Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-12-13

gress charged with budget legislation.
81 trust that the congress will give
its immediate consideration to the
problem of future taxation. Simplifi.
cation of the income and profits taxes
has become an immediate necessity.
They must, however, be simplified, not
only to save the taxpayers inconVeni-
ence and expense, but in order that
his liability may be made certain and
definite.
with reference to the details of the
revenue laws, the secretary of the
treasury and the commissioner Of in
ternal revenue will lay before you for
your consideration certain amend
ments necessary or desirable in con-
nection with the administration of the
law recommendations which have my
approval and support.
There are other matters of import
anCe upon which l urged action at the
last session of congress which are still
pressing for solution. l am sure it is
not necessary for me to again remind
you that there is one immediate and
very practicable solution resulting
from the war which we should meet
in the most liberal spirit. 1t is a mat
ter of recognition and relief to our
soldiers. | can do no better than
quote from my last message urging
this very action: I'VE must see to
it that our returning soldiers are as
sisted 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 main
tanning upon an adequate scale the ad-
mirable organization created by the
department of labor for placing men
seeking work and it can also be done
in at least one very great field by Gre
ating new opportunities for individual
enterprise.
THE secretary of the interior has
pointed out the way by which return
ing soldiers may be helped to find and
take up land in the hitherto unde-
veloped regions of the country which
the federal government has already
prepared or can readily prepare for
cultivation and also on many of the
cutover or neglected areas which lie
within the limits of the older states;
and l once more take the liberty OF
recommending very urgently that his
plans shall receive immediate and sub
stantial support of congress.
mo one who has observed the
march of events of the last year can
fail to note the absolute need of a
definite program to bring about an
in the condition of Ia
tions leading to increased production
nd ~ - lf1rfya ?
labor and capital are to be antago-
nistic instead of partners. Sound
and an honest desire to serve
the interests of the whole nation as
from the interests of a
class must be applied to the solution
of this great and pressing problem.
The failure of other nations to consid-
er this matter in a vigorous way has
produced bitterness and jealousies and
the food of radicalism
The only way to keep men from agi-
tating against grievances is to remove
the grievances. An unwillingness
even today to discuss these matters
produces only dissatisfaction and gives
comfort to the extreme elements in
BUR country which endeavor to stir up
in order to provoke gov
ernments to embark upon course of
retaliation and repression. The seed j..
If revolution is repression. The rem
edy for these things must not be mega
i've in character. 1t must be con-
'tructive. 1t must comprehend the
general interest. The real antidote for
he unrest which manifests itself is
lot suppression, but deep considera-
ion of the wrongs that beset our ma
ional life and the application of a
'emedy.
Congress has already shown its will
ngness to deal with these Industrial
wrongs by establishing the eight-heur
lay as the standard in every field of
abor. 1t has sought to find way to
'revent child labor It has served the
Whole country by leading the way In
developing the means of preserving
nd safeguarding the lives and health
n dangerous industries. It must now
Ielp in the difficult task of finding a
Method that will bring about a genu-
ne characterization of industry, based
pom the full recognition of the right
f those Who work in every rank to
anticipate in some organic way in
very decision which directly affects
heir welfare. Il is with this pur-
ose in mind that I called confer
nee to meet in Washington on Decem-
er l to consider these problems in
II their broad aspects, with the idea
( bringing about better understand
1g between these two interests.
This is the hour of test and trial
or America BY her prowess and
trength and the indomitable courage
her soldiers she demonstrated her
over to vindicate on foreign. battle
elds her conceptions of liberty and
lstice Let not her influence as
lediator between capital and labor be
and her own failure to set
e matters of purely domestic concern
g proclaimed to the world
''There are those in this country who
lreaten direct action to force their
i'll upon a majority.
Russia today, with its blood and
'rror, is a painful object lesson OF the
0wer of minorities. It makes little
fference what minority 1t is; Wheth-
!. capital or labor, or any other class;
D sort of privilege will ever be per-
tilted to dominate this country. We
o a partnership or nothing that Is
orth while. We are democracy,