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FIRST MESSAGE If! 1
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WILSON WASTES FEW WORDS IN?
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TELLING CONGRESS WHAT IT.
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SHOULD DO.
TARIFF REVISION HIS TOPIC -!
President Says the Schedules Must Be'
Radically Changed to Square With
Present Conditions, but Work Re¬
quires Careful Consideration.
Washington, April 8.—President
Wilson’s first message to the Sixty
third congress, assembled in extraor¬
dinary session, was read In the senate
and house today. It was surprising¬
ly short, being in full as follows :
To the Senate and House of Repre¬
sentatives:
I have called the congress together
in extraordinary session because a
duty was laid upon the party now In
power at the recent elections which it
ought to perform promptly, in order
that the burden carried by the people
under existing law may be lightened
as soon as possible and in order, also,
that the business Interests of the
country may not be kept, too long in
suspense as to what the fiscal changes
are to be to which they will be re¬
quired to adjust themselves. It 1 st clear
to the whole country that the tariff
duties must be altered. They must
be changed to meet the radical altera¬
tion in the conditions of our ecnomic
life which the country has witnessed
within the last generation.
While the whole face and method of
our industrial and commercial life
were* being changed beyond recogni¬
tion the tariff schedules have re¬
mained what they were before the
change began, or have moved in the
direction they were given when no
large circumstance of our industrial
development was what it is today.
Our task is to square them with the
actual facts. The sooner that is done
the sooner we shall escape from suf¬
fering from the facts and the sooner
our men of business will be free to
thrive by the law of nature (the na¬
ture of free business) instead of by
the law of legislation and artificial ar¬
rangement.
Business Not Normal.
W T e have seen tariff legislation
wander very far afield in our day—
very far indeed from the field in which
our prosperity might have had a nor¬
mal growth and stimulation. No,, mm
whotJpoks the facts/squarely
knows anything that 11
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perceive the princSpl ,____ c
recent tariff legislation has been
based. Wc long ago passed beyond
the modest potion of "protecting" the
Industries of the country and moved
boldly forward to the idea that they
were entitled to the direct patronage
of the government Eor a long time—
a time so long that the men now active
In public policy hardly remember the
conditions that preceded it—we have
sought in our tariff schedules to give
each group of manufacturers or pro¬
ducers what they themselves thought
that they needed in order to
maintain a practically
market as against the rest of the
■world. Consciously or unconsciously,
we have built up a set of privileges
end exemptions from competition be¬
hind which it was easy by any, eveD
IV !' PRING kg V H Q "W X IN' n
Our line of Spring Woolens, Sergesl Crashes, Mohairs and Tropical
Worsteds are now ready for yonr Inspection.
\ Our Mr. J, G. FISHER has arriived ard will take PLEASURE in show¬
ing YOU the YERY LATEST and andlnp to date styles.
We cordially invite your inspection only whether exclusive a purchaser style
or not and will appreciate a isit;
shown
CHAS. STERN COMPANY
Clayton Street Athens, Georgia
me ei-uuest., lorms of combination to
organize monopoly; until at last noth
mg is normal, nothing is obliged to
stand the tests of efficiency and eeon
ow.y, in our world of big business, but
everything thrives by concerted ar
rangement. Only new principles of
^ wffl gaye ug ^ a flna] hard
crystallization of monopoly and a
complete loss of the influences that
« uicken enterprise and keep inde
pendent energy alive.
It is plain what those principles
must be. We must abolish everything
that bears even the semblance of priv¬
ilege or of any kind of artificial ad¬
vantage, and put our business men
and producers under the stimulation
of a constant necessity to be efficient,
economical, and enterprising, masters
of competitive supremacy, better
workers and merchants than any in
the world. Aside from the duties laid
upon articles which we do not, and
probably cannot, produce, therefore,
and the duties laid upon luxuries and
merely for the sake of the revenues
they yield, the object of the tariff du
tfeg henceforth laid must be effective
competition, the whetting of Ameri¬
can wits by contest with the wits of
tfae rest of the wor j d
Development, Not Revolution,
It would be unwise to move toward
. « nd , ,^ , ad ‘ 0 ® g > Z *
ha8te - or with strokes that cut at the
very mots of what has grown up
amongst us by long process and at
our own invitation. It do%fe not alter
a thing to upset it and break it and
de P r,ve ..... *» «* a chance , to change. , It
destroys it. We must make changes
in our fiscal laws, in our:fiscal system,
whose object is development, a more
free and wholesome development, not
revolution or upset or confusion. We
must build up trade, especially for¬
eign trade. We need the outlet and
the enlarged field of energy more
than we ever did before. We must
build up industry as well and must
adopt freedom in the place of arti¬
ficial stimulation only so far as it will
build, not pull down. In dealing with
the tariff the method by which this
may be done will be a matter of judg¬
ment, exercised Item by item.
To some not accustomed to the ex¬
citements and responsibilities of
greater freedom our methods may in
some respects and at some points
seem heroic, but remedies may be
heroic and yet be remedies. It is our
business to make sure that they are
genuine remedies. Our object is clear.
If our motive is above Just challenge
and only an occasional error of judg¬
ment is chargeable against us, we
shall be fortunate.
We are called upon-jffi
>e
and
facts they are, and n< iul
as if We were beginners. We are to
deal with the tacts of our own day,
with the facts of no other, and to
make laws which square with those
facts. It ts best, indeed It is neces¬
sary, to begin with the tariff. I will
urge nothing upon you now at the
opening of your session which can ob¬
scure that first object or divert our
energies from that clearly defined
duty. At a later time I may take the
liberty of calling your attention to re¬
forms which should press close upon
the heels of the tariff changes, if not
accompany them, of which the chief
is the reform of our banking and cur¬
rency laws; but just now I refrain.
For the present, I put these matters
OK one Bide end tab only of this one
thing—of the chan B in our fiscal
system which may 1 serve to open
once more the free* iannels of pros
would perity to a great to^ ftiple whom and we
serve m utmost
throughout both /ink and file.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, April 8, 1913.
FAMILY NAMES OF ROYALTY
Royal Personages Descended Mostly
From Counts, Existing Long Be¬
fore Surnames Came Into Use.
The royal families of Europe have
not generally a surname because
mostly (unlike the English houses of
Stuart and Tudor, which were the re¬
spective surnames of the first king of
each house' before he ascended the
throne) they are descended in the
male line from some territorial
counts existing long previous to the
period in which 4mrnames the somewhat mod¬
ern custom of prevailed.
King Georoge V derives in the male
line from the ancients countB of Wet
tin (flourishing in the tenth century), !
afterwards electors of Saxony, dukes
of Saxe Coburg, Gotha, etc. His an¬
cestors in the male line were of the
house of Este, of whom, Azo ’
one cen-! of
Este, married early in the tenth
tury the daughter and heiress of !
Guelph, duke of Bavaria, from which
match sprang in the male line the
dukes of Brunswlck-Lunenburg, after¬ t
wards electors of Hanover, and kings
of Great Britain. The members of
the royal family are described by
their princely titles in proceedings
in the house of lords, and no allusion
is made to any surname—for in¬
stance, they sign the test roll merely
by their personal or Christian name,'
and we know nothing of any surname j
which appertained by right or by
usage, to her late majesty, Queen Vic¬
toria, or to his majesty King
George V.
Bermuda Fish.
At the market during a recent week
many handsome fish were to be seen,
several of them taken by American
tourists, and afterward presented to
the fisherman who "took them out.’’
Large amber-jacks and bonitoes, splen¬
did game fish and chubs, a3 plucky
and “fighty” a fish as ever took bait,
were well represented.
Among the others seen on the mar
ket hooks and elsewhere were blue
fish, yellowtails, red snappers, gray
snappers, butterfish, gags, hamlets,
"hines,” salmon and black rockflsh,
porgles and red roc^fish. “Nigger
BfettfeSg ago/"”<»sDjsed finny
“Soft" Job I for Constable.
Pension are nol 1 the only things com
Branded and ford totten. An Inquisitive
member of the I British house of corn
mens was struck! one day by the pres
ence of a police ban In one of the lob
bies. He wondi red why this partlcu
lar lobby shouh I always have a guar¬
dian strolling upHand down, and made
Inquiries. The ecords of the house
were searched a: td it was found that
50 years previously, when the lobby
was being decora' ,ted, a policeman had
been stationed th bre to keep members
never from soiling having theirg beerg countermanded, clothes. The order
the
constable had ke it his beat for half
a century.
Careful
and
Conservative »
yet
Considerate
When these qualities are found in a
bank where there is real spirit of ac¬
comodation, you have a bank of
Real Service.
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Oconee County Bank
Watkinsville Georgia
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COTTON
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
PHINIZY WAREHOUSES
Office and Warehouse
OCONEE STREET
Opposite Southern Refining Co.
Athens, = Georgia