Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-10-18
What Woodrow Wilson Wrote
in His WeIl-kn0wn History"
PREFERRED 1T TO EUROPEAN
"More to Ee Desired as Workmen, "
Not as Citizens, Than Most of the
Coarse Crew That Came CroWdins
Every Year at Eastern Ports

didate Tor president VI lHe oii'S
States. has declared himself in the
most putlic 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 a very large proper
ton of the workers in New England
mills belong to the class denounced by
Wilson as less desirable than the chi
nesc, they ought to be interested III
the view s which he has expressed ana
which we quote as follows from page
and volume of Wilson's History OF
the American People
From page PIP, volume 5, Now
there came multitude OF men OF the
lowest class from the south OF Italy
and men of meaner sort out OF Hun
gary and Poland, as if the countries
Of the south of Europe We're dis
Durdenine themselves of the more sor-
did and hapless elements Of their pop
ulation."
From page 2l3, volume s.: 'The
Chinese were more to be desired as
workmen, if not 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 fellow 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 workingInen and work
ing women of New England, what do
ycu 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
anu might make etter citizens than
yoG are, and that you are tolerated be-
cause you usurp mo place but the
very ION est III lue SCdlt Vi ldDOT.
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 Peo-
pie" You can go to any library hnd
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 3J0,000,000 in
China many millions would like to
come TO America. If admiSted they
ould soon drive American labor OUT
o. 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, if elected president, attempt
to carry out his published 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 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 1.-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 tho 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 preAident was
Mckinley, in his youth an iron found
er. regards and treats all honest labor
tolerated. but honored.
Wilson's slur upon the labor of the
foreign born finds no echo in the ut
terances of President Taft, who, re.
turning from visit to the wast, 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 o.
the constitution of the United States.
Nicaragua Pacifed; Marines TO Be
Withdrawn" says a newspaper head.
line, marking the conclusion of anotl.
er delicate and menacing international
situation, ably handled by the admin.
istratlon
Woodrow Wilson remarks that "the
American people aren't going to be fed
any longer with words" but he has of.
fered no variation of diet himself.
Prosperity is politics proof when a