The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-09
WORLD WAITS
FOR THE US.
Pres. Wilson Told the Min
nesota Legislature
To-day
WON'T SETTLE DOWN
TILL AMERICA ACTS
Cost of Living Is Due to the
world Situation" Grow
ing Out of the War

St. Paul, Mimi, Sept 9.The cost of
living, President Wilson told the Mime
sofa Legislature to-day, 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 yet
learned what the peace status would be.
"The world is not going to settle
down" said he, 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 free
capital in the near future to rehabili-
tate the world economically.
The legislature, which began yester-
day an extraordinary session to consider
the high cost Of living and other sub
iects, received the president with cheers.
He was introduced by Governor Burn
quest, who said Minnesota hoped there
would be some arrangement to prevent
future wars.
The president congratulated the leg
islature on its ratification yesterday of
the federal woman suffrage amendment.
First of all, Mr. Wilson said, it was
the nations duty to set the commerce of
the world going by the establishment of
peace. After that, he continued, there
were domestic adjustments that must be
made, mentioning among other things
that railway facilities in this country
were not equal to the demand.
Having established a world settlement
economically, Mr. Wilson declared, 1t was
imperative that there be an arrange.
ment TO insure "that nobody monkey
with the process" set up.
Turning 10 the relations OF labor and
capital, the president said that laboring
men everywhere were dissatisfied with
their relation to their employers. That
was true abroad, he added, in larger
measure than in the United States Re-
ferring to the treaty provision for an in.
ternational labor organization, Mr. VIII
son said here was a way to bring a def
mite solution to the problems. He assert
ed that in this solution, the United
States was expected by the world to set
the standards and lay down the princi.
pies
As basis for the solution, the presi-
dent suggested that the interests of Ia
Dor and capital must be recognized as
identical and the two ought TO be rea-
sonable enough to get together When it
was realized that labor was not com
modify and a real cooperation had been
established, production 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. There
must be change, he argued, if the
United States were to rehabilitate the
world.
That was why, he continued, the cost
Of living was world problem and was
wrapped up in the peace treaty 1t was
"iust downright ignorance" of world af-
fairs, he declared. that prevented some
men from seeing that point. There was
applause when he remarked that he did
not think either of the senator's from
Minnesota was afflicted with that state
of mind.
ANY man with open eyes" could see
the inevitable role the United States
must play in world affairs, said the presi-
dent, and must realize that it was case
of either welcoming or surrendering" to
the facts.
Mr.. Wilson Said he had seen conditions
on the other side of the water and knew
first hand what confidence the world re-
posed in America He said he had been
glad that the problem was a world one
and not one Of domestic politics because
he would be ashamed of himself if he
made such a subject a partisan one. He
added however, that if he were "a
scheming politician" and anyone wanted
to present him with this issue as plat
form, he would be glad TO accept it.