The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-05
MAKES FIRST SPEECH IN THE
CITY AS DEMOCRATIC NoMl-
NEE FOR PRESIDENCY.
ADDRESSED WILSON
WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE
Meets Number Of Editors of Papers
Published in Foreign Languages
and Gives His Views Of Immigra-
tion-Then Attends Dollar Dinner.

New York, Sept 5.-Governor
Woodrow Wilson spoke for the first
time last night in New York as the
Democratic nominee for the Presid-
ency. His first political address in
the Metropolis was delivered at the
dollar dinner of the Woodrow Will
son Workingmen's league.
Before going to the dinner he met
two score editors of foreign language
newspapers at the National Art club
and talked immigration to them.
"If we can hit upon a standard
which admits every voluntary imi-
grant," he said, "and exclude those
who have not come of their own mo-
tion with their own purpose of making
home and a career for themselves,
but have been induced by steamship
companies or others to come in order
to pay passage money, then we will
have what we all agree upon as Amer
leans.
"For I am not speaking to you in q
foreign country. l am speaking to
you also as Americans with myself
and just as much American as my
SELF and if we all take the Amer
| lean point of view, namely, that we
want American life kept to its stan
dards and that the only standard
of American life shall be the stan
dards of restriction, then we are
all upon a common ground, not of
those who critise immigration but
of those who declare themselves
Americans.
81 am not saying that l am wise
enough out of hand to frame the legis-
lation that will meet this ideal. I am
only saying that that is the ideal and
that is what we ought to hold our.
selves to.
Now strange as it may seem to
some gentlemen who have critisized
me the only blunder l have made, the
only practical blunder I have made in
my interest In a liberal policy with
regard to immigration is that I got
into the wrong society to encourage
it. So that it was an indiscretion o.
Judgment and not an indescretion o.
purpose, for my interest in immi
! grafton is to see that the Immigrant
is properly informed. is properly safe
guarded against imposition OF ever!
kind, whether by the government o.
anybody else, and is directed to tn,
place where he can attain the object
he has come for with the creates
advantage to himself. That, to m.
mind, is the solution of the immi
grafton question:.
Conditions That Hurt.
"Of course IL the immigrants ar
to be allowed to come In uninstructe,
hosts, and to stop at the ports wher,
they enter and there to compete in al
oversupplied labor market there I
going to be uAhappiness; there 4
going to be deteriotion, there is gc
ing to be everything that would b.
detrimental to the community as vel
as detrimental to the Immigrant
And, therefore 1t is to the interes
to the government that the govern
ment should supply, at anv rate en-
courage, the instrumentalities whicl
will prevent that very thing. Multi
plying the ports OF entry for tina
purpose, for example. will ease an,
facilitate and guide the process o
distribution and above all things VII
also supply the sympathetic informa
ton which is the only welcome tina
Is acceptable to-those who come"