The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-03
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
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our people. have assisted to supply the I suffering peoples of the world and 1 armies upon every front with food ] | and everything else that we had that might serve the common cause. The details of such a story can never be ! fully written, but we carry them at our hearts and thank God that we can 1 say that we are the kinsmen of such. And now, we are sure of the great 1 triumph for every sacrifice was made. It has come; come in it's com pleteness and with the pride and in | spiration of these days of achievement | quick within us we turn to the tasks 1 of peace again-a peace secure against 1 the violence of irresponsible mon l archs and ambitious military coteries, and made ready for new order, for new foundations of justice and fair 1 dealing.
 We are about to give peace, not only four ourselves but for the other peoples of the world as we'll, so far as they will suffer us to serve them. It Is international justice that we seek, not domestic safety merely. Our thoughts have dwelt of late upon Eu- | rope, 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 own doors. While. we are adjusting our re- llations with the rest of the world is it not of capital importance that we should clear away all grounds of mis- understanding with our immediate neighbors and give proof of friend ships we really feel?
 q hope that the members of the Senate will permit me to speak once more of the unratifed treaty. of friendship with the republic of Co., lombia. I very earnestly urge upon them an early and favorable action upon that vital matter.
 T believe that they will feel, with me, that the stage of affairs is now set for such action as will be not only just but generous and in the spirit of the new age upon which we have so ; happily entered.
 So far as our domestic affairs are concerned, the problem of our return to peace is a problem of economic and industrial readjustment That prob
 lem is less serious for us than it r-~a,- turn out to be for the nations which have suffered the disarrangements and ! Our people, moreover, do not wait to . be coached and led. They know their
 own business, are quick and resource full at every readjustment, definite tn purpose and self-reliant in action. Any , leading strings we might seek to put l them in would speedily become hope f | lessly tangled because they would pay
 no attention to them and go their
 own way. All that we can do as their f legislative and executive servants is
 to mediate the process of change here, ! there and elsewhere as we may. l I have heard much counsel as to the 1 plans that should be formed and per ; sonally conducted to a happy con-
 summation, but from no quarter have
 l seen any general scheme of recon struction" emerge which I thought ii S likely we could force our spirited
 business men and self-reliant laborers
 to accept with due pIiancy and obe- = dience.
 Need of American Aid.
 While the war lasted we set LII U many agencies by which to direct the 2 industries of the country in the ser.
 vices it was necessary for them tc
 
 abundant supply of the material o needed, by which to check undertak ings that could for the time be dis d pensed with and stimulate those tha
 were most serviceable in war, b, ! which to gain for the purchasing de
 partments of the government a certail o control over the prices of essentia ;" articles and materials by which to re latT~ {11 fro k the most of the available shipping ant A systematize financial transactions
 both public and private, so that ther .d would be no unnecessary conflict o ~ confusion-by which, in short, to pu y every material energy of the countr in harness to draw the common Ioa and make of us one team in the ac -U complishment of a great task. Bu
 the moment we knew the armistic
 to have been signed we tooIz the har le ness off. Raw materials upon whic ,n the government had kept it's hand fo
 fear there should not be enough fo Il the industries that supplied tn in armies have been released and pu into the general market again. Grea III industrial plants whose whole outpu
 and machinery had been taken owe
 TOT the uses or the government hay 'e been set free to return to the uses | rE which they were put before the wa.
 It has not been possible to remove S TO readily or so. quickly the control ( le foodstuffs and of shipping because tn
 world has still to be fed from ou
 Taneries and the ships are still need m ed to send supplies to our men over
 seas and to bring the men back as ia! as the disturbed conditions on tt Id other side of the water permit; bl
 even there restraints are being reIa1
 ed as much as possible and more an to more as the weeks go by.
 IT, Efficiency at Homo
 ,o Never before have there been agel cies in existence in this country whit ln, knew so much of the field of suppl
 of labor and of industry, as the W,
 Industries Board, the Labor Depar AR ment, the Food Administration al TIT the Fuel Administration have knov 41 since the Iabors became thorough