The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-10-24

Q10ato TOT pro6lOent, ID now auuIcee'
ing honeyed words to the laboring
man in the hope Of securing the labor
vote. He would, II he could. have the
workingman forget the address deliv-
erred by him at Princeton in 1909, m
which he regretted that labor Is
standardized by the trades unions"
and asserted that such regulation OF
labor is economically disastrous"
Nor will labor forget that in the same
speech he characterized members OF
labor unions as 'unprof1table scrv-
ants"
No wonder that the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor recently adopted
resolutions condemning Professor Will
son for his antagonistic attitude
toward organized labor.
! And while Professor Wilson is ap-
pealing to the workingman to over
look his own personal views and vote
the Democratic ticket he should know
that the record Of the Democratic par
ty in connection with the workingman
is engraved upon the tablets of labor's
memory.
Labor has not voted for Demo-
cratic president since the terrible ex.
perience which followed the Demo-
cratic victory In 1892.
And labor will not this year vote
to repeat those distressing times.
What Labor Remembers.
Labor has not forgotten that under
Democratic administration, before the
election of President Mckinley. thou
sands of idle men were walking the
streets of every city, town and ham.
let in the country in search Of en-
ployment and the chance to earn an
honest living, while those or many OF
them who CHANGED to have employ
ment we're working for mere pit
lance.
Labor has not forgotten the soup
houses established all over the coun-
try at that time.
Labor has not forgotten the process
sions of unemployed-from New York
to San Francisco, and from the Cana
dian border to the Gulf seeking NOT
CHARITY. BUT WORK. during q
Democratic national administration.
Labor has not forgotten Coxey's
and Kelly's armies" one Of the
products Of Democracy.
Labor has not forgotten the hordes
Of tramps made by Democratic rule.
Labor has not forgotten that the
Democratic national administration
caused the depletion of labor's treas.
uries to keep the destitute and unem.
ployed alive.
Labor has not forgotten those try
ing days OF Democratic misrule, when
It turned its halls meeting places and
assembly rooms into sleeping quar-
ters for all who could find room
therein. 8
No Bread to Eat.
Labor has not. forgotten that labor
alone suffered then. that labor lacked
bread to eat, clothes to wear and a
roof for shelter.
Labor has not forgotten that tabor
alone worked out the problem Or Its
salvation in those trying days I
Labor has not forgotten that II
bounced Democratic rule for Repub
1ican rule at it's first opportunity In
the first presidential election afte,
that period-in 1896, and has no,
voted for a Democratic candidate
for president since.
Labor has not forgotten that trust,
and monopolies we're born in the
White House while Democratic
president stood guardian.
Labor has not forgotten that Dem
= Ocratic free trade means free trad,
> On labor only.
Now q Full Dinner Pail.
Labor has not forgotten its lesso,
On how 1t passed through poverty ant
friendlessness and Democratic NAL
administration to the full dinner pai
Of the Mckinley and subsequent Re
publican administrations.
Labor has not forgotten that tn,
American Federation of Labor hel,
its annual convention in the council
chamber In the city hall. Chicago. thu
week of Monday. December II. 1893
at time when 5000 men were night
ly sleeping on the cold stone floors o