Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-17
FOR CHINESE
Immigration
What Woodrow Wilson Wrote
In His WelI-known History"
PREFERRED 1T TO EUROPEAN
"More to Be Desired as Workmen, 10
Not as Citizens, Than Most Of the
Coarse Crew That Came crowaina
Every Year at Eastern Ports"

woodrow Wilson, Democratic can
didste for president OF the United
States, has declared himself in the
most public and permanent manner
In favor of Chinese immigration az
preferable to foreigners from southern
and eastern Europe, whom he calls
the coarse crew crowding In at the
eastern ports"-that is, New York,
Boston. etc. Ar very large proper
ton OF the workers in New England
mills belong TO the class denounced BY
Wilson az less desirable than the Chi
nese, they ought to be intere sted in
the views which he has expressed and
which We Quots as follows from page
and volume Of Wilson's History Of
the American People"
From page Az. volume 8, Now
there came multitude OF men of the
lowest class from the south OF Italy
and men OF msaner sort out of Hun
gary and Poland, az II the countries
OF the south Of Europe were dis
purdeninE themselves OF the more sor-
did and haplsss elements Of their pop
Walton"
From page S1y. volume 3: "Ths
Chinese we're more to be desired as
wO~kmen. IL net as citizens, than most
or the coarse crew that came crowd
Ing In every year at the eastern ports.
1t was their skill, their Intelligence,
their knack OF succeeding and driving
dullsr rivals out rather than their
alien habits that made them feared
and hated and led to their exclusion
at the prayer Of the men they would
likely displacs should they multiply
This unlikely fellow who came In at
the eastern ports Chat is, the immi-
grants from Europe) were tolerated
because they usurped no place but the
very lowest In the scale OF labor"
Foreign born workingnen and work
ing women OF New England, what do
you think Of this statement by Wood.
row Wilson, Democratic candidate for
president of the United States? He
says that you are "A coarse crew."
that the Chinese are better workmen
and might make etter citizens than
Jos are, and that you are tolerated BE-
cause you usurp mo place but ne
very lowest In the scale Of labor"
We have given you page number
and volume number whers these state
ments are to be found In Woodrow
Wilson's History Of the American Peo-
pie" You can 20 to any library and
read them for yourself.
Woodrow Wilson IL the nrst candL
date for president OF the United
States who has declared himself in
favor OF Chinese immigration or the
estimated population OF $4,000, 900 ia
China many millions would Like TO
come to America If admitted they
would soon drive American labor out
or the mills and workshops and also
out OF retail and much OF the whole
sale business At present Wilson is
keeping very mum On the subject, but
there can be NO doubt whatever that
he would. II elected president, attempt
to carry out hA published views, snL
open the door to the Chinese In this
be would have the backing of the
southern Democrats, who would be
glad to have the Chinese come over
and work for them In place of the
negroes.
In this connection we suggest par
tcular attention to Woodrow Wilson's
expression about the unlikely fellows"
from southern and eastern Europe be-
Ing tolerated because they usurped
no place but ne very lowest in the
scale OF labor
The Republican party. whose first
president was Lincoln the rail splitter,
whose second Rresident was johnson
the tailor, whose third president was
Grant the tanner, whose fifth presi-
dent was Garfield the towpath mule
driver, whose eighth president was
Mckinley, in hAs youth an iron found.
er, regards and treats all honest LABOR
Rs honorable aad as not merely to be
tolerated" but honorsd-
Wilson's slur upon the labor OF the
foreign born nads no echo In the at
terancee Of President Taft. who, re-
turning from q visit to the west In tho
course OF which he addressed large
gatherings OF or adopted countryren,
declared that sothing had grauhed
him SO much a. the intelligent inter
est shown by In hearers In American
institutions and their earnest desire to
understand the spirit and meaning O.
the constitution of the United States.
Many q mans failurde is due to the
fact that he hit OF more than he