Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
washington Correspondence.
BY G. H. TAvENNER.

consumers on every article oi
clothing they buy, is revealed in
the arrest at Lawrence, Mass, d
William NJ. Wood, head Of the
Woolen Trust.
Mr.. Wood is charged with plac-
ing dynamite in the house of his
S4, Sc, and 81 week foreign mill
workers in an attempt to discredit
their cause while they we're on a
strike last winter as a protest
against a reduction of their wages.
Mr.. Woods arrest is worthy OF
the attention of every man, woman
and child in the country who
wears woolens. Because of the
fact that Mr.. Wood and his fellow
woolen trust magnates contribute
heavily to Republican campaign
funds, Congress has been in the
habit of placing the tariff on wool
ems high enough to keep out all
competition, so that the wooden
trust could be free to charge any
price they desired, up to the limit
of the ability Of the people to pay.
The result is that Americans are
paying from thirty to one hundred
per cent more for woolen clothing
and blankets than the resident of
Great Britain pays.
The story of the career of Mr..
Wood provides a curious paradox.
He is the oppressor of 10000
miserable New England textile
workers; few years ago he was
one Of them. In his youth he felt
the sting Of hunger himself, but
now he is pitiless in his thoughts
of his employees. He has grown
enormously rich, but declares that
from S4 to SO week is enough for
those who labor in his mills.
1t is said of many captains of
industry that they are ignorant OF
the conditions of the workmen
who earn their fortune for them; |;
that if they knew the distress of
their employees they would seek
to remedy it. Not so with Wood.
He knows. Their distress he sees.
Their cries he hears.
When the wooden mill en-
ployees, which are composed of
AZ different nationalities, most of
whom cannot speak in English,
went on strike the fathers and
mothers decided to send their
babes and little children away to
friends in other cities in order
that they might not suffer from
hunger during thec strike. Mr..
Woods agents beat the women,
and tore the little ones from their
mothers arms when the children
were about to be placed on trains.
Thus did Mr.. Wood "protect" his
employees.
Are the American people will
ing to continue to contribute to-
Mr.. Wood by paying more for
shoddy than good woolen clothing
sells for in England? Or do they
want the tariff on woolens reduc-
ed2 There is cnly one day every
two years when the consumers
have an opportunity to express
themselves on this subject. That
day comes on November 5.
REPUBLICANS FOR WILSON.
Thousands of progressive Re-
Ipublicans will vote for the Demo-
cratic nominee for the Presidency,
in the opinion of Rudolph
Spreckels of San Francisco, close
friend Of Senator LaFollette and
long prominent in the Republican
party of California.
81 have given many years Of
my time and support to the pro-
gressive Republican cause and to
honest effort to eliminate political
bosses and bring about the estab-
lishment Of a just and truly repre-
sentative government, and shall
continue to make that fight within
my party; but 1 feel IT my duty TO
support Gov. Wilson at the COM
ing election, believing it to be the
only proper course left open for
one who 10 sincerely interested in
the establishment of progressive
legislation in our nation at the
earliest moment.
"To-day ! held a conference
with DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, who
stands out as the foremost figure
in this nation as q protector of the
lives and health Of our children,
and he Informs me that he is op-
posed to the election Of either
President Taft or Theodore Roose-
velt, because both failed during
their administrations to properly
support the fight against the rich
manufacturers Of harmful foods
and dru0a