The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-20
WILSON ASKS REMOVAL
OF BEER AND VINE BAN;
URGES REVISED WAR TAX
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dustry. Some positive legislation is
practicable The Congress has already
shown the way to one reform which
should be worldwide, by establishing
the eight hour day as the standard day
in every field of labor over which you can
exercise control. 1t has sought to find
the way to prevent child labor, and will,
hope and believe, presently find it. 1t
has served the whole country by leading
the way in developing the means of pre-
serving and safeguarding life and health
in dangerous industries. 1t can now help
in the difficult task of giving a new form
and spirit to industrial organization by
co-ordinating the several agencies OF con-
ciliation and adjustment which have been
brought into existence by the difficulties
and mistaken policies of the present
management of industry, and by setting
up and developing new federal agencies
of advice and information which may
serve as a clearing house for the best
experiments and the best thought on
this great matter, upon which every
thinking man must be aware that the
future development of society directly
depends. Agencies of international coun-
sci are presently to be created in con-
nection with the league of nations in this
very field; but it is national action and
the enlightened policy OF individuals,
corporations and societies within each
nation that must bring about the actual
reforms. The members of the commit
tees on labor in the two houses will hard
ly need suggestions from me as TO what
means they shall seek to make the fed
eral government the agent of the whole
nation in pointing out and if need be,
guiding the process of reorganization and
reform.
81 am sure that it is not necessary
for me to remind you that there is one
immediate and very practical question
of labor that we should meet in the most
liberal spirit. We must see TO it that
our returning soldiers are assisted in
every practicable way to find the places
for which they are fitted in the daily
work of the country. This can be done
by developing and maintaining on an
adequate scale the organization created
by the department of labor for placing
men seeking work, and it can also be
uDUt, III dL lcdSL pllt hti y EiEdl bNiut NY
creating new opportunities for individ-
ual enterprise. The secretary of the in
terror has pointed the way by which re-
turning soldiers may be helped to find
and take up land in the hitherto un-
developed regions of the country which
the federal government has already pre-
pared or can readily prepare for eultiya-
ton and also on many of the cut-over
or neglected areas which lie within the
limits of the older states; and / once
more take the liberty of recommending
very urgently that his plans shall re-
ceiye the Immediate and substantial sup
port OF the Congress.
Peculiar and very stimulating condi-
tions await our commerce and industrial
enterprise in the immediate future. I'M
usual opportunities will presently pre-
sent themselves TO our merchants and
producers in foreign markets and large
| fields for profitable investment will be
opened to our free capital But it Is not
only of that that | am thinking; it is
not chiefly of that that | am thinking
Many great industries Frustrated by the
war wait to be resuscitated, and the
world where it will be lacking is not
willing or experienced skill, but ma
| chinery and raw materials and capital.
| believe that our business men, our mer
| chants, our manufacturers and our cap
| italists, will have the vision to see that
prosperity in one part of the world min
| listers to prosperity everywhere; that
| there is in a very true sense a solidarity
of interest throughout the world Of en-.
| terprise and that our dealings with the
| countries that have need of our products
and our money will teach them to deem
us more than ever friends whose neces-
stiles we seek in the right way to serve.
Our new merchant ships, which have
! in some quarters been feared as destruc-
| tive rivals, may prove helpful rivals,
rather, and common servants, very much
needed and very welcome. Our great
shipyards, new and old, will be so opened
| to the use of the world that they will
prove immensely seryiceable to every
maritime people in restoring, much more
| rapidly than would otherwise have been
possible, the tonnage wantonly destroyed
in the war. / have only to suggest that
there are many points at which we can
| facilitate American enterprise in foreign
trade by opportune legislation and make
| it easy for American merchants TO go
where they will be welcomed as friends
rather than as dreaded antagonists.
America has great and honorable serv-
ice to perform in bringing the CONNER
cial and industrial undertakings of the
world back to their old scope and swing
again, and putting a solid structure Of
credit under them All our legislation
should be friendly to such plans and
| purposes.
Federal Taxes.
"And credit and enterprise alike will
be quickened by timely and helpful leg
islation with regard to taxation. | hope
that the Congress will find it possible to
undertake an early reconsideration Of
federal taxes, in order to make our sys-
tenn of taxation more simple and easy
of administration and the taxes them
selves as little burdensome as they can
be made and yet sufficient to support
| the government and meet all its obliga
tions. The figures to which those obi
cations have arisen are very great in
deed, but they are not so great as TO
make it difficult for the nation to meet
them and meet them, perhaps, in a single
generation, by taxes which will neither
crush nor discourage. These are not so
great as they seem, not so great as the
immense sums we have had to borrow
added to the immense sums we have had
to raise by taxation, would seem to indi-
cate for a very large proportion Of those
sums were raised in order that they
might be loaned to the governments with
which we were associated in the war
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