in the
message had to do with comprehensive
plans for strengthening the national de-
lenses. The program included the army
and navy plans already made public by
Secretaries Garrison and Daniels; legis-
laton for government.o merchant
ships; rural credit law; the Philippine
and Porto Rico bills which failed of final
passage at the last session; conservation
legislation; law giving federal aid to
industrial and vocational education; and
the creation of a commission to inquire
into the transportation problem.
Naturalized and natvc-bo born Americans
who, sympathizing with belligerents
abroad. have plotted and conspired TO
violate their own comtry's neutrality
were scathingly denounced by the presi-
dent, and Congress was urged to provide
adequate federal laws 10 deal with such
offenders.
Internal taxation was proposed as the |
means Of providing the money necessary
30 add TO the naval and military estah- |
lishments. Sources OF taxation suggest
ed were incomes, gasoline. naphtha, au-
tomobiles and internal explosion engines,
fabricated iron and steel. and a stamp
tax on bank checks. Extension Of the
war revenue bill and continuance Of the
present tariff on sugar were recommend
Il, and the sale of bonds opposed
Why United States Is Neutral in War.
This message was the longest Mr.. vii.
.on has ever delivered 70 Congress. He
'cgau with a statement that since be
at addressed Congress.
"The European war has extended It's
threatening and sinister scope until il
las swept into il flame some portion of
very quarter Of the globe. not excepting
'ur own hemisphere. has altered the
ghole face q international affairs aud
.ow presents = prospect of reorganiza-
i0n and reconstruction such ~ states.
non and peoples have never bccn called
pon % attempt before"
The I nited states has remained naii-
raj. BE- said. because II bad no interest
b the causes and l,ecause ID was the
uty of The nations of The western hemi-
There % prevent collective economic
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riendly Attitude Toward South Amsrics. i
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