Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-05-22
WILSON CALLS ON CONGRESS-
To- REPEAL WARTIME DRY LAW
Recommends Early Return Of Railroads, Telegraph
and Telephone Lines. Favors Woman Suffrage
and Laws to Protect Dye Industry Urges EN-
ployment Measures.

Washington, p. G., May President
WILSON'S message to the extraordinary
session of congress was read Tuesday
IN the house and senate With most
members in their seats. This is the
first time since President Wilson was
that he had not appeared
In person to deliver his message.
Following is the full text of the
message:
entlemen of the congress: /
deply regret my inability, to be pres
ent at the opening of tile extraOrdi-
nary session of congress. It still
SENS to be my duty to take part in
the counsels of the peace conference
and contribute what i 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 them, therefore, the
United States cannot stand apart.
II deemed it my duty to- call con
gress together at this time because
1t was not wise to postpone longer
the provisions which must be made
for the support Of the government.
Many of the appropriations which are
absolutely necessary for the mainte-
nance of the government and the full
fillment of its various obligations for
the fiscal year 1919 1920 have not vet
been made; the end of the present
fiscal year is at hand; and action
upon these appropriations can no
Inn 11o f1xyil lnJn icx
esarN, therefore, that I should i'm
mediately call your attention to this
critical need. 1t is hardly necessary
for me to urge that it may receive
your prompt attention.
Il shall take the liberty of address
ing YOU on my return on these subjects
which have engrossed our attention
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 imme7
diate future. 1t would be premature
to discuss them or. to express iudg-
ment about thenis II ss,,ssee Ill hevs IN "a
brought to their complete formula
tfon by the agreements which are
now being sought at the table of the
conference. shall hope to lay them
before you in their many aspects SO
soon as arrangements have been re-
ferred.
2 II 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 information and counsel
i am conscious that need, after so
long an absence from Washington, to
SEX the advice of those who have
remained in constant contact. with
domestic problems and who have
known them close at hand from day
to day; and trust that it will soon
be possible for me to do SO. But
there are several questions pressing
for consideration to winch, even now
direct your attention, if only in gen.
,eral terms. In speaking of them /
shall, l dare say. be doing little more
than speak your own thoughts. I
hope that I shall speak your own
judgment also.
1.-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 advantage while engrossed ed
in the consideration of interests
I could at home and amidst the in
terests which naturally most affect
my thought because they are the in-
terests of our own people.
BY the question of labor, do
not mean the question of efficient
industrial production, the question
OF how labor is to be obtained and
made effective in the great process
of sustaining populations and win
ming success amidst commercial and
industrial rivalries.
Il mean that much greater and
more vital questions, How are the
men and women who do the daily
labor of the world to obtain progress
sive Improvement in the conditions
OF their labor, to be made happier
and to be served better by the COM
munities and their Industries which
their labor sustains and advances?
How are they to- be given their right
advantage as citizens and human be-
ings?
"We cannot go any further in our
present direction. We have already
gone too far.
3 1--WE cannot live our right life as
q nation or achieve our proper sue
cess as an industrial community If
capital and labor are to- continue to
be antagonistic instead of being
partners; if they are to continue to
distrust one another and contrive
how they can get the better of one
another.
"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,
on the other justice and fair treat
ment enough to make life tnlerable.
THAT bad road has turned out a
Flies to Ponta DeIsada.