Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-09

w AAOV1V ~ d EEN11
TO LEGISLATURE
7. OF MINNESOTA n (.
The text, of President Wilson's ad-
dress to the state legislature follows:
Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. Governor, gentle
men OF the legislature, ladies and gem
tiemen, esteem 1t an unusual privi-
lege to stand in this place today and
address the members of this great
body because the environment which
l have left at Washington. is too in
innate a matter of the life Of our own
and yet, l am conscious standing in
this presence, that perhaps the most
appropriate thing could allude to is
caused by the fact that I know that
you have been called together in spe-
cial session for special purposes and
one OF those purposes you have al
ready achieved and rejoice with you
-(applause)-in the adoption of the
suffrage amendment. .t
Until the Industrial world is put
on Its feet you cannot finally handle
the question of the cost Of living, be-,
cause the cost of living in the last an
alysis depends upon the thing we are
always talking about, but do not know
how to manage, the law Of supply and
demand. Every here and there they
are running through a little neck like
down In the Pennsylvania system at
Pittsburgh, where everything Is con-
gested. IT,,
I'VE have got to see that our own
production and our own methods of
finance and our own commerce are
qulckened In every way possible, and
then we, sitting in legislatures like
this and in the congress Of the United
States, have to see to it, II you will
permit a vulgar expression, that no
one monkeys with the machinery.
The Food Question.
II understand that one Of the ex-
cellent suggestions that was men
look into the cold storage. There are
other kinds Of storage besides cold
storage. There are other ways Of COW
ertng the reserve stock Of goods. You
can manage by a contract that isn't
put on paper to see that the goods
are doled out SO as to bring the high
est prices. 8.
We might as we'll sit up straight
and look facse, in the face, gentlemen.
The laboring men of the. world are
not satisfied with their relations with
their employers. OF course do not
mean to say that dissatisfaction is
universal dissatisfaction, becauee
there are situations in many instances
OF satisfaction but am now speaking
of the general relations between capt.
tai and labor. Everywhere there is
dissatisfaction much more on the 9TH
er side OF the water than on this side.
"One point wish to make is that
the world is looking to America to set
the standards with regard to the con-
dltions of labor: or the relations be-
tween capital and labor, and 1t is look
ing to us because we have been more
progressive in those matters. We have
got to have a constructive program
with regard to labor, and method
by which We will relieve the strain
Of what you can call the cost Of living
II am not dogmatfc about this mat
ter. can't presume that T.. know
how it should be done. know the
principle upon which It. should be
done. The principle 10 that the inter
sas1at and the interest 40f labor
arsasaetS SdHssenskat the same. =
n Latufi Notsa' 6pimii,lS 81 j, modify. " ~
You can't any longer, regard labor
ae a commodity. You have got to re-
gard 1t as a means of association. and
when that is done the production Of
the world is going to 60 forward by
leaps and bounds. ~ .
why is it that labor organizations
seriously limit the amount Of work
they have in hand to do? 1t is be-
cause they are driving hard bargains
They don't feel that they are your
partners at all. And so, ,long as labor
and capital are antagonistic, produc-
ton is going to be at its minimum.
Just so soon as they are sympathetic
and cooperative, it is going to
abound, and that will be one Of the
means Of bringing down the cost Of
living.
America, though we do not like to
admit it. has been very provincial in
regard to the worlds business. When
we had to engage in banking transac-
tions outside of the United States, we
generally did it through English
bankers and here, all of q sudden, we
are called upon to handle the bulk Of
international exchange. We have to
learn it and we have to learn it fast.
I'VE have got to have American in
strumentalities in every part Of the
world. If you want to trade, you
have to have somebody to trade with.
"All the world problem and the
great difficulty just is getting our
minds adjusted to the world. Some
Of the difficulties that are being en-
countered about the treatv Of the
League of Nations are not so nalch
prejudicial, but the thing which is SO
common and inconvenient, just
downright ignorance. Ignorance. I
mean Of. the state of the world, and
Americas relation to the state Of the
world.
I'VE have got to play our part. and
we have got to play it either as board
of directors or as outside spectators
We can play 1t inside or on the curb