Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-05-31
CONGRESS- HEARS
MESSAGE FROM
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Recommendations Of Much I'M
portanCe Made in Document
Read to Legislators.
NEED FOR MEASURES
TO CHECK ANARcHIsM

Prevalent Unreet Of Labor Pointed Out
as Constituting Grave Danger-Rec-
ommends Adoption Of Woman suf-
frage-WouId Have Ban on Liquor
Business Delayed Until Nationwide
Prohibition Comes into Force.
Washington, May 2O.-Patrick ].
Haltigan, regular reading clerk of the
house, read the presidents message to
congress today, practically as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: 1 deep
ly regret my inability to be present at
the opening of the extraordinary SEES
sion Of the congress. 1t still seems to
be my duty to take part in the coun-
sells of the peace conference and con-
tribute what 1 can to the solution of
the innumerable questions to whose
settlement it has had to address itself;
for they are questions which affect the
peace of the whole world and from
them, therefore, the United States can
not stand apart. deemed it my duty
to call the congress together at this
time because it was not wise to post
pone longer the provisions which must
be made for the support of the govern
ment. Many of the appropriations
which are absolutely necessary for the
maintenance of the government and
the fulfillment of it's varied obligations
for the fiscal year 1919-192O have not
yet been made; the end Of. the present
fiscal year is at hand and action upon
these appropriations can no longer be
prudently delayed. It is necessary,
therefore, that l should Immediately
call your attention to this critical
need. 1t is hardly necessary for me to
urge that it may receive your prompt
attention.
II shall take the liberty of address
Ing you on my return on the subjects
which have most engrossed our atten-
ton and the attention of the world
during these last anxious months
Domestic Legislation.
II hesitate to venture any opinion
or pfess any recommendation with re-
gsFd to domestic legislation while alb
sent from the United States and out
OF daily touch with intimate sources
OF information and counsel. am con-
scious that need. after so long an abb
sence from Washington, to seek the
advice of those who have remained In
constant contact with domestic prob
lens and who have known them close
at hand from day to day; and trust
that it will very soon be possible for
me to do so. But there are several
questions pressing for consideration to
which feel that may, and indeed
must, even now direct your attention,
If only In general terms. In speaking
Of them / shall, dare say, be doing
little more than speak your own
thoughts hope that shall speak
your own judgment also.
"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 advan-
tage while engrossed in the considera-
ton Of interests which affect all coun.
tries alike as ! could at home and
amidst the interests which naturally
most affect my thought, because they
are the interests Of our people.
Rights Of the Worker.
''By the question of labor 1 do moi
mean the question of efficient indus
trial production, the question Of how
labor is to be obtained and made effec
tive in the great process of sustaining
populations and winning success
amidst commercial and Industrial ri
valries. mean that much greater anC
more vital question. how are the meI
and women who do the daily labor O
the world to obtain progressive i'm
provement in the conditions Of thei
labor, to be made happier, and to b,
served better by the communities an,
the industries which their labor sus
tains and advances2 How are the,
to be given their right advantage q
citizens and human beings?
Justice to Capital and Labor.
eve cannot go any further in GU
present direction. We have alread
gone too far. We cannot live on
right life as a nation or achieve GU
proper success as an industrial CON
munity If capital and labor are to b
antagonistic instead of being partners
II they are to continue to distrust on
another and contrive how they can &c
the better Of one another, or what pei
haps amounts to the same thing, ca
culate by what form and degree c
coercion they can manage to extor
on the one hand work enough to max
enterprise profitable. on the other jus