Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-10-24
FOR CHINESE
Immigration
What Woodrow wilson Wrote
In His WeII.known "History'
PREFERRED 1T TO EUROPEAN
"More to Be Desired as Workmen, u
Not as Citizens, Than Most of the
Coarse Crew That Came Crowdins
Every Year at Eastern Ports'

Woodrow Wilson, Democratic can
didate for president of the United
States, has declared himself III the
most public and permanent manner
in favor of Chinese immigration as
preferable to foreigners from southeih
and eastern Europe, whom he calls
1.-The coarse crew crowding in at the
eastern ports"-that is, New York,
Boston, etc. AS very large proper
ton of the workers in New England
mills belong to the class denounced Gy
Wilson az less desirable than the chi
nese, they ought 10 be interested H.
the views which he has expressed and
which we quote as follows from page
and volume of Wilson's History oi
the American People.
From page 212, volume 8, Now
there came multitude of men OF the
lowest class from the south OF Italy
and men of meaner sort out or Hun
gary and Poland, as If the countries
of the south of Europe were dis.
purdenine themselves of the more SCR
did and hapless elements Of their pop
ulation."
From page 2l3, volume 8: THE
Chinese were more to be desired Us
workmen, if not as citizens, than most
of 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
duller 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 dsplace should they multiply
The unlikely fellow who came in at
the eastern ports Chat is, the lmmi
grants from Europe) were tolerated
because they usurped no place but the
very lowest in the scale of labor
Foreign born workingiaen and work
ing women of New England, what do
you think of this statenert by "ood'
row Wilson, De nocratic candidate Tor
president of the United States? IA"
says that you are "a coarse crew,
that the Chinese are better worlmen
ana might MAKE etter citizens than
so. are. and that you are tolerated be
cause you usurp mo place but the
very lowest in the scale OF labor
We have given you page number
and volume number where these state
ments are to be found in Woodrow
Wilson's History of the American PEG
pie" You can go to any library anc
read them for yourself.
Woodrow Wilson is the first candi.
date for president of the United
States who has declared himself in
favor of Chinese immigration or the
estimated population Of 3o0,o0O.OOO ia
China many millions would like TO
come to America If admitted they
would soon drive American labor our
of the mills and workshops and also
out of retail and much OF the Whole.
sale business. At present Wilson 's
keeping very mum on the subject, but
there can be no doubt whatever that
he would, if elected president, attempt
to carry out his published views. AMI
open the door to the Chinese In this
he would have the backing of the
southern Democrats, who would De
glad to have the Chinese come over
and work for them in place Of the
negroes.
In this connection we suggest par.
ticular attention to Woodrow Wilson's
expression about 1.-The unlikely fellows"
from southern and eastern Europe be.
ing tolerated because they usurped
no place but the very lowest in the
scale Of labor
The Republican party, whose first
president was Lincoln tn" rail splitter,
whose second president 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 his youth an iron found
r.. regards and treats all honest labor
as honorable and as no. merely to be
tolerated" but honored.
Wilson's slur upon the labor of the
foreign born finds no echo in the ut
terances IF President Taft, who, re.
turning from visit 70 the Wnst, in the
course of which he addressed large
gatherings of our adopted countrvrrn,
declared that nothing had gratitieI
him so much as the intelligent inter
est Shown by his hearers in Amc rican
institutions and their earnest desire to
understand the spirit and meaning o:
The constitution OF the United States.