Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16
MINNESOTA CITIES
GREET PRESIDENT.
Wilson Speaks at st. Paul and
Minneapolis; Sounds Warning.
WORLD IN STATE OF REVOLT
Tells Minnesota Legislators That La
Dor Must Be Raised to the Plane
of Partnership With Capital
to Increase Production.

OF partnership With Capital
to Increase Production.
st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 10.-Labor
must be raised to the plane of part
nership with capital for by no other
means will production be increased
and unrest be dissipated
This was the substance of President
Wilson's address here before the Min
nesOta legislature, which is convened
in special session to consider methods
to abate the high cost of living.
The president offered no immediate
hope of solution of the problem. But
what he did say about labor and CAPT
tai was deemed tremendously impor-
tant because of the impending confer
ence he has called between capital and
labor, and also because he delivered
his address in the heart of a district
Astounding in radical ideas.
st. Paul is the headquarters of A.
G. Townley, the directing genius of the
Nonpartisan league.
Talks Little of Treaty.
Save for a brief mention of the
peace treaty he cut away from his for
mer speeches on the trip, and concen-
trated on the sombre of the differences
existing between capital and labor.
why is it?" he asked, that labor
organizations jealousy limit the
amount of work their men can do? Be
cause they are driving hard bargains
with you. They do not feel that they
are your partners at all, and so long
as labor and capital are antagonistic,
production is going to be at it's mini
num-"
Labor, the president declared, could
70 longer be regarded as a commodity.
It must be looked upon as an associa-
ton.
1--WE have got to get a constructive
program with regard to labor" he as
serted. "And the minute we get it we
will relieve the strain all over the
world, because the world will accept
our standards and follow our example.
1 am not dOgmatic about this matter"
Asserting that the peace treaty
would end the regime of the balance of
power, President Wilson told a crowd
in the Minneapolis armory that the
new world order set up would be to
the advantage of all nations rather
than a few of the stronger.
The presidents party motored over
from st. Paul. He was escorted through
the Minneapolis streets between
crowds that lined both sidewalks and
kept up a wave of cheering.
In ten blocks of the downtown Sec
ton every square inch of sidewalk
space was occupied and the windows
were thronged.
Warns of World Menace.
Under the old balance of power, said
the President, the people nowhere
dared speak out" against autocracy
or against the burden of armament.
But now, he continued, the people
were awake and had determined that
IF the governments can't get together
they will destroy the governments.
THE people OF the world" said Mr..
Wilson, ''are tired of every other kind
OF experiment except the kind we are
going to try. The world has turned
a corner that it's not going to turn
again"
To destroy autocratic power, Mr..
Wilson continued, was the object of
the war. Yet in Russia, he said. an
autocratic government as cruel as that
of the Gear had been set up and the
United States must see to it that there
was no similar government in the Uni
ted States.
I'VE will brook the control of no
minority in the United States" he add
ed. Il would as leave serve one kind
of an autocracy as another"
After his st. Paul address the pres
ident was taken to the st. Paul hotel,
where he and his party and members
of the committee were guests of the
governor at luncheon.
Talks in Minneapolis.
The people were packed into the
Minneapolis armory to the last inch
of room; chairs had been removed.
Soldiers formed the escort there. The
Introductory speech of Mayor Meyers
was never delivered. The crowd yelled
until the president arose and they be-
came quiet.
'The world is in revolution" the
president told the people there. 81
mean that it is in q state of mind
which may bring about the dissolution
of governments if we do not enter into
world settlement which will really
In fact and in power establish justice
and right"
U. S. Wants Nothing.
This was applauded, also his state
ment that America desired no advan-
tage from the war. He said he was
not speaking revolution, for it was dis
astrous to destroy public order.
He was also greeted by big crowds
In ST. Paul, where he was met in the
morning by Gov. ]. A. Burnquist,
Mayor J. E. Meyers of Minneapolis,
and Mayor Larry Hodgson of st. Paul.