The Pulaskian., 1917-12-07
Legislation for Aliens.

control over the entrance and departure of all persons into and from the United States.
 Legislation should be enacted defin- ing as a criminal offense every Wilful violation of the presidential proclama- tions relating to alien enemies promul- gated under section 4067 of the revised statutes and providing appropriate pull ishments; and women as well as men should be included under the terms of the acts placing restraints upon alien enemies. It is likely that as time goes on many alien enemies will be wiling to be fed and housed at the expense or the government in the detention camps and 1t would be the purpose of the legis- lation 1 have suggested to conllne ofIcn- ders among them ill penitenhares and other similar institutions where they could be made to work as other criminals do.
 Recent experience has convinced ne that the Congress must go further ln au- thorizlng the government to set limits to prices. The law of supply and de- mand, 1 am sorry to say, has been re placed by the law of unrestrained self Ishness. While we have eliminated prof iteering in several branches of industry, It still runs impudently rampant in oth- CTS. The farmers, for example, complain with a great deal of justice, that while the regulation of food prices restricts their incomes, no restraints are placed upon the prices of most of the things they must themselves purchase; and slm- liar inequities obtained on all sides.
 Use of Resources.
 Ut is imperatively necessary that the consideration of the full use of the wa ter power of the country and also the consideration of the systematic and eco homie development of such natural re- sources of the country as are still un- der the control of the Federal govern ment should be immediately resumed and affirmatively and constructiyely dealt with at the earliest possible mo- ment. The pressing need of such legisla ton is daily becoming more obvious.
 The legislation proposed at the last session with regard to related combina- tions among our exporters, in order to provide for our foreign trade more ef- fectiYe organization and method of CO., operation, ought by all means to be conl- pleted at this session.
 'And I beg that the members of the House of Representatives will permit me to express the opinion that 1t will be impossible to deal in any way but a very wasteful and extravagant fashion with the enormous appropriations of the public moneys which must continue to be made, if the war is to be prop erly sustained, unless the House will consent to return to it's former prac- tiee of initiating and preparing all ap- propriation bills through a single com mittee, in order that responsibility may be centered, expenditures standardized and made uniform, mad waste and du- plication as much as possible avoided.
 Additional legislation may also be- come necessary before the present Con gross adjourns in order to effect the most efficient coordination and opera tion of the railways and other trans portation systems of the country, but tc that I shall, if circumstances should demand, call the attention of Congress upon another occasion. If 1 have over loked anything that ought to be don for the more effective conduct of tn war, your own counsels will supply tn omissions. What 1 am perfectly clea about is that in the present session Q Congress our whole attention and ener gy should be concentrated on the vigor- ous and rapid and successful prescott tion of the great task of winning the war.
 War of High Principles.
 " Cdu uO IuIS Wltu dll the RredDe' zeal and enthusiasm because we knov that for us this is war of high princi ples, debased by no selfish ambition conquest or spoliation because WE know and all the world knows, that we hay been forced into it to save the very in stitutions we live under from corruption, and destruction. The purposes of tn central powers strike straight at the yer heart of everything we believe in; thei methods of wSrfare outrage every prin. ciple of humanity and of knightly honor their intrigue has corrupted the yery thought an1 spirit of many of our peo. pie; their sinister and secret diplomacy has sought to take our very territor, away from us and disrupt the union O. the States. Our safety would be at ar end, our honor forever sullied and brough, into contempt were we to permit thei1 triumph. They are striking et the very existence of democracy and liberty.
 "It is because it is for us a war of high, disinterested purpose, in which al, the free peoples of the world are banded together for the vindica:ion of right. a war for the preservation of our nation and Of all that it has l.eld dear of pr ciple and of purpose, tn we feel our selves doubly constrained to proposc fo, its outcome only that which is righteous and of irreproachable intention, for ou, foes as well as for our friends. The cause being just and holy, the settlement must be of like motive and duality. Fol this we can fight, but for nothing les. noble or less worthy of our traditions For this cause we entered tho war ant for this cause will we battle until tho last gun is fired
 "I have spoken plainly because this seems to me the time when it is most necessary to speak plainly, in order that all the world may know tha' ven in the heat and ardor of the struggle and when our whole though is carrying the war through to it's end we have aot for gotten any ideal or principle for which the name of America has been held Tn honor among the nations and for which it has been our glory to conteHd in the great generations that wen before us. A supreme moment of history has come. The eyes of the people have been opened and they see. The hand of God l laid upon the nations. He will show them favor, I devoutly believe, only if they rise to the clear heights of his own jus tice and mercy"