Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-04-22
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The federal agency of administration
should be elevated to the Importance
and vested with authority comparable
to the work before 1T.
Linked with rail and highway is
the problem of water transportation
inland, coastwise and transoceanic.
i Big Merchant Marine.
1t is not necessary to say it to con-
gress, but / 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-ordinared
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.
It has become a pressing duty OF
the federal government to provide for
the regulation of air navigation; other
wise independent and conflicting les,is-
lation will be enacted by the various
states which will hamper the develop
ment of aviation.
I recommend the enactment OF legis-
lation establishing a 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
Of ha n.
| tent of congress, and the public con-
Germ for .he crippled and dependant,
| invited the services of a 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 attention 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 unmindful 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 con-
| 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
| We yearned for this new instrument OF
| justice, but we can have no part in
committal to any agency Of force in I'M
| known contingencies; we can recognize no
| superauthority
Manifestly the highest purpose of the
| League of Nations was defeated in link
| ing 1t with the treaty of peace and making
| it the enforcing agency of the vlctors OF
/ the war. International association Tor
/ permanent peace must be conceived solely
| as an fundamentally of justice, unasso-
| ciated with the passions of yesterday, and
| not so constituted as to attempt the dual
| functions of a political instrument or the
conquerors and of an agency of peace
| There can be no prosperity for the fun
| damental purposes sought to be achieved
by any such association so long as 1T is
| an organ of any particular treaty or COM
/ mitted to the attainment of the speclal
aims of any nation or group of nations
1t would be unwise to undertake TO
make statement of future policy with
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 recos-
! nize the constitutional powers Of the
/ senate we would go to the other eA-
| 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.
It 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
i contracting our future relationhips.
Neither congress nor the. people needs
| my assurance that a request to nego-
| tiate needed treaties of peace would be
| as superfuous and unnecessary as it is
technically ineffective, and / know in
| my own heart there is none who would
/
| 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, / shall in
vite in the most practical way the ad-
vice of the senate, after acquainting it
with all the conditions to be met 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 establishment of peace
| and its contracted relationships, to the
realization Of our inspirations for nations