The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-05
TELLS FOREIGN LANGUAGE ED- IToRs OF NEW YORK WHAT
 HE WOULD HAVE DONE.
HOME SEEkEES ARE WELCOME
But Democratic Nominee Believes Legislation Should Be Framed to Keep Steamship Company
 Abuses to a Minimum.

New York, Sept 4.--Governoi Woodrow Wilson spoke for the first time tonight in New York City as the democratic nominee for the presi deney. His first political address in the metropolis was delivered at the dollar dinner of Woodrow Wilson Morkingrnen's League.
 Before going to the dinner, he met two score editors of foreign language newspapers at the National Arts Club and talked immigration to them. 'lt we can hit upon a standard which admits every voluntary immigrant" he said, and excludes those who have not come of their own motion with their own purposes of making q home and a career for themselves, but have been induced by steamship companies or others to come in order to pay the passage money, then we will have what we will all agree upon as Ameri- cans.
 For 1 am not speaking to you in a foreign country. l am speaking to you also as Americans, with myself, and just as much Americans as myself. and if we all take the American point of view. namely, that we want Ameri- can life, keep to its standards, and that the only standards of American life shall be the standards of restric tion. then we are all upon a common ground. not of those who criticise inn migration. but of those who declare themselves Americans.
 ''I am not saying that l am wise enough out Of hand to frame the legis- iatiofI that VIII meet this ideal. I am only saying that this is the ideal and that Is what we ought to hold our selves to.
 Now strange as it may seem to some gentlemen who have criticised me, the only blunder have made, the only practical blunder l have made in my interest of liberal policy with regard to immigration, is that l got into the wrong society to encourage fl.
 So that it was an indiscretion O. judgment and not an indiscretion oi purpose for my interest in immigra- ton is to see that the immigrant is properly informed as properly safe guarded against imposition of every kind, whether by the government or anybody else. and Is directed to the place where he can attain the objects he has come for with the greatest ad- vantage to himself That, to my mind Is the solution of the immigrant ques tion.
 "Of 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 over-supplied labor market, there is going 10 be unhappiness, there is going to be deterioration, there is going to be everything that will be detrimental to the community as well as detrimental to the immigrant.
 And therefore, 1t is to the interest of the government that the govern ment should supply, at any rate en courage. the instrumentalities which win prevent that very thing. Multi plying the ports of entry for that pur pose, for example, will ease and facili- tate and guide the process of distri button, and will, above all things, also supply the sympathetic information which is the only welcome that is ac ceptabe to those who come"
 At the workingmen's dinner, MT Wilson said:
 'aOne of the reasons why l am op- posed to an exaggerated protective policy is that it is choosing before hand to be provincial and to have as little to do with the rest of the world as possible.
 I hear a great deal said nowadays about the danger of free trade. There are circumstances in this country which render it absolutely impossi- ble 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 taxation is almost exclu- sively reserved for the state govern ments and indirect taxatisr is the chief resource of the federal govern ment; and the indirect taxes which we would not pay, if we knew we were paying them. are chiefly paid at the custom houses.
 "If you want to be certain that we would not pay them if we knew we were paying them, watch the people who come back from Europe and go through the customs. They are the most indignant, and, from the point of view of some of my compatriots the most unpatriotic Americans imag inable, because they kick like steers against the paymen. of the duties, be cause they are then and there con scionsly and yisibly paying them ou of their own pockets, and there woult be very different customs policy il