Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-12-16
MUST HELP WORLD.
United States Cannot Stand
Aloof, Says President.
Message to Congress Tells Of Hope
IN Conference-OutIines Changes
Needed in Tariff and Other Laws
Urges Federal Aid for Farmers.

Washlngton.-Stre the grea
ana Iar-reaching contribution which
the american people must be prepared
20 MAKE toward the economic and
nnancial rehabilitation of a world still
staggering under the disordered con
dltlonS bequeathed by war Presiden
Harding voiced a solemn warning, il
the message he delivered in person te
congress, Tuesday, that mo permanent
readJustmentS can be effected without
consideration of our unacceptable re.
Iatlonship to world affairs in finance
and trade"
traditions if we were unmindful of So
clal, moral and political conditions
which are not of direct concern to us
but which do appeal to the human
terest of people blest with our ma
tional synpathies," the President said
The President emphasized that in
the main the contribution of this re-
public to restored normally in the
world must come through the initia-
tive or the executive branch of the
government, but the best intentions
and most carefully considered pur-
ton and cooperation of congress were
not cheerfully accorded"
For the first time in years, since
the grim shadows of the World war
can people. congress listened to a
presidential message that was almost
entirely devoted to the grave domes-
tic issues confronting the American
nation. and which skipped over, ex-
cept in the most general way, the seri-
Gus international questions facing the
American people.
Foreign Delegates There.
Standing on the simple platform be-
fore the speakers desk in the house
chamber the President addressed him
self to joint session of congress and
to what was unquestionably the great
est and most representative gathering
of the chosen spokesman of the civil
lied peoples of the world ever held
in the evntful history of the Ameri-
can people.
The delegates of the foreign nations
participating in the disarmament con-
ference. the, brilliantly uniformed
assembled with the members of the
senate and the house, the Presidents
cabinet and the United States Supreme
nation laid down the program the
administration desired congress to car
ry out during the coming months of
the present session
Chief Points of Message.
The high spots of the Presidents mes
sage were:
l. The imperative need Of elastic and
flexible" tariff legislation which would en-
able the President, through the federal
tariff commission, to meet effectively the
changing trade and industrial conditions,
not only in this country, but abroad.
2. The urgent necessity of general
policy of transportation of distributed in
dustry and of highway construction to
encourage the spread of our population
and to restore the proper balance be-
tween city and country"
3. The strong desire of the administra-
ton for further revenue revision and ''re-
newed consideration of our tax program, :"
despite the inevitable divergence of opin-
ion in seeking the reduction, amelioration
and readjustment of the burdens of taxa
ton"
Merchant Marine Expansion.
T. The expressed opposition of the adj
ministration to the abrogation OF certain
commercial treaties proposed by the
Jones' merchant marine act, on the
grounds that to denounce them would in
volve us in chaos of trade relationships
and add indescribably to the confusion of
the already disordered commercial world"
5. The expansion of the American mer-
chant marine under an administration
plan to be later submitted to congress
which, while contemplating mo greater
draft on the public treasury than is pro-
vided by the Jones act, will appeal to
the pride and encourage the hope of all
the American people" in American ship
ping flying the American flag.
g. Early enactment of the foreign debt
funding bill that the administration may
be clothed with ample authority to deal
with the s11, 600 600, 600 foreign Indebtedness
to the United States, which is now denied
it and which is hindering readJustments
among our debtors and accomplishing
nothing for ourselves.
To Encourage Farmers.
Systematic encouragement of agriculture
by the development of adequate dlstrlpu-
ton and marketing facilities for agr1cu-
tural products and the adoption of Co
operative marketing programs" for that
purpose.
s. The early termination of great
volume of uneconomic and wasteful trans
porta ton and a revision of the existing
scheme of adjusting freight rates" with
ADEQUATE legislation to meet the serious
railroad problems, so vitality affecting the
welfare of the American people.
g. Recommended congressional appro-
priation to purchase food for the starving
Russians.
10. Suggested the advisability of a con-
stitutional amendment to prohibit the Is
suance of tax-free securities.
IL Declared both corporations ana LABOR
unions should be regulated and supervised
in the interests Of public welfare and sug-
gested quasi-judicial tribunals to>settle Ia
Dor disputes.
The President also announced that later
on he would make some recommendations
about renewed consideration OF the tax
nrogrann. involving further reductions and
the abolition of "hindering burdens"
American Valuation.
When discussing the proposed tarin
legislation the President said concerning
a much debated feature:
.sThere is a manifest difference OF opln-
ion about the American valuation, Many
nations have adopted delivery valuation
az the basis for collecting duties; that IS
thew take the cost of the imports deIv-
cred at the port of entry as the basis Ior
leyying duty It Is no radical departure;
in view of the varying conditions ana
the disordered state of money values, 20
nrovide for American valuation. Dut
there cannot be ignored the danger OF
such a valuation brought to the level OF
our own production costs, making our
tariffs prohibitive. ,rs+.,cas
r. might do so in many instances
where Imports ought to be, encouraged.
7 helieve congress ought well to consider
The desirability of the only promising al
tarnatiye. namely, a provision autnoriz-
mo proclaimed American valuation, un-
AIS pprescribed conditions, on any given
iist IF articles imported.
Tn This proposed fiexibility, authorizing
.rcreases to meet conditions SO likely
~ Change. there also should be provl'
~ IT, For decreases. A race may be JUS
sndav and entirely out of proportion SIX
TODAY.