Show I Wilsons Wilson's Tariff Message I 0 a i Con Congress Congiv s with of measures already 1 l before for it I TO including the tariff legislation gj for the enactment 1 of which it itI I presumably wa wo summoned in ill extraordinary session gion President I Wilson's Wilsons jJ Oll'S brief brieC massage y yesterday came a n os an m anticlimax The Hie obvious and nd admitted fact that th the President w wa one ni-ic of the framers I of the tariff measure and that it hi his ideas obviated the necessity i y for hi Ins his speech from the throne X Not 01 only Congress s. s but the entire n nation tion know knew w si as SH early a ss Monday what Mr 11 W Wilson lon hoped to o 0 accomplish h his message consequently consequently became a n mere empty empt t form not nt only because c of its general character but hut because the J excuse for it was lacking I Congress s meets in extraordinary lv session only onh when grave matters mat press press for adjustment It Tt i is the tilo province ro of f the executive to toI issue the call eoll and ond to acquaint the making lawmaking bo body r when it has I assembled and Ind is organized for business of the evils ils he be has disI discovered dis dis- I covered und the methods he would s suggest I est for their removal Jn n I the present instance however the invisible government hOB has been in III operation the President ha had clone done previously in secret conferences t with legislators g the duly duty that ho be should have performed yesterday t Twenty four hours before the Congress hl had hll nl l been informed of the work it was as to do that work was as before it and before the nation A stu study r of tho the Pre Presidents President's ident's message however excuses congressional ional failure to wait nit for it When hen one casually examines it with I reference to the detailed leports previous executives have hae ma made e. e the wonder i is that it is brief after reads rends I s so 80 o one analyze and mentally men I tally reduces it iL to the fundamental ment 1 es essence of plain statement the wonder is ig that it is is so long It could casil easily be reduced to fifteen t or twenty words Word since it eliminates logic o de and e example and nd nd sets forth only a principle The Thc amazement of it all is not as to its length or its emptiness but rather that Mr fr 1 Wilson ilson in his fondness for smashing precedent did not abandon it altogether It is much less Jess informing that tho the tariff f bill biB that came virtually from the tho White Whito House Honse on t Pret Previous ous Presidents in setting forth the ills that beset the nation and the panaceas they would have Congress brew have shown a the lawmakers the course of logic followed by hy the presidential mind mindin in r reaching chin its conclusions Mr r. Wilson brushes aside as RS of no avail t such puerile ideas and boldly tells Congress what it should do do Mr fr I Wilson's Wilsons predecessors found foun it advisable to describe conditions condition to toI I rehearse tho the causes which brought them about and to give i e some someI I t reason eason for their faith that the legislation th they urged urged would improve I t matters matte Mr r. r Wilson Wilon plunges across country to his goal avoiding the traveled wen paths of argument lie He assumes one supposes i that Congress is as M well informed as he or that one word from the White bite House Honse is sufficient Previous presidential messages have I been able state papers actual briefs from the White House setting forth the presidential position and filed with the lawmakers to be beI I scanned from time to time to aid nid them in in their work One may confidently assume that none of Mr r. r Wilsons Wilson's il mouthpieces in in House I or Senate will e ever er er search in this message for fOl facts facts' or logic ogie to aid th them m in their pleas picas |