The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-05-30
PRESIDENT'SF|RST
CABLED MESSAGE
Recommendations Sent From
Paris and Read Before the
Sixty-sixth Congress.
URGES THAT BAN ON
WINE AND BEER BE REMOVED
Says Our Prosperity Is Menaeed by
No Foreign competition-Favors
Liberal Treatment of Return
ed SoIdiers-Woman Suf-
frage Measure Should
Be Passed.

Be Passed.
Washington.-For the first time in
history a message Of a President of
the United States has been cabled
from a foreign shore, this being the
case with the following message from
President Wilson in Paris read be-
fore the Sixty-si1th Congress:
Gentlemen of the Congress: I deep
ly regret my inability to be present
at the opening of the extraordinary
session of the congress. 1t still seems
to be my duty to take part in the
councils of the peace conference and
contribute what I can to the solution
of the innumerable questions to whose
settlement it has had to address it.
self, for they are questions which af-
feet the peace of the whole world and
from them, therefore, the United
States cannot stand apart. I deemed
1t my duty to call the Congress to-
gether at this time because it was
not wise to postpone longer the pro-
visions which must be made for the
support Of the government. Many of
the appropriations which are absolute
ly necessary for the maintenance Of
the government and the fulf1llment of
its varied obligations for the fiscal
year 1919-1920 have not yet been
made: the end of the present fiscal
year is at hand; and action upon these
appropriations can no longer be pru-
IDENTIFY delayed.
1t is necessary, therefore, that 1
should Immediately call your atten-
tion to this critical need. 1t is hardly
necessary for me to urge that it may
receive your prompt attention.
Will Tell of Peace Later.
1 shall take the liberty of address
ing you on my return on the subjects
which have most engrossed our at
tention and the attention of the world
during these last anxious months, since
the armistice of last November was
signed, the international settlements
which must form the subject matter
of the present treaties of peace and
Of our national action in the immediate
future 1t would be premature to dis
cuss them or to express a judgment
about them before they are brought
to their complete formulation by the
agreements which are now being
sought at the table of the conference.
l shall hope to lay them before you
L. Ao{, r.
rangements have been reached.
I hesitate to venture any opinion or
press any recommendation with regard
to domestic legislation while absent
from the United States and out of daily
touch with intimate sources of infor-
nation and counsel. I am conscious
that I need, after so long an absence
from Washington, to seek the advice
of those who have remained in con-
slant contact with domestic problems
and who have known them close at
hand from day to day; and l trust
that it will very soon be possible for
me to do so. But there are several
questions pressing for consideration to
which 1 feel that l may, and indeed
must, even now direct your attention,
If only in general terms. Speaking Of
them l shall, 1 dare say be doing little
more than speaking your own thoughts.
I hope that I shall speak your own
Judgment also.
The Question of Labor.
The question which stands at the
front of all others in every country
amidst the present great awakening is
the question of labor; and perhaps
can speak of it with as great advan-
tage while engrossed in the considera-
ton Of interests which affect all coun-
tries alike as l could at home and
amidst the interests which naturally
most affect my thought, because they
are the interests of our own people,.
By the question of labor I do not
mean the question of efficient indus
trial production, the question of how
labor Is to be obtained and made ef-
fective in the great process Of sustain
ing populations and winning success
amidst commercial and industrial ri
valries. l mean that much greater and
more vital question, how are the men
and women who do the daily labor of
the world to obtain progressive i'm
provement in the conditions Of their
labor, to be made happier and to be
served better by the communities and
the industries which their labor sus-
tains and advances? How are they to
be given their right advantage as citi-
zens and human beings?
We cannot go any further in our
present direction. We have already
gone too far. We cannot live our
right life as a nation or achieve our
proper success as an industrial COM
munity if capital and labor are to con-
tinue to be antagonistic instead of be-
ing partners. If they are to continue
to distrust one another and contrive
how they can get the better of one an
other? Or, what perhaps amounts to
the same thing, calculate by what form
and degree of coercion they can man.
age to extort, On the one hand, work
enough to MAKE enterprise profitable,
and on the other, justice and fair