The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-03
WILSON DECLARES
ROOSEVELT'SPLAN
DECRADES TO|LER
Tells Buffalo Labor Day CeIebrat-
ors Progressive Platform
Legalizes Monopoly
AssAILS COMMISSION WAGE
Says the Great Democratic Think
ers Hold Monopoly Should
be Destroyed
AssAILS COMMISSION WAGE
Press Dispatch.

Buffalo, N. r., sept. Coy.
Woodrow Wilson today analyzed the
third party platform in its relation
to the laboring man. The occasion
Of his speech was a Labor day cele-
bration under the auspices of the
United Trades and Labor Council.
1t was the first expression from
the Democratic candidate on the
merits OF the progressive platform.
The Governor said that while on the
one hand was to be found "warm
sympathy with practically every pro-
ject of social betterment," that part
was merely "a proclamation of sym
pathy" while the real program lay
elsewhere where the tariff and the
Nusts are spoken Of"
The Governor assailed the mini
mum wage idea, declaring that en-
ployers would take occasion to
bring their wage scale as nearly as
they could down to the level Of the
minimum permitted in the law.
ASA Is Federal Commission.
With the idea of Federal COM
mission to regulate monopoly, the
Governor took emphatic issue. He
declared the plan suggested not only
WOULD legalize monopoly, but also
would give tile clIief employcrssssf
the country a tremendous author
ity behind them"
What the employers do will have
the license of the Federal Govern
ment," said Gov. Wilson. He point-
ed out that it always had been the
policy of the Masters Of Console
dated Industries" to undermine or
ganized labor in q great many ways
and that plan of Federal control
as advocated by the new party sys-
tematically subordinates worlsing-
men to monopolies," and "looks
strangely like economic mastery
over the very lives and fortunes Of
those who do the daily work OF the
nation"
Gov. Wilson said in part;
Intelligent workingmen willSaaalr
the men now seeking their votes
what they may be expected to do for
them. | do not mean for them sep
arately but what they be expected
to do for the country which Will en-
title them to the confidence of those
who perform the daily labor which
lies at the base Of all our life.f
Most of the answers they get
will turn upon the question ofEta"iff
duties from which our politics never
seem able to get away, On the one
hand, they will be told that Ii the
Democratic party gets into Bower
they may look to see industry Ian
guish and wages go down and EN-
ployment become harder and bardel
to find. They forget that Democrats
constitute something like half the
nation, that Democrats are engaged
in occupations of every kind, upon
| all sorts Of business for their live.
lihood, share in every interest and
enterprise of the country 1t may
| safely be taken for granted that
Democrats are not going to destroy
| themselves economically.
Not Expected From T. r.
| These uncomfortable predictions
come both from the old line Repub-
licans and from those Republicans
of the new departure, who are seek.
ing to build up third party OF their
own. From Republicans Of the olt
line these forecasts of disaster were
to be expected They have long beer
| their stock in trade, but they wert
hardly to have been expected from
those who had cut themselves loose
from the older connections and who
were boldly working to make new
I things out of old And yet tho pre-
dictions of the leaders of the new
party are not so alarming as the pre-
ldictions of the variest stahd-pattei
There is the stimulating breath Of
! hope in every part of the platform
of the new party, except that which
torches the tariff and trusts
I "In fact, there Is this very snru
lar feature about the platform Of th'
new party II has two sides ant
two tones. 1t speaks warm sym
pathy with practically every proiec'
of social betterment to which mer
and women of broad sympathies art
now turning with generous purpost
and on that side 1t is refreshing t.
| read But that is not the pagt Of th'
platform that reads like program
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