Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-09
Back of This Is Worlds lgno-
rance of Future Peace
Status, He Declares.
WILL NOT SETTLE DOWN
UNTIL U. S. PART KNOWN
Executive Addresses Minnesota
Legislature in Extra Session
at St. Paul

Bythe Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Mimi, September 9.-The
eeost Of living, President Wilson told
| ne Minnesota legislature today, is
| HsrTety due to ga world situation"
growing out Of the sacrifices and
(kaste Of the war.
Back Of that, added the President,
ny The fact that the world had not
E1e& learned what the peace status
puld Be.
Tho world is not going to settle
tbWn,s said he. until It learns what
rt the United States is to play in
aae peace"
y Only u s. Has Free Capital.
n h continued that this was the only
eaun which would have enough free
Anpata1 In the near future to rehabil-
R1ts the world economically.
Tho legislature, which began yes
Rday an extraordinary session to
kher subjects, received the President
Nth cheers. He was introduced by
ApV. / A EurnQuist, who said Mime
tsuta hoped there would be some ar
engagement to prevent future wars.
&xCS40SAS SOAS AaIoA0sSSs
The President congratulated the
legislature on its ratification yester-
day of the federal womans suffrage
amendment
First of all, Mr.. Wilson said. it was
the nations duty to set the commerce
of the world going by the establish
ment of peace. After that, he con-
fipnad there domestic adjust
ments that must be made, mentioning
with other things that railway ia
cilities in this country were not equal
to the demand.
Having established a world settle
ment economically. Mr.. Wilson de-
clared, it was imperative that there
be an arrangement to insure that no
body monkey with the process set up.
Labor of World FESTIVE.
Turning to the relations of labor
and capital the President said that
laboring men everywhere were dissat-
pIoyers. That was true abroad. he
added, in larger measure than in the
United States.
Referring to the treaty provision
for an international labor organiza-
ton, Mr.. Wilson said here was way
to bring a definite solution to the
problems. He asserted that in this
solution the United States was ex-
pected by the world to set the stand
ards and lay down the principles.
As basis for the solution, the
President suggested that the interests
of labor and capital must be recog-
nized as identical, and the two ought
to be reasonable enough to get to-
gether. When it was realized that
labor was not commodity and a real
cooperation had been established, pro-
duction would increase by leaps and
bounds" and that would be one element
in reducing the cost of living.
The United States. the President
said, had been provincial in past
years in its economic relations to the
world.
Text Of the Speech.
II esteem it an unusual privilege" he
said. "to stand in this place today and
address the members Of this great body
because the environment which 1 have
left at Washington is too intimate
matter of the life of our own nation as
well as the life of the world. and yet,
am conscious standing in this presence,
that perhaps the most appropriate thing
that l know that you have been called
together in special session for special
purposes. and one Of those purposes you
have already achieved and rejoice with
you fapplause) in the adoption of the
Suffrage amendment
Until the industrial world is put on
its feet you cannot finally handle the
question Of the cost of living, because
the cost Of living in the last analysis de-
ponds upon the thing we are always
70 oh hpYt ID, VT lr,,N 1<xvv o.,
manage, the law Of supply and demand
I'VE have got to see that our own pro-
duction and our own methods Of finance
and our own commerce are Quickened in
in legislatures like this and in the Com
gress of the United States, have to see
to it, If you will permit a vulgar express
sion, that no one monkeys with the ma
chinery.
Various Kinds Of Storage.
81 understand that one of the ex-
cellent suggestions that was men
toned by your governor is that you
look into the cold storage. There are
other kinds of storageS besides cold
storage. There are other ways of COW
ering the reserve stock of goods. You
put on paper to see that the goods
are doled out SO as to bring the highest
prices.
We might as well sit up straight
and look facts in the face, gentle
men. The laboring men of the world
are not satisfied with their relations
with their employers. OF course. 1 do
not mean to say that dissatisfaction
is universal dissatisfaction, because
there are situations in many instances
of satisfaction. but / am now speak
ing of the general relations between
capital and labor. Everywhere there
is dissatisfaction, much more on the
other side of the water than on this
side.
Look to q. S. for Standards.
'Ons point I wish to make is that
the world is looking to America to
set the standards with regard to the
conditions of labor or the relations
between capital and labor, and it ia
looking to us because we have been
more progressive in those matters.
We have got to have a constructive
program with regard to labor, and a
method by which we will relieve the
strain of what you can call the cost
of living.
Il am not dogmatic about this mat
ter. ! can't presume that I know how
it should be done. I know the prin-
ciple upon which 1t should be done.