Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-28

| Press Comment.
GoMPERs WORKING FOR WILSON
| Pittsburg, Pa, Labor World: Pres
ident Gompers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, is showing in the
present campaign that he is bitter
democratic partisan. Despite the fact
that the rules and constitution of the
American Federation Of Labor and
also the declarations of conventions
OF the organization, pronounce enl-
phatically against officials of the fed
Grafton taking part in partisan poll
tics, and also forbids the funds or ma
chinery Of the organization being
used for political partisan purposes,
1t Is fact that the activity of Mr..
Gompers In behalf Of Gov. Wilson can
not any longer be concealed.
Sammy" is working hike a Trojan
for Wilson just as he did for Bryan
four years ago. The head Of the
American Federation Of Labor has
inaugurated the issuing of a weekly
Federationist." The publication is
intended to boost the cause of Will
son, although its sponsor will claim
otherwise. The truth, however is well
known just as the tricks Sammy
used four years ago to "boost"
Bryan became apparent. But, this
new weekly win permit Gompers, II
he wants to be the defender of or
gained labor that he would have
us believe he is, to make one OF the
biggest hits of his life. 1t will az
ford him opportunity to insist on DR..
Wilson explaining why he has so
viciously slandered organized labor
and the wage workers of America
Let Gompers in his new weekly print
the following and insist on DR.. VIII
son explaining 1t:
On the 18th day Of June, 1909, in a
baccalaureate address to the gradual
ing class at Princeton university, DR..
Wilson made the following SANDER
GUS statement regarding organized
labor:
"You know what the usual stand
ard of the employee Is in our day. It
Is to give as little as he can for his
wages. Labor is standardized by the
trade unions, and this is the stand
ard to which It is made to conform.
No one Is suffered to do more than
the average workman can do; in
some trades and handicrafts no one
is suffered to do more than the least
skillful OF his fellows can do within
the hours allotted to a days labor,
and no one may work out Of hours
at all, or volunteer anything beyond
the minimum. need not point out
how economically disastrous such a
regulation of labor is. 1t is so I'M
profitable to the employer that in
some trades it will presently not he
worth while attempting anything at
all. He had better stop altogether
than operate at an inevitable and in
variable loss.
| "The labor in America is rapidly
becoming improbable under the
present regulation by those who have
determined to reduce 1t to a mini
mum. Our economic supremacy may
| be lost because the country grows
more and more full of improbable
| servants"
Had such pronounced enemies AS
Parry, Post, Kirby and others ut
tered the foregoing, Samuel Gompers
would have endeavored to make him
self hero by attacking them to the
limit Why IL he silent on the Sian.
der uttered by DR.. Wilson?
The Sense Of Security.
Sioux City Journal: Wherein has
Taft failed as chief executive. 1t
is time to let up on generaliza-
ton and make the Indictment
specific. He has not been a spec
tacular president, but he has been
a safe man In trying time. He has
been progressive in his policies, and he
has uniformly sought betterments
along practical lines. He is not re-
sponsible for what congress would not
do. He is not responsible for the con-
troll Of congress by an adverse poIiti-
cal sentiment The president is re-
publican and he is pledged to the
maintenance of republican principles.
But he has shown no bitterness or
narrowness of partisanship. He has
not directed his administration to tho
| working out of revenges. He mas
sought friendly relation with the
democratic leaders, and has been criti-
cised for that He did his utmost to
establish good relations with republi-
can insurgents, and his advances we're
boastfully characterized as efforts to
divert them from their ideals. The
president is of judicial temperament,
and therefore qualified to measure is
sues from their various angles Pru-
dence has characterized his work. It
has been free from the manifestations
of totheadedness. He has been derided
as spineless, and yet he has not failed
"A occasion to manifest hi3h tun>