Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05
Talks with Two Score Editors O
Foreign Language News
papers.
IMMIGRATION HIS THEME
Does Not Say He Is Wise Enougi
to Frame Legislation to
Meet Ideal-Freedom
in Trade.

New York. Sept. 4--Governor Wood
row Wilson spoke for the nrst tina
tonight in New York city as the lem
ocrano nominee for tho presidency.
His first political address in the ,ns.
tropolis was delivered at the douaI
dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Work.
ingmen's league
Before going to the dinner, the Gsv-
ernor met two score editors of foreign
language newspapers at the National
Arts club and talked immigration t.
them.
If we can hit upon standard
which aimits every voluntary imm-
grant" he said. and excludes those
who have not come of their own mo-
ton. with their own purpose OF max.
ing a home and career for them-
selves, but have been induced bT
steamship companies or others to cons.
in order to pay the passage money.
then we will have what we will all
agree upon as Americans For I AM
not speaking to you In a foreign coun-
try. I am speaking to you as also
Americans with myself. and If we all
take the American point of view.
namely, that we want American life
kept to its Standards and that only
the standards OF American life shall
be the standards OF restriction, then
We are all upon a common ground. not
of those who criticIse immigration. hue
of those who declare themselves AM
orleans.
81 am not saying that I am wise
enough out of hand to frame the legis-
lation that will meet this ideal. an
only saying that that is the ideal an,
| that il what We ought to hold ourselvef
to.
GOT IN WRONG SOCIETY.
! "Sow. strange as It may seem tt
some gentlemen who have criticised me,
the only blunder | have made, tile only
practica, blunder have made in my
| interest in a liberal policy with regard
10 immiEration is that | got into the
wrong society to encourage It So that
IL WAS an indiscreton Of iudGm and
| not an indiscretion of purpose tor my
interest in immigration - to see that
the immigrant is properly informed IS
properly safeguarded against imposition
of every kind. whether by the govern
meut or anybody else, and is directed TO
the place where he can attain the OBJ
iects he mas come for with the greatest
advantage to himself That. to my mind.
is the solution of the immigration ques-
ton.
"Of course, if the immigrants are to be
allowed to come in uninstructed hosts ana
to stop al the ports where they enter ana
there to compete in an over-supphed lapor
market. there Is going to be deterioration
and everything will be detrimental to the
community as we'll detrimental to the
Immigrant And therefore 1t Is to the
interest of the government that the gov
ernment itself should supply. or at any
rate encourage. the instrumentalUes
which will prevent that very thing Null
Uplying the ports for the purpose for ex'
ample, will ease and facilitate and guide
the process OF distribution. and Will above
all things supply the sympathetic infor
nation which is the only welcome tnat IA
acceptable to these who come.
. At the workingmen's dinner many
: women were present, some OF them proni
h.. rent in New York society,
OPPOSED TO TARIFF WALL
Zone OF the reasons why am opposc'
to an exaggerated protective policy sai'
the Governor, lis that II is a CHOOSING
beforehand TO be provincial and to hav'
as little to do with the rest OF the wori'
az possible. | hear a great deal sai'
nowadays about the danger OF free trade
There are circumstances In this counr!
Z which render 1t absolutely Impossible II
: our time, | dare say, that we should nav
:. free trade We have divided the spher
= of taxation. both by principle ana b!
4 practice between the federal and stat
3 government that direct taxation Is al
( most exclusively reserved for the stat
G governments and indirect taxation is tn
chief resource of the federal government
= and the indirect taxes. which We woul'
{ mot pay If We knew we were payin
them are chiefly paid at the custom
e house If you want To he certain ina
n we would not pay thom II we knew "
. were paying them. watch the people wh
come back from Europe ana 90 throus
+ the customs.
c There would be very diheren
; customs policy in this country !
. Everybody consciously and Nisibly pal
the customs duties out of his ow'
a pocket directly into the hands OF a
officer of the government We ough
. periodically all of us to go outsid
a and then come in again and realiz
, what is happening. So that when peo
p pie talk to you about the danger q
> free trade and the folly of the IRE
trader. don't be afraid that YOU Wi
meet a free trader in the dark any
where because there 10 not any fire
h trader who can get aboard in Americ
'r at present. All that We are consid
70 ering therefore, In considering tn
policy of protection, is relative free
dom in trade"
L. with great applause, ReprescntatiN
r. Sulzer and Cornelius Ford, presiden
N OF the New Jersey state Federation @
A. Labor. also spoke The Governor wi