The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-05
GOV. WILSON
 TALKS ABOUT
 IMMIGRATION
ALSO TELLS WORKINGMEN CIR SUBSTANCES IN THIS COUN- TRY MAKE FREE TRADE
 IMPOSSIBLE.
MEETS TWO SCORE EDITORS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS PAPERS AND GIVES VIEWS ON GREAT ECONOMIC PROBLEM.


 FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS
 PAPERS AND GIVES VIEWS ON
 GREAT ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
 New York Sept. 5-Gov Woodrow Wilson spoke for the first time last night in New York city as the Demo- cratic nominee for the Presidency. His first political address in the me tropolis was delivered at the dollar dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Work 1 ingmen's League
 Before going tpe the dinner the Gov ernor met two score editors of for eisn language newspapers at the Ma tional Arts club, and talked immigra- tion to them.
 If we, can hit upon a standard which admits every voluntary innni- grant, he said, +@and excludes those who have not come of their own mo- tion, with their own purpose of mak- ing home and a career for them selves, but have been induced by come in order to pay the passage money, then we will have what we will all agree upon as Americans. For am not speaking to you in a you also Americans with myself, and just as much Americans as my self if we all take the American point Of view, namely that we want American life kept to it's standards, and that only the standards Of Amer ican life shall be the standards of re- Str1ctiOn, then we are all upon a com. mon ground, mot of those who criti- else immigration but of those who de- clare themselves Americans
 Ideal Immigration.
 f'I am not saying that I am wise enough out of hand to frame the leg islation that will meet this ideal. I am only saying that that is the ideal and that is what we ought to hold ourselves to.
 Now, strange as it may seem to the gentlemen who have criticised me, the only blunder I have made, the only practical blunder have made in my interest in a liberal policy with regard to immigration is that I got into the wrong society to encourage it. So that It was an indsicretfon Of judgment and not an indiscretion of purpose, for my interest in imnnigra- ton is to see that the immigrant is properly informed, is properly safe guarded against imposition of every kind, whether by the government or anybody else. and is directed to the he has come for with the greatest ad- vantage to himself. That to my mind is the solution of the imm1gration question.
 Acceptable Welcome.
 ssof course if the immigrants are to be allowed to come in uninstructed hosts and to stop at the ports where they enter and there to compete in an OV6r-SuDDf1Gd laDOf market, there is going to be unhappiness, there is going to be deterioration, there is go- ing to be. everything that will be .det- rimental to the comm unity as well as detrimental to the immigrant. Ss
 And, therefore, it-is- to thesinterest of the government that the govern ment itself should supply, or at any which will prevent that very thing. Multiplying the ports of entry for if0f0 he of distribution, and will above all things also supply the sympathetic in formation which is the only welcome that is acceptable to those who come.''
 The Governor explained later that by referring to "a wrong society,". he once joined with the belief that it's purpose the amelioration of inn migration conditions. He discovered later, he said, that this was not the purpose of the organization.
 At Workingmen's Dinner.
 At the workingmen's dinner many women were present, some of them prominent in New York society.
 posed to an exaggerated protective policy" said the Governor, Eis that it is a choosing beforehand to be pro vincial and to have as little to do with the rest of the world as possi- ble. hear a great deal said now adays about the danger of free trade. There are circumstances III In1S cOun- try which render it absolutely impos- sib1e in our time, I dare say, that we should have free trade.
 we have so divided the sphere of taxation both by principle and by practice, between the federal and the state governments, that direct taxa ton is almost exclusively reserved for taxation is the chief resource of the | federal government; and the indirect taxes which we would not pay if we 
 ly paid at the custom houses
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 eff you want to be certain that we would not pay them if we knew we were paving them. watch the people | the customs. They are most | indignant and from the point of view 1 of some of my compatriots, the most | Americans ina aginabIe, be- | cause they kick like steers against the l payment of the duties, because they | are then and there Consciously and 1 visibly paying them out of their own | pockets; and there would be a very different customs policy in this coun- | try if everybody consciously and vis- l own pocket directly into the hands of 1 an officer of the government. l
 We ought periodically all of us to | go outside and then come in again ] that when people talk to you about l the danger of free trade and the folly 1 or the Tree sfdder, QO not De dIFa1d | that you will meet a free trader in 1 the dark anywhere because there is l not any free trader who can get l abroad in America at present. All | that we are considering therefore, in 1 considering the policy of protection, is l relative freedom in trade
 The Governor reiterated his opposi- 1 ton to a federal commission to regu- | late monopolies. He said there was | no body of men who knew enough to | tell the country what the processes of industry should be.
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