Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-10-08
TRUST BEtSiRS
! LADOR'S ENEMIES
+ DECLARES MR..
WILSON
Professor Discovers That One
Of Objects of Monopoly Is to
Control the Labor Market in
This Country.
BELIEVES WAGES DEPEND
ON WORKMAN HIMSELF
lRy Lsssss Wire to EvvalsE Heralal

"NeTy men who have been most sue
ccssfuI IN building up the trusts are
also the very men who have been most
In preventing the organiza-
ton OF lDbOr" was the contention of
Governor Woodrow Wilson In an adj
dress here today devoted largely to
what lac characterized az tho per-
vuHi,c power ~ the great Interests
which now dominate our develop.
mrnt,"
Don't you know" he asked, "that
one uf tn" objects uf their combine
tiun IL 20 control the labor market?
And do you imuginc that they have
ever set deliberate plans Tor giving
the workingman anything comparable
iH thk WAY UfiwagCs TO Tie prupur-
tlOn or the profits which they them.
selves pocket They do not have to
give the luburing man ANY more than
lie can set Ia the competition Of the
market Ana they de- not give hlm
Rnyt more, NJ q mnltrrerf Fact. some
nf the most highly productive Indus
tries Ia this country pay very much
lower wages than the unprotected in
duBtrles, And some Of the most high.
~ protected Industries ply wages that
nro below the living scale, at the same
tim" that the prices they are making
are NJ great that they can build now
factories cut of their surplus every
second year. II IN ono uf the grand
est pieces uf bluff and hunhug thai
mas ever hcVu known III the history
OF political deception.
~ want 10 widen the market for
American labor. want to see con.
ditionS exist In which men viii COM
pete tor American labor. want
again to see a time come when va
shall realize that the highest priced
labor In the world In the ,hca pest
labor In the world. that what ls pro.
duccd by brains ana Intelligence and
skilltul touch Is great deal cheaper
lhnn what Ia produced by stupidity
and dulincss and the whip uf the mas.
ter
II tell YOU thls, that American Labor
~ Ia date Is the cheapest ~ ihu
ANOrlh. 4 CyR prove a.. Aiu,FlrnI
manufacturers compete IN foreign
markets IN the scale ~ goods manu-,
tarturCd In those markets, near those
markets, hy labor that receives UulS
unc'third the remuneration uf Amer
lean labor Now, whit durE that
mean II means they can afford t.
pay American wurklngmCu tire,
times AZ much ana still underscll thciI
competitors la the foreign markets
ANA Vet the American wurkiuRmHn II
told that the amount ~ his NaEc,
depends upon IN" protective" inrlf
II doesn't, II depends upon him. Il
depends upon wha Is inside OF hi'
thinking box And when you once
get To II system at regulated mOnop
oily, then YOU get iu system Of cou,
trOlicd labor, don't forget that, Nur
row the lines of competition aud yor
stiifCn the lines Of labor control. YuI
have not nov n free market for you.
labor any NOR" than YOU have II free
market for your uDnIniudiiics, fuI
under this Nst"n ~ monopoly. r"gu,
lated at unrcgulsIcd, tn munupulis
CHn d"iurIDin" the amount al good,
10 he prU ,uCcd, und therefore deter
mine the amount of iaburcTs To b'
employed and tho prices that the good,
ar" To bring"
"AE | travel from one part OF th'
country To the other continued th'
governor. - see 80 essential diil"r'
rncr among The people Ia III" differ
cnt parts uf H.. The same INNS II
written IN their eyes Hud n TX not q
glcHnu OF tlrrrrncEs. II ~ u light NJ
sclf.cunfidoncr Thcy know WhaI
they want ana they know they ar,
going 10 get II, Any body who sup
poses that economic questions and 20,
liticni questions are two different
things II very much mistaken because
these things have been ~ CLOSELY
married with one another In our re-
cent political practice that II II i'm,
possible To discriminate between
them.
and this gives me an opportunity
TO allude To something that rcad
very recently In an Influential news
paper. II was nn editorial In which
must say that the editor did me per
sunally. mOrs than justice. llut no saw
In mo an unintcntlOnai MacchiaVelll
II said In effect: This In an homes
man: he honestly believes that "A pre-
teGtlve tariff In uncOnstit utlOnal. ant
II ho gets q chance, being an HVues
man, he viii upset that uncOnstitu
tlunal arrangement That In goo,
reasoning. hut II was entirely lncOn
Bistent with another purt Of the cdl
tOrlal which very kindly inscribed
brains 10 me-. One OF the ihings tia
every wen informed man knows 4
that ahQl9 ehaIff the people Ia IN
United 'Atht,is afe Democrats, A. I
well informed man, know that the!
are Engaged In every kind OF industry
and that they could not unite to nc
GOmpllsh economic murder and do
structlOn without also deliberately ac
cOmpllshlng economic suicide 10 IA
HB I am myself concerned, ] Woul'
with the greatest respect call the odl
tors attention 10 little utteranc
which ! ventured 10 make upon &C
oepting the nomination for the prenl
dency. In which l explicitly laid dOwI
the program which thought w
ought 20 pursue with regard 10 TN
protective duties. ! said that the,
ought not TO be changed except Il
such a way and at such b rate a
would not In any way interfoTe witt
the course OF sound BUSINESSES In IN
United States. also said, and tina
% what makes this parenthbslO applI
cable 10 my discourse. that We wef
gOing 70 begin with those partieula
phema in which we found epeciai priv
sieOe lptTenchea. We know what thea