The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-05
WILSON AGAIN AssAlLED
This Time George Fred Williams
Takes Up the Lash Of Criticism

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Now that Henry Watterson has
left the field George Fred Williams
of Massachusetts has taken a hand
in batting" Gov Woodrow Wilson.
Mr.. Williams has written a letter to
K. f. Pettigrew, the former populist
senator from South Dakota, which
is vitriolic in character. The letter
says in part: "Since we visited Gov
Wilson last summer and carried
away such pleasant impressions OF
his personality and conversation |
have had hopes that he might be the
solution OF our presidential problem
This week | have been shocked at
the reading of the fifth volume of his
story of the American people, pub
lished in 1902. 1t is toryism of the
blacklist type II is not a history OF
the American people, but history OF
Woodrow Wilson's admiration for
everything which the radical democ-
racy now seeks to change and series
of sneers and insults to every class
of men who have sought to alleviate
[ o injustices of capitalism. The
worst is that there is no note of
sympathy for any suffering and pro
testing class, but he seems to search
for phases to show his contempt for
them. Gov. Wilson has undoubtedly
changed materially his old point OF
view, but his book proves that rev
dictionary change of heart is also
necessary. | array the quotations
according to the class OF men he
treats and cite the pages"
Mr.. Williams then sets forth In de
tail quotations from Gov. Wilson
which he Classics under these
heads. 1.-The laboring classes; 2
immigration; 3--farmers' alliances
populists, farmers; 4-Grover Cleve
land; 5-the campaign OF 1896; G.
greenbacks and silver.
Under the first heading the march
of Coxey's army was described with
sneers. Mr.. Williams says, while
Cleveland was praised for his arm
ness and decision" in the use OF the
army during the Pullman strike. Re
garding immigration Mr.. Williams
quotes Gov. Wilson as saying: The
Chinese we're more to be desired as
workmen, II not citizens. than mos
Of the coarse crew that came crowd
ing in every year" Under the head
Grover Cleveland" Mr.. Williams
says: "Mr. Wilson treats hin
throughout as a somewhat godlikC
person, and finds nothing to criticize
in his entire political course" On
pensions Gov Wilson is quoted as
follows:-
Both democratic House and re
publican Senate lin 1850 were In
clined to grant any man or class oil
men who had served in the federal
army during the civil war the right
TO be supported out Of the national
/ treasury, and Mr.. Cleveland himself
very resolutely checked their extrav-
agance"
In summing up Mr.. Williams said:
II have repeatedly defended the sin
cerity of Mr.. Wilson in the recent
change OF his views. do not doubt
II at all. But II is clear that he has
had profound contempt for the far
mers alliance, the populists, green
hackers, bimetalists, trades unionists
small ofIice-seekers, Italians, Poles,
Hungarians. pensioners, strikers,
armies OF unemployed. To him these
classes represented no economic
wrongs. Cleveland has been his
worshiped idol as president. lie
has regarded the East and the bank
ers as the sole custodians of financial
wisdom. The vital question is, Has
year destroyed all these impress
sions and put mercy, charity love
and nationality into a hardened
hearth am eager to believe II, but
reply on faith for Justification
81 dislike to call in question Mr..
Wilson's application for a Carnegie
pension, but cannot understand
how a real democrat could touch
such money. II Is stepped In the hu.
man blood of Carnegie's workers,
shot down by his hired Pinkertons,
while struggling for decent wage
out Of the hundreds OF millions
which their labor was rolling into
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