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The President's Congressional Message
[Continued from First Page.]
based on a real community of Inter
est and participation in control.
"There la now in fact a real com
munity of interest between capital
and labor, but it has never been
made evident in action. It can be
made operative and manifest only in
a new organization of industry. The
genius of our businessmen and the
sound practical sense of our work
ers can certainly work such a part
nership out when once they realize
exactly what it is that they seek and
sincerely adopt a common purpose
with regard to it.
Legislation An Aid
"Labor legislation lies, of course,
chiefly with the states: but the new
spirit and method of organization
which must be effected are not to be
brought about by legislation so much
as by the common counsel and vol
untary co-operation of capitalists,
manager and workman. Legislation
can go only a very little way in com
manding what shall be done. The
organization of industry Is a mat
ter of co-operate and industrial ini
tiative and of practical business ar
rangement. Those who really de
sire a new relationship between capi
tal and labor can readily find a way
to bring it about: and perhaps Fed
eral legislation can help more than
state legislation could.
"The object of all reform In this
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essential matter must be the genu
ine democratization of industry,
based upon a full recognition of the
right of those who work, in what
ever rank, to participate in soma
organic \vay in every directly af
fect their welfare or the part they
are to play in industry. Some posi
tive legislation is practical. The
Congress has already shown the way
to one reform which should be world
wide, by establishing the eight-hour
day as the standard day in every
field of labor over which you can (
exercise control. It has sought to'
find the way to prevent child labor,
and will, I hope and believe, present
ly find it. It has served the whole
country by leading the way in de
veloping the means of preserving
and safeguarding life and health in
dangerous industries. It can now
help in the difficult task of giving
a new form and spirit to Industrial
organization by coordinating the sev
eral agencies of conciliation and ad
justment which have been brought
into existence by the difficulties and
mistaken policies of the present
management of industry and by set
ting up and developing new Federal
agencies of advice and information
which may serve as a clearing house
for the best experiments and the best
thought on this great matter, upon
which every thinking man must be
aware that the future development
of society directly depends. Agen
cies of international counsel and sug
gestion are presently to be created
in connection with the League of
Nations in this very field: but it is
national action and the enlightened
policy of individuals, corporations
and societies within each nation that
must bring about the actual re
forms. The members of the com
mittees on labor in the two houses
will hardly need suggestions from
me as to what means they shall seek
to make the Federal government the
agent of the whole nation iii point
ing out and, if need be, guiding the
process of reorganization and re
form.
Jobs For Soldiers
"I am sure that it is not neces
sary for me to remind you that there
is one immediate and very practical
question of labor that we should
meet in the most liberal spirit. We
must see to it that our returning
soldiers are assisted in every prac
ticable way to find the places for
which they are fitted in the daily
work of the country. This can be
done by developing and maintaining
upon an adequate scale the admirable
organization created by the Depart
ment of Labor for placing men seek
ing work; and it can also be 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 helped to find and take up land
in the hitherto undeveloped regions
of the country which the Federal
government has already prepared or
can readily prepare for cultivation
and also on many of the cut-over
or neglected areas which lie within
the limits of the older states: and I
once more take the liberty of recom-
I mending very urgently that his plans
shall receive the immediate and sub
stantial support of the Congress.
Business After War
"Peculiar and very stimulating
conditions await our commerce and
industrial enterprise in the imme
diate future. Unusual opportunities
will presently present themselves to
our merchants and producers in for
eign markets and large fields for
profitable investment will be opened
to our free capital. But it is not
only of that that I am thinking: it is
not chiefly of that that I am think
ing. Many great industries pros
trated by the war wait to be rehabili
tated, in many parts of the world
where what will be lacking is not
brains or willing hands or organizing
capacity or experienced skill, but
machinery and raw materials and
capital. I believe that our business
men, our merchants, our manufac
turers and our capitalists, will have
the vision to see that prosperity in
one part of the world ministers to
prosperity everywhere: that there
is in a very true sense a solidarity of
interest throughout the world of en
terprise and that our dealings with
the countries that have need of our
products and our money will teach
them to deem us more than ever
friends whose necessities we seek in (
the right way to serve.
"Our new merchant ships, which
have in some quarters been feared
as destructive rivals, may prove
helpful rivals, rather, and common
servants, very much needed and very
welcome. Our great shipyards, new
and old, will be so opened to the use
of the world that they will prove
immensely serviceable to every mari
time people In restoring, much more
rapidly than would otherwise have
been possible the tonnage wantonly
destroyed in the war. I have only
to suggest that there are any points
at which we can facilitate American
enterprise in foreign trade by op
portune legislation and make it easy
for American merchants to go where
they will be welcomed as friends
rather than as dreaded antagonists.
America has a great and honorable
service to perform in bringing the
commercial and industrial undertak
ings of the world back to their old
scope and swing again, and putting
a solid structure of credit under
them. All our legislation should be
friendly to such plans and purposes.
Revised Taxes
"And credit and enterprise alike
will be quickened by timely and help
ful legislation with regard to taxa
tion. I hope that the Congress will
find it possible to undertake an early
reconsideration of Federal taxes, in
order to make our system of taxa
tion more simple and easy of admin
istration and the taxes themselves as
little burdensome as they can be
made and yet suffice to support the
government and meet all its obliga
tions. The figures to which those
obligations have arisen are very great
indeed, but they are not so great as
to make it difficult for the nation to
meet them, and meet them, perhaps,
in a single generation, by taxes
which will neither crush nor dis
courage. These are not so great as
they seem, not so great as the im
mense sums we have had to borrow
added to the immense sums we have
had to raise by taxation, would seem
to indicate; for a very large propor
tion of those sums were raised in
order that they might be loaned the
governments with which we were
associated in the war, and those loans
will, of course, constitute assets, not
liabilities, and will not have to be
taken care of by our taxpayers.
"The main thing we shall have to
care for is that our taxation shall
rest as lightly as possible on the
productive resources of the country,
that its rate shall be stable and that
it shall be constant in its revenue
yielding power. We have found the
main sources from which it must be
drawn. I take it for granted that its
mainstays will henceforth be the in
come tax, the excess profits tax and
the estate tax. All these can so be
adjusted to yield constant and ade
quate returns and yet not constitute
a too grfßvous burden on the tax
payers. A revision of the income tax
has already been provided for by the
act of 1918, but I think you will find
that further changes can be made to
advantage both in the recommenda
tions of tax and in the method of
its collection. Excess profits tax need
not long be maintained at the rates
which were necessary while the enor
mous expenses of the war had to
be borne; but it should be made the
basis of a permanent system which
will reach undue profits without dis
couraging the enterprise and activity
of our business men. The tax on in
heritances ought, no doubt, to be
reconsidered in its relation to the
fiscal systems of the several states,
but it certainly ought to remain a
permanent part of the fiscal system
of the Federal government also.
Tax "Burdens
"Many of the minor taxes provid
ed for In the revenue legislation of
1917 and 1918, though no doubt
made necessary by the pressing ne
cessities of the war time, can hardly
find sufficient Justification under the
easier circumstances of peace and
can now happily tie got rid of. Among
these, I hope you will agree, are the
excises upon various manufacturers
and the taxes upon retail sales. They
are unequal in the incidence on dif
ferent industries and on different in
dividuals. Their collection is dlf-i
|ficult and expensive. Those which
are levied upon articles sold at re
tall are largely evaded by the read
justment of retail prices. On the
other hand I should assume that it
is expedient to maintain a consider
able range of indirect taxes and the
fact that alcoholic liquors will pres
ently no longer afford a source of
revenue by taxation, makes it the
more necessary that the field should
be carefully restudied in order that
equivalent sources of revenue may
be found which it will be legitimate,
and not burdensome, to draw upon.
But you have at hand in tho Treas
ury Department many experts who
can advise you upon the matters
much better than I can. I can only
suggest the lines of a permanent
and workable system, and the placing
of the taxes where they will least
hamper the life of the people.
Sees Foreign Market
"There is, fortunately, no occasion
for undertaking in the immediate
future any general revision of our
system of import duties. No serious
danger of foreign competition now
threatens American industries. Our
country has emerged from the war
less disturbed and less weakened
than any of the European countries
which are competitors in manufac
ture. Their industrial establish
ments have been subjected to great
er strain than ours, their labor force
to a more serious disorganization
and this is clearly not the time to
seek an organized advantage. The
work of reconstruction I am afraid,
will tax the capacity and resources of
their people for years to come. So
far as their being any danger or
need of accentuated foreign compe
tition, it is likely that the conditions
of the next few years will greatly
facilitate the marketing of American
manufactures abroad. Least of all
should we depart from the policy
adopted in the tariff act of 1913 of
permitting the free entry into the
United States of the raw materials
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Tariff Revision
"Nevertheless, there are parts of
our tariff system that need prompt
attention. The experiences of war
have made it plain that In some
cases too great reliance on foreign
supply is dangerous, and that In de
termining certain parts of our tariff
policy domestic considerations must
be borne in mind which are political
as well as economic. Among the in
dustries to which special considera
tion should be given Is that of the
manufacture of dye stuffs and re
lated chemicals. Our complete de
pendence upon German supplies be
fore the war made the interruption
of trade a cause of exceptional eco
nomic disturhsice. The close rela
tion between the manufacture of
dyestuffs, on the one hand and of
explosives and poisonous gases on
the other, moreover has given the in
dustry an exceptional significance
and value. Although the United
States will gladly and unhesitatingly
join in the program of international
disarmament, it will nevertheless, be
a policy of obvious prudence to make
certain of the successful mainte
nance of many strong and well equip
ped chemical plants. German chem
ical industry with which we will be
brought into competition was and
may well be again a thoroughly knit
monopl.v capable of exercising a
competition of a peculiarly insidu
ous and dangerous kind.
Protection Needed
"The United States should, more
over, have the means of properly
protecting itself whenever our trade
is discriminated against by foreign
nations, in order that we may be
assured of that equality of treatment
which we hope to accord and to pro
mote the world over. Our tariff
laws as they now stand provide no
weapon of retaliation in case other
jovernments should enact legislation
unequal in its bearing on our pro
ducts as compared with the products
of other countries. Though we are
as far as possible from desiring to
enter upon any course of retaliation
we must frankly face the fact that
hostile legislation by other nations
is not beyond the range of possi
bility and that it may have to be
met by counter legislation. This sub
ject, has fortunately been exhaus
tively investigated by the United
States tariff commission. A recent
report of that commission has shown
very cfearly that we lack and that
we ought to have the instruments
necessary for the assurance of equal
and equttable treatment. The at
tention of Congress has been called
to this matter on past occaolons and
the past measures which are now
recommended by the tariff commis
sion are substantially the same that
have been suggested by previous ad
ministrations. I recommend that
this phase of the tariff question re
ceive the early attention of the Con
gress.
Supports Suffrage
"Will you not permit me, turn
ing from these matters, to speak
once more and very earnestly of the
proposed amendment to the Consti
tution which would extend the suff
rage to women and which passed the
House of Representatives at the last
session Of the Congress. It seems to
me that every consideration of jus
tice and of public advantage calls
for the immediate adoption of that
amendment and its submission forth
with to the legislatures of the sever
al States. Throughout all the world
this long delayed extension of the
suffrage is looked for in the United
States longer, I believe, than any
where else, the necessity for it and
the immense advantage of it to the
national life, has been urged and de
bated, by women and men who saw
the need for it and urged the policy
of it when it required steadfast cour
age to be so much beforehand with
the common conviction; and I, for
one. covet for our country the dis
tinction of being among the first to
act in the great reform.
"The telegraph and telephone lines
will of course be returned to their own
ers so soon as the retransfer can be ef
fected without administrative confusion,
so soon, that Is. as the change can be
made with least possible inconvenience
to the public and to the ownerß them
selves. The railroads will be handed
over to their owners at the end of the
calendar year; If I were In Immediate
contact with the administrative ques
tions which must govern the retransfer
of the telegraph and telephone lines. I
could name the exact date for their re
turn also. Until I am In direct contact
with the practical questions Involved I
can only suggest that In the case of the
telegraphs and telephones, as In the case
of the railways, It is clearly desirable
in the public Interest that some legisla
tion should be considered which may tend
to make of these Indispensable Instru
mentalities of our modern life a uni
form and co-ordinated system which
will afford those who use them as com
plete and certain means of communica
tion with all parts of the country as
has so long been afforded by the postal
system of the government, and at rates
sis uniform and intelligible. Expert ad
vice Is. of course, available In this very
practicable matter, the public interest
is manifest Neither the telegraph 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 scien
tific means by which communication by
such instrumentalities could be rendered
more thorough and satisfactory has not
been made full use of. An exhaustive
study of the whole question of electrical
communication and of the means by
which the central authority of the na
tion can be used to unify and Improve
It, if undertaken, by the appropriate
committees of the Congress would cer
tainly result indirectly, even if not di
rectly, in a great public benefit.
"The demobilization of the military
forces of the country has progressed to
ouch a point that it eeeme 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 I have not the legal
authority to remove the present restric
tions. I therefore recommend that the
act approved November 21. 1918, en
titled 'An act to enable the Secretary of
Agriculture to carry out, during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, the
purpose of the act entitled "An act to
provide further for the national secur
ity and defense by stimulating agricul
ture and facilitating the distribution of
agricultural products" and for other
■purposes' be amended or repealed In
far as it applies to wines and beers.
"I sincerely trust that I shall
soon be at my post In Washington again
to report on the mattery which made
my presence at the peace table appar
ently imperative, and to put myself at
the service of the Congress In every
matter of administration or counsel that
may seem to demand executive action or
advice.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON.*
"20 May, 191/."
* Absolutely Ends X
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