Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-10-26


woodrow Wilson, Democratic can
5didate for president, is now address
hing honeyed words to the labortng
3snan in the hope of securing the labor
lrote He would, II he could. have the
Aworkingman forget the address delfv-
Aered by him at Princeton in 1903, in
(which he regretted that Tabor is
Manufactured by the trades unions"
Hand asserted that such a regulation OF
daabor is economically disastrous
4Nor will labor forget that in the same
4speech he characterized members OF
Aabor unions as "unprof1table serv-
ANTS"
\ No wonder that the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor recently adopted
RESOLUTIONS condemning Professor VIII
hon for his antagonistic attitude
Howard organized labor.
And while Professor Wilson is ap-
apealing to the workingman to over
hook his own personal views and vote
&the Democratic ticket he should know
4that the record Of the Democratic par
&fy In connection with the workingman
&1s engraved upon the tablets of labor's
4memory.
n Labor has not voted for a Demo-
cratIc president since the terrible ex-
Experience which followed the Demo
cratIc victory In 1892
= And labor will not this year vote
10 repeat those distressing times
" What Labor Remembers
g Labor has not forgotten that under
HDemocratic administration, before the
Selection of President Mckinley, thou
.4eands of idle men were walking the
3streets of every city, town and ham
let in the country in search of en-
Enjoyment and the chance to earn an
8honest living, while those or many of
Them who CHANGED to have employ
Hment were working for a mere pit
3tance.
Labor has not forgotten the soup
4houses established all over the coun-
4fry at that time.
4 Labor has not forgotten the process
fsions of unemployed-from New York
Ito San Francisco. and from the Cana
kdian border to the Gulf, seeking NOT
fCHARITY, BUT WORK. during a
democratic national administration
Labor has not forgotten Coxey's
land Kelly's armies" one of the
4products of Democracy.
4 Labor has not forgotten the hordes
4of tramps made by Democratic rule.
Labor has not forgotten that the
democratic national administration
4caused the depletion of labor's treas
4nries to keep the destitute and unem-
fployed alive.
Labor has not forgotten those try
ling days of Democratic misrule. when
lit turned its halls meeting places and
4Assembly rooms into sleeping quar-
tiers for all who could End room
4fherein-
No Bread to Eat
zalone suffered then. that labor lacked
Aread to eat. clothes to wear and a
Roof for shelter.
Labor has not forgotten that labor
alone worked out the problem OF its
2Alvation In those trying days
Labor has not forgotten that ft
Bounced Democratic rule for Repub-
11can rule at its first opportunity N
4he first presidential election after
that period-in 1886, and has not
voted for q Democratic candidate
Tor president since
Labor has not forgotten that trusts
and monopolies were born In the
white House while Q Democratic
president stood guardian
Labor has mot forgotten that Dem
Dcratic free trade means free trade
IN labor only.
Now Fuii Dinner Pail.
Labor has not forgotten it's lesson
On how 1t passed through poverty and
Ifr1endleesness and Democratic NAL
administration to the full dinner main
4pf the Mckinley and subsequent Re-
3publican administrations
Labor has not forgotten that the
llAmerican Federation Of Labor held
l1ts annual convention In the council
ichamber IN the city hall. Chicago, the
ifweek of Monday, December II. 1888,
int time when 5000 men were nfrhf-