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I MONDAY, DECEMBER, 2, 1918. V? VM-VW OGDEN. UTAH 111
I- ILL KEEP
II TOUCH WITH
CAPITAL
, (Continued from Pago 1)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 The prcsi
dent said:
"Gentlemen of the congress: The year
that-has elapsed since I last stood be
fore you to fulfill my constitutional
; duty to give the congress from time
to time information on the state of
the union, has been so crowded with
great events, great processes and great
results that I cannot hope to give you
an adequate picture of its transac
tions or of the far-reaching changes
which have been wrought In the life
of our nation and of the world. You
1 have yourselves witnessed these
things, as I have. It is too soon to
assess them; and we who stand in the
midst of them and arc part of them
arc less qualified than men of another
generation will be to say what they
mean or even what they have been.
But some great outstanding facts arc
unmistakable and constitute in a sense
part of the public business with which
it is cur duty to deal. To state them
is to set the stage for the legislative
and executive action which must growj
out of them and which we have yet
. to shape" and determine.
"A year ago we had sent 145.91S
men overseas. Since then wc have
sent 1,950,513, an average of 162,512
each month, the number in fact rising
In May last to 245,951; in June to
27S,760; in July to 307.1S2and con
tinuing to reach similar figures in
August and September In August
2S9.570 and in September 257.43S, No
such movement of troops ever took
place before, across throe thousand
miles of sea, followed by adequate
equipment and supplies and carried
safely through extraordinary dangers
of attack dangers which were alike
strange and infinitely difficult to
guard against. In all this movement
only 75S men were lost by enemy at
tacks 630 of whom were upon a sin
gle English transport which was sunk
near the Orkney islands.
U. S. Actly Promptly
"I need not tell you what lay back
of this great movement of men and
material". It is not Invidious to say
that back of it lay a supporting or
ganization of tho industries of the
country and all its productive activi
ties more complete, more thorough in
II method and effective in result!?, more
j spirited and unanimous in purpose and
1 effort than any other great belliger
ent had ever been able to effect. We
profited greatly by the experience of
tho nations which had already been
engaged for nearly three years In the
exigent and exacting business, their
every resources and every executive
proficiency taxed to the utmost. We
were tho pupils. But we learned
quickly and acted with a promptness
and a readiness of co-operation that
I justify our great pride that we were
I able to serve the world with unparal-
I! leled energy and quick accomplish -
11 Ready in Battle
MJlh "But it is not the physical scale and
I $1 Up executive efficiency of preparation,
jif j P supply, equipment and despatch that
Mm I would cdwell upon, but the mettle
'J?I3 II and fIuality oC tne officers and men
mi i we sent over and of the sailors who
! jjlj kept the seas, and the spirit of the
is j nation that stood behind them. No
Is j soldiers or sailors ever proved them
es j selves more quickly ready for the
HH test of battle or acquitted themselves
jijjy with more splendid courage and
1,1 1 achievement when put to the test
Mu Those of us who played some part in
IjU directing the great processes by
Ik 3 which the war was pushed irresistibly
mm forward to the final triumph may now
I j.uisei. au mux ana ueugni our inougnts
i with the story of what our men did.
ijj Their officers understood the grim and
y exacting task they had undertaken and
h performed with audacity, efficiency
E and unhesitating courage that touch
the story of convoy and battle with
h imperishable distinction at every turn,
itj whether the enterprises were great
or small from their chiefs, Pershing
a and Sims, down to the youngest lieu-
3 tenant; and their men were worthy of
g them such men as hardly need to be
S3 commanded, and go to their terrible
i adventure blithely and with the quick
, W intelligence of those who know just
till What it is they would accomplish.
Hi Proud of the Men
"I am proud to be the fellow coun
cil 1 tryman of men of such 3tuff and va
&$ lor Th08e o us wno stayed at homo
ffifg did our duty; the war could not havo
tm l,ecn v,on or G &allant men who
fi fought it given their opportunity to )
WtM win it otherwise; but for many a "long
j$jf I day we shall think ourselves "accurs'd
Wm ' we were not there and hold our man-
Ittfjjj i hoods cheap while any speaks that
MM I fought," with these at St- Mihiel or
fjtpl i Thierry. The memory of those days
1 1 ijij . r triumphant battle will go with these
i Bigs fortunate men to their graves ; and
Mi each will have his favorite memorv.
tHIS ! " '01cl men forset; yet all shall" be
mm forgot but he'll remember with advan-
wM tages wbat feats he dld that da'-'
afjil "What we all thank God for with
ijlfj deepest gratitude is that our men went
MM in force into the line of battle just
Wmi at tnc crItlcal nioment when the whole
tKIS fat( of tho T,'orld seemed to hang in
Mil thevbalance and threw their fresh
' strength into the ranks of freedom in
isml tImc t0 turn the "whole tide and sweep
IHI o the fateful struggle turn it once
img for all so that thenceforth it was back,
fijlny back, back for their enemies, always
Wm back, never again forward! After that
Mlffl it was only a scant four months be-
gljrl fore the commanders of the Central
tjilj empires knew themselves beaten; and
fttH llow tIlGlr very empiros are in liquida-
in tion I
i'HH Gratitude for Workers
119 "And inrouShout it all how fine the
n spirit of the nation was. What unity
HI of PUI'Pose, what untiring zeal! What
elevation of purpose ran through all
Mm its splendid display of strength, its
PI untiring accomplishment. I have said
y that those of us who stood at home
M .tq do tho work' of organizations and
MM supply will always wish that we had
M been with the men whom we sustained
M by our labor; but we can never be
Kl ashamed. It has been an inspiring
1 thing to be here in the midst of fine
in men who had turned aside from every
mm private interest of their own and de-
flWf voted the whole of their trained ca
lltJf pacity to the tasks that supplied the
ilUI sinews of the whole great undertak
llfli Tne Patriotism, the unselfish-
n hose, the thorough -going devotion and
distinguished capacity that marked
their toilsome labor day after day,
mouth after month, have mado them
fit mates and comrades of tho men
in the trenches and on the sea. And
not the men here in Washington only.
They havo but diroctcd the vast
achievement. Throughout Innumerable
factories, upon innumerable farms, in
the depths of coal mines nnd Iron
mines and copper mines wherever the
results of Industry were to be obtained
and prepared, in the shipyards, on the
railways, at the docks, on the sea, In
everj labor that was needed to sustain
these battle lines, men have vied with
each other to do their part and do it
jwell. They can look any man-at-j
arms in the face and say, we also ,
(strove to win and gave the best that
was in us to make our fleets and ar-1
(mies sure of their triumph"!
To the Women
I "Ami tvhnt chnll ho snv nf tlm W'n-
men of thejr instant intelligence,
quickening every task that they touch
ed; their capacity for organization and
I co-operation which gave their action
discipline and enhanced the effective
ness of everything they attempted;
their aptitude at tasks to which they
had never before set their hands;
their utter self-sacrifice alike in what
they did and 5n what they gave? Their
contribution to tho great result is be
yond appraisal. They have added a
now lustre to the annals of American
Womanhood.
" The least tribute we can pay them
is to make them the equals of men in
political rights as they have proved
themselves their equals in every field
of practical work they have entered,
whether for themselves or for their;
country. Theso great days of com
pleted achievement would be sadly
marred were wo to omit that act of
justice. Besides the immense prac
tical services they have jendered, tho
women bf the country have been tho
moving spirits in the systematic ecou-
omles by which our peoplo havo vol
untarily insisted to supply tho suffer
ing peoples of tho world and the arm
ies upon every front with food and
j everything else that wo had that might
serve the common cause. The details
of such a story can nover be fully
written, but we carry them at our
hearts and thank God that we can say
that we are the kinsmen of such.
And now wo are sure of tho great
triumph for Vhich every sacrifice has
been made. It has come, come -in its
completeness and with tho prido and
inspiration of these days of achieve
ment quick within us wo turn to the
tasks of poaco again a peaco sure
against tluflfrvlolence of irresponsible
monarchs and ambitious military co
teries and make ready for a now or
der, for new foundations of justice
and fair dealing.
We are about to give order and or-
ourselves, but for the other peoples of
tho world as well, so far as they will
suffer us to servo them. It Is instru
mental justice that wo seek, not do
mestic safety merely. Our thoughts
have dwelt of lato upon Europe, upon
Asia, upon the Near and tho Far East,
very little' upon the acts of peace and
accommodation that wait to bo per
formed at our own doors. While we
are adjusting our relations with the
rest of the world is it not of capital
importance that we should clear away
all grounds of misunderstanding with
our immediate neighbors and give
proof of the friendship wo really feel?
I hope that the members of the sen
ate will permit me to speak onco more
of the unratified treaty of friendship
and adjustment with tho republic of
Colombia. I very earnestly urge upon
them an early and favorable action
upon that vital matter. I believe that
they will feel, with me, that tho stage
of affairs is now set for such action
as will be not only just, but generous
and in the spirit of the now age upon
which we have so happily entered.
So far as our domestic affairs are
concerned the problem of our return
to peace is a problem of economic and
industrial readjustment. That prob
lem is less serious for us than it may
turn out to be for the nations which
have suffered the disarrangements nnrl
the losses of war longer than we. Our
people, moreover, do not wait to be
coached and led. They know their
own business, are quick and resource
ful at every readjustment, definite in
purpose and self-reliant In action. Any
leading strings wo might seek to put
them would speedily become hopeless
ly tangled because they would pay no
attention to them and go their own
way. All that we can do as their leg
islative and executive servants Is to
mediate the process of change here,
there and elsewhere as we may. I
have heard much counsel as to" the
plans that should be performed dnd
personally conducted to a happy con
summation but from no quarter have
I seen any general scheme of "recon
struction" which I thought likely we
could force our spirited business men
and self-reliant labourers to accept
.with due pliancy and obedience.
1 Direct War Industries.
"While the war lasted we set up
many agencies by which to direct the
Industries of the country in tho ser
vices it was necessary for them to
render; by which to make sure of an
abundant supply of the matters need
ed; by which to check undertakings
that could for the time be dispensed
with and, stimulate those that were
most serviceable in war; 'by which to
gain for the purchasing departments
of the government a certain control
over the prices of ;essential articles
and materials; by which to restrain
trade .with alien enemies, make the
most of the avallablo shipping and
systematizing financial transactions,
both public and private, so that there
would be no unnecessary conflict or
confusion by which, in short, to put
every material energy of the country
in harness to draw the common load
and make of us one team in the ac
complishment of a great task. But the
moment we knew the armistice to have
been signed, we took the harness off.
Raw .materials, upon which the gov
ernment had kept its hand for-fear
there should not be enough for the
industries that supplied the armies,
havo been released, and put in to the.
general market again. Great indus
trial plants, whose whole output and
machinery had been taken over for
the uses of the government, have been
set free to return to the uses to which
they were put before the war. It has
not been possible to remove so read
ily or so quickly the control of food
stuffs and of shipping, because the
world has still to be fed from our
granaries and the ships are still need
ed to send supplies to our men over
' seas and to bring the men back as
fast as tho disturbed conditions on the
other side of tho water permit; but
i oven there restraints aro bojng relaxed
as much v as possible and more and
more as the weeks go by.
: ."Never btoca 1. tMre . boon
agencies In existence in this country
which knew so much of the flold of
supply, of labor, and of industry as
the war industi'ios board, the war
trade board, the labor department, the
food administration and the fuel ad
ministration have known since their
labors became thoroughly systemat
ized; and they have not been isolated
agencies; they havo been directed by
men who represented the pormanent
departments of the government and
so have been the centers of unified and
co-operative action. It has been the
policy of the executive, therefore,
since the armistice was assured
1 (which is in effect a complete sub
mission of tho enemy) to put the
knowledge of these bodies at the dis
posal of the business men of the coun
try and to offer their intelligent me
diation at every point and in every
mattor where it was desired. It isl
surprising how fast tho progress of !
return to peace footing has moved in (
the three weeks since the fichtinci
stopped. It promises to outrun any In -1
qulry that may be instituted and any!
aid that may be offered. It will not
be easy to direct it any better than,
it will direct itself. The American
business man is of quick initiative.
Employment of Men.
"The ordinary and normal processes
I of private initiative will not however.
provide immediate employment for all
of tho men of our returning armies.
Those who are of trained capacity,
those who aro skilled workmen, those;
who .have acquired familiarity with es-j
j tablished businesses; those who arc J
I ready and willing to go to the farms;
all thoso whose aptitudes are known,
or will be sought out by employers and
will find no difficulty, it is safe to say.t
in finding place and employment Butl
there will be others who will bo at af
loss where to gain a livelihood unless
pain3 are taken to guide them and put
them in the way of work. There will
bo a large floating residuum of labor
which should not be left wholly to
shift for itself. It seems to me, there
fore, that the development of public
works of every sort should be prompt
ly resumed, in order that opportuni
ties should be created for unskilled
labor in particular, and that plans
should be made for such developments
of our unused lands and our natural
resources as wc havo hitherto lacked
stimulation to undertake.
Opportunities for Soldiers
"I particularly direct your attention
to tho very practical plans which the
secretary of the interior has develop
ed in his annual report adopted by
your committees for tho reclamation
of arid, swamp, and cut-over which
might, if tho states wore willing and
able to co-operate, redeem somo three
hundred million acres of land for cul
tivation. There arke said to bo fifteen
or twenty million acres of land in the
ll'npt nf !.l r ...1
lamation water is available if properly
conserved. There are about two hun
dred and thirty million acres from
which the forests have been cut, but
which have never yet been cleared for
the plow and which lie waste and des
olate. Theso lie scattered all over the
union. And thoro are nearly eighty
million acres of land that lie under
swamps or subject to periodical over
flow or too wet for anything but graz
ing which it is perfectly feasible to
drain and protect and redeem. Tho
congress can at once direct thousands
of the returning soldiers to tho recla
mation of the arid lands which it has
already undertaken, If It will but en
large the plans and the appropriations
which it lias entrusted to the depart
ment of tho interior. It is possible,
In dealing with our unused land, to
effect a great rural and agricultural
development which will afford the
best sort of opportunity to men who
want to help themselves; and tho sec
retary of the interior has thought the
possible methods out in a way which
Is worthy of your friendly attention.
Helping the Hclplecs
"I have spoken of the control which
must yet for a while, perhaps for a
long while, be exercised over shipping
because of the priority of service to
which our forces overseas are entitled
OTlfl ilthlnV. nl..,t.) 1 1
uuu nuiiiu aiiuum iwsu ue accoraeu tne
shipments which are to savo recently
liberated peoples from starvation and
many devastated regions from perma
nent ruin. May I not say a special
word about the needs of Belgium and
northern France? No sums of money
paid by way of indemnity will serve
of themselves to save them from hope
less disadvantage for years to come.
Something more must be done than
merely find them money. If they had
money and raw materialsjn abundance
tomorrow, they could not"" resume their
place in the Industry of the world to
morrow the very important place
they held before the flame of war
swept over them. Many of their fac
tories have been razed to the ground.
Much of their machinery is destroyed
or has been taken away. Their peo
plo are scattered and many of their
best workmen are dead. Their mar
kets will be taken by others, if they
are not in some special way assisted
to rebuild their factories and replace
their lost Instruments of manufacture.
They should not be left to the vicissi
tudes of the sharp competition for ma
terials and for industrial facilities
which is now to set in. I hope, there
fore, that the congress will not be
unwilling, if it should become neces
sary, to grant some such legislative
power so the war trade board be giv
en the right to establish priorities of
export and supply for the benefit of
these people whom wc have been so
happy to assist 4 in saving frpm the
German terror and whom we must not
thoughtlessly leave to shift for them
selves in a pitiless competitive mar
ket. Taxes Just Ahead
"For the steadying and facilitation
of our domestic readjustments, noth
ing is more important as the immed
iate determination of the taxes that
are to be levied for 1918, 1919 and 1920.
As much of the burden of taxation
must be lifted from business, as sound
methods of financing the government
will permit, and those who conduct
the great essential industries of tho
country must be told as exactly as
possiblo what obligations to the gov
ernment they will bo expected to meet
in the years Immediately ahead of
them. It will be of serious conse
quence to the country to delay remov
ing all uncertainties in this mattor a
single day longer than the right pro
cesses of debate justify. It is idle to
talk of successful and progressive bus
iness reconstruction before those un
certainties are solved.
Would Need Eight Billion.
"If tho war had continued it would
have been necessary to raise at least
eight billion dollars by-taxation pay
able in the year 3919; but tho war
has ended and I agree with the secre-,
tary of -tho treasury that It will be
safe to reduce the-amount to six bil-
; mm i rem
j With the death of Charles IT Read1
, of this city, many Ogdcnites lost a'
splendid friend. Charles Read was aj
i chiropractor and had been busy dur
J ing tho epidemic of influenza attend
ing to his patients, not one of whom)
succumbed to tho dread disease. Ills;
j death occurred Sunday a week ago'
and was due to pneumonia. Mr. Read
was horn October 2S, 1890, and was
residing with his mother, Mrs. Laura
B. Taylor, 1022 Twenty-fourth street,
at the time of his death. Surviving
him aro his mother, and the following
sisters and brothers: Mrs. W. J. Mack
of San Francisco, who has been aiding
in nursing the sick since she has been
In Ogden; Arnold Read of Ogden, John
Bowman Read, who is attending the
radio school at Harvard, Miss Loronc
McConnolI, a nurse of Ogden, Andrew
Read and Frank McConnell also of
Ogden.
Tho young man had been head of
the family since he was 1G years old
and was a most exemplary boy.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day last in the Ogden city cemetery,
Elder Heber Hawkes officiating. Hy
rum Brown sang "Rock of Ages" and
"A Perfect Day" and Patriarch Nathan
Hawkes' dedicated tho grave. Many
beautiful floral offerings were evi
dences of the many friends of the
deceased.
lions. An immediate rapid decline in
tho expenses of the government is not
to bo looked for. Contracts for wai
department supplies will, indeed, be
rapidly cancelled and liquidated but
their immediate liquidation will make
heavy drains on the treasury for the
months just ahead of us. Tho main
tenance of our forces on the other
side of the sea is still necessary. A
considerable proportion of those forces
must remain in Europe during the
period of occupation, and thoso which
are brought homo will be transported
and demobilized at heavy expenses
for months to come. The Interest on
our war debt must, of course, be paid
and provision made for the retirement
of the obligations of the government
which represent it But these de-
mnnli .;! 1 nf nmtyc foil Unl.rr
111U11UJ 1,111, Ul WUlJt, 141 u UIUU1 UCIU II
what a continuation of military opera
tions would havo entailed.
"I entirely concur with the secretary
of tho treasury in recommending that
the two billions needed, in addition
to the four billions provided by exist
ing law, be obtained from the profits
which havo accrued and shall accrue
from war contracts and distinctively
war business, but that these taxes he
confined to the war profits accruing
in 191S or in 1919 from business orig
inating In war contracts. I urge your
acceptance 01 his recommendation that
provision be made now, not subse
quently, that the taxes to be paid in
1920 should be reduced from six to
four billions. Any arrangements less
definite than these would add ele
ments of doubt and confusion to the
critical period of industrial readjust
ment through which the country must
now immediately pass, and which no
true friend of the nation's essential
business interests can afford to be re
sponsible for creating or prolonging.
Clearly determined conditions, clearly
and simply charted, are indispensable
to the economic revival and rapid in
dustrial development which may con
fidently be expected, if we act now
and sweep all Interrogation points
away.
Naval Program.
"I take it for granted that congress
will carry out the naval program
which was undertaken before we en
tered the war. The secretary of the
navy has submitted to your commit
tees for authorization that part of the
programme which covers the building
plans of the next three years. These
plans havo been prepared along the
lines, and in accordance with the pol
icy, which the congress established,
not under the exceptional conditions of
the war but with the intention of ad
hering to a definite method of devel
opment for the navy; I-earnestly re
commend the uninterrupted pursuit
of that policy. It would celarly be un
wise for us to attempt to adjust our
programmes to a future world policy
as yet undetermined.
"The question which causes me the
great concern is the question of the
policy to be adopted towards the rail
roads. I frankly turn, to you for coun
sel upon it. I have no confident judg
ment of my own. I do not sec how
any thoughtful man can have who
knows anything of the complexity of
the problem. It Is a problem which
must be studied, studied Immediately
and studied without bias or prejudice.
Nothing can be gained by becoming
partisans of any particular plan of set
tlement About Railroads.
"It was necessary that the admin
istration of the railways should be
taken over by the government so long
as the war lasted. It would have been
impossible otherwise to establish and
carry through under a single direc
tion the necessary priorities of ship
ments. It would have been impossible
otherwise to combine maximum pro
duction at the factories and mines and
farms with the maximum possiblo car
supply to take tho products to tho
ports and markets; impossible to route
troop shipments and freight shipments
without regard to the advantage or
disadvantage of the roads employed;
impossible to subordinate, when nec
essary, all Questions of aconvenience to
the public necessity; impossible to
give tho necessary financial support to
tho roads from the public treasury. But
all these necessities have now been
served and the quostlon is, what is
best for the railroads and for the pub
lic In tho future.
"Exceptional circumstances and ex
ceptional methods of administration
wore not needed to convince that the
railroads were not equal to tho im
mense tasks of transportation impos
ed upon them by the rapid and con
tinuous development of the industries
of the country. We know that al
ready And wc knew that they were
unequal to it partly because their full
co-operation was rendered impossible
by law and iholr competition made ob
ligatory, so that it has been impossible
to assign to them severally the traffic
which best could bo carried by their
respective lines in the interest of ex
pedition and national economy.
Release of Railroads
"Wc may hope, I believe, for the
formal conclusion of tho war by treaty
by the time spring has come. The
twenty-one months to which tho pres
ent control of tho railways is limited
after formal proclamation of peace
shall havo been mado will run at the
farthest, I take it for granted, only
to tho January of 1921. Tho full
equipment of the railways which the
federal administration had planned
could not be completed within any
such period. Thcjiresent law does
not permit the use of the revenues of
the several roads for the execution of
such plans except by formal contract
with their directors, somo of whom will
consont, whilo some will not, and
therefore does not afford sufficient au
thority to undertake improvements
upon the scale upon which it would be
necessary to undertake them.
"Every approach to this difficult
subject-matter of decision brSngs us
fnce to face, therefore, with Jhis un
answered question: What is right that
we should do with tho railroads, in the
interest of the public and fairness to
their owners?
"Lot me say at onco that I have no
answer readj The only thing that is
perfectly clear to me is that it is not
fair either to the public or to the own
ers of the railroads to leave the ques
tion unanswered and that it will pres
ently become my duty to relinquish
control of the roads, even before the
expiration of the statutory period, un
less there should appear some clear
prospect in the meantime of a legis
lative solution. Their release would
at least produce one clement of a so
lution, namely, certainty and a quick
stimulation of private initiative.
Modify Regulations
"I believe that it will bo serviceable
for me to set forth as explicitly as
possiblo tho alternative courses that
Hit nnnrt tn mi. nintnn "Ttr,.
ly release the roads and go back to
tho old conditions of private manage
ment) unrestricted competition and
multiform regulation by both state and
federal authorities; or we can go to
the opposite extreme and establish
complete government control, accom
panied, if necessary, by actual govern
ment ownership; or wo can adopt an
intermediate course of modified pri
vate control under a more unified and
affirmative public regulation and un
der such alterations of the law as will
permit wasteful competition to be
avoided and a considerable degree of
unification of administration to be of- J
fected, as, for example, by regional 1
corporations under which the railways
of a definable area would bo in effect
combined in single systems.
"The one conclusion that I am ready
to state with confidence Is that il
would ,be a disservice alike to the
country and to the owners of the rail
roads to return to the old conditions
unmodified. Those arc conditions of
restraint without development There
is nothing affirmative or helpful about
them. What the country chiefly needs
is that all Its means of transportation
should be developed, its railways, its
waterways, its highways, and Its
countryside roads. Some new element
of policy, therefore, is absolutely
i uv,tjoui j miueooiw,) lui iu at'l VIUc
of the public, necessary for the re
lease of credit to those who are ad
ministering the railways, necessary
for the protection of their security
holders. The old policy may be
cbauged much or little, but surely it
cannot wisely be left as it was. I hopo
that the congress will have a com
plete and impartial study of the whole
problem instituted at once and prose
cuted as rapidly as possible. I stand
ready and anxious to release the roads
from the present control and I must!
do so at a very early date if by wait
ing until the statutory limit of time is
reached I shall be merely prolonging!
the period of doubt nnd uncertainty
which is hurtful to every interest con
cerned. "1 welcome this occasion to an
nounce to the congress my purpose to
join in Paris the representatives of
tho governments with which we have
been associated in the war against
tho central empires for the purpose of
discussing with them, the main feat
ures of the treaty ofTjeace. I realize
the great inconveniences' that will at
tend my leaving the country particular
ly at this time, but the conclusion that
it was my paramount duty to go has
been forced upon me by considerations
which I hope will seem as conclusive
to you as they have seemed to me.
"The allies governments have accept
ed the bases of peaco which I out
lined to the congress on the eighth of
January, last, as the central empires
also have, and very reasonably desire
my personal counsel in their interpre
tation and application, and it is highly
desirable that I should give it in order
that the sincere desire of our govern
ment to contribute without selfish pur
pose of any kind to settlements that
will be of common benefit to all the na
tlons concerned may be made fully
manifest. Tho peace settlements which
are now to be agreed upon are of
transcondence importance both to us
and to the rest of the world, and I '
know of no business or interest which
should take precedence of them. Tho
gallant men of our armed forces on
land and sea have consciously fought
for the ideals which they knew to be
tho ideals of their country; I have
sought to express those ideals; they
have accepted my statements, of them i
as the substance of their own thought
and purpose as the associated govern
ments have accepted them; I owe It to
them to seo to it, so far as in me lies
that no false or mistaken interpreti- 1
tion is put upon them, nnd no possible t
effort ohiitted to realize them. It Is ii
now my duty to play my full part in c
making good what they offered tholr ii
life's blood to obtain. I can think of
no call to service which could tran- t
scend this. r
"I shall be in close touch with you
and with affairs oa this sjde of tha
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water, and you will know all that I
s do. At my request, the French and
" English governments have absolutely
3 removed the censorship of cable news.
f which until within a fortnight they
3 had maintained and there is now no
t censorship whatever exercised at this
3 end except upon attempted trade com
J munications with enemy countries. It
has been necessary to keep an open
wire constantly available between
; Paris and the department of stale and
another between Franco and the de
- partment of war. In order that this
might be done with tho least possible
r interference with the other uses of
the cables, I have temporarily taken
over control of both cables in order
' that they may be used a single system.
' I did so at the advice of the most
1 experienced cable officials and I hope
that the results will justify my hope
that the news of the next few months
may pass with tho utmost freedom and i
with the least possible delays from
each side of the sea to the other.
"May I not hope, gentlemen of the
congress, that in the delicate tasks I
jshall have to perform on the other side
of the sea in my efforts truly and faith
fully to interpret the principles and
purposes of the country we love, I may
have the encouragement and the added
strength of your united support? I
realize the magnitude and difficulty of
the duty I am undertaking! I am poig
nantly aware of its grave responsibili
ties. I am the servant of tho nation.
I can have no private thought or pur
pose of my own in performing such
an errand. I go to lvo the best that
is in me to the common settlements
which I must now assist in arriving at
in conference with the other working
heads of the associated governments. I
shall count upon your friendly coun
tenance and encouragement I shall
not be inaccessible. Tho cables and
the wireless will render me available
for any counsel or service you may de
sire of me, and I shall be happy in
the thought that I am constantly in
touch with the weighty matters of do
mestic policy with which we shall have
to deal. I sail make my absence as
brief as possible and shall hope to re
turn with the happy assurance that it
has been possible to translate into ac
tion the great ideals for which Amer
ica has striven."
JUDGE SUSTAINS
lilCIEIS II
. 8ISBEE ESSE
TUCSON. Ariz., Dec. 2. Judge Wil
liam M. Morrow of San Francisco sus
tained tho demurrer and quashed the
indictments in the Bisbee denortation
cases in a decision filed this "morning
in the United States district court
Twenty-five capitalists, mine opera
tors, public officials and citizens of
Bisbee were involved.
Read tho Clascifiod Ada.
DISMISSES II f
POSTAL OFFICERS ?!
. FROM SERVICE H
NEW YORK, Dec 2. Postmaster fe
General Burleson has dismissed from
government service Edward Reynolds, f ,
vice president and general manager of
tho Postal Telegraph Cable company, I ,
and A. B. Richards, general' superin- f ?
tendent of the company's Pacific coast fi Tit
division, for alleged insubordination 1, m
I against tho government's plans to j
amalgamate tho Postal with tho West- !
ern Union Telegraph company. ,
on
;PEI. 1 1 IS :!:
i; W FJUfDR OF H
;l FEDERAL COWTBOL' I i
1
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2. The fed- J ,Tj
oral control act was ratified today by j ? c,
the stockholders of the Pennsylvania f,
"Railroad company The contract cov- j;
ers the Pennsylvania railroad and the (
lines operated by it east of Pittsburg. i tp
The compensation named in the cod-
tract is,?53.603,327.5S per year. Presi- a
dent Rea announced that it is suffi- tl 'Aj
cient to pay all fixed charges and con- il
tinuo the 6 per cent dividend. 'f (ill
Separate contracts are being negoti s fl
ated for the lines west and for those i . -
eastern subsidiaries which are owned j .
only in part by the Pennsylvania rail- j '
road- iv
oo k "
'KING ALBERT I
ENTERS LIEGE
WfTH FAMILY J
BRUSSELS, Sunday, Dec. 3. King ; M
Albert and the Belgian royal family ,
made their offiicnl entry into Liege ; gi
Saturday at the head of the troops who , f pj
conducted tho heroic defenso of that . J
town in 1914, says a Belgian official ( a M
statement t j J I J
Almost at the same time, the stat- 'J
ment adds, a Belgian cavalry brigndtf w
entered Aix-Ia-Chapelle, Germany, at j sv
tho request of German authorities.
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