Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-01
DENIED.
PRESIDENT CAMPBELL STATEMENT
Denounced as a BottomleSs False
hood.

Some time since Mr.. james A. Camp
bell, of the Window Glass Workers. Ass0-
citation, made public charge that Repre-
sentstiyes Wilson, of West Virginia, and
Bynum, of Indiana, had told him that
1918 q month Vas good wages" for work.
ipgman. At that time the REGISTER de-
MED the statement, in behalf of Mr.. Will.
SOD, and also published his card denounc-
ing it AZ a falsehood. Csmpbell replied,
reaffirming his charge and making affidavit
thereto. The REGISTER Immediately
mailed bopies of the affidavit to Messrs
Wilson and Bynum, and has received the
following replies. The delay in their pub
LEGATION is due to the fact that both gen.
tlemsn ere serving the patty on the hust-
ipgs and considerable difficulty was ex-
perienced in reaching them.
WASHINGTON, D. O., September 81.
To tie Editor of The Register:
l have just read for the first time, ii
the clipping you sent me, the affidavit Of
James Campbell, as to en- alleged CONVEX
ssticn with Mr.. ByDum and myself, in the
Ways and Means Committee room, about
the 1st of last March, in which he says:
'In talking of wcrkingmen's wages"
he is referring to glsssworkers) made
the statement that SIS month
was the rate of wages paid in Eu-
rope Oh certain work. Mr.. Bynum
and Wilson both spoke up and
said that SIS q month was good wages for
wcrkingmep. When asked how men
could raise a family and educate their
children, they then said: If man had
his own home and garden patch it would
answer. They were then asked how
workingman was going to get home and
patch of ground working for SIS. There
was more passed between us, but the
above is a correct statement of the case re-
garding the SIS per month"
have distinct recollection of the con-
versstion between Mr.. Bynum and myself
and Mr.. Campbell, when he was intro
duced to us in the committee room last
spring, protesting to be representative of
al glsssworkers association WHO wished
to talk about the tariff on glass
We both invited him, IS we invited
everyone else whom we supposed able 10
give us any Information, to proceed, but
instead of attempting anything of that
kind he went off at once with some rather
ill-tempeIe and random assertions in ia
vor of protection, and threatened that the
working men would remember who were
their friends in this matter. After some
remarks of this Kind. he said thatevery re-
duetion Of the tariff on glass would reduce
it's price, and thst would fall on labor.
We contested this statement, telling him
that such re- uctiOn might diminish undue
profits, or impose on employers better
business methods and economies, but
would not affect me wages of labor, and
l remarked, Take farm products as an
example: tire price Of farm staples has
been declining for years, but the wages of
the farm laDorer are about IS good with
wheat at 80 cents as they were when it
was 81 so" He, at once, flew the argu-
ment and said that farm hands got SIS
month, and asked how a man could live
on such wages. We told him he was mis-
stating farm wages, that farm hand, in
addition to his money wages, usually re-
ceived his board and sometimes had
house and garden patch for his family. No
opinion was expressed or called for from
US as to the suffieiency of these wages,
or any allusion made to SIS
a month except in the connection above
stated. l then then took down the Census
Report on Wages, by Jos. ID Weeks, with
whom he protested to be acquainted, and
pointed out 10 him that our rates in the
proposed Mills Bill not only covered all
possibls difference between wages in this
country and in Europe, but far more than
covered all the labor cost in glass produc'
ton, which silenced him and ne soon left
the room. His general talk and evident
partissnship impressed his interview more
strongly on my memory than any of the
hundred had while the tariff bill was be-
fore our Committee, and so convinced was
| that he came neither to give or receive
information, and would prevert any con-
versstion ne might have with US, that /
said very little and listened in silence 10
him. But l was not prepared
for so shameless and bsseless a
falseheod as he has built up
on their interview, yet when one reads
tie forged extracts from English papers
sentiment falsely put into the mouth of
the President, Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.. Mills and
other tariff Ieformers, he ought not 10 be
astonished at any mendscity in that line.
Campbell has merely undertaken to Go
for Mr.. Bynum and myself (also for Mr..
Breckenridge, who authorizes me to say
that his statement as u him is absolutely
fake what was done against Col Morri-
son two years ago, but his invention is so
little original and so inherently impossi-
bic, that ne requires every man to believe
SIR. Bynum and myself idiots before he
can believe that either of us ever made
such statement to him as he claims. /
re peat as have heretofore said that it is q
botto mless falSehooG in every respect.
VIM. l.. WILSON.
Mr.. Bynum telegrsphed his answer as
follows:
INDIANAPOLIS, September %
To The Editor Of The Wheeling Register:
Have read Campbeli's affidavit. He is a
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