The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-11-05
FOR CHINESE
Immigration
What Woodrow Wilson Wrote
In His WeII-known History"
PREFERRED IT TO EUROPEAN
SHORE to Be Desired as Workmen, IL
Not as cltlzsns, Than Most Of the
Coarse Grew That Came .crowdins
Every Year at Eastern Ports"

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 cTowdinS In at the
eastern ports"-that is. New York,
Boston, etc. As q very large proper
ton Of the workers In New England
mills belong to ths class denounced by
Wilson a. less desirable than the Chi
nese, they ought to be interested in
the views which he has expressed and
which we quote az follows from page
and volume of Wilson's History of
the American People.
From page 212, volume 5, Nov
there came multitude Of men of the
lowest class from the south of Italy
and men OF meRner sort out OF Hun
gary and Poland. as If the countries
of the south OF Europe we're dis
Durdening themselves Of the more sOr-
did and hapless elements Of their pop
ulation."
From page 213, volume s: '"The
Chinese were more to be desired as
workmen, Ii not as citizens. than most
of the coarse crew that came crowd
ing in every year at the eastern ports.
1t was their ekill, 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 (that 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 50 coarse crew."
that the Chinese are better workmen
and might make etter citizens than
VOC are, and that you are tolerated be-
cause 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 Peo-
ple." 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 35O.OOO.0OO in
China many millions would like to
come to America II admitted they
would soon drive American labor out
of 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, II 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 "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 vt
terances Of President Taft, who, re.
turning from 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 o.
the constitution of the United States.