PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
WILSON BREAKS PRECEDENTS
Delivers Message In Person and Is
Roundly Cheered.
Tariff Reform Only Is Subject
of Communication.
Protection Principles of Twenty Years Ago Are
Entirely Out of Date—Would Place Busi­
ness On Its Merits and Stop Abnor­
mal Protection of Monopoly.
To the Senate and House of Repre­ greater freedom our method» may In
some respect» and at some point» seem
sentatives:
heroic and yet be remedies. It 1» our
I have called the Congress together i business to make sure that they are
in extraordinary session because a duty ! genuine remedies. Our object is clear,
was laid upon the party now in power i If our motive 1» above just challenge
at the recent elections which It ought and
only
an
occasional
error
of
to perform promptly, In order that the judgment Is chargeable against us. we
btirden carried by the people under ex shall be fortunate.
lsting law may be lightened as «o«u »■"
AVe are called upon to render the
possible and in order, also, that lhe j country a great service In more mat-
business interests of the country may ters than one. Our responsibility should
not be kept too long In suspense as Io be met and our methods should be
what the fiscal changes are io be to ' thorough, as thorough as moderate and
which they will be required to adj-st ' well considered, based upon the facts
themselves.
It Is clear to the whole as they are. and not worked out as If
country that the tariff duties must be we were beginners. We are to deal
altered. They must be changed to n.eet ! with the facts of our own day. with
the radical alteration in the conditions the facts of no other, and to make laws
It is
of our economic life which the country I which square with those facts
has witnessed within the last genera­ I best. Indeed It is necessary, to begin
i with the tariff.
I will urge nothing
tion. While the whole face and met.iod
of our industrial and commercla. life upon you now at the opening of your
session which can obscure that first
were being changed beyond recogni­
; object or divert our energies from that
tion the tariff schedules have remained I clearly defined duty. At a later time
what they were before the change Oe- i I may take the liberty of calling your
gan. or have moved In the direction they attention to reforms which should press
were given when no large circumstance | close upon the heels
of the tariff
of our Industrial development was want j changes. If not accompany them, of
It Is today. Our task is to square them which the chief Is the reform of our
with the actual facts. The sooner that ! banking and currency laws; but just
is done the sooner we shall escape from ' now I refrain. For the present, I put
suffering from the facts and the sooner i these matters on one side and think
our men of business will be free to ' only of one thing—of the changes in
thrive by the law of nature (the nature lour fiscal system which may best serve
of free business) instead of by the law i to open once more the free channels
of legislation and artificial arrange­ of prosperity to a great people whom
i we would serve to the utmost and
ment.
We have seen tariff legislation wan­ throughout both rank and file.
WOODROW WIDSON.
der very far afield in our day—very
The White House, April 8. ISIS.
far Indeed from the field in which our
prosperity might have
had a normal
growth and stimulation. No one who GERMAN AIRSHIP IN FRANCE
looks the facts squarely in the face or
knows anything that lies beneath the
surface of action can fail to perceive Lost Dirigible Captured By Mili­
the principles upon which recent tariff
tary Authorities.
legislation has been based. We long
Luneville. France—The German mil­
ago passed beyond the modest notion of
"protecting" the Industries of the coun­ itary dirigible airship Zeppelin IV
try and moved boldly forward to the made a landing in the military parade
idea that they were entitled to the di­
grounds here and was seized by the
rect patronage of the Government. For
The incident has
a long time—a time so long that the French authorities.
men now active in public policy hardly caused tremendous excitement.
remember the conditions that preceded
The German officers aboard the air­
it—we have sought in our tariff sched­
ship explained that they had been lost
ules to give each group of manufactur­
ers or producers what they themselves in the clouds and did not know they
thought that they needed In order to had crossed the French frontier.
maintain a practically exclusive mar­
The inhabitants of the eastern fron­
ket as against the rest of the world,
tier regions of France have been much
consciously or unconsciously, we have
built up a set of privileges and exemp­ agitated the last few weeks over re­
tions from competition behind which it ports that German dirigibles had been
was easy by any, even the crudest, observed or heard nightly hovering
forms ef combination to organize mo­
over the forts. The stories, like those
nopoly; until at last nothing is normal,
nothing is obliged to stand the tests of of the phantom airship of England,
efficiency and economy, in our world of never were properly substantiated.
big business, but everything thrives by
The chief officers of the engineer
concerted arrangement. Only new prin­ corps at Luneville removed the mag­
ciples of acting will save us from a
final hard crystallization of monopoly netos from the engines in order that
and a complete loss of the Influences the airship could not get under way,
that quicken enterprise and keep inde­ and the cabin was searched for pho­
pendent energy alive.
tographic apparatus, sketches or sim-
It is plain what those principles must iar evidence of spying operations, but
be. We must abolish everything that
bears even the semblance of privilege nothing of that nature was found.
or of any kind of artificial advantage,
and put our business men and producers YOUNG EDISON UNDAUNTED
under the stimulation of a constant ne­
cessity to be efficient, economical and
enterprising, masters of competitive Glass Bottle Bomb Blown Up but
supremacy, better workers and mer­
He Will Try- Again.
chants than any In the world.
Aside
West Orange, N. J.—Theodore Ed­
from the duties laid upon articles which
we do not. and probably cannot, pro­ ison's “bully invention,” a glass bot­
duce, therefore, and the duties laid up­ tle bomb, designed to sink the ships of
on luxuries and merely for the sake of “the enemy,” smashed itself to pieces
the revenues they yield, the object of
the tariff duties henceforth laid must while the 14-year-old son of Thomas
be effective competition, the whetting A. Edson was experimenting in his
of American wits by contest with the father’s laboratory.
wits of the rest of the world.
Bits of glass were imbedded in
It would be unwise to move toward
No injury
this end headlong, with reckless haste, young Edison’s right hand.
•
or with strokes that cut at the very resulted that will be permanent.
roots of what has grown up amongst us .
The boy’s idea was a floating bomb
by long process and at our own Invi­ constructed to explode upon coming in
tation.
It does not alter a thing to
upset It and break It and deprive it of contact with another object.
“Some of your first inventions blew
a chance to change. It destroys it. We
must make changes in our fiscal laws. up, didn’t they, dad?” young Edison
In our fiscal system, whose object Is asked after the accident.
development, a more free and whole­
“They did,” replied his father, “but
some development, not revolution or
upset or confusion. We must build up I went back at them.”
trade, especially
foreign trade.
We
To which Teodore replied:
“So
need the outlet and the enlarged field
will I.” ________________
of energy more than we ever did be­
fore. We must build up Industry as
Sixteen-Mile Tunnel Planned.
well, and must adopt freedom In the
place of artificial stimulation only so
Winnipeg, Man.—The Canadian Pa­
far as it will build, not pull down.
In dealing with the tariff the method cific railway will soon begin construc­
by which this may be done will be a tion of the longest tunnel in America.
matter of judgment, exercised Item by
item. To some not accustomed to the The tunnel will be built through Kick­
excitements
and
responsibilities
of ing Horse pass, in the Rocky Moun­
Darrow Plans to Retire.
Los Angeles—Clarence S. Darrow,
former chief counsel for the McNa­
maras, who has been tried twice for
alleged jury-bribing in connection
with the famous dynamite trial, left
Saturday for Chicago, whence he came
two years ago to defend the two broth­
ers now in the state prison at San
Quentin.
If he is not called on to
face another trial, Mr. Darrow said,
he will never practice law again,
but will retire to a ranch he has in
Northern California and devote him­
self to literature.
All Save Two in Army Desert.
Guaymas, Sonora — Commandant
Sanchez, of El Cobre, was left with
an army composed of his aide and
first sergeant Saturday when state
troops demanded the surrender of the
town. All the federal soldiers of the
El Cobre garrison promptly deserted,
only to march in with the victorious
insurgent state troops.
Sanchez and
his two loyal followers were taken
prisoners.
El Cobre is near the
smelting center of Fundición.
tains, and will be 16 miles long, cost­
ing $14,000,000. It will take seven
years, it is estimated, to build it. The
great hole through the mountain will
be four miles longer than the famous
Simplon tunnel through the Alps.
Railroad officials assert that the con­
struction of this tunnel will eliminate
many miles of dangerous snowsheds.
Suffragette May Enter.
MRS. EMMAL1NE PANKHURST.
English Suffragette Senteneed to Three Year» in Prison on t'hari^ of Incit­
ing Criminal Acts of Followers.
TAFT CORDIALLY WELCOMED
SIXTEEN DEAD ON 3000 Students, With ’Band, Receive
Back Former Fellow.
OREGON COAST
Bark Mimi Turns Turtle After
Being Floated.
Stranded for Two Months Off Ne­
halem. Ship Is Towed to Deep
Water and Lost.
Wheeler, Or. — After hanging to a
steel bar waist deep in water for 29
hours, part of which were in pitch
darkness, Charles S. Fisher, of Port­
land, and Captain J. Westphal, of
Germany, and two German sailor boys
were rescued by lifesavers from the
German bark Mimi, which capsized
early Sunday, after being pulled off
the sands of Nehalem sand spit, where
she was stranded early in February.
Sixteen other persons were drowned.
So far only two bodies have been re­
covered, one being that of a German
boy and the other that of W. C. Koen,
1181 Kirby street, Portland.
The four were the only ones saved
from the crew and the list of workmen
on the vessel, all others either having
been swept from the deck when the
accident first occurred or having been
washed into the sea from the boat dur­
ing the hours the terrific sea dashed
over her steel hull, which barely pro­
truded above the water.
One sailor plunged into the Bea and
was lost almost instantly. Two others
were lashed to the deck during low
tide and later died from the cold and
exposure.
Their bodies were cut
down by the Garibaldi lifesaving crew.
The bodies of the others are thought
to be lost forever, the only hope for
their recovery being the possibility of
their washing ashore.
The Mimi now lies 800 feet out in
the ocean, with the waves dashing
madly over her.
She has been con­
signed to her watery grave forever,
possibly with a number of bodies in
her hold.
Opinion is divided as to the possi­
bility of there being more bodies on
the ship. Captain Westphal says he
is practically sure there are others in
the hold. He could give no names.
He says he heard someone yelling in
the cookroom after the accident and
believes it was the ship’s cook. Oth­
ers may be within the hold, pinioned
under the wreckage of the upper deck.
It would be impossible to secure the
bodies.
Tabernacle to Be Solid.
Zion City, III. — A cement taber­
nacle, in which the Zion crusaders
may pray and inveigh against users of
tobacco and profane swearers, alleged
to form a majority of the operatives
of an outside factory here, will be
built at once opposite the offending
electrical works, it was announced by
Zionist partisans Wednesday.
The
old wooden tabernacle, in which daily
services against the factory were held,
was destroyed after a recent scuffle
between the Zionists and the factory
employes.
Boston—Miss Forence Ward, a mil­
itant British suffragette, will not be
barred from this country because she
smashed a few windows in London.
Secretary Wilson so ruled and Miss
Ward was set free. She had been de­
tained since last Friday, following ac­
Postage Stamps Soaked.
tion by a board of inquiry which had
St. Louis—Nine pouches of regis­
ordered her deported because of her
militant activities, for which Miss tered mail containing $100,000 worth
Ward admitted she had served three of postage stamps and new currency
of the face value of approximately
months in jail.
$100,000, all water-soaked
by the
Cordage Strike Serious.
floods, reached the postoffice here Sat­
Auburn, N. Y.—The cordage strike urday. The stamps are a total loss,
situation, involving more than 1700 but the money may be saved by being
operatives at the International Har­ shipped back to Washington to be
vester company and Columbian Rope "laundered and ironed.”
The stamps
company shops, has become acute. were destined to postofficea in all
Eleven persons were hurt in riots. , parts of the Southwest.
New Haven, Conn. — Undergraduate
Yale welcomed ex-I’resident Taft back
to his alma mater in a manner no
less hearty and enthusiastic than was
the godspeed given Wilson by the
Princeton students when he left a
month ago to take up the duties at
Washington that Mr. Taft was about
to lay down.
Practically the entire student body,
3000 strong, reinforced by a band,
was at the station when Mr. Taft and
his party arrived. An equally large
. crowd of citizens also was present.
As the Taft party stepped from the
train. Captain Spalding, of last year’s
football team, stepped forward and
presented Mrs. Taft wih a great bo-
quet of violets.
A moment later
Yale’s famous “frog chorus” cheer,
with nine “Tafts” on the end, roared
from 3000 throats.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Taft were deeply
moved by the reception.
Mr. Taft's
famous smile was lacking for a mo­
ment and he wore a serious look. As
the demonstration grew, however, he
smiled broadly and doffed his hat in
acknowledgement.
Headed by the “Y" men of the ath­
letic teams and a bulldog standing at
its leash, the procession proceeded to
the campus.
Mr. and Mrs. Taft with a delegation
of the faculty, followed in an automo­
bile. All along the line the ex-presi­
dent and Mrs. Taft received a contin­
uous ovation.
Arriving on the cam­
pus, Mr. Taft was escorted to a bal­
cony in Memorial hall. As he started
to speak he received another great
ovation.
COLD STORAGE IS DEFENDED
Pennsylvania Granger, However,
Defends Immediate Use.
Philadelphia—-Cold storage ware­
houses were defended here in speeches
at the annual meeting of the Ameri­
can Academy of Political and Social
Science which was called to discuss
the cost of living.
At the close of the afternoon ses­
sion, F. G. Urner and Frank A. Porne,
both of New York, although not on the
program, were called to the platform
and in vigorous talks defended the
practice of storing commodities in
cold storage warehouses.
They de­
clared that the practice was a benefit
to the public, insofar that it protected
the people from a shortage of food and
from excessive prices, • As an exam­
ple, both said that through the stor­
age of butter and eggs the people of
the country had been supplied through­
out the last winter with these food­
stuffs at reasonable prices.
William T. Creasy, master of the
Pennsylvania State Grange, aroused
enthusiasm when in beginning his ad­
dress on the cost of living he said:
“We on the farms are in favor of kill­
ing chickens and eating them within
24 hours.”
Mr. Creasy said that one of the high
costs that entered into production of
foodstuffs was the scarcity of farm
help. He said that farm laborers left
the country for the cities, where they
obtained better pay.
Washington, D. C,- Preaidant Wil­
son bridged Tuesday the gap that for
over a century has separated the ex­
ecutive and legislative branches of the
government.
Not as a cog in a machine, not a»
an impersonal political entity, nor as
a mere department of government, but
as the human President, he went to
congress to speak, about a tariff.
Standing before the senate and
house of representatives in joint ses-
, »ion us no other president had done
formorc than 112 years, President
Wilson stated simply and tersely what
he thought should be done for the wel­
fare of the country ami asked his
legislative colleagues, man to man, to
aid in keeping the pledges of their
party.
Wth a sweep of decision that shat­
tered precedent, the President brushed
aside all imaginary boundaries be­
tween congress and the executive
office, and rescued himself, as he ex­
pressed it, “from that isolated island
of jealous authority" which the presi­
dency had come to be regarded.
Congress, somewhat startled the
other day when it heard that the Pres­
ident had determined to deliver his
message on the tariff by word of
mouth, had propared for a ceremony
of unusual importance, ami such it
was; yet when President Wilson ar­
rived in the midst of the groat as­
semblage, riding through throngs of
cheering people in the streets and
later looking up into galleries crowded
with privileged ticket-holders,
he
seemed, after all, what he said he was
I—“a human being trying to co-operate
with other human beings in a common
service.”
When th«- much-heralded Incident
was over, congress seemed pleased and
the President was delighted. He ex­
pressed himself to friends as i m press-
ed with the dignity of the occasion,
and some of his confidants later de-
clared that he left the capitol greatly
relieved to think that, after all. his
proctxlent-smaahing had not been such
a cataclysmic thing as some older
heads hail predicted.
The President's visit to the capitol
was brief, lasting about a quarter of
an hour.
Leaving a cabinet meeting
at the White House, he start«*«! on his
mission accompanied by no one except
a secret service man. He rode in a
White House automobile and five min­
utes later was driven through the
crowds assembled about the house
wing of th«* capitol.
At two minutes before 1 o’clock the
President entered th«* chamber. Mem­
bers of the house and senate rose as
Speaker Clark brought «lown the gavel.
From the floor and galleries distin­
guished guests looketl on at the acene.
President Wilson, escort«*d by Sen­
ator Bncon, bowel acknowledgment to
the applause and mounted the speak­
er’s stand to the journal clerk's desk,
directly in front of the speaker.
With a smile, as he began to speak,
the President told his hearers why he
had come. He said he was glad to
verify for himself the impression that
the President of the United States
was a person.
He was speaking in an ordinay tone
of voice, just as though he were talk­
ing to a senator in his office.
Every
eye was fixed upon him as he spoke,
and it was instantly apparent that he
had aroused the keenest interest. As
the President proceeded with his pre­
liminary statement, averring that he
had come to »i«eak naturally with his
fellow men. the interest was tense.
“After this pleasant experience,”
the President declared, “I shall feel
quite normal in all our dealings with
one another.”
The house and senate applauded.
Then the gallery joined in. Mrs. Wil­
son and the President’s daughters and
other relatives joined from the execu­
tive gallery. Where a few moments
before the event had seemed unusual,
almost unreal, it now appeared per­
fectly adjusted to conditions and not
at all dramatic. The applause subsid­
ing the President began to read his
brief message on the tariff.
Print Paper and Pulp Free.
Washington, D. C—John Norris, of
the committee on paper of the Amer­
ican News Publishers’ association,
said:
“The practical effect of the
proposed tariff bill upon news print
paper and pulps will be to admit news
print paper and pulps free of duty
from all the world, without qualifica­
tion of any sort. Chemical pulp is al­
so admitted free of duty from all na­
tions with the exception that chemical
pulp must pay $2 per ton from those
Canadian provinces which prohibit ex­
portation of pulp wood.
Canadian«. Watch Tariff.
Ottawa, Ont.—The probable effect
in Canada of the tariff changes by the
congress of the United States will be
worked out by Canadian experts and
until their verdict is submitted it is
unlikely that any official opinion will
be expressed here regarding the meas­
ure.
Bullets Hit Acrons Line.
Individually, however, the mem­
Naco, Ariz.—General Pedro Ojeda, bers of the parliament believed that
with hie 300 fighting federal», late the Dominion would reap material
Saturday attacked the line of 600 benefit from the new schedules.
state troops surrounding Naco.
For
Canada Wins Immigrants.
a few minutes just before sunset a hot
fight progressed three miles East of ’¡’Ottawa, Ont.—Canada’s immigra­
Naco. Bullets struck store buildings tion figures for the fiscal year just
in Naco, Ariz.
Ojeda failed to cut ended show a phenomenal increase
through, but held his position. De- j over those of last year and will be the
For
termining to prevent the f^lernls com­ largest in the country's history.
posing the only remaining garrison in the 10 months to February 1, 345,000
Northern Sonora from escaping into foreigners arrived. Of these, 130,000
Chihuahua, the insurgent state troops were British subjects and 119,000 cit­
izens of the United States.
were rushed in from all sides.
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
An electrically driven collier ship
has been put in commission for the U.
8. navy.
Chicago will build hotels and b«>ard-
ing houses fur working girls who have
no home».
A college professor at Berkeley,
Cal., lives comfortably on nine cents'
worth of fool per day.
The Iowa legislature struck out tho
enacting clause from th«« woman suf­
frage bill, thus killing it.
An American suffragette imprisoned
for offenses in Istmlon sings “John
Brown's Body” continually and Is be­
lieved to be losing her mind.
Th«* Imperial Chancellor of Germany
declares that nation is ready to stand
by Austria in th«* event of war with
Russia over the Balkan situation.
Sir Edward Grey, British foreign
secretary, declares there would have
b«*en a great European war had not
the power» agreed on the future fron­
tier of Albania.
“Crusaders” of Zion City, III., in­
sist on singing and praying to convert
operatives in the "outsiders” electri­
cal factory in that city, and many
have been arrested.
A constitutional amendment chang­
ing inaugural «lay from March 4 to the
last Thursday in April was propose«!
in a resolution reintroduced in the
house by Representative Henry.
A delegation of Blackfeet Indians,
head«-d by <’hu-f John Whit«- i'nlf, ap-
jiealed to Secretary Lane for rations
for th«* Black feet, who, he was told,
are starving on their reservation near
Browning, Mont.
German army officers, who were
aboard the Zeppelin air cruiser “Z
IV" when sh«* was captured by French
officers after crossing the French
frontier an«i landing at Luneville, are
of the opinion that the Frenchmen did
not discover any of the secret work­
ings of the aircraft..
It is rejiorted that Huerta is about
to retire as president of Mexico.
Senator Borah says foreign diplo­
mats can live without salaries if they
will.
larwer estimates of the winter
wheat crop are strengthening Chicago
prices.
Republican leaders in Washington
claim early election returns show Re­
publican gains.
,
A local tornado in Missouri kiileii
one man and injured 25 persons, be­
sides destroying a score of farmhou»«*».
Flootl refugees nt Shawneestown,
III., are reported to be without food.
Doctors who have examined Aleiko
Sehinas, the asanssin who kill«*d King
George, anmiunce he is suffering from
tuberculosis.
A Chicago man ag«d 65 has been ar­
rested for having four wives and 26
children, all living in the same suburb
of that city.
Montenegrins are reportol to have
abandoned Tarabosch fort, in front of
Scutari, after having capture«! it with
severe losses.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 866»
87c per bushel; blues tern, 98c; re«i
Russian, 85c; valley, 87c.
Oats—No. 1 white. $276«.28 per ton;
valley, stained, $246(26.
Barley Feed, $23 per ton; brew­
ing, nominal; tnlled, $25.506(26.50.
Corn -Whole, $27; cracked, $28 ton.
Millstuff»—Uran, $20.506(21 per
ton; shorts, $236(23.50; middlings,
$30.
Hay — Eastern Oregon
timothy,
choice, $156(17; mixed, $106(13.50;
oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $126(13;
clover, $9; straw, $76(8.
Vegetables — Artichokes, 90c6i$l
per dozen; asparagus, 66( 7c pound;
cabbage, ljc; head lettuce, $26(2.50
crate; hothouse lettuce, 75c6($l per
box; peppers, 856640c pound; rhu­
barb, $1.756(2.25 box; spinach, 75c
per box; sprouts, 10c pound; garlic,
56(6c; turnips, 90c6($l
per »ack;
parsnips, 90c6( $1 ; carrots, 90c6($l.
Potatoes — Burbanks, 456(50c per
hundred; new, 8}6(il0c pound; sweet,
4c.
Green Fruit
Apples, 30c6Z$1.50
per box, according to quality; straw­
berries, $3.25 per crate.
Poultry—Henn, 16c; broilers, 30c;
turkeys, live,
186(20c;
dressed,
choice,
246(25 c ;
ducks, 176119c;
geese, 126(12 jc.
Eggs Fce«h Oregon ranch, 196(20c
per dozen.
Butter Oregon creamery cube», 37c
pound; print», 38J6 i 39 c .
Pork—Fancy, 126(12|c pound.
Veal—Fancy, 13j6( 14c pound.
Hops—1912 crop, 116616c pound;
1913 contract«, 15c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, 106i 14c per
pound; valley, 186/20c; mohair, 3066
32c.
Cattle —Choice steers, $86(8.25;
good, $7.756(8; medium, $7.506(7.75;
choice cows, $6.256(7.75; good, $6.50
6(6.75; m«*dium. $66(6.50; choice cal­
ves, $86(9; good heavy calves, $6.50
6/7.50; bulls, $5.506/6.25.
Hogs Light, $96(9.60; heavy, $8
6/8.75.
Sheep—Yearling wethers, $6.25ff/'
7.25; ewes, $4.756(,6; lambs, $76( 8.