Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-02
PRESIDENT DEFENDS
] HIS VISIT TO EUROPE

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work they shave entered. whether 70.
themselves or for the country.
These great days Of achievement
would be sadly marred were we to omit
that act Of justice. Besides, the great
practical service they have rendered
the women Of the country have been
the moving spirit in the economies BY
which our countries have supplied the
hungry Of the world ana the armies on
the field. The details u such a story
can never be FULLY written but we car
~ them at our hearts and thank
God that we can say that we are kins-
men OF such.
Our Triumph complsts.
And now We are sure OF the great
triumph for which every sacrifice was
made. 1t has come, come IN Its COM
pleteness, and with the pride and In
spiration Of these days If achieve
ment quick within us we turn to the
tasks of peace again-a peace secure
against the violence Of irresponsible
monarchs and ambitions military CO.
teries and make ready for a new order,
for new foundations of justice and fair
dealing. /.
We are about to give order and or
ganization to this peace not only for
ourselves but for the other peoples OF
the world as well, so "a: as they will
suffer US to serve them. 1t is inter-
national justice that We seek.
Old Questions Reviewed.
Our thoughts have dwelt Of late
upon Europe, upon Asia, upon the near
and the far east, very little upon the
acts Of peace and accommodation that
wait TO be performed at. our doors.
While we are adjusting our relations
with the rest of the world it is not Of
capital Importance tEat we should clear
away all grounds of misunderstan ding
with our immediate neighbors and give
proof of the friendship We really feel?
l hope the members OF the senate will
permit me to speak once more of the
unratified treaty with the republic Of
Colombia, 1 earnestly urge upon them
an early and favorable action upon
that vital matter believe that they
will feel with me that the state of
affairs IS now set for such action as
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in the spirit of the new age upon
which We have so happily entered.
Problems of Read justment :.
$50 far as our domestic affairs are
concerned the problem Of our return to
peace is a problem OF economic and
equitable readjustment That problem
is less serious for lis than it may turn
out to be for the nations which have
suffered the .disarrAngement and losses
of war LONGER than we. Our people.
moreover, do not wait TO be coached
and led. They know their own busi-
ness. are quick and resonrceful at every
readjus tment and self-reliant in action.
Any leading strings we might wish to
put them in would become tangled be-
cause they would pay no attention to
them and go their way. All we can do
is to dedicate the process Of charge
here, there and elsewhere as we may.
National Business Aarnessed.
Il have heard much council as to
the plans that should be formed and
conducted to happy con-
but from no quarter have
l seen any general scheme lof recon
emerge which / thought it
likely we could force our spirited busi-
ness men and self reliant laborers to
accept with due pliancy and obedience.
while the war lasted we set up
many agencies by which to direct the
industries of the country in the serv-
ices it was necessary for them to rem
der, by which to make sure Of an abun-
~ ho -i,lc
by which we check undertaking that
could for the time be dispensed with
and to stimulate those that were most
seryiceable in war, by which to gain
for the purchasing departments of the
government certain control over
prices of essential articles and mate
rials. by which to restrain trade with
alien enemies and systematic financial
both public and private,
so there would be no unnecessary con-
flict or confusion-by which, in short,
to put every material energy Of the
country in harness to draw the common
load and make of us one team In the
of a great task.
Harness Taken or.
But the moment we Knew the armis-
tice to have been signed we took the
harness of raw materials. upon which
the government had kept its hand for
fear there should not be enough for
the industries that supplied the army
has been relieved and put into the gen.
eral market again. Great industrial
plants whose output has been taken
over for the government have been set
free to return to the uses to which they
were put before the war.
2 at has not been possible to remove
30 readily and quickly the control OF
foodstufYs and Of shipping because the.
world stiii mas to be fed from our
granaries and the ships are needed to
supply our men overseas and to bring
The men back: but even their restraints
are being relaxed as much as possible
and more and more as the weeks 70 by.
/ Never before have there been
agencies in existence in this country
which know so much Of the field Of
supply Of labor and industry as the war
Industries board. the war trade board,
the labor department. the food admin.
istration and the fuel administration
have known; and they have not been
isolated agencies they have been di-
rected by men who represented the per-
departments of the government
and 50 have been the centers OF co..
operative action.
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