New Britain herald., 1919-12-03
'FHE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

@ Despite it's length, the communi- IN ton of the President of the United @ ates to the Sixty-sixth Congress, s#u blished in last evenings Herald. was IN document of more than passing in
 @rest and one in which there were x numerous allusions to current diff @ tlties with recommendations with an zEe to their solutions. The railroads sA@ad the Peace Treaty were practically Ignored, President Wilson explaining
 bat he would takeup these problems $ later m essa ges.
 @ Let us see, then. what the PreSi- M#ent. who summarizes national senu- N ent in his m essa ges. would have the SM ongress of the country take up and
 Meal with for the betterment of the eop pie at large. First. and of greatest |#nportance, we have the labor SltuH- &&# on. In we'll chosen words the Presl- # erse to the right of the individual @ strike, Tit should not be interfered @ ith by any process of goVernment- ssS& It'---he sa saNS-"there is predOml- # ant right and that is the right of the w @overnment to protect all of it's people S nd to assert its power and majesty
 Sgainst the challenge of any class.
 here can be little argument of the
 Buth of this assertion. Labor should #ot be treated as "commodi ditN' we M init. everyone admits, We realize Sh at it is made up of humans with
 l leir "yearnings and mbitions." But, @ hen the right of class, the coal min s -s for instance, conflicts with the
 ghts of all peoples in the government K is time for action to ease the fric-
 on This must Congress consider
 #nd enact legislation to cope with. The
 #efnition must be strictly laid down # hich will decide when the rights of a # ass conflict with those of the mass End provisions made for prompt and z#Mecisive settlement. In the case of the M ilroads and the coal mines, whose @ nployes are truly servants of the ##eople. the privilege of striking may x aye to be denied. or so defined that sS lere will be none until every possible M cans for an adjustment have been M tterly exhausted. Public interests a emand this Generalization is suggested @s d m cans of adjustment and concilia- gM on is undoubtedly the proper me methed |R@ ut there will have to be such legis-
 ton that the conciIiators will
 #eaIize that they must reach an agree
 rent and both sides will have to enter @ conference with open minds and un- x reiudiced opinions, ready to do for #ahe people rather than entirely for 'NNh emselVes The labor situation is one 8 hat may be made right by concerted N ction of employees and employers. but
 oth must be fair. No legislation can @ ocom plish this, but the subserViency %# f both sid es to the public, with a deep IN ca liza tion of their duties toward the X ubIic. will Congress may be able to # nd a way out, may be able to lay @ own laws which will require con
 ilia ton. with a penalty for the side
 hich fails to meet with fair propo- &#ition. whether it is labor or capital. .. Let us hope that it does
 # The ghost of the tariff d gain raised &ts head in the affairs of the country hen the President argued for reVi- @on of the schedules. with an eye to- #Eard regulating affairs so that infant
 dustries would be adequately pro
 S Sected. notab bly in the ease. of. the dye NEndustrN. However. we judge from his $sAy ords that the old Deinotratir tariff
 deas are aeain to go into force. His @ Oint that the greater part of Amefi-
 au manufactures had now reached # heir full strength and were ready to A ompete with the world on an even @aoting and with no need of protec- H@ ion seems to lead to the assumption # hat small tariff rate would be @harged, if any at all. We should N hrow our market open to the world, @rith the exception of some particular
 branches of trade. It is ndenia ble M hat We must buy and sell from other M nations. and that if we do not buy we
 annot sell Congress may well go S# low on tariff revision. though until it Is patent just where we need protec- # ion and how much we need.
 @ Revenue is taken care of in recom- @nending the budget system, perfectly @hgrccable to all, and the suggestion # hat the system of taxation be re @ faSef1. simplified, and made less dis M soura ging to the establishment of new
 8 Businesses cannot but be met with ap- #Aproval, providing Congress acts. The