The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-10-08
AMERICAN LABOR is
Cheapest IN WORLD
is Proven by the Fact that Manufac-
turers UnderseIl Competitors
Acknowledgment Wages De-
pend upon Him, Not Upon Tariff.
(By Associated Press.)

Norton, Kan, Oct. h.-That the
very men who have been most sue
cessful in building up the trusts are
also the very men who have been
most successful in preventing the or
ganization of labor" was the conten-
ton of Governor Woodrow Wilson
in an address here today devoted
largely to what he characterized as
"the pervasive power of the great in
terests which now dominates our de-
velopment."
Don't you know" he asked, that
one of the objects of their combina-
tion is to control the labor market?
And do you imagine that they have
ever set deliberate plans for giving
the workingman anything comparable
in the way of wages to the proportion
of the profit which they themselves
pocket? They do not have to give
the laboring man any more than he
can get in the competition of the mar
ket. And they do not give him any
more. AS a matter of fact, some OF
the most highly productive industries
in this country pay very much lower
wages than the unprotected in
dustries. And some Of the most
highly protected industries pay
wages that are below the
living scale, at the same
time that the prices they are making
are so great that they can build new
factories out of their surplus every
second year, 1t is one Of the grand
est pieces of bluff and humbug that
has ever been known in the histor.
J of political deception.
81 want to widen the markets 70
, American labor. want to see con
dltions exist in which men will CON
pete for American labor. wan
again to see the time when we shal
realize that the highest priced labo
. In the world is the cheapest labor I
the world, that what is produced b
:. brains and intelligence and skillfr
e touch is a great deal cheaper tha
n what is produced by stupidity an
II dullness and the whip of the maste
II 81 tell you this, that American labs
W up to date is the cheapest In Il
IT world. can prove it. Americs
s. manufacturers compete In foreil
g markets in the scale Of goods man
factured in those markets, near tho
markets, by labor that receive on
one-third the remuneration of Anne
can labor. Now, what does tn
- mean? 1t means they can affo
/ to pay American workmen thr
times as much and still unders
their competitors in the foreign m
in kets, and yet the American wo
sa man is told that the amount Of
ng wages depends upon protective I
no riff. 1t doesn't. It depends W
ST. him. 1t depends upon what is
en- side of his thinking box And wi
ep- you once get to system OF regu
m ed monopoly, then you get to a syst
H. of controlled labor, don't forget Il
sly Narrow the lines Of competition
M you stiffen the lines Of labor =,
Lo' troll You have not now a free 4
ket for your labor any more I
'ert you have a free market for your G
in modities; for under this system
he'd monopoly regulated or unreguls
full the monopolist can determine
amount Of goods to be produced,
therefore determine the amour
laborers to be employed and
prices the goods are to bring"
- "As I travel from one part of
n country to the other" continued
Governor, "I see no essential
ference among the people in the
the ferent parts of IT, The same thi
7;So written in their eyes aud 1t is ]
meet CLEAN of fierceness. It is a Zig
self-confidence. They know what
tain want and they know they are
leers to get it. Anybody who suppose
e on economic questions and political
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