Evening star., 1919-12-02


employment. If we want to sell.
we must be prepared to buy. What
ever. therefore. may have been our
views during the period of growth
of American business concerning
tariff Legislation, we must now ad-
just our own economic life to a
changed condition growing out of
the fact that American business is
full grown and that America is the
greatest capitalist in the world.
Isolation Unsatisfactory.
No policy of isolation will satisfy
the growing needs and opportuni-
ties of America. The provincial
standards and policies of the past.
which have held American bust
ness as if in a strait jacket, must
and exigencies of the new day in
which we live. day full of hope
and promise for American business.
If we will but take advantage of
the opportunities that are ours for
the asking. The recent war has
ended our isolation anS thrown
upon us great duty and response
bility. The United States must
share the expanding world market
The United States desires for it
self only equal opportunity with
the other nations of the world. and
that through the process of friend
ly cooperation and fair competi-
tion the legitimate interests of the
nations concerned may be success
fully and equitably adjusted.
There are other matters of i'm
portance upon which l urged ac-
tion at the last session of Con-
greSS which are still pressing for
solution. | am sure il IS not neces-
Sary for me again to remind you
that there is one Immediate and
very practicable question resulting
from the war which we should meet
in the most liberal spirit. 1t is
matter of recognition and relief to
our soldiers. 1 can do no better
than to quote from my last message
urging this very action:
I'VE must see to it that our re-
turning soldiers are assisted in
every practicable way to find the
places for which they are fitted in
the daily work of the country. This
can be done by developing and
maintaining upon an adequate scale
the admirable organization created
by the Department of Labor for
placing men seeking work, and it
very great field. by creating new
opportunities for individual enter
prise. The Secretary of the In
terror has pointed out the way by
which returning soldiers may be
helped to find and take up land in
the hitherto undeveloped regions of
the country which the federal gov
ernment has already prepared or
can readily prepare for cultivation.
and also on many of the cutover or
neglected areas which lie within
the limits of the older states.~ and
/ once more take the liberty of
recommending very urgently that
his plans shall receive the imme-
Giate and substantial support of the
Congress"
Recalls Tariff Statements.
In the matter of tariff legisla-
ton, l beg to call your attention to
the statements contained in my last
message urging legislation with
reference to the establishment of
the chemical and dyestuffs indus
try in America:
Among the industries to which
special consideration should be
given is that of the manufacture of
6yestuffs and related chemicals.
Our complete dependence upon Ger
man supplies before the war made
the interruption of trade a cause
of exceptional economic disturb
ance. The close relation between
the manufacturer of dyestuffs. on
the one hand, and of explosives
and poisonous gases, on the other.
moreover, has given the industry
an exceptional significance and val
ue. Although the United States will
gladly and unhesitatingly join in
the program of international dis
armament, it will, nevertheless. be
policy of obvious prudence to
make certain of the successful
maintenance of many strong and
uon onrinnad chamical nlapfc ha
German chemical industry, with
which we will be brought into COM
petition, was and may we'll be
again, a thoroughly knit monopoly
capable of exercising a competition
of a peculiarly insidious and dan
gerOuS kind.
Farmers' Service Vital.
During the war the farmer per-
formed a vital and willing service
to the nation. BY materially in
creaSing the production of his land,
he supplied America and the allies
with the increased amounts of food
necessary to keep their immense
armies in the field. He indispensa-
bly, helped to win the war But
there is now scarcely less need of
increasing the production in food
and the necessaries of life ask
the Congress to consider means of
encouraging effort along these
lines. The Importance of doing
everything possible to promote
production along economical lines.
to improve marketing and to make
rural life more attractive and
healthful. is obvious. would urge
approval of the plans already pro-
posed to the Congress by the Sec
retary of Agriculture to secure the
essential facts
proper study of this question.
through the proposed enlarged
programs for farm manapement
studies and crop estimates. 1
would urge. also, the continuance
of federal participation in the
building of good roads. under the
terms of existing law and under
the direction of present agencies:
the need of further action on the
part of the states and the federal
government to preserve and de-
velop our forest resources, espe-
cially through the practice of bet
ter forestry methods on private
holdings and the extension of the
publicly owned forests: better sup
port for country schools and the
more definite direction of their
courses of study along lines related
to rural problems: and fuller pro-
vision for sanitation in rural dis
tricts and the building up Of need
ed hospital and medical facilities in
these localities.
Perhaps the way might be cleared
for many of these desirable reforms
by fresh. comprehensive survey
made of rural conditions by a con-
ference composed Of representa-
tives of the farmers and of the ag-
ricultural agencies responsible for
leadership
Political Unrest Superficial.
l would call your attention to
the widespread condition of polit-
ical restlessness in our body polite.
The causes of this unrest, while
various and complicated, are su-
perficial rather than deep seated.
Broadly. they arise from or are
connected with the failure on tib
part of our government to arrive
speedily at a just sand permanent