The evening world., 1912-09-02
Minimum Wage Scale a Dan.
gerouS Plank That Gives
Power to Employers.
TRUSTS ARE FAVORED.
Federal Control Proposed Is
the Perkins-Gary Plan Ad-
vocated in Washington.

BUFFALO. n. Y. Sept. Gov.
Woodrow Wilson to-day analysed the
third party platform in It's relation
to the laboring man. The occasion OF
his speech was a Labor Day celebra-
ton under the auspices OF the United
Trades and Labor Council. 1t was the
first expression from the Democratic
candidate on the merits OF the Pro-
gressive platform. The Governor said
that. while on the one hand was to be
found there warm sympathy with
practically every project of social bet
terment." that part was merely "a
proclamation OF sympathy" while the
real programme lay elsewhere, where
the tariff and the trusts are spoken
Of"
The Governor assailsd the nninimum
wage idea, declaring that employers
would take occasion to bring their
wage scale a. nearly ~ they could
down TO the level Of the minimum
pssnittsd By law.
WITH the idea Of . FEDERAL oom-
mission TO regulate moaopoly, the
Governor took emphatic issue. He de-
cisrsd that the plan suggested not only
would lsgsliss monopoly but give the
chief employers Of the country tire
msndous authority behind them"
What the employers do will have
the license Of the Federal Government.
including the right to pay wages ap-
proved by the Government. declared
Gov. Wilson. He pointed out that 1t
always had been the policy OF the
masters Of consolidated industries" to
undermine organized labor in q great
many ways. and that a plan OF Federal
control as advocated by the new party
| looks strangely like economic mastery
over the very lives and fortunes of
those who do the daily work of the
nation"
WoRklNoMEN WILL AK The
MAIN QUESTION.
Intelligent workingmen." said the
Governor. will ask the men now seek
ing their votes what they may be
| expected to do for them. I do not
mean for them separately. but what
they may be expected to do for the
| country which will entitle them to the
confidence OF those who perform the
daily labor which lies ut the bases OF
all our life.
Most Of the answers they get will
turn upon the question OF tariff duties
from which our politics never seem
| Able to get away. on the one hand
they will be told that II the Dem
ocratic party gets into power they
may look to see industry languish. and
wages go down. and employment be-
come harder and harder to ind
| "They forget that Democrats con
stitute something like half the nation
that Democrats are engaged in occu'
pations of every kind. depend upon al
sorts of business for their livelihood
share in every interest and enterprise
OF the country. 1t may safely o'
taken for granted that Democrats are
not going to destroy themselves econ
omically.
..These uncomfortable predictions
j come both from the old-line Repuoii
cans and from those Republicans OF th'
new departure who are seeking to built
up a third party Of their own. From
Republicans Of the old line these fore
casts OF disaster we're to BIO expected
They have long been their stock II
trade. But they we're hardly to hav
been expected from those who had Gu
themselves loose from the older connec
lions and who were boldly working 4
make new things out OF old.
and yet the predictions Of the lead
ers OF the new party are as alarming
the predictions of tho veriest standpat
ter. There Is the stimulating breath o
hope In every part OF the platform
, the new party, except that whic
touches the tariff and the trusts.
PLATFORM HAS TWO SIDES AMI
TWO TONES.
TN fact, there Is this very singula
;; feature about the platform Of the ne,
party: It has two sides and two tone,
; 1t speaks warm sympathy with pract
cally every project OF social bettermer
TO which men and women OF broad syn
. pathies are now turning with genei
GUS purpose, and on that side It Is n
freshng to read.
/, "But that Is not the part Of the pla'
form that reads like a programme