The Washington times., 1912-09-05

CAPITAL AND LABOR
HOBNOB At DINNER
IN WILSON'S HONOR
Governor Delighted With
Dollar Affair Given In
New York.

day, was in high good humor over what
he called the Little D. Democracy
of last nights Dollar Dinner" on the
East Side.
He still was chuckling over his own
feat Of doing justice to every course of
the perfectly good meal, while with his
right ear he listened attentively to the
political talk of acting National Chair
man McAdoo and with his left he paid
equal attention to John N. Bogart.
proof reader who quizzed hi mabout
organized labor. Bogart organized the
Workingman's Wilson and Marshall
Club, which gave the dinner.
The governor said 1t was just the kind
of. elbow-rubbing crowd he delighted in.
At one table were Mrs ]. Borden Har-
riman and her guests. several of New
York's wealthiest women, who had
come UP from Newport especially for
the dinner At the next table sat
banker in evening clothes, on whose
right was laborer in store Clothes"
who tucked his napkin into his collar,
and on whose left was a colored work.
ingman.
At the governors own table, gazing
across at the evening gowns and dress
coats rubbing shoulders with "hand-me-
downs and muslin frocks, sat William
Harry Cole, bricklayer; big Bill''
Edwards, street commissioner; a priest,
and a laborer with a cotton bandege
about his head
Social Center Movement.
Governor Wilson spoke for the first
time last night in New York city as
the Democratic nominee for the Presi-
dency.
The address was delivered at the dol
lar dinner of the Woodrow Wilson
Workingmen's League.
Before going to the dinner the gov
ernor met two score editors of foreign
language newspapers at the National
Arts Club, Gramercy Park. and talked
immigration to them. He said in part:
There has sprung up in various parts
of this country, notably in northern
New York, a movement called the social
center movement, centering in the
school houses: ! suppose every one Of
you has realized that the immigrant
gets his real introduction to the life of
this country through his children. who
go to the public schools.
The children feel that they are in
troduced into American life sooner than
their parents do. When you imagine a
movement which makes the school
house the center of the community life
ering there in the evening and going to
of public affairs and OF those matters
which concern all equally; you are
be more potent than any other to re-
store the original character of America.
Your newspapers and magazines are
the general language Of America, which
ts modified English. but: at this stage OF
the melting pot process every language
In which you print a paper is largely
used in the United States and for the
conveyance Of American Ideas.
Wealth of First Consequence.
IT would just as leave Amercanize a
language as Americanize an individual.
You should not regard the language
in which you print your periodicals as
foreign language when printed In
America tor the conveyance of Ameri-
can thinking. Then we will have taken
another step toward that commission
of elements which in the long run Is
going to make America more various
In its natural gifts, more Variegated In
its genius than any other country ir
the world"
Among the 800 guests at the dollar
dinner was a delegation from the Wom-
ems Wilson and Marshall League, con
sisting of Mr. and Mrs. J. Borden Har-
riman, Mrs. James B. Eustis. Mrs
Leigh Hunt. Miss Julia Robbins, Miss
]. B. Fuuntaine, Mrs Lydig Hoyt, Miss
c. B. Crosby, and Clarence McCor'
mack
Governor Wilson was received with
great applause. He said, in part:
:The interests of the country are
founded in the last analysis upon it's
material prosperity and its social jus.
tice. put material prosperity first
because, after all. you cannot attend
to your spiritual interests unless you
are at least physically sustained.
means of spPS9ss PSmsef fop PASSES
q certain point 1t becomes abnormal
and perhaps leads HIM into many mis-
taken courses. But undoubtedly ouI
- ,,oA
fashion that our minds and our spirits
may act normally. Therefore the ma
terial prosperity of a nation-in other
words, its wealth-is of the first con-
sequence.
Deplores Commission Government.
THE makers of wealth in this
country are, of course, chiefly the
men who wo the daily work, chiefly
but not exclusively. Manifestly, non,
of US would work to advantage un.
less we were captained and directed
Men waste their energies II they dt
not cooperate in proper way. L
every man acted on his own initiative
and absolutely for himself we shoulC
not be half so well off as we are"
American business men, the COVER
nor declared, are not nearly so wei
informed regarding world markets
courses, and routes of commerce oil
banking processes as are their foreign
rivals.
now lOnS, ne asked, Is II going IC
take business men in America to int
out that they have got brains enough
not to depend upon the Ways anc
Means Committee of the House anC
the Finance Committee of the Senate?
Government by a commission is t
remedy nothing, is to create no free
dom. 1t Is to perpetuate and licens,
the concentration of control. shall
make war upon that to the utmost o
my power.
mo government has ever been bene
fcent when the attitude of sovernmen
was that 1t would take care of the peo
pie. Let me tell you that freedom eH
lists only where the people take care o
the government. We are grown up ant
twenty-one and we don't have TO hav
anybody tell US what is good for us
, we live our own lives, 1t is our owl
lives that serves us, and we Will tel
the government what we want"
Row Scout Shot.