New Britain herald., 1919-08-09

of any distempered action that would throw affairs into confusion. I am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves. no matter what the circumstances, and that tasks of peace with the same devo- tion and the same stalwart preference for what is right, that they displayed to the admiration of the whole world in the midst of war
 And l entertain another confident hope. 1 have spoken today chiefly of measures of imperative regulation and legal compulsion of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish processes; and these no doubt are necessary. But there are other forces tha tive may count on besides those resident in the department of justce. We have just fully awakened to what has been going on and to the in f1uences. many of them very selfish ad sinister, that have been producing high prices and imposing an intoler- able burden on the mass of our people. To have brought it all into the open will accomplish the greater part of the result we seek.
 Makes Appeal to All.
 "I appeal with entire confidence to our producers our middlemen, and our merchants to deal fairly with the people. It is their opportunity to show that they comprehend that they have the public interest sincerely at heart. And I have no doubt that housekeepers all over the country and everyone who buys the things he daily stands in need of will presently exercise a greater vigilance, more thoughtful economy, a more diScrimi- mating care as to the market in which he or the merchant with whom he trades than he has hitherto eXer- cised.
 Strikes Make Settlement Impossible
 "I believe, too, that the more eX- treme leaders of organized labor will presently yield to a sober second thought and, like the great mass of their associates, think and act like true Americans. They will see that strikes undertaken at this critical time are certain to make matters worse, not better-worse for them and for everybody else. The worst thing, the most fatal thing that can be done now is to stop or interrupt production or to interfere with the
  and the shipping of the country. We are all involved in the distressing re- suts of the high cost of living and we must unite, not divide, to correct it. There are many things that ought to be corrected in the relations between capital and labor. in respect of wages and conditions of labor and other things even more far-reaching, and l. for one am ready to go into con- ference about these matters with any group of my fellow coutrymen who know what they are talking about and are willing to remedy existing conditions by frank counsel rather than by violent contest. No remedy is possible while men are in tenn per, and there can be no settlement which does not have as its motive and standard the general interest Threats and undue insistence upon the interests of a single class make settlement impossible. I believe, as I have hitherto had occasion to say to the congress, that the industry and life of our people and of the world will suffer irreparable damage II em- pIoyers and workmen are to go on in a perpetual contest as antagonists They must on one plan or another, be effectively associated. Have we not steadiness and self-possesslon and business sense enough to work out that result? Undoubtedly we have, and we shall work it out. In the meantime-now and in the days of re- adjustment and recuperatlon that are ahead of us--let us resort more and more to frank and intimate counsel and make ourselves a great and tri- NY q united force in the life of the world. If will not then have looked to us for leadership in vain.
 TEAM DRIVER INJURED.