| Show WILS wILSON ON ADDRESSES I 7 LIRE RE i II I 0 DENT N 1 SPEAKS rA IN l PA l Must Be Put Its Feet Before Can Be lan Han lied led Executive Says ir By Associated Press r. r PAUL Minn Mimi Sept 9 he cost of living President 1 on told fold the Minnesota legis today is largely due duc to orld situation growing out m e sacrifices and waste of the war flack n Back ck of or that added the president the fact that the world had not 1 et learned what the peace status rould be IThe The world is not going to settle seUle flown own said taid he until it learns what i Aft rt the United States is to play In th the peace pace e. e He added this was the only nation would have enough free capital Ithe the near future to rehabilitate the orld economically SEERS FOR WiLSON WILSON liThe The legislature which began yester- yester jC s an extraordinary session to con- con ider the high cost of living and other Objects received the president with He Heas was as introduced by Gover- Gover pr J. J A. 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A Burnquist who said Mm- Mm sota hoped there would be some ar- ar to prevent future wars The illie president congratulated the the- g lature on its ratification yester- yester y lf the federal woman suffrage i 1 I T FIrst of all Mr Wilson said It was e nations nation's duty to set the commerce he world going by the establish establish- Jent ent of peace After that he conI confirmed con con- i firmed I there were domestic adjustments adjust adjust- I ments- ments that must be made mention- mention I ILg g. g among other things that railway in this country were not equal li tIthe demand AND CAPITAL Having established a world settle- settle ent economically Mr lr Wilson de- de it was Imperative that there Tan arrangement arrangement to insure that noWay nody no- no Way dy monkey with the process set f Turning Burning to the relations of ot labor laborI dl I capital the president said that f men everywhere were dis- dis with their relation to their That was true abroad ho l In larger measure than in the I States j to the treaty provision for tor torI international labor organization I wilson said bere here was a It way to ini I It a definite solution to th the He lie asserted that In this so- so I rs jion tion on the United States was expected 2 the world wend to set the standards lay down the principles SIS S FOR SOLUTION 4 1 t a It basis for tot the 1 solution the theM t ident su suggested that the interests M i labor libor and capital must be Jed ed a as identical and the two ought be reasonable enough to get toh to- to 1 her h r. r When it was realized that bor o was not a commodity and a It had been established bd cUon would Increase by leaps I. I A and that would be one m nt In reducing the cost of liv- liv r. r The he United d States the president d d. d had be been en n provincial in past irs rs in it its economic relations to the tr rid Jd There must he be a change he heI I V I u d d. d if the United States Stares is to toA A the world And it was J. J k essary to accomplish that i fyon Jon he added if you are going to your Cry our 1 trade trado to the ends of oC the I K OST WORLD WO LD PROBLEM I ha hat was why he continued the cost iving was a world problem and was up in th the peace treat treaty It was waH I J I tr downright f ignorance of world irs he ho declared that prevented r 1 gien men ipen from seeing that point I I 1 Continued on page 2 IL 1 rec r aty ty Ratification to toli li Mean ean Aid in I acost Fight tt Wilson Says S I Continued from page paged 1 I There was applause when he remarked I that he did not think either of ot the senators senators senators sen sen- from Minnesota was afflicted with that state of mind Any man with open eyes could see seethe seethe seethe the inevitable role the United States I must play in world affairs said the I president and must realize reaUze that it was wasa a case of either welcoming or surrendering surrendering surrendering I dering to the facts Mr Wilson said he had seen condi conditions bons on the other side aide of the water I condi-I and knew hand first-hand what confidence the I world reposed in America He said he had been glad that the problem was a 1 world one and not one of domestic politics politics pol pol- pol-I pol because he would be ashamed of himself if he made such a subject a I partisan one He added however that if it he were a scheming politician and I any anyone one wanted to present him with this issue as a platform he would be I glad to accept it The president concluded his address at 1047 a. a m. m I TEXT I esteem it an unusual privilege to stand in this place today and address 1 the members of this great body because I Ithe the environment which I have left at Washington Is too intimate a matter of the life lite of our own nation as well as I I the life of the world and yet I am conscious standing in this presence that perhaps the most appropriate thing I could allude to is caused by the fact that I know that you have been called together in special session for forI I special purposes and one of those purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses you OU have already alread achieved and I I rejoice with you applause applause in in the adoption of the suffrage amendment COST OF LIVING Until the industrial world is put on its feet you cannot finally handle the question of the cost coat of et living because the cost of living in the last analysis depends upon the thing we are always talking about but do not know how to manage the law of supply and demand We Ve have got to see that our own production and our own methods of I finance and our own commerce are quickened in every way possible and then we sitting in legislatures like this and in the congress of ot the United I States have to see to It if you will will permit a vulgar expression that no one monkeys with the machinery cry METHOD OF HOARDING I understand that one of t the excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent suggestions that was mentioned by your our gov governor is t that t you look into the cold storage There are other kinds of storage besides cold storage There are other ways of covering the reserve stock of goods You can can manage by a contract that isn't put on paper to see I that the goods are doled out so eo as to not bring the highest prices I LABOR DISSATISFIED DISSATISFIED- We might as well sit up straight and look facts in the face gentlemen The laboring men of the world are not sat- sat sifted with their relations with their I employers Of course I do not mean to say that dissatisfaction is universal dissatisfaction because there are situations sit sit- situations situations sit sit- in many Instances of satisfaction satisfaction tion ton but I am n now speaking of the gen gen- general general era eral relations between n capital and labor Everywhere there is ie dissatisfaction dissatisfaction dissatisfaction faction much more on the other side aide of the water than on this side LOOKS TO AMERICA One point I wish to make Is that the world is looking to America to set the standards with it regard to the conditions conditions conditions con con- of labor or the relations between be between between be- be tween capital and labor and it is looking to us because owe we have been more progressive in m those matters We Ve have bave got to have hare a constructive program program pro pro- gr gram m with regi regard h to labor tabor and a I I 1 method by Rh which c we will will- relieve lna 1 ih str strain in of what you can call the cost of living t I am not dogmatic about this matter mat mat- ter I can presume that I know how it should be be- done I know the principle upon which It should be done The principle is that the interest of capital and the Interest of labor labor are not different different different dif dif- ferent but are the same same You cant can't any longer regard labor as a commo commo- You have got to regard It as a means of ot association and when that thatis is done the production of the world is going to go forward by leaps and bounds ONE SOLUTION Why Is It that labor organizations seriously limit the amount of work they have in hand to do It is because they are driven to hard bargains They dont don't feel that they are your partners at all alb And so long as labor and capItal capital capital cap cap- ital ar are antagonistic production is going go going going go- go ing to be at its minimum Just as soon as they are sympathetic and cooperative cooperative tive it is going to abound and that will be one of the means of bringing down the rho cost of living America though we do not like to admit it has been very provincial in regard to the worlds world's business When we had to engage in banking transactions transactions transactions trans trans- actions outside of the United States we generally die it through English banks or more often through German bankers and here all of a sudden we weare weare weare are called upon to handle the bulk of International exchange We have to learn It and we have to learn it fast IGNORANCE IS FOE We have got to have American in instrumentalities instrumentalities instrumentalities in- in in every part o of the world If It you want to trade you have to have somebody to trade with I All the world problems and the I great difficulty just now is getting I our minds adjusted to the world Some SomeI of the difficulties that are being encountered en encountered encountered en- en countered about the treaty and the common and Inconvenient just downright downright downright down down- right ignorance Ignorance I mean of the state of the world and Americas America's relation to the state of the world We have got to play our part and we the have got to play It either as board of directors directors directors tors or as outside spectators LABELS RUB OFF The facts are marching upon us and God is marching with them You I cannot resist them ana and you must I either welcome them or else subseQuently subsequently subsequently and regretfully surrender Everywhere I T have been on this trip the majority of the committee that has received me has consisted of Republicans Republicans and nothing has pleased me so much If It I were a scheming politician and anyone wished to present me with the peace of the world as a cam campaign aign issue It H would be very welcome But everybody knows that we are all Americans The Democrat and the Republican underneath are of the same stuff Labels rub off with the slightest effort |
