THURSDAY. IHXEMI.LIl 9. 1.m.1.
PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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Naticna, Preparedness Main
Theme of Head cf Nation.
Submits Definite Plan to In
crease Present Standing Perce
of Regulars ar.d For Four Hun
dred Thousand Citizen Soldiers
Raised In Increments cf One
Hundred and Thirty-three
Thousand.
OLLOWINt; i the message of
Pre.-i lent U il i-pu delivered at a
joint session of tin.1 senate and
hi. at tin- beginning or tlit;
fc'it V-fn".jrt h COUgTeSS:
Gent iel!:' t.f the t'omrrc:: Since I
last hud the privilege of a.Idrcsstu
vea on Hit; state of the Union t he war
if nations t:i the other side of the m'U.
whi -h had then icily be::an t disclose
its ;.rteu!ous pr .pori i. .as. 1.;-; extend
td its threatening and sinister scope
tint il it has swept within i.s f'auie
S"l.;e portion of oory quarter of the
globe. iMt tt ; 'tiii,: our own hemi
l h. re. bas altered the wh...c face of
international affairs, and now .resent
a j r-s;. i-ct i.f rt organization aid re
construction such as smic-ni'n and
Ic pics huo never U-eii called upon
to attempt before.
The president telis how this country
i : a- tice-d neutrality unl declares that
he h ;cs tn.tt vv hen the time e"iaes
for readjustment and recuperatl :i this
Country v. ill he if infinite service. Ke
ferrinu t.j Central and South At-s-ri--:i:i
jirol.i.-tiis. the president declares that
V'u should retain unabated the spirit
wl.i h has inspired us throughout the
whole life of oar government tad
wl.Uh was s.f frankly put into words
by president Monroe.
We have been pt:t to tlie test in the
case cf Mexi'-o, and we have stood the
test. Whether we have benefited Mex
ico l"y tlie course we have j-ursned re
aralns to he scon. Her furtt.U's are hi
tier .wu hands. Put: we have at lea.-::
proved thrit v.e wil! n-t take advan
tage of her in her distress and undertake-
to impose u;..:i her an order nnd
got ernmt i t of c-r.r own choosimr. I.pt
erry is o':t:i a fjo.'-o and li.:ra!.; Me
tldtii. to which no !';;;. is e::n le set
end t- which ijo '."utn".s of a few
laen's ei.Mii;:ir onirlit t- i r to ! e set.
liery Aiiu in an who has urnnU a;
the true fui::;t:.i:;s :.' p;i:i- iple and tra
ditiou uiust Mi!'cii'.-e without r'sirva-
tn
to the
.i-h tl.-ctr!:ie
the Vir
ginia till of riuht-. which in the .ureal
days in wi.ich oi.r .ivt-rnutiit was M.-t
up ws everywhere a:aoi. us acept
ed as the tried of free men. That doc
trine is. "Th:it -overnuiei.t is or ou'ht
to he instituted for the co:li in h, ne
Ct. protecihia and secuiiry of the j't o
jIe, ii.ition or cof.inunity;" tlct "cf
lili the various n.'oclts and f-Tins of
p. er:;i..eni.. that is the hest whi'-h is
cnpal le of produeit.c the preate.-t
tfree of hnpl'iness and safety a: 1 is
ijost tCe ; u. illy m eure.l ituainst the
thinner of malad::::nijiratioa, :;:i 1 that
v.'hea any overiiient shad 1 e found
inadeq-jate or contrary to the.-e pur
pvses u i::::.i"riry of the coirn.iunity
hath cu induhitahle. indieiia'oie and
in.lefeasil.1e riht io reform, liiter or
a polish it in such manner as shah lit;
jn-d-'.-d most conducive to the puhdc
weal." We have unhesitatingly '..
plied that heroic principle t: the case
t.f Mexi-o and now hopefn'.iy .-.v.ait
the rehirth of the troubled repuhlie.
which had ko much tf which to pnru-e
itself nnd so little sympathy from any
outside quarter in the radical hut re--esary
pro'-ess. We will aid and l e
friend Mexico, hat we will not coerce
her. and our course with regard :; her
uti-'ht t lc suilicient pr t to all Amer
ica that we seek no political suzerainty
er selfish control.
PAN-AMERICANISM HA3
NONE OF EMPIRE'S SPIRIT.
Economic Adjustments Inevitable With
in the Next Generation.
The moral is that the states of Amer
ica are not hostile rivals, but co-oi-irating
friends, a. id that, their grow
ing sense of community of interest, 1
alike in matters ioh;i al and in mat
teis economic, is hio H- to gKe them a
new siunih'-ance as factors in interna
tional affairs and in the political his
lory of the world. It presents them in
in a very deep and true sense a im't
in world affairs, spiritual partners,
stitndiog together because thinking tt
;:.!! her. qui', k with common sympathies
and common ideals. Separated, they
are subject to :;!! the cross currents of
the contused politics of a world of I103
F ie rivalries: united in spirit and pur
p .-e. th'-y cannot be disappointed of
tin ir peaceful destiny.
Tiiis 1 pan-Americanism. It has none
of the spirit of empire in it. It Is the
embodiment, the 1 ffectual embodiment.
;f th spirit of law r-t'd Independence
:ind lioerty 11 ml mutual st rvice.
The president calls attention to thr
:u:vlrig in Washington recently of
: 1 j.' . . entntives of the pan-American
: . . nlics and says that economic ad
; is n.et.t Is Inevitable in the next geu-
lio -. r who really comprehends the
"..t tl.:; great pttnle for whom we
- : r roo med to siteak can fail to per
. ' . iL.-t thrir passion is for pen?c.
r l:t displayed in the prac-
e .-. .i r- aris c? per-ee. OrTt iVmoe-
fire isnt bo'.5!gC rent. Thv do not j
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S LATEST
PICTURE.
(From snapshot taken on Nov. 26.)
of individual lilftty and of the free
hii.or that supports life and the un
censored thoii-ht that quickens it
t'on.iuest and dominion are not in our
re.. k niu it nreeaMe to our priiu-i
ph-s. I'.ut just heeause wo demand un
molested development and the undis
turiied s-'vernment tif our own lives
upon our own principles of rittht and
li'.erty, we resent, from whatever
quarter it tuay come, the aggression we
ourselves will not practice. We insist
upon security in prosecuting our pelf
chosen lines of national development.
We th more than that. We demand it
also for others. We do not conhue our
enthusiasm for individual lilterty anil
free national development to the inci
d ::Ts and movements of affairs which
affect only ourselves. We feel it wher
ever there is a people that tries to walk
in these difficult pat lis of independence
and richt. Trom the first we liave
made emmon cause with all partisans
of illN'rt;- on this side the Pea and have
deemed it as important that our neigh
Urs should le free from all outside
domination as that we ourselves should
he; have s-ct America aside as a whole
for the us"s of lndeiendent nations and
political freemen.
Out of such thoughts grow all our
1' licit s. We regard war merely as a
means of asserting the rights of a pe-
ie aua;i:.-t aggression. And we are
:.s herireiy Jcnk.us of coercive or dicta
torial p v. t r within our own nation
; s of ncgus-ion from without. We
will not maintain a standing army ex
ec; t for uses which are as necessary
in times of ieaee as in times of war.
SUGGESTS BROAD PLAN
FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE.
Increase Standing Ren ular Force Four
Hundred Thousand Cil:zen Soldiers.
I'.ut war has iiever be a a mere mat
ter of men and guns. It is a thing
tf disciplined might. If our citizens
are ever to tight effectively upon a
sullen summons, they must know
how modern bunting is done, and what
to do v. hen the summons comes to
tender themselves immediately avail
able and immediately effective. And
the government must be their servant
in this matter, must supply them with
the training they need to take care of
themselves and of it The military
arm of their government, which they
will not allow to direct them, they may
properly use to serve them and make
their indei'citdence secure, and not
their own independence merely, but
the lights also of those with whom
lli- y have made common cause, should
they al.-o be put in jeopardy. They
must be fitted to play the great role
in the world. aDd particularly in this
hemisphere, for which they are quali
fied by principle and by chastened am
biti'iu to play.
It is with these ideals in mind that
the plans of the department of war for
more adequate national defense were
conceived whr h will be laid before
you. and which I urge you to sanction
and put into effect as soon as they can
te properly scrutinized and discussed
They seem to me the essential first
steps, and they seem to me for the
present sufficient.
They contemplate an increase of the
standing force of the regular army
from its present strength of r,023 olli
cers and 10'MS5 enlisted men of all
services to a strength of T.lT.iJ officers
and I" I.70" enlisted men. or 1-U,S1.'5
all told, all services, rank and file, by
the addition of fifty-two companies of
coast artillery, fifteen companies of en
gineers, ten regiments of infantry, four
regimelits of field artillery and four
nero squadrons, besides 7.V) officers re
quired for a great variety of extra
service, especially the all important
duty of training the citizen force of
wlii' li I shall presently speak. 71)2 non
commissioned officers for service in
drill, recruiting and the like and the
necessary quota of enlisted men for
the .pirrtermas-ter corps, the hospital
corps, tbo ordnance department and
other similar auxiliary services. These
MESSAGE
Declares That if Full Navy Pro
gram Is Carried Out We Will
Have a Fleet For Defense That
Will Be "Fitted to Our Needs
and Worthy of Our Traditions."
Greatest Danger to Country
Comes From Within Our Bor
ders. are the additions necessary to render
the army adequate for its present du
ties, duties which it has to perform
not only upon our own continental
coasts and borders and at our interior
army posts, but also in the I'hihppines.
In the riawaiian Islands, at the isth
mus and in Porto Kico.
ry way of making the country ready
to assert some part of its real power
promptly and upon a larger scale
bhould occasion arise the plan ulsJ
contemplates supplementing the army
by a force of 4oX,OX) disciplined citi
zens, raised in increments of KUhOOO a
year throughout a period of three
years. This it is proposed to do by a
process of enlistment under which the
serviceable men of the country would
l.e asked to bind themselves to serve
with the colors for purposes of train
ing for short periods throughout three
years and to come to the colors at cull
at any time throughout an additional
"furlough" period of three years. This
force of 4U0.0UO men would be pro
vided with xersoual accouterments as
fast as enlisted and their equipment
for the field made ready to be supplied
at r.ny time. They would be assem
bled for training at stated intervals at
convenient places in association with
suitable units of the regular army.
Their r-erlod of annual training would
not necessarily exceed two months in
i the year.
The president says it is up to the
patriotic young men of the country to
respond to this call.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
FOR GREATER NAVY.
Always Looked to It as Our First and
Chief Line of Defense.
The program which will le laid le
fore tou by the secretary of the navy
j is similarly conceived. It Involves only
j a shortening of the time within which
plans long matured eha'.l le carneu
out, but it des make definite and ex
plicit a program which lias heretofore
been only Implicit, held in the minds of
the committees on naval afTatrs and
disclosed in the debates of the two
houses, but nowhere formulated or for
mally adopted. It seems to me very
clear that it will lie to the advantage
of the country for the congress to adopt
a comprehensive plan for putting the
navy upon a final footing of strength
and efficiency and to press that plan
to completion within the next five
years. We have always looked to the
naw of the country as our first and j
chief line of defense; we have always
eeen it to Ite our manifest course of
prudence to be strong on the seas.
Year by year we have been creating a
navy which now ranks very high in
deed among the navies of the maritimt
nations. We should now definitely de
tennine how we shall complete what
we have begun and how soon.
The program to be laid before yoe
contemplates the construction within
five years of ten battleships, six battle
cruisers, ten 6cout cruisers, fifty de
stroyers, fifteen fleet submarines,
eighty-five coast submarines, four gun
boats, one hospital ship, two ammuni
tlon ships, two fuel oil ships and one
repair ship. It is proposed that of this
number we shall the first year provide
for the construction of two battleships,
two battle cruisers, three scout cruisers,
fifteen destroyers, five fleet submarines,
twenty -five coast submarines, two gun
loats and one hospital ship; the second
year two battleship, one scout cruiser,
ten destroyers, four fleet submarines,
fifteen coast submarines, one guuloat
and one fuel oil ship; the third year
two battleships, one battle cruiser, two
scout cruisers, five destroyers, two fleet
submarines and fifteen coast subma
rines; the fourth year two battleships,
two battle cruisers, two scout cruisers,
ten destroyers, two fleet submarines,
fifteen coast submarines, one ammuni
tion ship and one fuel oil ship, and
the fifth year two battleships, one bat
tie cruiser, two scout cruisers, ten de
stroyers, two fleet submarines, fifteen
coast submarines, one gunboat, one am
munition ship and one repair ship.
The secretary of the navy is asking
also for the immediate addition to the
personnel of the navy of 7,r.00 sailors.
2.500 apprentice seamen and l.WK) ma
rines. Tills increase would be sufll
cient to care for the ships which are
to be completed within the fiscal year
11)17 and also for the number of men
which must lx put in training to man
the ships which will be completed
early in 101S. It is also necessary that
the number of midshipmen at the Na
val academy at Annapolis should be
increased by at least 300 in order that
the force of officers should le more
rapidly added to, and authority is ask
ed to appoint, for engineering duties
only, approved graduates of engineer
ing colleges, and for service in the avi
ation corps a certain number of men
taken from civil life.
If this full program should be carried
ret wo should have built or building in
1021, according to the estimates of sur
vived and standards of classification
followed by the general board of the
department, an eflective navy consist
ing of 27 battleships of the first line. 0
battle cruisers, 25 battleships of the
S'jcoud line, 10 armored cruisers. 13
scout cruisers, first class cruisers. 3
second class cruisers, 10 third class
cruisers, loS destroyers, IS fieet sub
marines, lo7 coast submarines, G mon
itors, 20 prmhoats, 4 supply ships. 13
fuel ships, 4 transports, 3 tenders to
torpedo vessels, S vessels of special
types and two ammunition ships. This
would te a navy fitted to our needs
and worthy of our traditions.
Hut armies and instruments of war
are only part of what has to be c :e
sidered if we are to consider the su
preme matter of national self suliieieu
cy and security in all its aspects.
There are other great matters whi -h
will be thrust upon our attention
whether we will or not. There is. l.r
example, a very pressing iuestion of
trade and shipping involved in tl is
great problem of national adequacy,
it is necessary for many weighty rt.i
sons of national efficiency and devel
opment that we should have a great
merchant murine. The great mer hant
fleet we once used to make us ri !:,
that great body of sturdy sailors v 'iu
used to carry 0.11 r flag into every s a.
and who were the pride and often the
bulwark of the nation, we have nine -s;
driven out of existence by inexeus.-.V-le
neglect and indifference and by a hope
lessly blind and provincial policy of
so called economic protection. Jt is
hiirh time we repaired our mistaLe and
resumed our commercial independence
on the seas.
With a view to meetinr those press
ing necessities of our commerce and
availing ourselves at the earliest possi
ble moment of the present unparn!!. led
opportunity of linking the two Ameri
cas together in bonds of mutual inter
est and service, un opportunity which
may never return attain if we miss i;
now, proposals will be made to the
present congress for the purchase or
construction of ships to be owned r. nd
directed by the government similar to
those made to the last congress, 1 u;
modified in some essential particulars
1 recommend these proposals to ou
for your prompt acceptance with the!
more confidence because every month
that lias elapsed since the former pro
posais were made has male the re
cessity for such action more and more
manifestly imperative. That need v. a
then foreseen. It is now acutely f .!;
and everywhere realized by those tot
whom trade is waiting, but who can
find no conveyance for their goo is. J
am not so much interested in the par
tleulars of the program as I am in
taking immediate advantage of the
great opportunity which awaits us if
we will but act in this emergency. I:
this matter, as in all others, a spirit of
common counsel should prevail, ant'
out of it should come an early so.u
tion of this pressing problem.
SHOULD AGREE ON POLICY
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Recommends Early Adoption of treas
ures Giving Them Fuller Justice.
The president recommends the eaily
adoption of bills for the alteration t::id
reform of the government of the Phil
ippines and for rendering fuller p.dit
ical Justi'-e to the people of Porto Pico,
which were submitted to the Sixty
third congress. The president reft is
to the increased cost of carrying out
the plans for the armed forces of t lu
nation and tells of the fiscal problems
confronting the government.
On the 30th of June last there was
an available balance in the general
fund of the treasury of $104.170.icr.7s
The total estimated receipts for the
year 1D1G, on the assumption that the
emergency revenue measure passed by
the last congress will not be extended
beyond Its present limit, the 31st of
Ieeember, lOlo, and that the present
duty of 1 cent per iound en sugar will
le discontinued utter the 1st of May.
UtlG. w 111 be $;70,3r,rR0. The balance
of June last and these estimated rev
enues come therefore to a grand total
f f774.KJTi.GOrf.7S. The total estimated
disbursements for the present fiscal
year, including twenty-five million for
the Panama canal, twelve millions for
probable deficiency appropriations and
toO.OuO for miscellaneous debt rodomj
tions, will be J?7KJ.K:H,0tM. and the bul
ance in the general fund of the treas
ury will be reduced to 20.04 i.OOTt.7
The emergency revenue net if contin
ued beyond its present time limitation
would produce during the half year
then remaining about forty-one mil
lions. The duty of 1 cent per pound
on sugar if continued would produce
during the two months of the fiscal
year remaining after the 1st t.f May
about fifteen millions. These two sums,
amounting together to fifty-six mil
lions, if added to the revenues tf the
.second half of the fiscal year would
yield the treasury at the end of the
year an available balance of '7'J.G:i
(0.".7S.
The additional revenues rerjuircd to
carry out the program of military and
naval preparation of which I have
spoken would, sis nt present estimated
be for the fiscal year PH7 ?!::.soo.Os0
Those figures, taken with the figures
for the present fiscal year which I
have nlrcfdy given, disclose our finan
cial problem for the year 1017. As
sumh'g that the taxes i:ipostd by the
emergency revenue net and the ores 1
ent dutv on sugar are t lw diseontin j
tied and that the balance at the c!os.- J
of tlit. i.reset.t fiscal vc::r tvi'l 1. ni;
S20.GM.qn..7S. that the disbursement
for the Panama canal vi!i again bt
about f2Tt.fffto.oao rnd that the ad. II
tlonal expenditures for the tirmv and
navy are authorized by th ctngr-s
the deficit In the general fund of tie
treasury on the ."Ofh of .Tutio. TTM7
will be nearly 2Ttr..XK OOO. To ih.s
sum at Ieir PoO.ecrt.ooo sh-rjlrl be mid
ed to repi Mr:t a stfo working Iftlanee
for the trpasnry and f 12.00: .0t.rl to in J
elude the usual deficiency estimates in
1017, and these additions wouid make
a total deficit of some S207, 100,000. If
the present taxes should be continued
throughout this year and the next,
however, there wouid be a balance in
the treasury of s.me
...). .o;
the end of the present fiscal year and
' a deficit ::t the end of the next jcur of
; only some $u0,0iX.l0o. or, reckoning in
I u"2, iCO.ijt .0 for deficiency appropria
tions and a safe treasury balance at
j the end of the year, a total deh It of
! some $1 12.i.o;.kjo. The obvious moral
! uf the fiirurts is that it is a plain coun
i stl of prudence to continue all of the
. present taxes or their etjuivalents ai. 1
confine ourselves to the proMei 1 of
providing S 1 1 2.000 . to of new revenue
. rather than S-"2h7ii)O.Ooo.
How shall we obtain the new rev
enue? We are frequentlj reminded
that there are many millions of bonds
which the treasury is auth"rir.cd under
existing law to sell to reimburse the
sums j aid out of current revenues for
the construction of the Panama canal,
and it is true that bonds for the
amount of 222.-b':2." ') are now ava'l
ab!e for that purpose. Prior to i:;i3
.S13 iiO.Ooo of these bonds had ac
tually been sold to recoup I he txpt-ndi
tures at the isthmus, nud now e.n
stituie a considerable item of the pub
lie debt. Put I for one do not believe
that the people of this country approve
of postponing the payment of their
bills. I'.orrowing money i.4 short si-.:ht
ed finance, it can be justified on!;,
when permanent things are to be in
cornpiished which many generations
will certainly ' enefit by ami v. hi-h It
seems hardly fair that a single genera
tion should pay for. The object we
are now proposing to spend momy foi
cannot be so classified, except in the
sense that everything wisely done iimj
be said to be tb-ne in the interest of
posterity as well as in our own. It
seems to me a clear dictate of pro
dent staiesmanship and frank tinancf.
that in what v.e are now, I hope, about
to undertake we should pay as we ;
The people of the country are en::ll"!
to know just what burdens r.f taxation
i tl.ey are to carry : :n -.1 to know fr- !.i the
U!:".(
The new bills should be
paid by internal taxation.
NATION'S SECRET FOES
SHOULD DE CRUSHED.
Gravest Danger to Country Comes
From Within Our Own Borders.
The president says that the precise
reckonings of the problem to be met
are set forth in the report of the seere
tnry of the treasury.
I have spoken to you today, gentlo
men. upon a single theme, the thor
ough preparation of the nation to cart
for its own security and to make sure
of entire freedom to play the in. par
tkd roi? in this hemisphere and in thc
world which v.e all believe to have
been providentially assigned t iu I
have had in my mind no thought of
any immediate or particular dange;
arising cut of our relations with other
nations. We are at peace witli all tie
nations t f the world, and there is rea
sou to hope that no question in con
troversy between this and other gov
ernrnents will lead to any serious
breach of amicable relations, grave a
some differences of attitude and policy
have been and may yet turn out to be
I am surry to say that the gravest
threats against our national peace and
saftty hf.vc been uttered within out
own lwirders. There are citizens of Un
united States. I blush to admit. Iforn
under other flags, but welcomed under
our generous naturalization laws to th?
full freedom and opportunity of Amer
ica, who have puured the iioison of dis
loyalty into the very arteries of our
national life, who have sought to bring
the authority and good name t.f our
government into contempt, to destroy
our Industries wherever they thought
it efiective for their vindictive pur
poses to strike at them and to debase
our politics to the uses of foreign iu
trigue. Their number is not great as
compared with the whole number of
those sturdy hosts by which our na
tion has been enriched in recent gen
orations out of virile foreign stocks,
but it is great enough to have brought
deep disgrace upon us and to have
made it necessary that we should
promptly make use of processes of law
by which we may be purged of theii
corrupt distemiers.
America never witnessed anything
like this before. It never dreamed it
possible that men sworn into its own
citizenship, men drawn out of great
free stocks such as supplied some cf
the best and strongest elements of tlnif
little, but how heroic, nation that in a
high day of old staked its very life to
free itself from every entanglement
that had darkened the fortunes of the
older nations and set up a new stand
ard here that men of such origins and
such free choices of allegiance would
ever turn in malign reaction against
the poverainci.it nnd people who bad
welcomed and nurtured them and seek
to make this proud country once more
a hotbed of European passion. A lit
tle wdiile ago such a thing would have
seemed incredible. Pecause it was in
credible we made no preparation for
it. We would have been almost
ashamed to prepare for ft. as if we
were suspicious of onrselves. our own
comrades and neighbors! lint the ugly
amt i"creainie mmg uas nciuuny come
about, nnd we are without adequate
federal laws to deal with it. I urge
you to enact such laws at the earliest
possible moment and feel that in doing
so I am urging you to do notiiing less
than save the h nor nnd self respect
of the nation. Such creatures of pas
sion, disloyalty rnd anarchy must bo
crushed out. They are not many, but
thr-y are infinitely malignant, and the
hand of our power should close ovnt
them at once. They have formed r' 'fs
to destroy property, they have entered
Into conspiracies against the neutrality
of tho government, they have sought
to pry into every confidential trans
action of the government in order to
serve Interests alien to our own. It is
possible to deal with these things very
effectually. I need not suggest the
terms in which they may be dealt with.
I wish that it could be said that otdy
a few men, misled by mistaken senti
ments of allegiance to the governments
under which they were born, had been
guilty of disturbing the self possession
and misrepresenting the temper and
principles of the country during these
days of terrible war. when it would
s em that every man who was truly an
American would instinctively make it
his duty and his pride to keep the
s ales of Judgment even anil prove him
S' lf a partisan of no nation but his
o.vii. I'.ut it cannot. There are some
men among us and many resident
abroad who, though born and bred in
the United States and calling them
selves Americans, have so forgot teu
themselves and their honor as citizens
as to put their passionate sympathy
with one or the other side iu the great
Uuropean conflict alove their regard
for tht! pence and dignity of the United
States. They also preach and practice
disloyalty. No laws. I suppose, can
reach corruptions of the mind and
heart, but I bhould not speak of others
without alstf speaking of these and ex
pressing the even deeper humiliation
and scorn which every self passes-sod
and thoughtfully patriotic American
must feel when he thinks of them and
of the discredit tht y are daily bringing
upon us.
What Is more Important is that the
industries und resources of the country
should be available and ready lor
mobilization. It i.s the more impera
tively necessary, therefore, that we
shouid promptly devise means for do
ing what we have not jet done that
we should give intelligent lederal aid
arid stimulation to industrial and voca
tional education, as we have long done
in the large field of our agricultural
industry; that at the same time that
v.e safeguard and conserve the natural
resources cf the country we should
put them at the disposal of those who
will use them promptly and intel.i
gently. as was sought to be done in
the admirable bids submitted to the
last congress from its committees on
the public lands, bills which I earnest
ly recommend in principle to your con
sideration; that we should put into
early operation some provision for
rural credits which will add to the ex
tensive borrowing facilities already
afforded the farmer by the reserve
bank act adequate instrumentalities
by which long credits may be obtained
on land mortgages and that we should
study ni"re carefully than they have
hitherto been studied the right adapta
tion of our economic arrangements to
changing conditions.
Many conditions about which we
have repeatedly legislated are beirs
altered from decade to decade, it is
evident, under our very eyes and are
likeiy to change even more rapidly
and more radically in the days imme
diately ahead of r.s when peace has
returned to the world and the nations
of Europe once more take up their
tasks of commerce and industry with
the energy of those who must bestir
themselves to build anew.
REGULATIONS TO MEET
RAILROAD PROBLEM.
Needed to Make Lines More Useful
Servants of Country.
In the meantime may I make this
suggestion? The transportation prob
lem is an exceedingly serious and
pressing one in thbj country. There
has from time to time of late been rea
son to fear that our railroads would
not much longer be able to cope with
it successfully, as at present equipped
and co-ordinated. I suggest that it
would be wise to provide for a com
mission of inquiry to ascertain by a
thorough canvass of the whole ques
tion, whether our laws, as at present
framed and administered are as serv
iceable as they might be in the solu
tion of the problem. It is obviously
a problem that lies at the very foun
dation of our efficiency as a people.
Such an inquiry ought to draw cut
every circumstance and opinion worth
considering, and we need to know
all sides of the matter if we mean tt:
do anything in the field of federal leg
islation. No one, I am sure, would wish to
take any backward step. The regula
tion of the railways of the country by
federal commission has had admirable
results and has fully Justified the
hopes and expectations tif those by
whom the policy of regulation was;
originally proposed. The question 1;;
not. What should we undo? It is
whether there is anything else we can
do that would supply us with effective
means, in the very process of regu
1st km, for bettering the conditions un
der which the railroads are operated
and for making them more useful serv
ants of the country as a whole. It
seems to me that it might lie the pflfl
of wisdom, therefore, before further
legislation in this field is attempted,
to look at the whole irobleni of co-ordination
and efficiency in the full light
of a fresh assessment of circumstance
and opinion, as a guide to dealing with
the several parts of it.
For what we are seeking now. what
In my mind Is the single thought of
this message, is national efficiency and
security. We serve a great nation.
We rhould serve it in the spirit of its
peruliar genius. It is the genius of
common men for self government, in
dustry, justice, liberty and peace. Wc
should see to it that It lacks no in
strument, no facility or vigor of law,
to make it sufficient to play its part
with energy, safety and assured suc
cess. In this we are no partisans but
heralds and prophets of a re v t ge.
Local News
From Tuesday's In!l.
Lufe Scott of Pacific Junction was
in the city today for a short time look
ing after his business interests.
F. J. Ilcnnings and wife wen in the
city this morning, motorinr iu to loot,
after some matters of bu..-inc;s with
the merchants.
J. II. Last he, the road overset r of
Eight Mile drove, was in the city to
day looking after some matters wi:h
the county commissioners;.
County Commissioners C. I'.. Hti
ner of Nehawka, and Henry Snoi-.i f
Lagie were here today attcndir.- t.
meeting of the county board.
Julius Pcppcrberg came clown '1 , ;
mo: ring from his home at Lincolt
vi.il with old fiienda and look afi r
the interests of his cigar busine.
('. II. Vall:ry came in thi moi :;: g
from his farm home southwest o' t i .
city and spent a few hours here It
ing after .some trading with the r -charts.
Mrs-. William Prep.-t was an.
tiio. c- going to Omaha this nfiej o
where she will visit for the day o :
friends and look after some matt. : f
husines; .
James Hoover of I.oui.-ville
amt rig the vi-itoi from out -county
in the city today for
hours, cornii;r down on No. -I ! .
morning.
I- red Ciaik, the Union ; oa 1 .. -seer,
was in the city today for a . I f
time attend n-r the meet ing of '"
board of county cimmis-ioner :i 1
talking over the road que -.tion v i i
them.
Carl Pa p a and w,fo of Union .
Oklahoma, who huvi been lit re . pc -ing
a few days wi'h ie!;;tii '.
friend.-, tienaj Led this :.!'; ; : o..;i
Omaha, fron where tiny v. ill :. :
over the Ke:-k I.-Ia:iJ to their home.
-Mrs. K. O. Pitman mid .Mr-. A. I.
Schafer cf Murray were in tic- me
tropolis yesterday for the day. n tir-.-ing
to this city on No. 2, where they
ve-e met by Mr. Pitman :. d M-.
Schafer and taken ly au'.o to their
homes.
Mrs. Jo? Wales arid Mrs. Cyril
Kulina. who have been here visiting
with telatives ar.d friends for tl..- p.e.t
few days, departed this mon.i: g f- r
Crete, where they will make tluir
heme for the- present, whir-.' Mr.
Wale? and Mr. Kalir.a are locate- i with
their roller skating rink.
Frcm Wednesdav's rally.
R. E. Fester of Union moU-ied to
this city last evening and attend.-!
"Henpecked Henry" at the Parmtie
theater.
James Miller, the Nt-haui.j con
tractor, wt.s in the city la t t ven!' :
art! today Iookii g after .some r.atti-rs
at the cou,-t hou-e.
S. C. Doyies of .Vivo a h ;i today
for a short time looking aft;-- son
matters at the court house aid culling
on his many friend.--.
Henry !lir:c drove in thi.. nc-vr;-
fcom his farm home to fpend a few
hours looking after some matters if
business with the inert hunts.
II. C. Creamer of Mm ray wn- in the
city yesterday and la t cver.mr at
tending tre- niet ting of the coun'y
commissioners and vi. iting w ith h. .
friends.
S. O. Pitman drove up thi. mo:--irg
from hi. home nt Mutray !
departed on the early Ilm lit.gton ti; on
for On. aha, where he .spent a ft v
hours.
Mrs. F. S. White anive.l hi f t -ning
from her home at I.i:.. "in a !
will vi.-it lice for a time at tl In .
of Mrs. II. K. Livingston and fan
ar.d with her many fiicn i. in the 1
home.
W illiam Kiec and wife and da' -ter,
Mi.-j Iksthcr, of near Mm v,
were here today for a f t w hou"
ing after some trading ati.l vi. i
with frier ds.
William Coolcdge and wife f
Ilo.saile. Neb., were here today to . t
tentl the funeral of Mrs. iM.lt,-.
mother, Mrs. Wa. hintgon SiniLh,
turning home this afternoon.
Len Ikiknian came up thi.. ai. '
noon from his farm home and dvp.i t
ed on the F.urlington for Oin:.' a,
where he will vi.-it his daughter : .d
family for a short time iu that it y.
Mrs. W. II. Miller of Lo., Ange!
California, arrived thi.: rnoi ning on
No. 4 am; will enjoy a vi.-it. here w, h
her old friends. She is a gue t at t ie
home of Mr. and Mis. T. M. Patt r
son while in this city.
George A. KaiTenherger and daugh
ter, Miss Golda, were among tho.-o
going to Omaha this morning, v, hi re.
they will visiit at the Immanuel hos
pital with their daughter it d si.-n r.
Mrs. Kaffenberger lias been staying t.t
Omaha since the operation upon Ml.-s
Gladys.
Mr. and Mrs. William Kt . y tiro-, e
from their farm home, this side of
Manley, to this city this morning to
attend to some business matteis.
While here Mr. Kelly called at this
of Fee and renewed the rub.-cr. prion tf
the paper poinjr to his. fV.her, Jehu
Kelly, at Mauley.
