Arizona republican., 1916-10-22

mobiles. President Wilson said. in part:
 We owe this much to our repub- lican predecessors that they eNer- cised such long and systematic neg lect that it was necessary for us to undertake systematic performance. Things will not wait forever to nc performed. Not only that. but cir cumstances will not wait upon every thing that ought to be done; some of the things must be done and done promptly.
 This administration has had th. singular advantage of having Il great body Of national sentiment behind fl which had long stood ready to sup Fort such measures as it adopted. I do not know whether the systematic neglect to which I referred was de liherate or not I only know that it was thorough going. and that m ab- solutely free field was left for the present administration.
 You as farmers never were told l take it. that you were getting ;he indirect benefit of the tariff. You were getting it with extreme indi- reetion. because you were getting it by having duties placed upon almost everything that you had to Cse, and therefore the cost of almost every thing YOU had to use was enhanced. and you were promised hardly more tan this-that if the country pros pered vcu would necessarily prosper with the countrv-bit vou would pay for the prosperity at a very consd- erablc price. That was not added. but that implied
 And the whole point of view u' our legislation has been this that a special set of men. who thought they could guide the nation better than anybody else and preferred to guide it in private. asked certain chief ! hereficiarles of the tariff to come to- l gether and suggest what the schedules of the tariff should he. So that l these gentlemen have the idea. that ! I have several times pointed ont. t'nt t was best for us to be in the 1 hands of guardians. Now. I for one { have come of age some time ago. and { [ decline to live as ward: I insist itnor living as grown-up individual roady td take my part in the coun- ] cils of the nation and to insist that I shall hp considered primarily afone with the rest and mt secondar'-" ! The president then reviewed thc benefits of the federal reserve act ant thn rural credits act
 "The agricultural proaIets cf this | country" fe continued judged bl onr opportunities and our soil and on native capacity ought to he twic' what they are at present and insteat of the possibility of shoriace there cpght always 10 he tho certainty Q tho ernortation or lar~H bodies o grain from the Tinted States
 "so vfat are we tryino :n do al
 
 "neration and general development common counsel. and wfat would D.
 glad to have ~or gentlemen under
 a-amd ie thnt that is oVaotlv the for
 inrla that we have bean trvine to dC
 "f do not wonder thst tho gentle
 men ont of whose bonds f has bee
 'ahnn "~e rneasv h"cauae they a"
 oa"'Iinelv of the orpinion that nnl tho '---n,v hn,o tn run tho country ~rd if I troroh' was tho onlv ma lA'ir~ vho lna"' flou' tn rnn tn | o0urtrv, I would te very sorry to SC it tHfer ont of rnv har|s
 q have T susricion that hae hee forced upon mo hv ma~v evperience 'h9t [ am rot tho onh' man an what has su~nrised some of thes gentlemen is to dis"over how man others the-e gre who realiv under
 etand tHe United States The Trritc St"tes r. heginning to understand it self. ard it is hoeinninP to under Ttlnd thesH gentlemen. One of th yrnat lesscus Of the Furopean w9 ha" beer that thc e"orcmic mobili zation of the country. tho ecnnomi cocrdination and cooperation nf it i
 just a~ imrorfant as the military co
 Ore~ation rf if.
 "The railway development of thj
 countrv never has been studied 2 q whole for ono thine There are
 great many things lacking in tn