The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-12-13
THE PRESIDENTS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS
LABOR UNREST AND HIGH
COST OF LIVING Is
DISCUSSED.
General Recommendation for
Return of the United States
To Peace Basis.

Washington.-General recommends
ions ON legislation to combat the cos
OF living, labor unrest, radicalism anC
a REIMBURSEMENT OF the nation to peace
time basis were the features of Presi
dent Wilson's annual message to con
gress, delivered Tuesday.
The peace treaty, the president told
congress, will be discussed in a sepa
rate message later, as will the railroad
question.
For the second time only since the
president established the practice OF
addressing congress in person his mes.
sage was read today by the clerks
The presidents principal recommen-
dations were:
Establishment of budget system
for the national finances.
| Reorganization of the taxation sys-
| TEN, with simplification of the income
and excess profits.
Readjustment of the tariff system,
if necessary, to meet changed world
conditions and make the system con-
form with the fact that the United
States is the greatest capitalist in ths
world"
Recognition and relief for veteran
soldiers Of the world war, particularly
In the way of government farms, as
proposed by Secretary Lane.
Proper measures to foster the dye
stuffs industry built up during the war
to keep the United States Independent
of foreign supply.
An enlarged program for rural de-
ers' part in the war.
Measures which will remove the
causes of political restlessness in our
body polite
At this point the president made his
most extensive reference to the peace
treaty by saying the causes for the
unrest ARE superficial rather than
deep-seated," and that they arise
from or are connected with the failure
on the part of our government to ar
rive speedily at a just and permanent
peace, permitting return to normal con-
ditions, from the TRANSMISSION of radical
theories from seething European CEN
tiers pending such delay from heartIess
profiteering, resulting from the in
crease of the cost of living, and lastly
from the Vaccinations of passionate
and malevolent agitators
With the return to normal conditions |
this unrest will rapidly disappear.
The president renewed his recon-
for legislation to deal eff
fectively with those persons who by
violent methods will abrogate our time
tested institutions"
Several recommendations, some re-
newals of previous ones, were made
by the president to bring down the
cost of living. Among them were ex-
tension of the food control law to peace
times for the emergency; regulations
for transportation of foods in inter
state commerce; a coal storage law
modelled after the law in New Jersey;
a law requiring markets to show the
length Of time foods are kept in stor.
age, and law to secure competitive
selling and prevent unconscionab BILE
profits" by federal license of corpora
lions selling food in interstate COM
nerce
A long portion of the message was
devoted to a discussion of the condi-
ion and rights of labor. "A definite
program to bring about an improve
nent in the conditions of labor" and
BRING about a genuine democratization
If industry" was recommended.
"The only way to keep men from
!gitating against grievances is to re-
move grievances" said the presidents
Message. Another point it declared,
the seed of revolution is repression"
"The establishment Of the princi-
lies regarding labor laid down in the
aid the message, "offers us the way
o industrial peace and Cancellation.
70 other road lies open to us.
Governments must recognize the right
4 men to bargain collectively for
umane objects. Labor must
% longer be treated as commodity"
1.-THE right of individuals to strike
, inviolate," continued the message,
and ought not to be interfered with
y any process of government, but
here is a predominant right and that
the right of the government to pro-
ect all of its people and to assert its
overs and majesty against the chal-
,nge of any class"
The president was referring to the =
recent Injunction against I
le coal strike.
The message closed with a pointed
sference to radicalism and red doc :
ines and referred to russia today :
ith its blood and terror" as pain. .
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