New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-07

" INC W W ueeutu lot lHe SuppOTt
OF the war and for the release OF our
whole force and energy.
1t will be necessary to exta0d II
certain particulars the legislation Of
the last session with regard to allen
enemies, and also necessary, | believe,
to create a very definite and particu-
lar control over the entrance and de-
parture of all persons into and from
the United States.
Legislation should be enacted defin,
ing as a criminal Offense every willful
violation Of the presidential prOclama-
tiOns relating to alien enemies prOmul-
gated under section 4067 of the Re-
vised Statutes and providing appropri-
ate punishments, and m as well
as men should be included under the
terms OF the acts placing restraints
upon alien enemies. 1t is likely that
as time goes IN many alien enemies
will be willing to be fed and housed
at the expense of the government in
the detention camps, and it would be
the purpose of the legislation / have
suggested to confine offenders among
them in penitentiaries and other sim
liar institutions where they could b.
made to work as other criminals do.
Calls for Curb on P~rofiteering.
Recent experience has convinced me
that the Congress must 90 further in
authorizing the government to set lin
Its to prices. The law of supply and
demand, l am sorry to say, mas been
replaced by the law of unrestrainea
sellishness. While we have elimin-
otad nrpfitaaripn ~ .oy,,ol hr,naL,,
of INDUSTRY it still runs %impudently
rampant in others. The farmers, tor
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 them
selves purchase; and similar iniquities
obtain on all sides.
1t is imperatively necessary that the
consideration of the full use of the
water power of the country and also
the consideration of the systematic
II yet econOulical development OF
such of the natural resources of the
country as are still under the control
OF the federal government should be
Immediately resumed and affirmative
ly and constructively dealt with at the
earliest possible moment. The press
ing nee of such legislation is daily
becoming o obvious.
The legislation proposed al the last
session with regard to regulated com
binations among our exporters, in or
der to provide for our foreign trade
a more effective organization and
method of cooperation, ought by ali
to be completed at this session
And l beg that the members of the
House of Representatives will permit
me to express the opinion that it will
be impossible to deal in any but a
very wasteful and %eXtravagant fashion
with the enormous appropriations OF
the public moneys which must con
tinue to be made If the war is to b.
properly sustained, unless the House
will consent to return to its former
practice of initiating and preparing al.
appropriation bills through a single
committee. in order that responsibility!
may be centered, expenditures stand
ardized and made uniform and waste
and duplication as much as possible
avoided.
Additional legislation may also be
come necessary before the present
Congress again adjourns in order t.
effect the most efficient coordination
and operation of the railway and Other
transportation systems of the country
but to that | shall, If circumstances
should demand, call the attention OF
the Congress upon another occasion.
If | have overlooked anything thal
ought ta ha dana for tho n,nrn nffar |
tive conduct of the war, your ow.
.counsels will supply the omission
What | am perfectly clear about is
that in the present session of the
Congress our whole attention and
energy should be concentrated on the
vigorous, rapid and successful prose
cution OF the great task of winning the
war.
We can do this with all the greater
zeal and enthusiasm because we know
that for us this is a war of high prin.
ciple, debased by no selfish ambition
of conquest or s%pOliatiOn; because we
know, and all the world knows, that
have been forced into it to save the
very institutions we live under from
and destruction.
The purposes of the Central Pow.
ers strike straight at the very heart
Of everything we believe in; their
methods Of warfare outrage every
principle of humanity, and of knightly
honor; their intrigue has corrupted
very thought and spirit of many
of our people; their sinister and Sc
cret diplomacy has sought to take our
territory away from us, and dis
the union of the states. Our
safety would be at an end, our honor
sullied and brought into con
Tempt were we to permit their tri-
lmph. They are striking at the very
existence Of democracy and liberty.
1t Is because 1t is for us a war Of
high, disinterested purpose, in which
the free peoples of the world are
together for the v%indication
If right, a war for the preservation OF
,ur nation and of all that it held dear
If principle and of purpose, that we
ourselves doubly constrained to
for it's outcome only that
which is righteous and of irreproach-
BILE intention. for our foes as well as
u friends. The cause being just
md holy, the settlement must be of
ike motive and quality. For this we
an fight, but for nothing less noble
# less worthy of our traditions. Fol
cause we entered the wal and for
cause will we battle until the last
,un is fired.
| have spoken plainly because this
GEMS to me the time when we should
peak plainly, i'm order that all the
'orld may know that even in the heat
nd ardor of the struggle and when
whole thought is of carrying the
var through to its end, We have not q,