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WILSON SUBMITS
FIRST MESSAGE
Congress in Extra Session Is
Told What President Ex
pects Done
DOCUMENT UNUSUALLY BRIEF
Tariff Schedule*, Says Chief Execu
tive, Must Be Altered to Conform
With Modern Conditions Ac
cording to Party’* Pledge.
Washington, April 8. —In his first
message to congress, a document of
unusual brevity, President Wilson to
day told the senate and house what
he and the country expect in the way
of revision of the tariff, the task for
which mainly the extraordinary ses
sion was called. Following Is the
text of the message:
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 is 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 soonei
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 amt artificial ar
rangement.
Business Not Normal.
We 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 one
who looks the facts squarely In the
face or knows anything that lies be
neath the surface of action can fail to
perceive the principles upon which
recent tariff legislation has been
based. We long ago passed beyond
the modest notion 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. For 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 exclusive
market as against the rest of the
world. Consciously or unconsciously,
we have built up a set of privileges
and exemptions from competition be
hind which it was easy by any, even
the crudest, forms of combination to
organize monopoly; until at last noth
ing is normal, nothing is obliged to
stand the tests of efficiency and econ
omy, in our world of big business, but
everything thrives by concerted ar
rangement. Only new principles of
action will save us from a final hard
crystallization of monopoly and a
complete loss of the Influences that
quicken 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
sf 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
ties henceforth laid must be effective
competition, the whetting of Ameri
can wits by contest with the wits of
the rest of the world.
Development, Not Revolution.
It would be unwise to move toward
this end headlong, with reckless
haste, or with strokes that cut at^he
very roots of what has grown up
amongst us by long process ami at
•our own invitation. It does not alter
a thing to upset ft and break ft and
deprive it of 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 ft 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 to render the
country a great service in more mat
ters than one. Our responsibility
should be met and our methods should
be thorough, as thorough as moderate
and well considered, based upon the
facts as they are, and not worked out
as if we were beginners. We are to
deal with the facts of our own day,
with the facts of no other, and to
make laws which square with those
facts. It is 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 1 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
on one side and think only of this one
thing—of the changes in our fiscal
system which may best serve to open
once more the free channels of pros
perity to a great people whom we
would serve to the utmost and
throughout both rank and file.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, April 8, 1913.
PULLED THE POETRY STUFF
Actor Doing ■ Double In an Emer
gency Follow* ln»tructlon« of
Stage Manager.
William Gilette, In the course of an
address made -to the graduates of the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
at the Empire theater, told a story.
"When I was in Booth’s company
years ago,” the actor said, “we had to
be up in many parts. Frequently the
actors would have to double in a per
formance when the roles outnumbered
the people. I remember one time we
were playing 'Hamlet.' When the time
came, In the players’ scene, for the
man to poison the king, it was found
that the particular actor selected for
the part was on the stage in another
role.
“Immediately the stage manager
grabbed an actor who was getting
ready to continue In another role
The actor was wrapped in a big man
tle, handed a bottle and told to hurry
on the stage and do the poisoning. No
body would recognize him, said the
stage manager.
“‘But,’ protested the actor, ’what
are my lines?’
“ ‘Oh, you know,' replied the stage
manager.
“ ‘That poetry stuff?’
“ ‘Sure!’
“ All right,’ said the actor. Then he
strode on the stage with his bottle,
and, bending over the king, said:
“‘Nobody here, nobody near!
“Til pour the poison in his ear!'"
Frowned on Innovation.
Montrose, Scotland, is to be an avia
tion station, and the appearance of
flying machines there is enough, ac
cording to the London Chronicle, to
bring some of the good old ladles of
that town out of their graves. It was
one of them, as Dean Ramsay records,
who protested against steam vessels,
as counteracting the decrees of provi
dence In going against wind and tide.
“I would hae naething to say ta thae
Impious vessels," she insisted. An
other was equally shocked by the in
troduction of gas In place of oil, de
manding: “What’s to become o’ the
puir whales?”
Much for His Money.
At the suffrage portrait show at
the Glaenzer galleries in New York.
John Sloan told a story about the
nude in art.
“An old farmer and his wife,” said
Mr. Sloan, “once visited an exhibition
where the nude predominated. They
seemed a good deal impressed,, they
seemed almost stupefied, by all the
I white and gleaming pictures. As they
left, I heard the old man say with a
| sigh:
" ‘Well, Hannah, I never expected
j to see as much as this for a quar
• ter!' ”
PUBLIC UTILITIES
MAKE H. 968,313
FORTY-FOUR CORPORATIONS IN
GEORGIA SHOW LARGE
INCREASES.
IS RECORD FOR ONE YEAR
The State Is Led by the Georgia
Railway and Power
Company.
—Atlanta.
There are forty-eight street rail
roads, gas and electric light, and pow
er companies in Georgia, according
to an interesting report for 1912 just
issued by the railroad commission,
and of those, forty-four companies,
show net earnings aggregating $4,-
968,313.21, while four companies show
a deficit amounting to only $2,065.80.
The increase in net earnings for 1912
over 1911 is $555,031.90.
The railroad commission Calls the
Georgia Railway and Power company
of Atlanta, the "Goliath of the public
utility corporations of Georgia.” it
shows that this corporation had gross
earnings in 1912 amounting to $5,567,
919.86, and net earnings, $3,082,204.34.
All other similar corporations in
Georgia combined had gross earnings
amounting to $4,430,570.52, or more
than a million dollars less than those
of the Georgia Railway and Power
company alone. The net earnings
were $1,886,108.87.
Again, calling the Georgia Railway
and Power company a “giant corpora
tlon," the commission says that com
parisons of its earnings with all other
similar companies in the state ‘‘is as
tonishing.”
Out of gross earnings of $5,567,-
919.86, the operating expenses of the
Goergia Railway and Power company
were only $2,485,715.52, leaving the
ent earnings $3,082,204.34.
Business Is Good This Spring.
Bankers and financiers who have
their fingers on the pulse of South
ern business take a roseate view this
spring of the Southern lire, insurance
situation. While many fire insurance
agents over the country have been
disturbed by the recent failure of
the American Fire Insurance com
pany of Philadelphia and the Monon
gahela Underwriters of New York,
considerable comment favorable to
the Southern companies has resulted
from these two failures.
Southern people have just cause in
the fact that no stock fire insurance
company domiciled in the South has
ever failed or retired in such away,
causing loss and disaster
One Southern company was fatally
injured by the San Francisco earth.-
quake, undoubtedly an act of Provi
dence; another was wrecked after the
control was gotten away from South
ern people who formerly owned it.
while the Shawnee Fire of Kansas,
the Ohio-German of Ohio and many
others in sections away from the
South have left a most unsavory rec
ord.
The laws of the Southern states re
lating to fire insurance companies and
the insurance departments are all
awake to the protection of policy
holders and agents, and it Is an un
i disputed fact that a smaller propor
tion of the companies in this section
than in others have failed.
The South is growing by leaps and
bounds and the fire insurance com
panies of this section will, with the
continued hearty patronage of home
people, compare most favorably with
I those of other sections. There is no
antagonism between the South and
any other section, but. the South, it is
pointed out, should be as wise in
building up its own institutions as the
East, in supporting its institutions.
: They were all of small proportions
years ago and the patronage of their
own people caused them to grow
large, just as is now going on in the
South.
Elephant at the Window.
A young woman named Miss Gard
; ner. living on Ellis street, in the rear
। of the grand opera house, was fright
ened into hysterics a day or two ago
: when she awoke from her night’s
| slumber to find a full-grown elephant
. had escaped from a nearby stable and
was evidently prowling around for
something to eat. It was its lusty
trumpeting that awakened the young
woman.
She was not in the slightest danger
: for the elephant would had to tear
down the whole house to get in more
than hfs head through the window,
but the head itself appearing in that
marvelous and unexpected way was
enough to get on any woman's nerves.
Her screams brought the whole neigh
borhood and incidentally the ele
phant's trainer, who apologized most
humbly and offered to pay for the
window sash which the elephant
was wearing around its neck as a
souvenir.
Pure Fertilizer Law Doing Good.
Farming and fertilizer conditions in
Georgia reflected in reports to the
state department of agriculture show
that Georgia's pure-fertilizer bill is
accomplishing somewhat the same
thing for the acres of Georgia that
the pure food law is accomplishing
for the stomachs of the nation.
Reports to the state department
show that the sale of fertilizer tags
this year will be equally as large, and
will probably exceed that of any pre
ceding year. Trading in fertilizer ma
terials has been particularly brisk
during the past two or three weeks.
The weather is as fine as could be
asked for plowing, and a great amount
of fertilizer is being used in every
part of the state.
The law unde r which fertilizer is
now made and sold in Georgia is the
measure of Senator W. J. Harris of
Cedartown, and which earned tor him
the appellation of “Pure Fertilizer
Harris.'' The measure is operating
successfully and has proven a splen
did safeguard for the farmers. Many
of them have written Senator Harris,
saying that the passage of this one
bill alone would be sufficient to make
his service to the state notable.
The pure fertilizer law requires
that each sack of fertilizer shall be
distinctly labeled showing just exact
ly what proportion of the contents is
true fertilizer material and what pro
portion of it it is worthless filler.
To Make Chickens Out of Frogs.
The most useful piece of freak leg
islation contemplated for introduction
in the coming session of the general
assembly Is a bill to make chickens
out of bull frogs. The national gov
ernment has long ago listed bull
frogs as "poultry” under the tariff
laws, and it is the idea of the Geor
gia solons to pass a law in this state
recognizing the commercial value of
frogs and preventing their wholesale
slaughter. The bill will, in all proba
bility, take the form of a measure
providing a closed season for the
killing of bull frogs. It may possi
bly be made an amendment to the
game law. The bull frogs are not pro
tected at all In Georgia now, and it
is stated that they would increase im
measurably in numbers if they were
put under the shielding wing of the
state for a few’ seasons.
Likely to Pass Fumes Case.
Representatives of the Tennessee
Copper company of Ducktown, Tenn.,
learned that they probably would
have to await, the convening of the
legislature for action on the renewal
of their agreement with the state
of Georgia, by which the state waives
Its right to obtain an injunction
against the operation of the, compa
ny’s smelters, on the condition that
the company provide proper Indemnity
for damage done to crops by noxious
fumes.
The contract offered by the compa
ny provides for a board of arbitra
tion, two of the three members to be
appointed by the governor.
To Increase Army Post.
Every indication seems to point to
the permanence and increased size of
the army post here. The officers
themselves are expecting that a bri
gade post will be established at Fort
McPherson, and it is practically taken
for granted that this is to become
one of the big army centers of the
country.
Illustrative of this feeling is the
fact that Major W. R Daskiell of the
United States infantry, has bought a
ten acre tract of land on the East
Lake road, three blocks from the club
house In the same neighborhood as
the W. T. Gentry purchase. The ma
jor has in mind the building of a
handsome home there. Following the
example of many other people, he
has offered for sale his present coun
try home on Peachtree road, and is
moving In the direction of what ev
erybody seems to now consider the
fashionable suburban residential lo
cation. Many other well known At
lantians who have bought in the same
location are J. 11. Porter, Scott Hud
son, Adam W. Jones, F. L. Markham,
Guy Mitchell, George J. Stoutz and
• S. A. Corker.
| An Important Decision.
The state court of apepals has just
handed down an important decision
■ bearing on the r elation of the farmer
I to the hired man and cropper'. It is
। a decision in which common sense
1 and equity happen to go hand in hand
j with the technical law. The substance
of the decision is that if a farmer
hires a man under contract as a
cropper and the man leaves and his
wife and children carry out the con
tract the employer cannot plead no
liability because the contract was
made with the husband and father.
Vandals Must Stay Out of Parks.
President. J. O. Cochran of the city
park board has announced that extra
precautions will be taken this spring
to keep rowdies and vandals out of
Grant park and other public gathering
places.
There was a good deal of complaint
last year from ladies who went to the
park unescorted, and who declared
that they were often annoyed by
i mashers and others of like ilk.
CONSTIPATION
Munyon’s Paw-Paw
Pills are unlike all oth
er laxatives or cathar
tics. They coax the
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
do not scour; they do
not gripe; they do not
weaken; but they do
start all the secretions
of the liver and stom
ach in away that soon
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
corrects constipation. Munyon’s Paw-Paw
Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken;
they enrich the blood instead of impover
ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
it Price 25 cents. All Druggists.
SPECIAL TO WOMEN
Do you realize the fact that thousands
of women are now using
A Soluble Antiseptic Powder
as a remedy for mucous membrane af
fections, such as sore throat, nasal or
pelvic catarrh, inflammation or ulcera
tion, caused by female Ills? Women
who have been cured say “it is worth
its weight In gold.” Dissolve in water
and apply locally. For ten years the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. has
recommended Paxtine in their private
correspondence with women.
For all hygienic and toilet uses It has
no equal. Only 50c a large box at Drug
gists or sent postpaid on receipt of
price. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston,
Mass.
An open confession may be good
for the soul, but it’s apt to disfigure
a reputation.
Wil.l. RELIEVE NERVOUS DEPHEBSION
ANH LOW SPIRITS.
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE’S TAHTHLHSM chill TONIC, arouses tho
liver to action, drives out Malaria and builds np the
system. A sure Appetiser and aid to digestion.
Vor adults and children. 50 cents.
•
When you feel like calling a man a
liar go to the telephone and then
change your mind.
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES
Allen’s Foot-Ease, the Antiseptic powder for
tired, aching, swollen, nervous feet. Gives
rest and comfort. Makes walking a delight.
Sold everywhere, 25c. Don’t accept any sub
stitute. For FREE sample address Allen S.
Olmsted, Le Roy, N. X. Adv.
Cruel.
Chappy—l am going to try the mind
cure.
Daffy—What's It got to work on?
For SUMMER HEAD ACHES
Hleks’ CAPUDINE la the best remedy
no matter what causes them- whether
from the heat, Bitting In draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c„ 26c and 60c per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv,
Must Be.
“Is he making good?”
"No question of it. He can get coal
on credit."—Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for OiiUdren
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inltamma
tlon,allays pain,cures wind college a bottle J*.
Appropriate.
“What did the railroad man get for
his birthday present?"
“Some new ties.”
Cure*Ohl Sored, Other Remedies Won’t Cure
The worst cases no matter of how long standing,
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter s
Antiseptic Healing Oil. Relieves pain and heals
at the same time. 25c, 60c, 11.00.
Explained.
He —Look at Blinks, able to retire
from business, and I am still In har
ness.
She —Yes, but Blinks isn't a mule.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the s/tF/T". //
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Shorthand Typewriter.
A new machine, called the ste'no
type, has been invented, which en
ables the shorthand writer to get
from 400 to 600 words a minute upon
paper in an absolutely correct and
accurate form. The basis of operat
ing a machine Is phonetic spelling. It
Is but a shorthand typewriter. While
the work done is virtually the same as
done by shorthand It has the advan
tage of being recorded in plain Eng
lish characters.
miiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiinimimiimininin
QI T/^/^rCC Depends largely
□ U «Pon one’s
ical condition.
No man or woman can do their best
work if troubled with a weak stomach
or a torpid liver. Don’t be carelefitj.
Don't procrastinate.
Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery
promotes the flow of digestive juic«k
Invigorates the liver and purifies and
enriches the blood. It makes men
and women strong In body and
active in mind.
Ask Your Druggist