The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-09
TRUSTS PREVENT
LABOR ADVANCE.
ASSERTS WILSON
Must Get Grip Of Special In
terests OFF. Throat Of
Congress.
EXPOSURE Is EFFECTIVE
ays L1bor Wages Not De.
pendent on Tariff But
on Brains.
EXPOSURE IS EFFECTIVE
Associated Press Dispatch.


Norton, Kas., Oct. S.-That the
very men who have been most sue
cessful n building up the trusts are
also the very men who have been
raost successful in preventing the or
ganization of labor was the conten-
tion of Governor Woodrow Wilson
IN an address here today DEVOTED
lar~ely to what he characterized as
thn pervarive power of the great
interests which now dominate our
development"
''Dnn't YOU know" he asked that
:. rt the objects of their comhina-
''an Is to control the labor markte?
And do you imagine that they have
ever sat deliberate plans for giving
the wo-kingman anything compar-
able n the way OF wages to the pro-
portion of the profits which they
themselves pocket? They do not
have to give the laboring man any
more than he can get in the compe-
tition of the market And they do
not give him any more. AS a mat
ter of fact, some of the most highly
productive industries in this eoun-
try pay even much lower wages than
the unprotected industries. And
nf aAcf IA tokf
industries pay wages that are below
the living scale, at 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 grand
est pieces of bluff and humbug that
has ever been known in the history
of political deception.
Il want to widen the market for
American labor. / want to see con-
ditions exist in which men will COM
pete for American labor. want
again to see time come when we
shall realize that the highest priced
labor in the world Is the cheapest
labor in the world, that what is pro-
duced by brains and intelligence and
skillful touch is a great deal cheaper
that what is produced by stupidity
and dullness and the whip Of the
master. IA
Il tell you this, that American la
Dor up to date, is the cheapest in the
world. can prove it. American
manufacturers compete In foreign
markets in the scale of goods manu-
factured In those markets, near those
markets, by labor that receive only
one-third the remuneration Of
American labor. Now, what does
that mean? 1t means they can afford
to pay American workingmen three
times as much and still undersell
their competitors in the foreign
markets, and yet the American
workingman is told that the amount
OF his wages depends upon the pro-
tective tariff. 1t doesn't. 1t de- |
pends upon him. 1t depends upon
what is inside of his thinking box. |
And when you once get to a system |
of regulated monopoly. then you get |
to a system of controlled labor, |
don't forget that. Narrow the lines |
of competition and you stiffen the |
lines of labor control. You have not |
now free market for your labor |
any more than you have a free mar
ket for your commodities: for under
this system of monopoly, regulated |
or unregulated, the monopolist can
determine the amount of goods to be
produced, and therefore determine !
the amount of laborers TO be en-
ployed and the prices that the goods
are to bring
"As ! travel from one part of the
country to the other" continued the
governor. 81 see no essential differ
ence among the people in the differ
ent parts Of II. The same thing is |
written in their eyes and 1t Is not a |
CLEAN of ferceness. 1t is a light of |
self-confidence. They know what |
they want. and they know they. are
going to get it. Anybody who sup
poses that economic questions and
political questions are two different
things is very much mistaken be-
cause these things have been SO