The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-22
The President S Message.

the TWO houses of congress on Tuesday
Is a decidedly interesting document.
Featured in it is the absolute lack on
the part of the president Of any effort
'tto stir the animals 1t bears the
nar marks OF being message from one
uatri0tic citizen to a body Of other pa
sriotic citizens and while the sugges-
lion may be made Ike president is just
a little shifty' in seeking to place
he burden for the solution Of the liq-
nor problem on the shoulders Of Re-
publican congress rather than to take
upon himself the burden by proclaim
ing as il Ia generally believed he has
right to do the suspension of the pro-
hibition law for war times,
The interesting human note which
has been so featured in all of the mes
sages Of Mr.. Wilson is prominent in
his latest message. His suggestion of
the great partnership between capital
and labor with both sharing the profits
Of industry is in keeping with the new
er and greater ideals Of the nation. It
is one Of the things that Mr.. Wilson
has stood for and one Of the things that
men with wide vision have been look
ing forward to with certainty that
such a provision in the moral il not in
the civil law Of the country.
The reference Of the president to
the return of the wire systems comes as
the first authoritative statement of the
stand Of the administration on this
great problems. 1t removes any sugges-
tion that the administration is favor
able TO any permanent government own
ership Of these lines. Like the solution
OF the prohibition question the Repub-
lican congress asked to shoulder the re-
sponsibility Of working out the meth
DDS for the return of the wires The
unscrambling Of the wires is recon-
mended but like the unscrambling Of
the railways the president does not sug-
gest methods rather suggests result
with some one else to work out the
method.
1t was expected that the president
would urge the repeal of the luxury tax
bill, This bill has had just one thing
to recommend il and that is that it
produces a minimum amount Of revenue
with a maximum amount of complaint.
1t hits at the things which are not of
a sufficient general consumption to
make taxes on them a producer of large
revenue.
Certainly no one will be surprised at
the suggestion of the president that the
time has come for women to have equal
rights with men at the ballot box. 1t
is just as certain that the present Re
publican congress will see to it that
this legislation SO strongly urged by a
Democratic president will be just as
strongly urged by congress dominated
by Republicans. 1t is one Of the "com-
mon grounds on which the president
and congress will meet.
The man who reads the section of the
message relating to the labor problem
must be impressed with the fact that
the president has closely studied a pres
emit day problem and has sought to of
fer for it the solution which must pre-
vail tomorrow even though it may seem
idealistic today.
This part of the message should prove
tonic for industry. 1t should prove
guiding post to men who are seeking
to find the real way to meet the ques-
tons Of reconstruction. 1t finds re-
sponsive chord in Kenosha because one
Of Kenosha $ greatest manufacturing
concerns has has anticipated the call of
the president and has already brought
the partnership" which is so featured
in the message,
In his message the president has won
derfully emphasized the present crisis.
When he says;
We cannot go any further in our
present direction We have already
gotten too far We cannot live our
right life as q nation or achieve our
proper success as an industrial commu-
rity if capital and labor are to continue
&c be antagonistic instead of being
partners; II they are to continue to
distrust one another and eontrive how
hey can get the better Of one another,
Or, what perhaps amounts to the same
hing calculated by what form and de
gree of coercion they can manage to
sxtort or the one hand work enough
to make enterprise profitable, on the
other justice and fair treatment enough
to make life toIerable, That bad road
has turned out blind alley. 1t is no
thoroughfare to real prosperity. We
must find another leading in another
direction and to a very different des
tination 1t must lead not merely to
accommodation, but also to genuine
cooperation and partnership based upon
a real community Of interest and par
ticipation in control
This expression of the president is
most happily put. 1t halls the birth
Of a new and better industrial era in
the nation and one that is certain to