THE FARMER: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919
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IS TO TAKE UP PEACE TREATY AND R. R.
QUESTIONS LATER ON SAYS
CAUSES FOR UNREST ARE
NOT DEEP SEATED.
Washington, Pec. 2 General rf commendations on legis-
fall
tion to coinl'at the cost of liviiur, labor unrest, radicalism and;
a readjustment of the nation to peace time basis were the fea
tures of President Wilson's annual message to congress de
livered today.
The peace treaty, the President told congress, will be dis
cussed in a separate message later, as will the railroad ques
tion. For the second time only since the President established
the practice of addressing congress in person, his message was"!
read today by the clerks.
Th" President's principal recommendations were:
Kstabli.-dimerit ff a budget system tor the national fi
nances. Reorganization of the taxation system with simplification
of the income and excess profits.
Readjustment of the tariff system, if necessary to meet
(.-hanged world conditions and mako the system conform with
the fact that the United States. is "the greatest capitalist in the
world."
Recognition and relief for veteran
so:c!ir-rs 'f tho wr'rM war, particu
larly in the way of government farms
as proposed by Secretary Lane.
Proper measures to foster the dye
s' tuffs industry built up during the
war to keep the L'r.ked States inde
pendent of foreign supply.
An enlarged program for rural de
velopment, m recognition of the
farmers' part in the war.
Measures vh ich '-will remove the
cau.-ft-s" of "political restlessness in
our body politic."
At this point the president made
his most exren.sive reference to th--:
peace treaty by saying the causes for
the u nrt st "are superficial rather
than dee seated" and that they
"arise from, or are connected with,
the failure on the pari, of our govern -liu-nt.
