Arizona republican., 1919-08-09
TEXT OF PRESIDENTS | ADDRESS TO CONGRESS | ON H. (. OF |. REMEDIES

WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-President Wilson's address to congress today em- bodying recommendations to reduce the cost of living, follows in part:
 "Gentlemen of the Congress:
 T have sought this opportunity to address you because it is clearly my duty to call your attention to the pres ent cost of living and to urge upon you with all the persuasive force of which I am capable the legislative measures which would be most effective in con- trolling it and bringing it down. < Some of the methods by which these prices are produced already are illegal, some of them criminal and those who employ them will be energetically pro- ceeded against, but others have not yet been brought under the law and should be dealt with at once by legisla- tion
 With the increased prices of the 1 necessaries of life are some demands for increases in wages-demands which are justified if there be no other means of enabling men to live. Upon the in- crease of wages there follows close an increase in the price of the products whose producers have accorded the in-
  for the manufacturer does not content himself with that but an increase con siderably greater than the added wage cost and for which the added wage cost is often times hardly more than an excuse. The laborers who do not get an increase in pay when they demand 1t are likely to strike, and the strike only makes matters worse No HonnpIsta Pa,red,,
 We must, I think, frankly admit | that there is no complete immediate remedy to be had from legislative and executive action. The free processes of supply and demaLd will not operate of themselves and no legislative or ex- ecutive action can force them into full and natural operation until there is peace. There is now neither peace nor | war. Politically, economically socially. the world is on the operating table and it has not been possible to administer an aneSthetic.
 "Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and dismem bered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more directly affected, with all it's terrible ravagine and destructive force, but it has been nevertheless, profoundly affected ana disarranged and our industries, oul credits, our productive capacity, oul economic processes are inextricably in | terwoven with those of other nation. and peoples.
 Impossible to Predict
 we are now shipping more goods out of our ports to foreig- markets than we ever shipped before-not food stuffs merely but stuffs and material: of every sort, but this is no index O what our foreign sales will continue t( be or of the effect the volume of oul exports will have on supplies and pric- es. It is impossible yet to predict how far or how long foreign purchasers vii be able to find the money or the credi to pay for or sustain such purchase. on such scale; how soon or to wha extent foreign manufacturers can re sume their former production, foreigI farmers get their accustomed crop from their own fields; foreign mine resume their former output; foreigl merchants set up again their old ma chinery of trade with the ends of tn , earth. All these things must remail i uncertain until peace is establishe, and the nations of the world have con certed their methods by which norma life and industry are to be restored. Al that we shall do, in the meantime t restrain profiteering and put the If of our people upon tolerable footini will be makeshift and provisional There can be no settled conditions her ' or elsewhere until the treaty of peac is out of the way.
 Must Act at Once
 "But what we can do we should d and should do it at once And ther ! is great deal that we can do, pro visional though it may be. Wnea shipments and credits to facilitate tn purchase of our wheat can and wi . be limited and controlled in such a wa as not to raise but rather to lower tn , price of flour here. The governmen \ has the power within certain limits, t regulate this.
 (Contiuued on Page TWo)