Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-15
PRESIDENT HARDING
OUTLINES POLICIES
Declares America Will Have
No Part in the Existing
League of Nations.
SEPARATE PEACE IS DEMANDED
Upon Congress to Adopt Resolu-
ton Ending War With Germany and
Suggests Measures to Lower
Taxes and Reduce Prices Of
Goods to Consumers.

Washington, April 1.-THE text of
President Hardlng's message to con.
gress follows:
Members of the Congress:
You have been called into extraor-
binary session to give your consldera.
ton to national problems far too press
ing to be long neglected.
We face our task of legislation and
administration amid conditions as diff
ficult as our government ever contem-
plated.
Under our political system the peo-
pie of the United States have charged
the new congress and the new admin
is,ration with the solution-the read
justment, reconstruction and restora-
tion which must follow in the wake of
war.
Invite All to Join.
1t may be regretted that we were
so lily prepared for wars aftermath.
80 little made ready to return to the
ways of peace, but we are not to be
discouraged. Indeed, we must be the
more firmly resolved to undertake our
work with high hope, and invite every
factor in our citizenship to join in the
again.
The American people have APP
praised the situation and with that toll
erance and patience which go with
understanding they will give to us the
influence of deliberate public opinion
which ultimately becomes the edct of
any popular government. They are
measuring some of the stern necessi-
nd Will ini In, hn oitr tnIy
which is so essential to firm reestab-
liShment.
Home Problems.
First in mind must be the solution
of our problems at home, even though
some phases of them are inseparably
linked with our foreign relations. The
surest procedure in every government
is to put its own house in order
| know of no more pressing prob
lem at home than to restrict our ma
tional expenditures within the limits
of our national income, and at the
same time measurably lift the burdens
of war taxation from the shoulders
of the American people.
One cannot be unmindful that econ
omy is much employed cry, most fire.
quently stressed in prediction APP
outstanding and ever-impeling pur-
pose in both legislation and admins
tratiOn. The unrestrained tendencies
20 Needless expenditure and the at
tending growth of public indebtedness
extending from federal authority to
that of state and municipality and in
Guiding the smallest political subdivl-
sion, constitute the most dangerous
nh Of,
Nation as ExempIar.
The nation cannot restrain except
in its own activities, but 1t can be
ememplar in IA wholesome reversal.
The staggering load of war debt
must he cared for in orderly funding
and gradual liquidation. We shall
hasten the solution and aid effectively
in lifting the tax burdens if we strike
reSOlutely at expenditure.
1t is far more easily said than done.
In the ferver of war our expenditures
were so little questioned, the emer-
gency was so impelling, appropria.
ton was so unimpeded that we little
noted millions and counted the treas
ury ineXhaustible. 1t will strengthen
our resolution If we ever keep in mind
that II continuation of such course
means inevitable disaster.
Our current expenditures are run
ming at the rate of approximately So
OOO,OOO,OOO year and the burden Is
unbearable. There are two agencies to
be employed In correction: one is
rigid resistance in appropriation and
the other Is the utmost economy ia
administration. Let us have both.
have already charged department
heads with this necessity. | am sure
congress will agree; and both congress
and the administration may safely
count on the support of all right mind
ed citizens, because the burden is
theirs.
Thrift For All.
The pressure for expenditure, swell
ing the flow in one locality while
draining another, is sure to defeat the
imposition of just burdens and the eff
feet of our citizenship protesting out
lay will be wholesome and helpful, !
wish it might find its reflex I'm econo-
my and thrift among the people them
selves, because therein lies quicker re-
covery and added security for the fu-
ture.
The estimates of receipts and eX-
penditures and the statements as 10
the condition of the treasury which
the secretary of the treasury Is pre-
pared to present to you will indicate
= what revenues must be provided in
order to carry on the governments
business and meet It's current require
ments and fixed debt charges Unless
there are striking cuts in the Import
ant fields of expenditures, receipts
from internal taxes capnot safely be
permitted to fall below SiOOOOOO,OOO
in the fiscal year 1922 and 1928
Cost Of Living.
One who values American prosper
ity and maintains American standards
of wages and living can have no sym
patty with the proposal that easy en-
try and flood of imports will cheaper
our costs Of living. II is more likely
20 destroy our capacity to buy Today
American agriculture is menaced and
its products are down 10 prewar nor
mails, yet we are endangering our fun