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Show PRESIDENTS MESSAGE READ TO CONGRESS Calvin Coolidffe Abandons Former Custom of Personally Person-ally Delivering Message. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 3. (U. P.) The annual message of President Calvin Coolidge to the sixty-eighth congress assembled In conjoint session, was delivered today. to-day. The recent custom of delivering the message in person was abandoned aban-doned due to the president's trip to Chicago to attend the Interna-tionnl Interna-tionnl Livestock exposition being held there. The message was read by clerks. High lights In President Cool-idge's Cool-idge's nmiual messaago were: "The nation holds a position un-supassedl un-supassedl in nil former human experience. ex-perience. "If we will but apply ourselves industriously and honestly wo have ample powers with which to meet our problems and provide for their speedy solution." "Perhaps the most important work that this session of congress can do is to continue a policy of eceuomy and further reduce the cost of government in order thnt we may have a reduction of taxes for the next fiscal year." "Anybody can reduce taxes, but it is not so easy to stand in gap and resist passage of increasing appropriation appro-priation bills which would make tax reduction impossible." "At no period in the past 12 years have our foreign relations beem in such a satisfactory condition as they are at the present time." "Everyone knows that the great need of the farmer is markets. The country is now suffering on the side of production. Almost the entire difficulty is on the side of distribution." distribu-tion." "Consolidation (of railroads) will assure not only a greater element of competition as to service, but it wL'l afford eeonomy of operation, greater stability in. railway' .'earnings .'earn-ings and more . economical' financing." financ-ing." -.i , "Any nation undertaking to maintain main-tain a miliary establishment with aggressive and imperialistic designs de-signs will find itself severely handicapped handi-capped in the economic development of. the world." -, "I believe thoroughly in the army and navy, in adequate defense and preparation. But I nm opposed to any policy of competition in building build-ing and maintaining land or sea armaments." "Our country wants no pretenses; it wants no vagaries. It Is determined deter-mined to advance in an orderly sound and common sense way. It does not propose to- abandon the theory of the declaration that the people have inalienable rights which no majority and no power of government govern-ment can destroy. I am convinced that it will be impossible for the people to provide their own government govern-ment unless they continue to own their own property." - 'I want tho people of all (he earth to see ill the American flag the symbol of a government which intends in-tends no oppression at home and no aggression abroad, which in the Mpirit of a common brotherhood provides assistance iri time of distress.' |