Wilson urges immediate currency law and farm relief plans
President Wilson spoke to a joint session at the start of the second session of the Sixty third Congress urging prompt currency legislation. He emphasized farmers’ needs and addressed the Mexican crisis. He proposed clarifying changes to the Sherman anti trust law and advocated direct presidential nominating choices.
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Primary Nomination Ideas for United States Presidency
A proposal urges nationwide primary elections to select presidential nominees without nominating conventions. It allows conventions to declare primaries verdicts and draft party platforms, featuring current national leaders and committee members as delegates.
Message to Congress on State of the Union
The President outlines constitutional duty and asks Congress to study department reports on government business. He notes the list is long and emphasizes the importance of the subjects to the nation’s welfare and progress.
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Union
Wants Treaties Ratified Aims Peace Through Arbitration
A historic pledge asserts the United States leads in peace negotiations and urges ratification of arbitration treaties. The piece links global acceptance of binding treaty processes to a future era of settled peace, stressing honor and wartime obligations to world peace.
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Treaty obligations and their evolving interpretations
The article discusses the creation of new treaty obligations and how existing commitments are interpreted. It analyzes legal frameworks guiding international agreements and highlights shifts in diplomatic understanding.
Huerta’s Downfall Foreseen as Mexican Dictatorship Falters
The article declares Huerta a usurper and dictator, arguing no peace for the United States while he controls Mexico. It lauds constitutional government, warns of Mexico’s fragile rights, and foresees his collapse as his power erodes daily.
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Victoriano Huerta
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Views on Currency Bill and Farmers Credit Urged
The speech stresses urgent enactment of banking and currency reform. It argues the currency bill benefits farmers by leveling access to credit and urges targeted provisions to improve farmer capital access without government credit privileges.
Farmers and government to form stronger rural credit ties
The speech highlights the need to elevate farming as a partner to markets and finance. It notes the agricultural department's role, the treasury's timely crop funding, and calls for ongoing rural credit reforms studied by a special commission to compare European systems and guide U S policy.
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President urges currency reform to aid farmers
President Wilson in his annual message urges immediate passage of currency legislation. He says business interests await the law before investing and developing resources and notes farm financing difficulties. He calls for measures to safeguard farmers’ credit and avoid government deposits in southern and western states to aid producers.
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Wilson
Fragmentary quotation on training and legislation
A partial passage notes that reforms may aid training and the passage of suitable legislation. It avoids dogmatism and argues that common counsel should yield desired results.
Calls to strengthen and clarify Sherman Act enforcement
The speaker urges supplementing antitrust law with explicit legislation to ease administration and reduce areas of debate. He argues for clearer rules, fairer enforcement, and less uncertainty, aiming to focus future deliberations on antitrust reform during the session.
Private enterprise and monopoly actions urged
The text urges freeing private enterprises from embarrassment and allowing them to prosper. It emphasizes destroying private monopoly, widening the ways of action, and ensuring investments can be made without anxiety or restraint.
Direct Elections for Presidency Through National Primaries
The speaker argues for nationwide primary elections to select presidential nominees without nominating conventions. Conventions would remain only to declare primary verdicts and craft party platforms, with delegates not tied to single-office nominations.
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United States
Congress
Senate
Phitferns
Philippines Self Government Path Urged by Speaker
A speech argues the United States must grant ultimate independence to the Philippines and press toward self government by progressively expanding Filipino control. It urges steady steps, extended rights, and local governance to earn Filipino confidence while planning eventual withdrawal of supervision.
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Problem in Alaska urges nation to develop natural resources
Text argues Alaska requires full territorial government and modernization. It calls for federal action to grant full territorial status and to develop Alaska as a storehouse, with government built railways and controlled port terminals for the benefit of all.
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No Title as Yet on Resource Policy Speech
The speaker argues railways unlock the nation’s storehouse and must lead to broader resource exploitation. He stresses a staged conservation policy workable across Alaska and the Union, urging harmony between state and federal authorities rather than conflict.
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Union
President Wilson Reveals Philippine Policy and Steps
President Wilson outlines his Philippine policy. He supports development with eventual independence, noting progress like increased native appointments to the Philippine commission and acknowledging current limits on self government.
Conference on Resource Policy Toward Shared National Interests
A fragment discusses balancing resource use between individual rights and community needs. It argues for a policy formed by conference and concession to release resources without waste, proposing regulation acceptable to the people and the nation. It calls for cooperation to bring communities to a common end.
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Employer's Liability Act urged to protect workers on land and sea
President Woodrow Wilson calls for an employer's liability act to safeguard miners and sailors and to promote safe, productive workplaces. He links social justice, economic reform, and conservation of human life, noting international talks on sea safety. He emphasizes law as machinery to realize justice.
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Riverge
Woodrow Wilson
Oyster Shells Touted for Child Health by Medieval Doctors
The fragment suggests medieval physicians used ground oyster shells to treat rickets in children. It claims shells contained minerals such as iron manganese iodine and phosphorus and that powdered oyster shells could improve growth in children.
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