Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 3, 1913, Page 10

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES FAVORED :- President Wilson Urges Légillation Providing For Direct Nomination of Candidates For Presidency—Philippines Not Ready For Independence, He Declares in His Mes- sage, But Their Development Should Be Along Lines to Fit Them For Self-Government—Currency Bill to Prove a Benefit to the Farmers—Not Likely to Have Occasion to Alter Our Mexican Policy of Awaiting Huerta’s Down- fall—Would Have Sherman Law Clarified. Washington, D. C.—In his message, delivered at a joint session of the houses of congress at the beginning of the second session of the Sixty-third congress, President Wilson urged im- mediate cusrency legisation, deveted considerable space to the meeds of the farmers and referved to the Mexican crisis. The Sherman anti‘trust law, be said. should be changed so that its exact meaning would be vlearer. The president alse urged the choice of presidential mominees by the direct | PRIMARY NOMINATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENCY, 1 wrge the prompt enactment of lagistation which will provide for primary elections through- out the coumtry at which the voters of the several parties may chovse their momimess for the without the interven- tion of momimating conventions. 1 venture the suggestion that this legistation should provide for the retention of party conventions, but only for the purpose of de- clarimg and accepting the ver- dict of the primaries and formu- fating the platforms of the par- ties, and | suggest that these conventions should consist not of delegates chosea for this sin- gle purpose, but of the nominees for congress, the meminees for vacant sexts in the senate of the United States, the senators ‘whose terms haws not yet closed, ‘the national committees and the candidates for the presidency themselves, in order that plat- forms may be framed by thoss responsible to the people for car- rying them into effect. wote of the pecple expressed at pri- maries. The message in full is as fol- | lows: Genilemen of the Congress—In pur- suance of my constitutional duty to *zive tc the congress information of the state of the Union™ 1 take the 1ib- erty of addressing you on several mat- ters which ought, as il seemns to me, particalariy 1o enzage the attention of your honorabie body. as of ail who study the welfare and progress of the mation. 1 shall ask your indulgence if T ven- ture to depart in some degree from the usual custom of setting before you in formal review the many matiers which have engaged the attention and cailed | for the action of the several depart- ments of the government or which look to them for early treatment in the foture. because the list is long, very long, and would suffer in the ab- | breviation to which I should bave to subject ift. I shaill submit to you the reports of the heads of several depart- ments in which these subjects are set Yorth in carefn! details and beg that they may receive the thoughtful atten tion of your committees and of all members of the congress who may have the Jeisure to study them. Their obvious importance, as constituting the very substance of the business of the government, makes comment and em- phasis on my part unnecessary. WANTS TREATIES RATIFIED. Asserts That United States Leads In Peace Negotiations. The country, I am thankful to say, is at peace with all the world, and many happy manifestations multiply about us , of a growing cordiality and sense of | community of interest among the na- tions, foreshadowing an age of settled peace and good will. More and more readily each decade do the nations manifest their willingness to bind them- | selves by solemn treaty to the proc- esses of peace, the processes of frank- | ness and fair concession. So far the TUnited States has stood at the front of such negotiations. She will, I earnest- ly hope and confidently believe, give | fresh proof of her sincere adherence to the cause of internatfonal friendship by ratifying the several treaties of ar- bitration awaiting renewal by the sen- ate. In addition to these it has been the privilege of the department of state to “gain the assent, in prineiple, of no less thua thirty-one nations, representing four-fifths of the population of the pworld, to the negotiation of treaties by which it shall be agreed that whenever differences of Interest or of policy arise wwhich eannot be resolved by the ordi- nary processes of diplomacy they shall be pubHely analyzed, discussed and re- ported upon by a tribunal chosen by the parties before either nation deter- mines its course of action, There is only one possible standard by which to determine controversies between the United States and other mations, and that Is compounded of these two elements—our own honor and our obligations to the peace of the world. A test so compounded ought ensily to be made to govern both the establishment of new treaty obliga- tions and the interpretation of those already assumed. HUERTA MUST GO. Predicts Downfall of “Usurper” Who “Cast Aeide Even Pretense of Legal Right and Declared Himself Dicta- tor,” There {8 but one cloud upon our hori- zon. That has shown itwelf to the south of us and hangs over Mexico, [There can ‘be no certain prospect of | bas surrendered his usurped authority in Mexico. Until it is understood on all hands, indeed, such pretended gov- ernments will not be countenanced or dealt with by the government of the United States. We are the friends of constitutional government in Ameriea. We are more than its friends; we are its champions, because in no other way can our neighbers te whom we would wish in every way to make | proof of our friendship work out their | ewn development in peace and liberty. Mexico has no government. The at- | tempt te maintain one at the City of Mexico has broken down, and a mere, military despotism has been set up which has hardly more than the sem- blance of national anthority. It origi- | nated in the usurpation of Vietoriano | Huerta, whe, after a brief attempt to | play the part of constitutional presi- { dent. has at last cast aside even the | pretense of legal right and declared | himself dictator. As a consequence a | condition of affairs now exists in Mex- | ico which has made it doubtful wheth- | er even the most elementary and fund- amental rights either of her own peo- | ple or of the citizens of other coun- | tries resident within ber territory can | long be sucecessfully safeguarded and i which threatens if long continued to | iimperil the interests of peace, order ; and tolerable life in the lands imme- | diately to the south of us. ! Even if the usurper had sueceeded in his purposes, in despite of the con '; of its people, he would have set up | | power which could have lasted but a | little while and whose eventual down- more deplorable condition than ever. But he has not succeeded. He has for- § feited the respect and the moral sup- | port even of those who were at one time willing to see him succeed. Little ed. By a little every day his power and prestige are crumbling, and the collapse is pot far away. We shall mot, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. And thea. when the end comes, we shall hope to see constitutional order restored in dis- tressed Mexico by the concert and en- ergy of such of her leaders as prefer ambitions. 1 VIEWS ON CURRENCY BILL. Urges Measure That Will Prove Bene- fit to Farmers—Hopes For Quick Ac- tion. : 1 turn to matters of domestic con- cern. You already have under consid- eration a bill for the reform of our system of banking and currency, for { which the country waits with impa- | tience, as for something fundamental to its whole business life and necessa- | ¥ to set credit free from arbitrary and artificial restraints. 1 need not | say how earnestly I hope for its early enactment into law. 1 take leave to beg that the whole energy and atten- tion of the senate be concentrated upon it till the matter is successfully disposed of. And yet I feel that the request is not needed—that the mem- bers of that great house need no urg- ing in this service to the country. I present to you in addition the ur- gent necessity that special provision [ be made also for facilitating the credits needed by the farmers of the country. The pending currency bill does the farmers a great service. It puts them upon an equal footing with other busi- | ness men and masters of enterprise, as | it should, and upon its passage they ; will find themselves quit of many of | the difficulties which now hamper them in the field of credit. course ask and should be given no spe- cial privilege, such as extending to 5 them the credit of the government | Itself. What they need and should ob- tain is legislation which will their own abundant and substantial credit resources available as a foun- | dation for joint, concerted, local ac- | tion in their own behalf in getting the capital they must use. It is to this we should now address ourselves. It has, singularly enough. come to pass that we have allowed the indus- try of our farms to lag behind the other activities of the country in its development. I need not stop %+ tell nation is the production of its food. Our thoughts may ordinarily be con- centrated upon the cities and the hives of industry. upon the cries of the crowded market place and the clangor of the factory, but it is from the quiet interspaces of the open valleys and the free hillsides that we draw the sources of life and of prosperity, from the farm and the ranch. from the forest and the mine. Without these every street would be silent, every office de- serted, every factory fallen into disre- | pair, And yet the farmer does not stand upon the same footing with the fores- ter and the miner in the market of credit. He Is the servant of the sea- sons, Nature determines how long he be hurried‘in her processes. He may glve his note, but the season of its maturity depends upen the season ‘when his erop matures and Ues at the gates of the market where his prod- uets are sold, And the seeurity he gives i8 of a character not known in the braker's office or. as familiarly as it might be on the eounter of the banker, The agricultural dmmnane of the government 'is seeking “to assist as | stitution of the republic and the rights | | nothing but a precarious and hateful | fall would have left the country in a | by littie he has been completely isolat- | °| the liberty of their people to their own | The farmers of | make ! | you how fundamental to the life of the | must wait for his crops and will not | & 2SR gether as real partners in fhis field. where we now begin to see our way very clearly and where many intelli- gent plans are alveady being put inte execution. The treasury of the United States has by a timely and well considered distribution of its deposits facRitated the moving of the erops in the present season and prevented the seareity of available fumnds teo eften experienced at sach times. But we must mot allow ourselves to depend upom extraordi- nary expedients. We must add the means by which the farmer may make his eredit constantly and eastly avail- able and eommand when he will the capital by which to support and ex- pand his business. We lag behind many other great countries of the mod- ern world in attempting to do this. Systems of rural credit have been studied and developed om the other side of the water while we left our farmers to shift for themselves in the ordinary money wmarket. You have but teo look about you in any rural dis- trict to see the result. the handicap and,embarrassment which have been put upon those whe produce our food. Conscious of this backwardness and negleft on our part, the congress re- cently authorized the creation of a | special commission to study the vari- ous systems of rural eredit which have been put inte operation in Europe. and this commission Is already prepared to report. Its report eught to make it easier for ng to determine what meth- ods will be best suited to our own farmers. I hope and believe that the committees of the senate and house will address themselves to this matter with the most fruitful results, and I believe that the studies and recently formed plans of the department of ag- URGES CURRENCY REFORM TO BENEFIT THE FARMER. President Wilson in his mes- sage urges the immediate pas- sage of currency legislation. He asserts that business interests of the nation are waiting on the ex- pected law before making large new investments or developing resources. The president also calls attention to conditions as exist at present, which make it very difficult for the farmer to finance his crop. He urges in his annual message pro- visions that will safeguard the farmer, help his credit and pre- vent a repetition of the neces- sity for the governmemnt to de- posit large sums of money in the southern and western states sa as to aid the producer, as was the case last fall. they | riculture may be made to serve them very greatly in tbeir work of framing | appropriate and adequate legislation. It would be indiscreet and presump- tuous in any one to dogmatize upon so great and many sided a question, but 1 feel confident that common counsel will produce the results we must all desire. UPHOLDS ANTI-TRUST LAW. Recommends That It Be Supplemented With More Explicit Legislation to Facilitate Its Administration. Turn from the farm to the world of business which centers in the city and in the factory, and I think that all thoughtful observers will agree that | the immediate service we owe the business communities of the country | is to prevemt private monopoly more | effectually than it has yet been pre- | vented. I think it will be easily agreed that we should let the Sherman anti- trust law stand, unaltered, as it is, with its debatable ground about it, but that we should as‘mtuch as possi- ble reduce the area of that debatable ground by further and more explicit | legislation, and should also supplement that great act by legislation which will not only clarify it but also faeili- | tate its administration and make it fairer to all concerned. No doubt we shall all wish, and the country will expect, this to be the cenlr:‘lI subject of our deliberations during the present session, but it is & subject so many sided and so deserv- ing of careful and discriminating dis- cussion that T shall take the liberty of addressing you upon it in a special message at a later date than this. It is of capital importance that the busi- ness men of this country should be re- lieved of all uncertainties of law with regard to their enterprises and invest- ments and a clear path indicated | which they can travel without anxiety. relieved of embarrassment and set free to prosper as that private monop- | oly should be desiroyed. The ways of action should be thrown wide open. FAVORS DIRECT ELECTIONS. Would Retain Conventions, Delegates to Be Nominees For Office, Whose Duty It Would Be to Frame Plat- forms. i I turn to a subject which I hope can be handled promptly and without seri- ous controversy of any kind. I mean the method of seiecting nominees for pret the wishes or the expectations of the country when I urge the prompt enactment of legislation which will provide for primary elections through- out the country at which the voters of nominees for the presidency without the intervention of nominating conven- tions. I venture the suggestion that this legislation shonld provide for the retention of party econventions, but only for the purpose of declaring and accepting the verdict of the primaries and formulating the platforms of the parties, and 1 suggest that these con- ventions should conslet not of dele gates chosen for this single purpose, but of the nominees for congress, the nominees for vacamt seats in the sen- ate of the United States, the senators whose terms have net yet.closed. the national committees and the eandi- dates . for the “presjdency. themselves, in order that fltflm ‘may-deframed It is as important that they should be | the presidency of the United Stafes. I | feel confident that I do not misinter- | the several parties may choose their | those respensible to the people T0F or tne nation at large, whose heritage | emnnmm — PHILIPPINE CONTH.OL Must Hold Ultimate Independence In View and Strive to Fit Filipinos For | Sei¢ Government at Future Date. These are all matters of vital do- mestic concern, and besides them, out- side the charmed circle of our own na- tional life in which our affections com- | mand us, as well as our comsciences, there stand out our ebligations toward our territories ever sea. Here we are trustees. Porto Rico, Hawall, the Phil- ippines, are ours, indeed, but not ours to do what we please with. Such ter- ritories, once regarded as mere posses- sions, are no longer to be selfishly ex- ploited; they are part of the domain of public consclence and of serviceable and enlightened statesmanship. We must administer them for the people whe live in them and with the same sense of responsibility to them as toward our own people in our domestic affairs. No doubt we shall success- fully enough bind Porto Rico and the Hawalian Islands to ourselves by ties of justice and interest and affection. but the performance of our duty to- ward the Philippines is a more diffi- cult and debatable matter. We can satisfy the obligations of generous jus- tice toward the people of Porto Rico by giving the ample and famillar rights and privileges accorded our own citizens in our own territorfes and our obligations toward the people of Ha- wail by perfecting the provisions for self government already granted them, but jn the Philippines we must go fur- ther. We must hold steadily in view their ultimate independence, and we must move toward the time of that independence as steadily as the way ean be cleared and the foundations thoughtfully and permanently laid. Acting under the authority conferred upon the president by congress, I have already accorded the people of the is- lands a majority in both houses of their legislative body by appointing five instead of four native citizens to the membership of the commission. 1 believe that in-this way we shall make proof of their capacity in counsel and their sense of responsibility in the ex- ercise of political power and that the success of this step will be sure to clear our view for the steps which are to follow. Step by step we should extend and perfect the system of self government in the islands. making test of them and modifying them as experience discloses their successes and their failures: that we should more and more put under | the control of the native citizens of the archipelago the essential instruments of their life, their local instrumentali- ties of government, their schools, all the common interests of their commu- nities and so by counsel and experience set up a government which all the world will see to be suitable to a peo- ple whose affairs are under their own control. At last, I hope and believe, we are beginuing to gain the confidence of the Filipino peoples. By their eounsel and experience, rather than by our own, we shall learn how best to serve them { and bhow soon it will be possible and wise to withdraw our supervision. Let us once find the path and set out with firm and confident tread upon it, and we shall not wander from it or linger upon it PROBLEM IN ALASKA. Urges Development by Nation of Nat- ural Resources and Full Territorial Form of Government. A duty faces us with regard to Alas- ka which seems to wme very pressing and very imperative; perhaps I should | say a double duty, for it concerns both the political and the material develop- ment of the territory. The people of | Alaska should be given the full terri- | torial form of government. and Alas- ka, as a storehouse, sheuld be unlock- ed. One key to it is a system of rail- ways. These the government should | itself build and administer, and the ports and terminals it should itself control in the interest of all who wish to use taem for the service and devel- opment of the country and its people. | But the construction of railways is only the first step—is only thrusting in the key to the storehouse and throw- ing back the lock and qpening the door. How the tempting resources of the country are to be exploited is an- other matter, to which I shall take the liberty of from time to time calling your attention, for it is a policy which must be worked out by well consid- ered stages, not upon theory but upon lines of practical expediency. It is part of our general probfem of con- servation. We have a freer hand in working out the problem in Alaska than in the states of the Union. and yet the principle and object are the same wherever we touch it. We must use the resources of the couantry, not lock them wup. There need be no ‘confliet or jealousy as between state and federal autheri- | ties, for there can be no essential dif- PRESIDENT MAKES KNOWN HiS PHILIPPINE POLICY. President Wilson’s pelicy to- 1 || ward the Philippin ds made clear in his messags. He urges the development of the Philippines, always keeping in view ultimate independence of the islanders. While he does not believe they are ready for seif government today he believ that eventually they will bs. H points out improvement that has recently been. made : calling attention to the fact that more na have been appointed on the Philippine cammission than was the oase prewiously. ference of purpose between them. The resources in question must be used, but not destroyed or wasted; used, but not monopolized - ux: any; narrow idea of mamaw rig! a8 " w‘ the ablding intergsts of' (That 2 poliey ean be worked eut ence and concession-which release these resources and yet mot jeepard or dissipate them I for:one have no doubt, and it can be dome on lines of regulation wlich need beino Yless ac- these resources are. We must bend our counsels to this end., A common purpose ought to mk.\mt easy. Growing children y need lots to eat—and it{must EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY AcT. [Degood Urges l-nh!m to Safeguard Work- men Both on Land and Sea—Points Out Needed Economical Reforms. Three or. four matters of special im- portance and significance I beg that | jg the you will permit me to\mention in clos- ing. Ouf bureau of mines ought to be equipped and empowered to render even more effectual service thaa it ren- ders now in improving the conditions of mine labor and making the mines more economieally productlve as well as more safe. This is an all important part of the work of comservation, and the comservation of human life and en- ergy lies even nearer to our interest than the preservation from waste of our material resources. We owe it in mere justice to'the rail- way employees of the coeuntry to pro- vide for them a fair and effective em- ployer’s liability act: and a law that we can stand by in this matter will'be no less to the advantage of those whwo administer the railroads of the coun- try than to the advantage of those whom they employ. The experiance of a large number of the states abun- dantly proves this. We ought to devote ourselves to | I meeting pressing demands of plain Jjustice like this as earnestly as to the accomplishment of political .and eco- nomic reforms. Social justice comes first. Law is the machinery for its realization and is vital only as it'ex- presses and embodies it. An international congress for the dis- | cussion of all questions that affect safe- | ty at sea is mow sitting in London at the suggestion of our own government. i So soon as the conclusions of that con- gress can be learned and considered we ought to address ourselves, among other things, to the prompt alleviation of the very unsafe, unjust and burden- some conditions which now surround the employment of sailors and render it extremely difficult to obtain the services ot/sp(rlted and competent men such as every ship needs if it is to be safely handled and brought to port. May I not express the very real pleasure I have experienced in co-op- | erating with this congress and sharing with it the labors of common service to which it has devoted itself so unre- | servedly during the past seven months of uncomplaining concentration upon the business of legislation? Surely it is a proper and pertinent part of my report on “The State of the Union” to express my admiration for the dili- gence, the good 'temper and the full ecomprebension of public duty which has already been manifested by both the houses. and I hope that it may not be deemed an {mpertinent intrusion of myself into the picture iIf I say with bow much and how constant satisfac- tion I have availed myself of the priv- llege of putting my time and energy at their disposal alike in counsel and In action. WOODROW WILSON. Oyster Shells as Medicine. Ground oyster shells were given by the medieval doctors to children suf- fering from rickets and scrofula. Now it appears that they were right. The shells contain lime, nitrogen, irom, sul- phur, mapganese, magnesia, flour, bro- mide, phosphoric acid and fodine, all excellent for feeble children. They say that if growing children were to take powdered oyster shells in their food the teeth would be improved. ASSERTS FISH HAS MEMORY Novel Exhibition With Trout Is Given by an Expert te Uphold This Theory. An expert in fish culture, who be- lleves that fish have memories, gave & novel exhibition to support his theory. In one of the enclosed pools at'the batchery under his charge there was Coflclene hnndhelper’of the motheranxiousm givatha . | Children like doughnuts and pas- ’ tries. These really are whole- some and digestible if made with Cottolene. For all deep frying Cottolene is superior and most economical because you use it again and again. Therearerecipes for good things < you and your book, “HOME ; HELPS.” Drop a postal for your & copy. Order Cottolene from your grocer. A\ ' [FERK FAIRBANKIZSNS CHICAGO E& NURSES! SHOU LD NOT SNGRE One of Them Tells Hwfl the Habit Knp.‘!Thnm From \\andlnu { Good Piaces.| “In all those'manths I- was in the hospital somebody ought' to have warned me, I think,” said’ the:trained nurse. “Of comurseil had it from the folks at home thatil snored a little, but I never took it'seriously until I went on my firsticase. I.found’'then that it is'a serlows:matter'for a nurse to snore. “I took the case from anurse whose own health had broken down. The vatient was nervous and excitedjover the contemplated’ change, and ’that made my ordeal. move .severe; a brand new wase of my own would haveibeen much easier. Btill iwe got along‘fairly well together the first haif of the night. He was a kindly man jand soon after midnight he insisted®, that T should try'to get:somessleep. I didn't think I'd catch a wink,ibut by and by I dozed off. It was a fatalisleep for me. The next morning theipatient’s sister told me about:the snowing. “‘James could notirest at ail,’ she said. ‘I heard you inithe next room.” “Beforeinight 1 was! ng for.an- / other job. . Of course’l did'not have to give up!nuwnslflflfilyy but the / hard cases,! where I%am . required to keep awake eyery sacond,’ are open to | me. All these soft snaps that give ' you a chance to sleepihalf the .might 1 are beyond'the mch\ot the snwing | nurse.” 3 Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA That sudden breeze, predicts % a freeze. Be prepared—— Get a Gas Heater You all know It's dangerous to eat breakfast in ajcold room, and I:sides. it's not very comfortable. Whereas, with one of our Heaters installed, you a very large trout which always came | only have to light it a few minutes forward to see and be seen when visitors appeared. It was the expert's custom, after calling particular atten- tion to that trout, to raise his cane quickly and hold it over the water. The performance would have no effect upon the trout. Then the expert would produce light trout rod and appear with it at the side of the pool. Instantly that trout would turn and flee. hide itself at the far end of the enclosure and remain there so long as the rod was in sight. This is the explanation of the sud- den change in the trout’s demeanor: One day, early in the career of the fish, the expert, to try a barbless hook he had devised, cast with one in that pool, and this trout seized it. The hook penetrated and passed through its upper jaw, and by the time it was released from the hook it had undergone an experience that made a lasting fmpression upon it. The expert discovered soon after the hooking of ths trout that whenever he approached the pool with his rod the trout would instantly dash to a place of hiding, although it paid no attention to a cane or other stick held over the water. The trout lived for years in that pool and never failed to show its fear of a trout rod as long as it lived. "Huhhy, I'm going in for the simple life a while.” *“All right, my dear,” #ald Hubby, as he reached or his check book. “How many gowns will that require?”’ ¥ Production of Wuicksever, - Califernia mines have welded more than ome hundred million - dollars « of quicksilver in the last sixty years, ~ .4 Never Finished.. The ldm!n should regadino s ] as a’Snishing sohool. . One's edu 18 never finlshed. 2 +=The Easlast. Way: “Learn . to labar the psalmist, but* learn te wait wod | Reznor Reflector a | The oOriale, L. ore breakfast is called in order : . ° have the dining room comfortably N - We,carry those Heaters in three dif- ferent styles: Heater in two sizes and somuthing new in Gas Heaters. ' Call and see them at our office and let’us explain their usefulness, City of Norwich Gas & Electrical Department Alice Bldg., 321 Main St. Shaker Knit Sweater Coats For Ladies or Men All the new colors, heavy weights and excellenttqu.litiu ( of all grades at g The Toggery S]mp 291 Main St., Norwich, Ct. gTOKAY and MALCAGA | GRAPES : 1Ll"'AHC'Y GRAPE' FRU]T “ for makm. cake and oth& nice things. Poq:lo’ s Market -klll'l.