Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-15
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should be elevated to the importance
and vested with authority comparable
to the work before it.
Linked with rail and highway is
the problem of water transportation
inland coastwise and transoceanic-
Big Merchant Marine.
1t is not necessary to say it to con-
gress, but I have thought this to be
a fitting occasion to give notice that
the United States means to establish
and maintain a great merchant marine.
This republic can never realize its
righteous aspirations in commerce, can
never be worthy the traditions of the
early days of the expanding republic
until the millions of tons of shipping
which we now possess are co-ordinated
with our inland transportation and our
shipping has government encourage
ment, not government operation, IN
carrying our cargoes under our nag,
over regularly operated routes, to ev-
cry market in the world agreeable to
American exchanges.
Urges U. S. Air Laws.
1t has become pressing duty of
the federal government to provide for
the regulation of air navigation; other
wise Independent and conflicting legls-
lation will be enacted by the various
states which will hamper the develop
ment of aviation.
lation establishing bureau of aero
nautics in the Navy department to CEN
tralize the control of naval activities
in aeronautics, and removing the re-
striction on the personnel detailed to avia-
ton in the navy
Our very immediate concern is Tor
the crippled soldiers and those deeply
needing the helping hand OF. govern
ment Conscious Of the generous in
tent of congress, and the public con-
Germ for the crippled and dependant,
invited the services of volunteer
committee to inquire into the admin
istration of the bureau of war risk
Insurance. the federal board for voca-
tional training and other agencies Of
government in caring for the ex-sol-
diers sailors and marines of the World
war.
1t is needless to call your Alteration to
the unfinished business inherited from the
preceding congress The appropriation
bills for army and navy will have your
early consideration.
Neither branch of the government can
be unrnindful of the call for reduced ex-
penditure TO rthese departments of our
national defense. The government Is In
accord with the wish to eliminate the bur-
dens of heavy armament. The United
States ever will be in harmony with such
movement toward the higher attain
ments of peace.
But we shall not entirely discard com
tingencies for defense until there is re-
moved the need to defend. We are ready
| to cooperate with other nations to APP
proximate disarmament, but merest pru-
dence forbids that we disarm alone.
Spurns Superauthority.
The aim to associate nations to prevent
war preserve peace and promote civiliza-
! ton our people most cordially applauded.
Va ri
! justice, but I'VE can have no part IN
committal to any agency of force in an
known contingencies; we can recognize no
superauthority.
! Manifestly the highest purpose of the
League of Nations was defeated in link
/ ing it with the treaty of peace and making
| it the enforcing agency of the victors Of
the war International association for
permanent peace must be conceived solely
as an instrumentality of justice, unaSSo-
ciated with the passions of yesterday, and
not so constituted as to attempt the dual
! functions of a political instrument OF the
conquerors and of an agency of peace
There can be prosperity~for the fun
damental purposes sought to be achieved
by any such association so long as it is
an organ of any particular treaty or COM
mitted to the attainment of the special
aims of any nation or group of nations.
1t would be unwise to undertake TO
| a
respect to European affairs in such
declaration of a state of peace. In cor
recting the failure of the executive, in
negotiating the most important treaty
in the history of the nation, to recog-
nize the constitutional powers of the
/ senate we would go to the other e1-'
IRENE, equally Objectionable, if congress
or the senate should assume the func-
! ton of the executive. Our highest duty.
is the preservation of the constitutional
powers of each, and the promotion of the
spirit of cooperation so essential to our
common welfare.
Situation Is Involved.
1t would be idle to declare for sepa-
rate treaties of peace with the central
powers on the assumption that these
alone would be adequate, because the
situation is so involved that our peace
engagements cannot ignore the old
world relationship and the settlements
already effected, nor is it desirable to
| do so in preserving our own rights and
contracting our future relationhips.
Neither congress nor the people needs
my assurance that request to nego-
tate needed treaties of peace would be
as superauous and unnecessary as it is
technically ineffective, and l know in
my own heart there is none who would
wish to embarass the executive in the
performance of his duty when we are
all so eager to turn disappointment and
delay into gratifying accomplishment
Wants Senate Advice.
In an all-impelling wish to do the
most and best for our own public and
maintain its high place among nations,
and at the same time make the fullest
offering of justice to them, l shall in
vite in the most practical way the adj
vice of the senate, after acquainting it
with all the conditions to be met J and
obligations to be discharged. along with
our own rights to be safeguarded Pru-
dence in making the program ad conf
dent cooperation in making it effective
cannot lead us far astray.
We can render no effective services to
humanity until we prove anew our own
capacity for cooperation in the co-or-
dination of powers contemplated in the
Constitution, and no covenants which ig-
more our associations in the war can
be made for the future
No helpful society of nations can be
founded on justice and committed to
peace until the covenants re-establish-
ing peace are sealed by the nations which
were at war To such accomplishments
to the complete re-esta blishment of peace
and its contracted relationships, to the
realization of our inspirations for nations
associated for world helpfulness without
world government for world stability on
which humanity's hopes are founded, we
shall address ourselves, fully mindful of
the high privilege and the paramount
duty of the United States in this critical
period of the world.
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