New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1912-11-09
WOODROW WILSON THE MAN
AND NOT THE POLL
TICIAN.

nor Woodrow wilson, OF new
Jersey, will be the next preslden5
of the United States. OF course,
the returns from forty-eight
states of this great republic have
not been received with sufficient
fullness to justify a positive pro-
nouncement as to his popular ma
jority, but the election is sure.
President Taft did not make as
good showing as was expected
of him, while Colonel Roosevelt
seems TO have picked up good
share of his popularity and sup
port. He is a man with wonder
ful attractions for the pOpulace
and he may have an eventful fu-
ture before him.
Az a rule the busy men are not
those who 60 to political meetings
and saturate themselves with
partisan excitement. 1t is to the
political partisans that the candi-
dates address their oratory, and
it is usually denagOgical in tone
and meaning. Governor Wilson x
campaign speeches have been
much in that vein, and such ex-
pressions have caused citizens who
are most concerned with problems
Of business activity and prosper
ity to distrust the governors 5
business soundness and solidity.
In order to get at his real mimi
on the subject Of the propositions
which most concern the promotion
Of business and the establishing
Of prosperity, it is worth while to
appeal from Wilson, candidate
for political Office, to Wilson, a
teacher Of his young countrymen
in the expression Of his real prime
iples.
In his History of the Ameri-
can People" written before he
became a candidate for politi
cal Office, DR.. Wilson, speaking Of
the period Of tariff reduction of
lS93-97, said in Vol. V, pages 235
1885,:
"a great poverty and depres-
sion had come upon the Western
mining regions and upon the agri-
cultural regions Of the West and
South. Prices had fallen. Men
Of the poorer sort were idle ev-
erywhere and. filed with a sort
Of despair. All the large iities
and manufacturing towns teemed
with unemployed workingmell
who were with the utmost diff
Guilty kept from starvation by the
systematic efforts works were un-
dertaken upon an extensive scale
to give them employment
On page 265 Of Vol. v, DR.
Wilson admits that the return OF
the Republican Party to power
made q wonderful Transformation
in industrial and business condi.
tions. Read his own words
mot until the very year 1897
when the Republican administra
ton came in, did the crisis seen
past. The country had at last
built its railway and manufactur
ing systems up, had at last got
ready to come out Of its debts
command foreign inarkets with
something more than foodstuff'
and make for itself q place ol
mastery"
Let as read what DR.. Wilson
said on the subject Of protection
to American labor, on page 185 O.
the same volume:
Caucasian laborers could no
compete with the Chinese. c9ult
not live upon : handful Of RE
and werk fer 4 pittanse, ans
found themselves being ateadil.
ereWded cut from occupations h,
thrifty, akillfpl 0rintsls, who Will
their yellow skin and strange, do
bssing habits Of life. seemed =
their fellows hardly mon at all
but evil spirits, rather.
Also this from page 212:
"Now here came multitudes O
men OF the lowest class from th'
south of Italy and men Of th'
meaner sort out Of Hungary ant
Poland, men out Of the landl
where there was neither skill no
energy nor any initiative of quicl
intelligence, and they came il
numbers which increased from
year to year, ~ IL the countrie
Of the south Of Europe were dls
BhrdspiHg thsin9elysl 9f the mor
aSrdid sHd haplesa elements 9
helS sxpressiens cut Of Woed
nv WilsQnl beck before he wen
inte p0litics express the real sep
| firpents of the men and they ahas
/ hat his idess shout tho princl
/ plea upon which American cit
/ sepship 4 founded and the pro-
|: pefity Of this country h base'
| are sound, sane and solid.
Il i the real man and net tn
mere politician who i her
/ shown, and he il to be judge
| from his substance and not hi
| shadow. The substance looks 4
IL Il could BE- depended op regard
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