The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-05-23
PRESIDENT CABLES HIS
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
FROM The PEACE TABLE
Would Return Wire Lines
and Railroads
Urges Cooperation of Capital and
Labor and Asks for the Legalizing
of Manufacture Of Beer and Light
Wines by Congress.

President Wilson cabled his mes
sage to Congress upon its opening
this week, and while it is not very
long it has some surprises. He asks
for the passage of the regular appro-
priation bills which the last congress
left unfinished.
He avoids explicit recommended
tions about domestic matters gener-
ally, but asks that congress authorize
the continuance of the legal making
of light wines and beers after July
1st, when the dry law becomes ef-
fective. -
He states that the wire lines and
railroads will soon be returned to
their owners, and emphasizes the i'm
portance of cooperation between
capital and labor and recommends
liberal treatment of the returning SOL
diers. l@s
He suggests protection of some of
our industries, but does not think
new tariff bill necessary. He leaves
much to the wisdom of the congress
on matters of importance and as one
member of congress expressed 1t, he
passed the buck to the Republicans"
The message is not long and is we'll
worth reading.
The presidents message in full
follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: l
deeply regret my inability to be pres
ent at the opening of the extraordln-
ary session of the congress. 1t still
seems to be my duty to take part IN
the counsels of the peace conference
and contribute what l can to the So
luton of the innumerable questions
to whose settlement it has had to ad-
dress itself: For they are questions
which affect the peace of the whole
world, and from the, therefore, the
United States cannot stand apart.
deemed it my duty to call the congress
together at this time because 1t 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 absolu-
tely necessary for the maintenance
of the government and the fulfillment
of it's varied obligations for the fiscal
year 1920 have not yet been made;
the end of the present fiscal year 1t
at hand; and action on these appro-
priations can no longer be prudently
DELAYED. 1t is necessary, therefore,
that / should call your attention to
this critical need. 1t is hardly nee
cessary for me to urge that it may
receive your prompt attention.
l shall take the liberty of address
ing YOU, on my return, on the sub
jects which have most engrossed our
attention and the attention of the
world during these last anxious mon
tbs, since the armisitice of last Nov
ember was signed, the International
settlements, which must form the sub
ject matter of the present treaties of
peace and of our national action in
the Immediate future. 1t would be
premature to discuss them or to ex-
press a judgement 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 in their many as
poets so soon as arrangements have
been reached.
Conscious Need of Advice.
l hesitate to venture any opinion
or press my recommendation with re-
gard to domestic legislation while alb
sent from the United States and out
of daily touch with intimate sources
of information and counsel. l am
conscious that need, after so long
an absence from Washington, to seek
the advice of those who have remain
ed in constant contact with domestic
problems, and who have known them
close at hand from day to day; and
/ trust that it will very soon be pos
sible for me to do so. But there are
several questions pressing for consi-
deration to which feel that l may,
and indeed must, even now direct
you attention, if only in general terms
In speaking of them l shall, I dare
say, be doing little more than speak
your own thoughts. 1 hope that /
shall speak you own judgement, also.
q 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
l can speak of it with as great ad-
vantage while engrossed in the consi-
Iteration of interests which affect all
countries alike, as l could at home
and amidst the interests which natu-
rally most affect my thought, because
they are the interest of our own peo-
pie.
By the question of labor / do not
mean the question of efficient indus
trial production, the question of how
labor is to be obtained and made eff
fective in the great process of sus-