Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-31
Address to Congress Is Read by
Regular Reading Clerk.
EXPLAINS HIS STAY ABROAD
narrative Duty Makes Absence of
Chief Executive Necessary-Sub-
iect of Labor Unrest Dealt
With ExhaustiveIy-Sugg
tons for Domestic
Legislation.

Washington, May 2O.-For the first
fine in history Il message from the
nresident of the United States, cabled
from Europe, was read to the congress
today. 1t was as follows:
"Gentlemen of the Congress: /
deeply regret my inability to be pres
ent at the opening of the extraordi-
nary session of the congress. 1t still
seems to be my duty to take part in
tbe counsel of the peace conference
and contribute what | can to the solu-
tion of the innumerable questions to
whose settlement it has had to adj
dress itself; for they are questions
which affect the peace of the whole
world and from them, therefore. the
United States cannot stand apart. |
deemed it my duty to call the con
gress together at this time because ii
was not wise to postpone longer the
provisions which must be made for
the support of the government. Many
of the appropriations which are abso-
lutely necessary for the maintenance
of the government and the fulflllment
of its varied obligations for the fiscal
year 1919-1920 have not yet been
made: the end of the present fiscal
year is at hand and action upon these
appropriations can no longer be pru-
IDENTIFY delayed. 1t is necessary, there
fore, that | should Immediately call
your attention to this critical need.
1t is hardly necessary for me to urge
that it may receive your prompt at
tention.
81 shall take the liberty of address
Ing you on my return on the subjects
which have most engroSsed our at
tention and the attention of the world
during those 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 immedi-
ate future. 1t would be premature to
discuss them or to express judg-
brought to their complete formulation
by the agreements which are now be-
Ing sought at the table of the confer
ence. ! shall hope to lay them before
you in their many aspects so soon as
arrangements have been reached.
Rights of the Worker.
"The question which stands at tie
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-
tion 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 own people.
"By the question of labor | do not
mean the question of efficient indus
trial production, the question of how
labor Is to be obtained and made eff
fective in the great process Of sustain
ing populations and winning success
amidst commercial and industrial
rivaries. | mean that much greater
and more vital question, how are the
men and women who do the daily Ia
Dor of the world to obtain progressive
Improvement in the conditions of their
labor to be made happier. and TO be
served better by the communities and
the industries which their labor sus-
tains and advances? How are they TO
be given their right advantage as citi-
Zens and human beings?
eve cannot go any further In our
present direction We have already
gone too far. We cannot live our right
life rs n nation or achieve our proper
success as an industrial community If
capital and labor are to continue to
he antagonistic instead OF being part
nerS If they are to continue to dis.
tlust one another and contrive how
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