PRESIDENT'S FIRST
CABLED MESSAGE
Recommendations Sent From
Paris and Read Before the
Sixty-sixth Congress.
URGES THAT BAN ON
WINE AND BEER BE REMOVED
Bays Our Prosperity Is Menaced by
No Foreign Competition—Favors
Liberal Treatment of Return.
ed Soldiers—Woman Suf-
frage Measure Should
Be Passed.
Washington.—For the first time In
treatment enough to make life toler.
able,
nlley,
prosperity. We must find
very different destination, It must
{also to a genuine co-operation and
control,
There is now in
dent in action.
tive and manifest only in a new or
ganization of industry, The genius of
tainly work such a
it Is that they seek and
adopt a common purpose with regard
to it,
Labor legislation lies, of course,
spirit and method of organization
which must be effected are not to be
history a message of a President of
the United States has been cabled |
from a foreign shore, this being the
case with the following message from |
President Wilson in Paris read be- |
fore the Sixty-sixth Congress: :
Gentlemen of the Congress: 1 deep- |
ly regret my inability to be present |
at the opening of the extraordinary |
gession of the f ongress, It still seems
to be my duty to take part In the
councils of the peace conference and
contribute what 1 can to the solution
of the innumerable questions to whose
settlement it has had to address It-
self, for they are questions which af. |
fect the peace of the whole world and |
from them, therefore, the United |
Btates cannot stand apart, 1 deemed |
it my duty to call the Congress to
gether at this time because It was |
pot wise to postpone longer the pro- i
yigions which must be made for the
support of the government. Many of
the appropriations which are absolute
ly necessary for the maintenance of
the government and the fulfillment of
its varied obligations for the fiscal
year 1019-1920 have not yet been
made; the end of the present fiscal |
year is at hand ; and action upon these
appropriations can po longer be pru-
dently delayed,
It is necessary, therefore, that 1
should Immediately call your atten-
tion to this critical need. It is hardly
necessary for me to urge that it may
receive your prompt attention,
Will Tell of Peace Later,
I shall take the liberty of address
fng you on my return on the subjects
which have most engrossed® our at-
tention and the attention of the world
during these last anxious months, since
the armistice of last November was
signed, the international settlements
which form the subject matter
of the treaties of peace and
of our national action in the immediate
future. It would be premature to dis-
cuss them or to express a judgment
about them hefore they are brought
to their complete formulation by the
agreements which are now being
sought at the table of the conference
I shall hope to lay them you
In theif many aspects
rangements have renched
1 hesitate to venture any opinion or
ition with regard
must
present
before
80 SOON #8 Bre
been
Press any recommen
to domestic
from the Us
touch
while absent
ited States and out of daily
of infor.
CONR
legislation
intimate sources
mation and counsel, 1
that 1 need, after
from Washington, seek
of who remained In
stant contact with domestic problems
and whe have known them ft
hand from day gay: and I trust
that it will very soon be possible for
me But there several
questions pressing for eonsideration to
which 1 feel that I
must, now direct your attention,
if only in general terms. Speaking of
them I shall, I dare say, be doing little
more than speaking your own thoughts,
I hope that 1 shall speak your own
Judgment also,
The Question of Labor.
The question which stands at the
front of all others in every country
amidst the present great awakening is
the question of labor; and perhaps 1
cun speak of it with as great advan
tage while engrossed in the considera-
tion of interests which affect all coun-
tries alike as I could at home and
amidst the interests which natarally |
most affect my thought, because they |
are the Interests of our own people.
By the question of labor I do not
mean the question of efficient indus- |
trial production, the question of how
labor Is to be obtained and made ef- |
fective in the great process of sustain. |
Ing populations and winning .success
amidst commercial and industrial ri |
vairies. 1 mean that much greater and |
more vital question, how are the men
and women who do the dally labor of
the world to obtain progressive im-
provement in the conditions of their
labor, to be made happier, and to be
served better by the communities and
the industries which thelr labor sus.
tains and advances? How are they to
be given their right advantage as citi
sens and human beings?
We cannot go any further in our
present direction. We have already
gone too far. We cannot live our
right life as a nation or achieve our
proper success as an industrial come
munity If capital and labor are to con
tinue to be antagonistic instead of be
Ing partners. If they are to continue
to distrust one another and contrive
how they can get the better of one in-
other? Or, what perhaps amounts to
the same thing, calculate by what form
and degree of coercion they ean man
age to extort, on the one hand, work
enough to make enterprise profitable,
with
am ous
so long an absence
to the advice
those mve Con.
close
10
to o fire
0 80,
may, and indeed
even
as by the common counsel and vel-
Legislation can
terprise and that oar deaiiags with the
countries ‘hat have need of our prod.
ucts aml our money will teach them
to deem us more than
whose necessities we seek in the right
wily to serve,
Our Merchant Marine,
Our new merchant ships, which have
some quarters been feared
rivals, may prove
rivals, rather, and common servants,
very much needed and very welcome,
Our great shipyards, new and old, will
in ns de
iceable to every maritime people in
restoring, much more rapidly
otherwise have been possible
the tonnage wantonly destroyed in
the war, 1 have only to suggest that
there are many points at which we
can facilitate American enterprise in
find a way to bring it about; and per-
than state legislation could.
The object of all reform In this es
sential matter must be the genuine
democratization of Industry, based
upon a full recognition of the right of
ed antagonists,
bringing the commercial and
them.
Taxation Legislation,
And credit and enterprise alike will
quickened by timely and helpful
legislation with regard to taxation. 1
hope that the Congress will find it
he
sideration of federal taxes in
some as they can be made and yet
participate In some organic way
play In Industry.
lntion Is practicable,
Some positive legis
The Congress
form which should be worldwide, by
establishing the eight hour day as the
standard day in every field of labor
over which it can exercise control, It
has sought to find the way to prevent
child labor, and will, I hope and be-
lieve, presently find it. It has served
the whole country by leading the way
in developing the means of preserving
and safeguarding life and health In
dangerous industries, Tt can now help
in the difficult task of giving a new
form and spirit to industrial organiza
tion by coordinating the several
of conciliation and adjost-
ment which have been brought Into ex
istence by the difficulties and mistaken
policies of the present management of
industry, and by setting up and de
veloping new federal agencies of ad.
vice and Information which may serve
ns a clearing house for the Lest eox-
periments and the best thought on
this great matter, upon which every
thinking man must be aware that the
future development of society directly
depends,
League of Nations,
Agencies of
and suggestion are presently to be cre
international counsel
ated In connection with the League of
is very field, but it is nn
action and the enlightened poll
nd La
must
The
hor
in th
of individuals, corporations a
ition that
forms
on
hardly
within each
the
Cleties
bring ahout re
men the
in hoy
suggestions from me
committees
will
ne to what means
make the
nt f thu
of
tinting
pain ing out
bers
the two THE feed
ot 3
seek to federnd
they shall
govermynent whole
and, if need be
reorganization
nation in
guiding
and reform,
Assist Returning Soldiers,
HS
the ss of
pro
fot
i that
¥ practical
should
I am sure that it
for me remind 3
one immediate and vers
of that we
next liberal spi
our returning
nasisted practicable way
find the for which they are
fitted in the daily work of the country.
This esn be done by developing and
maintaining upon an adequate scale
the admirable organization created by
the department of labor for placing
men seeking work, and it can also he
done, in at least one very great field,
by creating new opportunities for in-
dividual enterprise. The secretary of
the interior has pointed out the way
by which returning soldiers may be
necessary
to ye there is
guess
in
Le
neat
We must
soldiers
tion labor
the 1
fo it that
in
places
i are
every to
hitherto undeveloped regions of the
country which the federal government
meet all its obligations, The figures
to which these obligations have arisen
are very great Indeed, but they are
not so great ns to make it dificult for
the nation to meet them, and meet
them, perhaps, in a single generation,
discourage. These are not so great as
they seem, not great as the ime
mense sums we have had to borrow,
added to the immense sums we hove
had to raise by taxation, would seem
to Indicate; for a large proportion of
sums were raised in order that
they might be loaned the govern
ments with which we were associated
in the loans will of
COUrse assets, not labliiil-
SO
to
and those
constitute
war,
of by our taxpayers,
The main thing shall have
care for is that our taxation shall rest
as lightly as possible on the preduc.
tive resources of the country, that its
rates shall be stable, and that it shall
constant in revenue yielding
power, We found the main
sources from which it must be drawn
I take it for that main
stays will henceforth be the income
tax, the excess profits fax, and the
estafe tax, AN these can so ad
Justed to yield constant and adequate
not constitute a too
on the taxpayer, A
income (ax fl
for by net
1938, but you will find t}
char he
both in we ra of
in the metho 3 ite onl
we to
be
14
have
granted itn
be
and
grevious burden
revision of the
ready
¥
3
returns yet
hfe
the
provided
I think
i
been
PR
as
made
fo aq
inx
urther
antage
the
ection,
need not long
nich
The
he 1s
excess prof
were
necess;
of the wi ma » borne bi i
should fi perma
undue
if is
+ basis of
ine en
of our
nheritances
reconsidered
tian the fisenl
of the
certainly ought
the
EoYern-
SY&iome
roels
several wit it
remain 8 rormanent part of
f the federal
0
fisenl system
nent also
Many of the miner tages provided
the revenue leg 1017
though
~
ine ation of
fu
nag doubt made neces.
fiecessitl
the
can hardly
tion
ances of peaes, and can
happiiy be pot rid of, Among these,
I hope you will agree, are the ex.
cises upon various manufactures and
the taxes. .upen retail sales, They are
unequal In the Incidence on different
industries and on different individuals,
Their collection Is difficult and expen:
sive, Those which are levied upon ar-
ticles sold at retail are largely evaded
under casier
circumst pow
On the other hand, 1 should assume
many of the cutover or neglected
areas which lie within the limits of
the liberty of recommending very ur-
gently that his plans shall receive the
immediate and substantial support of
the Congress,
Unusual Commercial Opportunities.
ditlons await our commerce and in.
dustrial enterprise in the immediate
future. Unusual opportunities will
presently present themselves to our
merchants and producers in foreign
markets, and large flelds for profitable
livestment will be opened to our free
capital. But it Is not only of that that
Iam thinking ; it Is not chiefly of that
that I am thinking. Many great io.
Austries prostrated by the war wait
to be rehabilitated in many parts of
the world where what will be lacking
ig not bralng or willing hands or or
gnnizing capacity or experienced skill,
but machipery and raw materials and
capital. I believe that our business
men, our merchants, our manufactur.
ers and our capitaists will have the
vision to see that prosperity In one
part of the world ministers to pros
perity everywhere; that there Is
and on te other, justice aud fair
tro ie, ttes a solidarity of
interest throughout the world of en
the fact that alcobolic liquors will
presently no longer afford a source of
some, to draw upon.
many experts who ean advise you
ean, I ean only saggest the lines of
a permanent and workable system,
and the placing of the taxes where
they will least hamper the life of the
people, .
No Dangerous Foreign Competition,
There Is, fortunately, no occasion
for undertaking in the tmmedinie fu
ture any general revision of our sys
tem of import dutles. No serious
threatens American industries. Our
country has emerged from the war less
disturbed and les« weakened than uny
of the European countries which are
our eompetitors in manufacture, Their
Industrial establishments have been
subjected to greater strain than ours,
their labor force to a more serious dis
organization, and this is clearly not
the time to seek an organized advan.
tage. The work of mere reconstruc
tion will, I am afraid, tax the capacity
and the resources of thelr people for
LL, PA.
years to come, So far from there He
ing any danger or need of accentuated
foreign competition, I& is likely that
the conditiong of the next few vears
Americkn manufactures abroad,
of all should we depart from the policy
free into the
of the
permitting the
United States
entry
raw
Tariff Needs Attention,
tariff system which need prompt at
tention,
have made It plain that in some cases
great relinnce on forelgn supply
certain parts of our tariff policy do-
mestic considerations must he
Among the Industries to
given is that of the manufacture of
interruption of trade a cause of ex-
ceptiongl economic disturbance, The
close relation between the manufac
we one hand,
of explosives and poisonous
on the other, moreover, has
given the industry an exceptional sig
nificance and value, Although the
United States will gladly and unhbesi-
und
national disarmament, it will, never.
theless, be a policy of obvious pru-
dence to make certain of the success
ful maintenance of many strong nnd
well equipped chemical plants. The
| munication by such Instromeniaiit’es
| could be rendered more thorough pad
satisfactory ‘hang not been ful
use of, An exhaustive study of thx
whole question of electrical cor. mini
cation and of the means by which tin
central authority of fue nation enn
be used to unify and Improve it, if un
dertaken, by the appropriate commit.
tees of the Congress, would certainly
result, indirectly even If not directly,
| In 0 great public benefit,
Remove Ban On Wine and Beer,
The demobilization of the military
| forces of the country has progressed
to such a point that it seems to me en-
tirely safe now to remove the ban
upon the manufacture and sale of
wines and beers, but I am advised that
without further legislation 1 have not
the legal authority to remove the pres
ent restrictions, 1, therefore, recom
mend that the act approved Novem
ber 21, 1918, entitled, “An act
ible the secretary of agriculture
| earry out, during the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1919, the purposes of the
act entitled, ‘An io provide fur-
ther for the national security and de
fense by stimulating agriculture sand
facilitating the distribution of agri
cultural products, and for other pur
poses,’ be amended or repeeled in so
far as it applies to wines and heers,
I sincerely trust that I shall very
soon be ot my post In Washington
again to report upon the matters which
made ny presence at the peace table
apparently imperative, and to put my-
the service of the Congress in
every matter of adipinistration or
counsel that may to demnnd ex-
ecutive action or advice,
WOODROW
Hide
to en
in
net
sell a
Lem
WILSON,
we will he brought Into
was and may well be again a thorough-
iy knit monopoly of exercis
ing a competition of a peculiarly and
Insidious and dangerous kind.
The United States
capable
should, more
whenever our trade Is
against by foreign na
may be assured
of treatment which
tecting itself
discriminated
of
that equality
over. Our tariff laws as they
now stand provide no wenpon of re
tallation In case other povernments
should enact legislation unequal in is
bearing on our products as compared
with the products of other countries
Though we are as far as possible from
desiring to enter upon any course of
retalintion, we must frankly face the
that hostile by
is not beyond range
possibility and that it mas
be met by counter legislation
subject has,
legisiation other
nations the of
have to
This
vx
fortunately, been
States (ari
report of that shown
very clearly that we lack and that we
ought have the
sary i!
Commission A recent
commission has
to
for
equitable treatment
the
Insiruments neces.
and
The attention of
been this
HH assurance of equal
Congress has
jeg
which
the t
called to
matter on
mensyres
od by
stantia
{
nag t
OOraRtons no
mre
arift commission are
the same
by previous admin strations
that this
he past
recemmend
th
now
ny that have been
§
y i
ona phase of the
* the early atien
me, turning
shenk
the
ance
pro
Constitution
carnestly of
amet to the
extend
$v h
the 24
fran] the
the last
It seems to me
consideration of lost
pa Honse
at weak on
that
we and of
the In
that dtnendment
its sulunission forthwith to he 1
Intures of the several states
advantage calls for
He
adoption of and
legin.
Through
out all the world this long delayed ex
tension of the suflrage Ix lonked] for :
in the United States, 1 believe longer,
than anywhere else, the necessity for
it, and the immense advantage of it
it to
rel
tiebated, by women and meti who saw
the need for it snd urged the policy
of it when it required steadfast cour
age to be so much with
the common conviction: and I, for
one, for our country the dis
tinetion of being among the first to
act In a great reform.
Telegraph and Telephone Lines.
i
the national life, has been urged o
beforehand
Covet
course be returned to
owners as soon as the retransfer can
be effected without
confusion, so soon, that
ig, aus the
sible inconvenience to the public and
te the owners themselves
roads will be handed over to their
owners at the end of the calendar
year; if 1 were in immediate contact
with the administrative questions
which must govern the retransfer of
Until I am In direct con-
volved 1 can only suggest that in the
case of the telegraphs and telephones,
as in the ease of the railways, it In
clearly desirable in the public interest
that some legislation should be con.
sidered which may tend to make of
these indigpensiblé Instruomentalities
of our modern life a uniform and eo:
ordinated system which will afford
those who use them as complete and
certain weans of commucication with
all parts of the country as has so
long been afforded by the postal sys-
tem of the government, and at rates os
uniform and intelligible. Expert ade
vice Ix, of course, available in this
very practical mattter, and the public
lnterest is manifest. Neither the tele
graph nor the telephone service of the
country can be said to be in any sense
a national system. There are many
confusions and Inconsistencies of
rates, ¢
The scientific means by which com
* -
| history of the nation aave more Impor-
tant problems bearing a vital relation
pwalted con
gitention of
to business and industry
sideration than
the Sixtysixth Congress,
demand
sction
in former sessions are up for
again, and on top of them a host of
matters growing out of the war, His
tory
session. Just what will be accomplish.
ed no man can forecast with any de
gree of assurances, as the path is on
charted. So new are many of the prob
fens
will prove entirely Inadequate in
nishing guides for the votes of legisia
tors
ft @he
BYyenue,
enthroned
of
Newly in pawer
Capitol end Pennsylvania
With dJoages
gud distinet
settlement of the
with numerous varying suggestions for
thie of an American mes
chant marine and with an equal variety
of
sub
are maintained strictly,
of the
he
at lenst a hal
record,
different plans for the
raliroad problem
upbuliding
:
opinions and viewpoints on other
Jeets, it will be strange if party nes
Up at the othes
Wiisoy
resin!
end avenue President
will able to nullify cong
action through hb
It
pre ict
Is power of the velo
Is worse than a8 Chinese
the o
Tyee 5 fe
i BELLE
ieame,
taken during the war
Means for the disposal of
fleet by during 1 ‘
for making the
of an American merchant mar
Tarifly including
for dye and chemical Indusiries buily
up during the war,
Development of water power
tevision of anti-trust
with a view to the re peal of sections of
the Sherman liw which have become
obnoxious to business,
Revision of the revenne laws, includ
ing the repeal of the luxury tax and
| the elimination of inequalities in the
present tax schedules,
Measures designed to ald in the de
velopment of foreign trade.
Establishment of a permanent United
| States Employment Service providing
federal aid to states with employment
L agencies,
Consideration of numerous measures
backed by organized labor to promote
the welfare of workers,
i Reconstruction legislation of various
| kinds,
| Measures for the regulation of the
| packers, which were considered, buf
| st acted upon at the last session.
Other measures relating to food and
| the high cost of living.
| Congress will be busy at the start
| passing the appropriation bills, which
; fell by the wayside in the filibuster
Which marked the cloting days of the
Inst session. These bills must be dis.
posed of before the end of the present
fiscal year on June 30,
With the appropriation bills of most
pressing importance there is te ehnnee
to get far on business Jegisiation
during the early weeks Commitives
which do not handle appropriation
bills, however, are likely to begin hear
ings without much delay. The House
committee on foreign and Interstate
commerce, for example, probably will
make an early start on railroad bicar.
ings. The Ways and Means Commit.
tee will be able to consider the dye
stuff situation at an early date.
The Republican leaders seem agreed
that there will be no general tariff re.
vision at this session, It is the con.
| Sensus of opinion that it would avail
Companies
the
§3
‘
We WHr an
pros hie deve loptaoent
itie
revision,
| P giglation
nothing to work out a tariff revision
slong protective lines 10 be vetoed,
LIKED THE
“That intoxicated man In the rear
of the house seems to be enjoying the
play.”
“Yes, but I don't belleve he is as
drunk as he appears to be”
“No?
“A
IDEA.
moment ago when the tearful
exclaimed: ‘Would that I
were dead!” be applauded with all his
might I
A Reproof.
“1 understand,” began Mr. Mec ktom,
“that we gre going to
“Don't say that” his
“Say that you believe, that you
But affairs are
Just now In such a state of complexity
that nobody with your limited facil
for observation is
warranted in asserting that he under
interr
rd a
interrupted
: ft Aodurtics
anda ceqguction
A Handicap.
French don't
They say it's
“I'm not surprised. In
the French could ever
progress in the game”
“Why not?”
“The best baseball
practicing early in life.
“The kindly te
oo rough”
i don't
make
take
$
fact
hogin
There's a
France”
players
The Presumptuous Playwright.
“But the plece was a success,” pro
“Undeniably” haughty
replied the
“Yet you
at all,
“Nature gave me my figure, sir. and
net I
”
deserve no
Getting in Practice.
Joseph Rilus Eastman, Jr. was dig-
“You will dirt mized
with
rautioned
get the
bis governess.
“But I want to dig deep,”
Eastman, “I'm not
¢ a doctor, I'm going to
I've
explo ined
going te
be au grave
how ™
OuUng
3
t
Riovprpum
digg and or
got fo
learn
A LAW EBUIT.
Isn't Deeds the
lawyer a rather
extravagant man?
I've
to make
for
means.
'
him
- pen i
one FUN
several
no
known
Creditable Advice.
“My son,” said old man B
“Take this advice from
The less you use your credit
The beter it will be”
Cincinnat!
Safety First
i (at
chance
lon, Mr. Dewitt?
Dewitt—Are you sure you removed
all the needles?
iir)—Won't
fa cush
church
fa
on my s¢
Not That Kind,
Client—1 want to sue for a divorces
and an allowance of £1,500 a year,
Lawyer=-What is your husband's in
come?
Client—It's about that. 1 woulda't
ask for more than a man makes. I'm
not that kind.
All Lock Good to Her.
“Allow a horrid man 16 kiss me
never”
“Neither would I. But thank good
ness there isu’t one among all my male
acquaintances." —London Answers.
Figure It Out
*1 hope the critics didn't roast the
play I wrote for Mme. Flubdub*
“1 dunno whether you'd call it
roast or not,” responded the Old Cod
ger. "They ngree that it serves ad
mirably as a vehicle for her lack of
trient.” - .
Neo Call Boy.
“Omar declares that this world is
an inn”
“Yes, and n lot of fellows are
ing around in It, expecting Oppors
tunity to page them. ™ :
HA ANAS.
Shrewd Girt, ;
He-1f you could have two wishes
come true, what would you wish forp
She (frankiy)—Well, I'd wish for a
husband.
HeThat's only one.
She'd save the other wish until
1 saw how he turned out
“Would Year, io
you tax generat
borny tw
“I think I would” ig Stnatee
Bpug. “They certainly can
Kicking during my tenure of office™ ©
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