The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-10
President Says World Must
Be Put on Its Feet
First.
PAINTS DARK PICTURE
Sees Trade Destroyed II
America Remains Out
of the League.
URGES LABOR AS PARTNER
Renews Objections to Treaty
Reservations in Three
Twin City Speeches.
URGES LABOR AS PARTNER
By q sta1 Correspondent Of TIE sur.

ST.. PAUL, Sept. 9.-The most inter-
esting statement made by President
Wilson to-day in the course Of three
speeches In this city and Minneapolis
was that laboring men are so dissatis-
fed with their relations with their
employers that there is no use trying
to solve the high cost of living prob
lem until capital takes labor into part
rership. He ventured this assertion
in the address he made before the
Minnesota Legislature, a special ses-
sion of which Is being held to con-
slider living cost problems. The ad-
dress was a variation Of his day to
day appeals for an unqualified League
Of Nations and was expected by Min
nesotans to reveal the Presidents
plans for what can be done to make
the dollar go further.
That was what they expected.
What they got was series of gen.
eralities hooked up to a League Of
Nations argument, for Mr.. Wilson did
not neglect his opportunity to con-
tend that the outlook for everything
is black dark, including the outlook
for lower prices and more settled
conditions Of industry, and will re-
main black dark unless he can get the
kind of League of Nations he is de-
manding. He emphasized his belief
that the question of the cost of living
could not be handled finally until the
industrial world, here and elsewhere.
was put upon its feet, and that could
not be achieved, of course, unless the
United States Joined the league under
the conditions he lays down.
Suggestion of Partnership.
He said he did not presume to
know how to work out constructive
programme with regard to labor, but
he. did know the principle upon which
1t ought to be done, and that is that the
interests Of capital and labor are not
different but the same, and then he
put forward the partnership" sugges-
tion so frequently expressed by labor
radicals.
You cannot any longer regard labor
as commodity" said the President
You have got to regard it as a means
of association. the association Of
physical skill and physical vigor with
the enterprise which is managed by
those who represent capital; and when
you do the production of the world Ia
going to go forward by leaps and
bounds. Why is it that labor organi-
work their men can do? Because
they are driving hard bargains with
you. They do not feel they are your
partners at all, and so long as capital
and labor are sntagonistic production
IL going to be at its minimum. lust
so soon as they are sympathetic and
cooperative 1t is going to abound, and
that will be one of the means OF bring
ing down the cost OF living"
Mr.. Wilson shrewdly connected his
observations on this matter, so poig-
nantly interesting to the people OF
Minnesota, the cost of living problem.
WIN cpoti NhllOll0 upon n lIldllcT
which the people of this State have
displayed almost no interest at all, the
cause of the League OF Nations In
his speech before the Legislature this
morning in st. Paul, in his address in
this afternoon in the krmory In Min
neapolis and in his speech tonight in
the Auditorium in ST. Paul he dwelt
heavily upon his point that the United
States will have no trade worth speak
ing of II she stays out OF the league
and will be wonderfully prosperous II
she takes the international plunge.
Treaty Changes IntoIerabIe.
In his three speeches he took the
ground that no change in the covenant
or in the treaty itself is tolerable. He
left the impression that 10 get single
reservation or amendment accepted by
the Peace Conference would be task
too difficult and humillating to be under
taken. He told the people in so many
words that for the United States the
choice was all or nothing. His hearers
heard nothing from him to support the
idea so strongly entertained in this
State that the league might be a GOOD
thing to try, but that It ought not to be
tried without safeguarding reservations
ior AnoT!oz. No. re put q th,s way.
I'VE must be ostrich or eagle"
Since the newspapers OF the day in
both St Paul and Minneapolis were car
rying such news from Washington as
left no doubt that Democratic Senator's
are convinced OF the necessity for reser-
vations and are Joining the Republicans
for the protection of their country, Mr.
Wilson's unqualified assertions that Il
must be all or nothing were received by
his audiences to-day and tonight with
sheer amaZement
What Is going on in Washington
with their own opinion with an
attitude expressed by Republicans and