The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-09
WILSON SAYS H. {. |.
IS DUE TO SITUATION
GROWING OUT OF WAR
WORLD WON'T SETTLE DOWN UN.
TIL 1T LEARNS WHAT u. s. is
GOING TO DO, HE SAYS

living, President Wilson told the Min.
nesota legislature today, is largely due
to "a world situation" growing out of
the sacrifices and waste Of the war.
Back of that, added the president, lay
the fact that the world had not vet
learned what the peace status would
be.
THE world is not going to set.
tie down. he said, until it learns what
part the United States is to play in the
peace He continued that this was the
only nation which would have enough
Tree capital in the near future to reha.
bllilate the world economically.
The Legislature, which began yester
day an extraordinary session to con.
slider the high cost of living, and other
subjects. received the president with
cheers. He was introduced by Gov. ].
A. y. Burnquist, who said Minnesota
hoped there would be some arrange.
ment to prevent future wars.
The president congratulated the legis.
lature ON its ratification yesterday of
the federal equal suffrage amendment.
flrst OF all, MIR, Wilson said, 1t was the
nations $ duty to set the commerce OF
the world going by the establishment
OF peace. After that, he continued
there We're domestic adjustments that
must he made, mentioning among other
things that railway facilities in this
country were not equal to the demand
Having established Il world settlement
Ia In
was imperative that there be an ar
rangement set up to insure that no.
body monkey with the process"
Turning to the relations of labor and
capital, the president said that laboring
men everywhere We're dissats with
their relation to their employers. That
was true abroad, he added. in larger
measure than in the United States.
Referring to the treaty provision for
an international labor organization, Mr..
Wilson said here was a way to bring
definite solution of the problems. He
asserted that, in this solution the Unit.
ed States was expected by the world
to set the standards and lay down the
principles.
AS basis for the solution, the presi-
dent suggested that the interests of la.
bor ana capital must be recognized as
! Identical and the two ought to be reas-
enable enough to get together When
1t was realized that labor was not n
commodity and u real cooperation had
been established, production would in
+ crease by leaps and bounds" and that
would be one element in reducing the
g cost of living.
r The United States, the president said
' mad been provincial" in past years in
t its economic relations to the world.
!. There must be a change he argued If
the United States were to rehabilitate
the world. And it was necessary to
n accomplish that rehabilitation, he add.
ed, IF you are going to carry your
trade to the ends of the world"
That was why, he continued the cost
OF living was Il world problem and was
) wrapped up in the peace treaty 1t was
Just downright ignorance" Of world
3 affairs, he declared that prevented
e some men from seeing that point. There
G was applause when he remarked that
l. he did not think either of the senator's
/. from Minnesota was afflicted with that
.. state of mind
g Any man with open eyes" could see
|. the inevitable role the United States
y must play in world affairs, said the
e president, and must realize that it was a
t. case of either welcoming or surren.
S dering" to the facts
I. Mr.. Wilson said he had seen condi.
I. tons on the other side of the water and
e knew first hand what confidence the
s world reposed in America. He said he
had been glad that the problem was a
2. world one and not one of domestic pol.
= tiles, because he would be ashamed of
q himself if he made such a subject a
n partisan one. He added, however that
If he We're "scheming politician" and
anyone wanted to present him with this
issue as a platform. he would be glad
Y to accept it.
The president concluded his address
u at 10:47 a. IN.
# President Wilson spoke in part as
10 follows
- Until the industrial world is put on
o its feet you cannot finally handle the
n, question of the cost Of living, because
the cost of living in the last ANALYSIS
" depends upon the thing we are always
" talking about. but do not know how "a
,r manage, the law of supply and demand
we have got to see that our own pro
~ duction and our own methods of Fl
IN nance and our own commerce are quick
" ened in every way possible. and then we
,e sitting in legislatures like this and in
the congress of the United States, have
to see to it, if you will permit a vulgar
expression, that no one monkeys with
~ the machinery.
Look Facts in the Face
ed eve might as we'll sit up straight
IT. and look facts in the face. gentlemen
&C. The laboring men of the world are moi
ny satisfied with their relations with theil
C. employers. of course, | do not near
ny to say that dissatisfaction is universa
en- dissatisfaction, because there are situa
IN tions in many instances of satisfaction
ed but | am now speaking of the genera
ge relations between capital and labor
he Everywhere there is dissatisfaction
much more on the other side of tn,
water than on this side.
"One point wish to make is that th
world is looking to America to set tn,
w standards with regard to the conditions
of labor, or the relations between capita
Ia. and labor and it is looking to US be
Dr. cause we have been more progressive
%. in those matters. We have got to hav
ar. a constructive program with regard t
ht, MY tx,av vril