The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-12-12
PRESIDENTS ANNUAL
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Urges Placing Budget Under Uni
fled System and Questions
Utility of Further Income
and Profits Taxation.
WILSON WARNS OF UNREST.
The Presidents recommendations.

A budget system with one single au-
thority responsible for all appropria-
tions and expenditures and without
the approval of which Congress cannot
make appropriations.
Legislation to protect new indus
tries, especially the dyestuff industry.
Legislation to remove the cause Of
political restlessness in the body poll
tic and curb radicaIism.
Advancement of the program to pro-
vide farm lands for soldiers.
Further legislation to bring down
the cost of living.
Fair.pIay for labor and the estab-
lishment of the principles regarding
labor laid down in the covenant in the
League. of Nations, in the realization
"that the seed of revolution is repres-
| sion"
In his remarks on labor President
Wilson said:
"The establishment of the principles
| regarding labor laid down in the cove
| nant of the League of Nations offers
US the way to industrial peace and con-
ciIiation. No other road lies open to
US. s Governments must rec
ognize the right of men to bargain COL
lectiveIy for humane objects. r.
Labor must no longer be treated as a
commodity"
"The only way to keep men from
agitating against grievances is to re-
move the grievances"
ington.-General recommended
tions on legislation to combat the high
| cost of living, labor unrest, radicalism
and a readjustment of the nation to
peace-time basis were the features Of
President Wilson's annual message.
The peace treaty, the President told
| Congress, will be discussed in a
separate message later, as will the
railroad question.
For the second time only, since the
President established the practice of
addressing Congress in person, his
message was read by the clerks.
The Presidents principal recon-
mendations we're:
Establishment of a budget system
| for the national hnanceS.
Reorganization of the taxation sys-
| tenn with simplifcation 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 1.-THE greatest capitalist in
the world"
Relief for Soldiers.
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 indie
pendent of foreign supply.
An enlarged program for rural de-
velopment, in recognition Of the
| farmers part in the war.
Measures which twill remove the
causes of political restlessness in
our body polite"
| At this point the President made his
treaty by saying that 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 perma-
nent peace permitting return to nor
NAL conditions, from the TRANSMISSION
|
ropean centers pending such delay
from heartless protiteering resulting
| from the increase 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"
| On the Cost of Living.
The President renewed his recon-
mendationS for legislation to deal eff
fectively with "those persons who by
violent methods would 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 eXten,
sion of the food control law to peace
times for the emergency; regulations
for transportation of foods in inter
state CONNIE ce; a cold storage law
modelled after the law in New Jersey
law requiring marks to show the
length of time foods are kept in stor.
age, and q law to secure competitive
selling and prevent unconscionable
profits" by federal license. of corpora
tions selling food in interstate COM
merce.
A long portion of the message was
devoted to a discussion of the condi-
ton and rights of labor. "a definite
program to bring about an improve.
ment in the conditions of labor and
bring about a genuine democratization
Of industry" was recommended.
"Remove Grievances"
"The only way to keep men from
agitating against grievances is to re-
move the grievances" said the Presi-
dents message. At another point ii
| declared ''the seed of revolution is re.
| PRESTON"
The establishment of the princi-
| Piles regarding labor, laid down in the
covenant of the League of Nations, "
| said The message, ''Otfers us the way
Russia a Painful Example.
The Presidents message closed with