The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
FOR CHINESE
IMMIGRATION.
What Woodrow Wilson Wrote
In His Well Known History"
PREFERRED IT TO EUROPEAN
more to Be Desired as Workmen, If
Not as Citizens, Than Most Of the
Coarse Crew That Came Crowdins
Every Year at Eastern Ports.r

Not as Citizens, Than Most OF the
Coarse Crew That Came Crowding
Every Year at Eastern Ports.r
Woodrow Wilson, Democratic can
didate for president of the United
States, has declared himself in the
most public and permanent manner
in favor of Chinese immigration as
preferable to foreigners from southern
and eastern Europe, whom he calls
the coarse crew crowding In at the
eastern ports"-that is, New York,
Boston, etc. AS very large proper
ton of the workers in New England
mills belong to the class denounced by
| Wilson as less desirable than the Chi
nese. they ought to be interested in
the views which he has expressed
and which we quote as follows from
page and volume Of Wilson's History
of the American People"
From page 212, volume 8, "Now
there came multitudes Of men of the
lowest class from the south Of Italy
and men of meaner sort out Of Hun
gary and Poland, as II the countries
of the south of Europe were dis
burdening themselves of the more sor-
did and hapless elements of their pop
ulation."
From page 213, volume 3: 1.-The
Chinese were more 20 be desired as
workmen, II net as citizens, than most
of the coarse crew that came crowd
ing in every year at the eastern ports.
1t was their skill, 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 displace should they multiply.
The unlikely fellows who came in at
the eastern ports Chat is, the immi-
grants from Europe) were tolerated
because they usurped no place but the
very lowest in the scale of labor"
Foreign born workingmen and work
ing women Of New England, what do
you think of this statement by Wood
row Wilson, Democratic candidate for
president of the United States? He
says that you are "a coarse crew."
that the Chinese are better workmen
and might make better citizens than
you are, and that you are tolerated
because you usurp mo place but the
very lowest in the scale of labor"
We have given you page number
and volume number where these state
ments are to be found In Woodrow
Wilson's History of the American
People" You can go to any library
and read them for yourself.
Woodrow Wilson is the first candi-
date for president of the United
States who has declared himself in
favor Of Chinese immigration. OF the
estimated population of 350,O00OO0
in China many millions would like
to come to America. If admitted
they would soon drive American labor
out of the mills and workshops and
also out of retail and much Of the
wholesale business. At present Will
son Is keeping very mum on the
subject, but there can be no doubt
whatever that he would. If elected
president, attempt to cary out his pub
lished Views, and open the door to the
Chinese. In this he would have the
backing Of the southern Democrats,
who would be glad to have the Chi
nese 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 eastern 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
er, regards and treats all honest labor
as honorable and as not merely to be
tolerated" but honored.
Wilson's slur upon the labor of the
foreign born finds no echo in the utter
ances Of President Taft, who, return
ing from a visit to the west, In the
course of which he addressed large
gatherings Of our adopted countrymen,
declared that nothing had gratified
him so much as the intelligent inter
est shown by his hearers in American
institutions and their earnest desire to
understand the spirit and meaning of
the constitution of the United States.