The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-23
WILSON CABLES :
WORD TO SOLONS
Presidents First Message to a
Republican Congress Is
Read to Both Houses.
LABOR IS FIRST ISSUE
Asks Repeal of Ban on Beer and Wine
Effective July 1.-Revision of War
Taxes Ursed-Appeal Made
for Suffrage.

for Suffrage.
Washington, May 2O.-President Viii
sons message to the Seth congress,
read, after it had been cabled from
Paris by the nations chief executive
was as follows: ......a
1 deeply regret my inability to be
present at the opening of the extraor-
binary session of congress. 1t still
seems to be my duty to take part in
the councils of the peace conference
and contribute what l can to the solu-
.tion of the innumerable questions of
k'lase settlement it has had to address
Itself; for they are questions which af-
feet the peace of the whole world, and
from them, therefore, the United
States cannot stand apart. / deemed
it my duty to cali the congress togeth-
er at this time, because it was not
wise to postpone longer the provisions
which must be made for the support
OF the government. ....".<
Many of the appropriations which
are absolutely necessary for the main
tenance of the government and the
fulfillment of it's varied obligations for
the fiscal year 1919-1920 have not yet
been made; the end Of the present fis-
cal year is at hand, and action upon
these appropriations no longer can be
prudently delayed. 1t is necessary,
therefore, that / should Immediately
call your attention to this critical need.
1t is hardly necessary for me to urge
that it may receive your prompt atten-
ton.
/ shall take the liberty of addressing
you on my return on the subjects
which have most engrossed our atten-
ton and the attention Of the world dur
ing these last anxious months, since
the armistice of last November was
signed, the international settlements
which must form the subject matter of
the present treaties Of peace and of
our national action in the immediate
future
49, would be premature to discuss
them or to express a judgment about
them before they are brought to their
complete formulation by the agree
ments which are now being sought at
the table of the conference / shall
hope to lay them before you in their
many aspects so soon as arrangements
have been reached.
"Out of Touch at Home"
hesitate to venture any opinion or
press any recommendation with regard
to domes ic legislation while absent
from the United States and out of daily
touch with intimate sources of infor-
nation and counsel l am conscious
that l need, after so long an absence
from Washington, to seek the advice
of those who have remained in con-
slant contact with domestic problems
and who have known them close at
hand from day to day; and trust that
it very soon will be possible for me
to do so.
But there are several questions
pressing for consideration to which
feel may, and indeed must, even now
direct your attention, if only in gen.
eral terms. In speaking of them
e s:halls dare say, be doing little more
<se speak your own thoughts. hope
that I shall speak your own judgment
also. .......... ..a...r.. 4.
Calls Labor First Issue.
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
can speak of it with as great advantage
while engrossed in the consideration of
interests which affect all countries
alike as 1 could at home and amidst
the interests which naturally most af-
feet my thoughts 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 eff
fective in the great process of sustain
populations and winning success
amidst commercial and industrial rival
ries. l mean that much greater and
more vital question, how are the men
and women to do the daily labor of
the world and obtain progressive i'm
provement in the conditions of their
labor, to be made happier and to be
served better by the communities and
the interests which their labor sustains
and advances. How are they to be
YEN. their right advantage as citizens
and human beings?
"Must Choose New Course"
We canhot 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 COM
munity if capital and labor are to con-
tinue antagonistic instead of being
partners; if they are to continue to
distrust one another and contrive
how they can get the better of one
another.
Or, what perhaps amounts to the
same thing, calculate by what form
and degree of coercion they can man.
age to extort on the one hand work
enough to make enterprise profitable,
on the other justice and fair treat
ment enough to make life tolerable.
That bad road has turned out a blind
alley. 1t is no thoroughfare to real
Message Causes Stock Advance.