Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-11
WILSON Wakes KANSAS
UP BEFORE BREAKFAST
TumbIeS Out of Bed at 6
O'clock and Delivers Rous-
ing Speech
BY RALPH SMITH.

political 'lsmSr or the. last BehefatAoA'
Governor Wilson had to set new cam
/ paign pace through Kansas to-day.
Beginning away up in the northwest
1 ern corner Of the Sunflower State, the
governor began dispensing Democrat
ic doctrine Tor the masses long before
/ the usual time for breakfasting. IT,
/ governor got everybody out Of bed at
| o'clock and they had barely time to
wash their faces before he was making
his first speech at Norton at $50.
They must be early risers in Kansas
for the throng that faced Governor
Wilson at Norton was a hummer 1t
would have done credit to a night
meeting.
THE NORTON SPEECH.
That the very men who have been
most successful In building up the
Il trusts are also the very men who have
been most successful in preventing the
organization OF labor" was the conten-
ton of Governor woodrow Wilson in
an address here today devoted largely
10 what he characterized as the per-
vative power Of the great interests
\ which now dominate our development
Don't you know he asked, that one
OF the objects of their combination is
to control the labor market2 And do
/ you imagine that they have ever set
deliberate plans for giving the work
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/ OF wages to the proportion of the prof.
its which they themselves pocketP They
/ do not have to give the laboring man
any more than he can get In the COM
/ petition OF the market. And they DO
not give him any more.~ AS a matter
OF fact, some of the most highly pro-
ductive industries IN this country pay
very much lower wages than the UNI
protected industries. And some Of the
i v1rnFaQfad Industries
wages that are below the living scale,
lat 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
grandest pieces Of bluff and humbug
that has ever been known in the his
tory Of political deception.
TO WIDEN MARKET.
II want to widen the market for Amer
lean labor. I want to see conditions exist
/ in which men viii compete for American
/ labor. / want again to see a time come
when we shall realize that the highest
/ priced labor in the world is the cheap
est labor in the world. that what isspro-
duced by brains and intelligence and
4 slziIlful touch is a great deal cheaper than
what is produced by stupidity and dull
ness and the whip Of the master
II tell you this, that American labor
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I can prove It. American manufacturers
compete in foreign markets in the scale
/ OF goods manufactured in those markets,
near those markets, by labor that re-
ceive only one-third the remuneration Of
American labor. Now, what does that
/ mean? It means they can AFFORD to pay
American workingmen three times as
much and still undersell their competi-
| tors in the foreign markets, and yet
i 80 s1,.4
/ the amount of his wages depends upon
the protective tariff 1t doesn't. 1t de-
ponds upon him. It depends upon what
is inside of his thinking box. And when
you once get to a system of regulated
monopoly. then you get 70 a system of
controlled labor, don't forget that. Mar
row the lines Of competition and you
stiffen the lines of labor control You
/ have not now a free market for your
labor any more than you have a free
market for your commodities; for under
this system of monopoly, regulated or
unregulated, the monopolist can deter
mine the amount Of goods to be pro-
duced. and therefore determine the
amount OF laborers to be employed and
the prices that the goods are to bring"
AS 1 travel from one part of the
| country to the other" continued the gov
| ernor, Il see no essential difference
among the people in the different parts
OF IL. The same thing is written in
their eyes and il is not a CLEAN OF fierce
ness. II is a light of self-confdence.
They know what they want and they
know they are going to get IT. Any
body who supposes that economic ques-
tons and political questions are two diff
ferent things is very much mistaken be-
cause these things have been so closely
married with one another in our recent
political practice that IL is impossible to
discriminate between them.
ON THE TARIFF.
And this gives me an opportunity to
allude to something that I read very
recently in an influential newspaper. 1t
was an editorial in which 1 must say
that the editor did me personally more
than justice. But he saw In me an I'M
intentional macchiaveln. Its said in
effect This is an honest man. he hon
estly believes that a protective tariff
I is unconstitutional, and II he gets a
I chance. being an honest man, he will
upset that unconstitutional arrange
ment That is good reasoning but it
was entirely Inconsistent with another
part OF the editorial which very kindly
/ ascribed brains to me. One Of the
things that every well informed man
l knows is that about half the people in
the United States are Democrats. AS
well informed man, I know that they
are engaged in every kind of industry,
and that they could not unite to accom-
plish economic murder and destruction
without also deliberately accomplish
I ing economic suicide. So far, as I am
myself concerned. I would with the
/ greatest respect call the EDITORS atten-
/ ton to a little utterance which ven
tured to make upon accepting the
nomination for the presidency, in which
I I explicitly laid down the program
which I thought we ought to pursue
with regard to the protective duties. l
said that they ought not to be changed
/ except in such a way and at such a
rate as would not in any way interfere
with the course of sound business in
l the United States. / also said and
I that is what makes this paranInesis APP
plicable TO my discourse. that we were
going TO begin with those particular
items in which we found special privi-
! Iege eutrenched. We know what those
items are. The gentlemen who enjoy
the special privileges have been kind
enough to point them out themselves;
and what we are interested in first or
4 n MIL, ~a-u~d IN he fG ra4ffv,rr