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Show PERSHING GUEST OF THE ELKS mm peace World Not Going to Settle Down Until It Learns I What Part U, S. Is Going to Play in Peace America Only Nation Which Will Have Enough I Free Capital to Rehabilitate the World Econ-I Econ-I omically United States' Duty to Set Com-I Com-I merce Going by Early Establishment of Peace. ST PAUL, Minn., Sept. 9. The cost of living, President Wilson told the Minnesota legislature today, is largely due to a "world situation sit-uation growing- out of the sacrifices and waste of the war." Back of that, added the president, lay the fact that the world had 11 not yet learned what the peace status would be. "The world is not going to settle down," said he, until it learns i what part the United States is to play in the peace. ' ' He continued that this was the only nation which would have enough free capital in the near future to rehabilitate the world economically. eco-nomically. The legislature, which began yesterday an extraordinary session to consider the high cost of living and other subjects, received the president with cheers. He was introduced by Governor J. A. A. Burnqiust, who said Minnesota hoped there would be some arrangement arrange-ment to prevent future wars. The president congratulated the legislature on its ratification yesterday yes-terday of the federal woman suffrage amendment. I First of all, Mr. Wilson said, it was the nation's duty to set the commerce of the world going by the establishment of peace. After f that he continued there were domestic adjustments that must be I made, mentioning among other, things that railway facilities in this I country were not equal to the demand. I Hating established a world settlement settle-ment economically, Mr. Wilson de-dared, de-dared, it was imperative th;it there be an arrangement to insure "that nobody no-body monkey w ii ii process sol up." Labor Everywhere Dissatisfied. Turning to the rclatitons of labor and f capital. the president said that labor - tag men every v. here d I with their relation to tlx tr eniplovers. That was trur abroad. he aid. in larg I ei moaMirr than in the t nited Stat Referring to the treaty provision for I an international labor organization, Mr. Wilson here was a way to brint: n 1 Winitr solution to the pnb!- mf He I aseerted that in this solution the Unit I ed States was expected by the world to sot the standards and lay down the principles. As a basis for the solution, the pre?- Went suggested that the Interests of labor and capital nmsi be recognized af I identical nnd the two outfit to be rea-I rea-I ratable enough to get together. When it was realized thai labor wan nut a ' commodity and a n a I co-opi ration had been established, production would in-I in-I crease "by leaps and bound-," and I Uat would be one clement in reducing I Ihl COS! of living U. S Too Provisional. The United States, i he pi i idi n1 ! ld, had been "provinrial' In pasl yrs in its relations to the world. I There must b- a change, he argued, if ' 'be United Stair- v . re to rehabilil it the world. And it is m i essai : lo i wmplisb that rehabilitation he added, I "if you are Eoinz to earn your tradt to the ends of the woi Id " That, was why, be continued, the cost of living i- a v.r.rl.l problem and 8 wrappe,i Up in tne p, .,, , , reatJ n ls "ju?t downriplji ignoranee" n( s r ' t aI,air?. be ib !ar d, I ha I pn v enti d Jjpme men from ecim.- ibai point Thfre Wb-; applause when lie r marked bthf rr,d not think either ol the sen i tor8 rom Minnesota was afflicted : that state ol mind. Any man with op n c es, ould i e xt" inevitable rule the Unit) d St Ust play in world affairs." said the L President, "and must realize thai It IS J. a case of either welcoming or sur radering to the fael Mr- Wilson said he had seen conditions condi-tions on the other side of the w i ana knew nrst hand wna conft(ieuce , WOrl'l reposed in America. He sam enadhe,.n (ha ,,)(, ))ri,0,.ni WHS I tmr.0(rlJ on'' i,niJ njl OUL' (': dome u-i u-i wiUca because he j16 oe "named" of himself it he made such how 1 '' ',arUji:iri or!l added. touf1?' ',ial 'i he wi re a "scheming I,!, 5lan"''d anyone wanted to pi . hlm wiilf his issue as a platform. I ouid b R'ad to accept II at 1,le,,rrs"l-n' ' om-bi.b d bis adrln ..p4' a m. l'-ani' i" ' 11 "n "n,IS"'1 i,r' 1,1 -' " 'n this (jiou c todii: and addn i - I he members ol this creat body, because be-cause the environment which 1 have left at Washington is too intimate a matter of the life of our own nation as well as the life of the world and yet I am conscious standing in this presence, that perhaps the most appropriate ap-propriate thing I could allude to is caused by the fact that I know you have been called together in special BG salon for special purposes and oe of those purposes you have, already achieved and 1 rejoice with you (applause) (ap-plause) in the adoption of the suffrage amendment. "Until the Industrial world is put nn its feet you cannot finally handle the question of the cost of living because be-cause the. cost of lilng In the I i analysis depends upon the thing we arc always talking about, but do not i Know how to manage the law of supply sup-ply and demand. I "We have got to see that our own I production and our own methods of fin;;nco and out own commerce are' Quickened in every way possible, and' i hen we, sitting in legislatures like this and in the congress of the United Sta.es, have to see to it if you will per-mil per-mil a vulgar expression, that no one' monkeys wllh the machinery. "I understand that one of the excellent ex-cellent suggestions that was mentioned men-tioned by your governor is that you Icok into the cold storage. There are I other kinds of storage besides ld Storage. There are other ways of cov- ering the reserve stock of goods You ran manage by a contract that isn't put on paper to see that the goods are doled out so as to not bring the highest high-est prices I "We might as well sit up straight iand look facts in the face gentlemen The laboring men of the world are not is-atlsfied with their relations Avon iheir employer;;. Of course 1 do rot 'mean lo s.r. that dissatisfaction is universal uni-versal dissatisfaction because th re are situations in many instances of satisfaction, but I am now npeaklng of the genera relations between capital capi-tal and labor. Everywhere there is dissatisfaction, much more on the olh-1 er side of the water than there is on this side. "One polnl I wish to make Is that the world la lookinK to America to set the fttandarda wnh regard to the condition.- of labor or the relations be tween capital and labor, and It is looking look-ing lo us because we have been more iprogieaslye in those matters. We have got lo have a constructive program with regard to labor, and a method by which we will relieve the strain of what you can call the cost of living "I am not dogmatic about this mate ier. 1 can't presume that 1 know bov it should be done. I know th principle prin-ciple upon which It should be doue. The principle is that the interest of capital and the interest of labor are not different, but iue lha sh. YAl can't any longer regard labor as a commodity. You have got to regard it as a means of association, and when , l hat is done the production of the world Is fcoing to go forward bv leaps and bounds. "Why is it that labor organizai ion.-seriously ion.-seriously limit the amount of work they have in hand to do? It is because they are drlvins hard bargains. They don't fel that they are your partners at all. And so Ion? as labor and capital capi-tal are antagonistic, production is going go-ing to be at its minimum. Just so soon as they are sympathetic and cooperative, co-operative, it is going to abound. anJ that will be one of the means of bringing bring-ing down the cost of living. "America, though, we don't like to admit i has been very provincial regard to the world's business. Winn we had to engage in banking transactions transac-tions outside of the United States, we only did it through English banks or movement of money through German bankers her'" when all of a sudden we are called upon to handle the bulk of International exchange. We have to learn it and we have to learn it fast. "We have got to have American in 8trumentallties in every part of the I world. If you want to trade, you hae to have somebody to trade with. "The facts are marching upon us, and God is marching with them. You cannot resist them and you must either welcome them or else subsequently subse-quently and regretfully surrender. Everywhere Ev-erywhere I have been on thle trip ih-majority ih-majority of the committee that has received me has consisted of Republicans, Republi-cans, and nothing has pleased me so much. If I wer a scheming politician, and anyone wished to present me with the peace of the world as a campaign issue it would be very welcome. But everybody knows that we aro all Americans The Democrat and he Republican underneath are of he same stuff. Labels rub off with the slightest effort." ST. PAUL, Minn . Sept. 9. Presi-denl Presi-denl Wilsons special irain nrrived at the St. Paul union station at 0 o'clock. The president was officially welcomed to Minnesota by Governor J. A. A. Burnqulat and to the Twin Cities by Mayors L. C. Hodson, of St. Paul and J. B. Myers of Minneapolis. President and Mrs Wilson received an ovation when they stepped from the station a few minutes later. The sire. ..- around the station were patrolled pa-trolled by Minnesota national guardsmen. guards-men. The presidential party was immediately im-mediately driven to the stale capitol where President Wilson addressed a joint session of the state legislature at 10 a. m. ON BOARD PRESIDENT WIL-so.Ns WIL-so.Ns SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE T I ST. PAUL, Sept. 9.- When General Gen-eral Pershing returns to Washington, on September 16, he will be offlpiall) received by Vice President Marshall, acting for President Wilson. Prom the special train on which be Is touring the west the president has telegraph ed Mr Marshall expressing regret 'hai he would be absent when General Gen-eral Pershing arrives and asking that ihe vice president extend the nation's welcome. The ceremony will include a review of the First division. When the presidential train stopped at Alton, la., yesterday a crowd of children met the train. A farmer commented on the number :md the president and replied "Yea I see you are raising a big crop ni Iowa The drouth evidently has not affected you." "And the are all good Americans, too," said the farmer. The president -i . mc d pleased at the reception he received at Sheldon, la. t inwils lintil the tracks and cheered while a siren on a grain elevatO was blown The Irani slowed up and the president and Mrs Wilson smiled their pleasure and waved to the thron |
