The Winslow mail., 1919-12-19
The Presidents Message

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to the regular session Of Congress,
found it necessary to renew practi-
cally all the recommendations which
he made on two separate occasions
to the special session. Failure Of
the Republican majority to enact a
single vital measure proposed by
the President and necessitated by
the untoward conditions in the coun-
try's economic, industrial and fiscal
affairs. notwithstanding a full half
year of control of the legislative
machinery of the Government, is
thus again brought sharply to pub
lie attention.
Those who expected the President
to laden his latest message to Con-
gress with new suggestions will ap-
preciate his reasons for merely re-
peating his former proposals. The
problems to which, last spring, he
urged Congress to address itself are
acuter form because of legislative
neglect. Obviously, the President
refrained from the discussion of ad-
ditional needs when the fundamental
requirements of reconstruction have
yet to be met.
Though his recommendations with
regard to labor are in their sub
stance the same that he laid before
the legislators last May the manner
of them reveals how closely the
President has followed, even in his
illness, the trend of industrial diff
ferences during the six months of
Congressional inaction. The Presi-
dents discussion of this conflict be-
tween employers and. employees is
characterized by humane philoso-
ply that could well be adopted by
the parties to these disputes.
The rights of workers to bargain
collectively, to strike, to demand
proper conditions of labor, to claim
fair wages, and to live in peace and
comfort are recognized without qua
LITIGATION. A return to the old stand
ards of wage and industry in en-
ployment is declared to be unthink-
able. The terrible tragedy of the
late war would be in vain if the old
conditions were restored. But the
President comedies all these things
without yielding the predominant
right of the Government to protect
all Of it's people and to assert its
power and majesty against the
challenge of any class" In thus as
serting it's right, the President says
the Government seeks not to antago-
nize a class but simply to defent
the right of the whole people a
the irreparable harm and injur.
that might be done by the attempt
of any class to usurp a power that
only the Government has right tt
exercise as protection to ALL
The reference of international dis
putes to arbitration as means OF
avoiding war, President Wilson says
points the way for the settlement OF
industrial controversies. There
must be some way, he contends il
which these great interests, thesf
partners in production, may be
brought together for the adjustment
of their differences and co-opera-
tion of their forces.
"The whole world gave it's recog
milton and endorsement to thest
fundamental purposes in the League
of Nations" says the President
The statesmen gathered at Versail
les recognized the fact that WORLD
stability could not be had by revert
ing to indus trial standards and con
ditions against which the average
workman OF the world had revolted,'
he continues.
1t is, therefore, the task of tht
statesmen of this new day of chang,
and readjustment to recognize worlt
con6tiozas and to seek to brine
about, through legislation, condi.
uons that will mean the ending c
the age-long antagonisms betwee1
capital and labor ;"
Again the President expresses g
desire to see Congress adopt bud
getary system that will subsery
economy; he iterates his suggestion
for a simpliffcation and modifica-
tlen of income and profits taxes; he
urges anew adequate legislation in
behalf of former soldiers and sail
ors; he repeats his recommendation
for the protection of American dye.
stuffs; he presses once more for en-
actments that will curb profteerins
and the manipulation of prices.
A wholly new recommendation