The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-18
WHAT odllgs Wilson l-Bels
% tlis NeII-ISaoHIn
.PaEEER8Eg q To EgRoPEAI1
eEtere to &c Desired Is WofIer.s-l: g
Not Is Citizens, Than Most 81 e6s
Coarse crew That Came crOWdin9
Everf year At Eastern Psrts

woodrow WILSON. Democrats. car
didate for president Of the Unttea
States, has declared himself In the
most ,putlie aud permanent manner
In favor Of Chinese immigration IS
preferable 70 foreigners from southetn
and eastern Europe. whom he calS
..the coarse crew cT6WdinG in a the
eastern portsT-thati is, New YORK
Boston, etc. AS q very large proper
don OF the workers in New England
mills belong TO the class denounced y
Wilson as less desirable than the CHI
nese, they ought to be interested II
the view s which he has expressed ard
which we quote as follows from page
and volume OF WILSON'S History OF
the American People"
From page ZIP, volume ., NO"
there came multitude OF men OF the
lowest class from the south OF italy
and men OF naeaner sort out OF Hun
gary and Poland. as # the countries
sCf the south Of En-ope were di'-
p1Rdea5ne themselves Of the more soF-
did and haFless elements Of their pop
l1latian-y
From PAGE 2I3, volume 5: The
Chinese were more to be desired as
workmea, II not as citizens, than most
ing in every year at the eastern 2rts-
1t was their skin, their Intelligence,
their knack of succeeding and driving
duller rivals out rather than Their
alien habits that made them feared
and hated and led to their exclusion
at the prayer of the men they would
likely dfsplace should they multiply.
The unlikely fellow who came in at
the eastern ports Chat is, the tm1ni-
grants from Europe) were tolerated
because they usurped no place but the
very lowest in. the scale OF labor
Foreign born workineIaen and work
ing women OF New England, what DO
you think OF this statement by FOOD.
row Wilson, Democratic candidate for
president of the United States? he
says that you are "a coarse crew,
that the Chinese are better worEmen
and might make etter citizens than
gee are. and thar you are tolerated. be-
cause you usurp mo place but the
very lowest In the scale Of labor"
We have given you page number
and volume number Wherethese state
ments are to be found in Woodrow
Wilson's History OF thR American Peo-
pie" You can go o3aQy library and
read them for yourself -,
woodrow Wilson Isl the, first candi-
date for president OF the United
states who has declared himself in
favor OF Chinese Immigration OF the
estimated population OF 8SO,O00.00O IL
China many millions would like TO
come to America. Is admitted they
would soon drive American labor our
Of the mills and workshops and also
out of retail and much Of the whole
sale business. at present Wilson is
keeping very mum on The subject, but
there can be no doubt Whatever that
he would, II elected president, attempt
to carry out his published views. ana
open the door to the Chinese. In this
he would have the backing OF the
southern Democrats, who would be
glad to have the Chinese come over
and work for them in place OF the
negroes.
In this connection we suggest par
ticular attention to woodrow wilson's
expression about "the unlikely fellows
from southern and eGstern Europe be
ing tolerated because they usurped
no place but the very lowest in the
scale Of labor"
The Republican party, whose first
president was Lincoln the rail splitter.
whose second president was Johnson
the tailor, whose third president was
Grant the tanner, whose fifth presi-
dent was Garfield the towpath mule
driver, whose eighth president was
Mckinley, in his youth an iron found
a