United labor bulletin., 1912-09-26

should they multiply. The unlikely fel
lows who came in at the Eastern ports
were tolerated because they usurped nc
place but the very lowest in the scale o.
labor"
Now ye who labor with your hands in
this great country of ours, and whose
greatest ambition in life is to rear your
families amid good moral surroundings
just think of a man like DR.. Wilson
charging that the Chinese are simply
being kept out of this country not be-
cause of their immoralities and low
and debased. in fact, depraved, mode of
life. but simply because they are better
workmen than American wage workers
and that the latter are not able to COM
pete with them in skill and intelligence.
Men, just think of such an outrageous
statement as this and reflect what your
duty is toward the man who made it,
who wrote it deliberately.
Now let no man be fooled with the at
titude of Professor Wilson toward Ia
Dor. He is not a believer in organized
effort such as is represented by the
trade union movement. He does not be-
lieve in what he calls "paternal govern
ment-" Recently, in one of his strings
of platitudes that are recorded as
speeches. he said:
mo government has ever been bene-
ficient when its attitude was that it
would take care of the people. The only
freedom exists when the people take
care of themselves. We are grown up
and are 81 and do not have to be told
what is good for u.s."
The foregoing only adds force to his
convictions expressed in his Princeton
speech, that he wants each worker to
look after himself and nothing more.
This is the doctrine that every theorist
of the university cloisters has preached
when it comes to the question of the
wage workers. This is the doctrine that
retained the wretched wage workers in
England in social thraldom for genera
tions and was upheld by Just such theor-
lists and professors as Professor Wilson.
He is true to his ancestors of the univer-
stiles both in this country and in others.
He is. indeed, pal of Professor Day
of Syracuse
1t must be just as clear as the sun at
MONDAY that labor has nothing what
ever to expect from Professor Wilson.
He has not, just as has been stated in
the foregoing, at any time outlined what
he will insist on in the way of improv-
ing the conditions of labor. He has not
referred to the Democratic platform
simply because he is afraid to venture
an opinion thereof SO far as it concerns
labor because of the fact that his past
utterances will make him out double
dealer or else a confessed foe of labor
unions. That he is the latter already is
an absolute truth
Naturally the supporters of Dr. Wilson
are endeavoring to bury the past of
the learned doctor by telling us to look
what Wilson is promising to do when he
is elected president" 1t would be an in
-,,I& ,v.ta fn V hof c
the weakest of all arguments. Let the
question be definitely asked: What
has Wilson promised to labor? Not a
single thing, He has entirely devoted
his time and vocal energies, SO far as
labor is concerned, to telling wage work
ers about some kind of ideals he has
been theorizing over. Not substance
better than this can be pointed out Let
his friends name in any one instance
wherein he has discussed anything
practical and definite that relates to the
real betterment of labor. Why, even on
his crazy subject OF free trade, he is as
violating as a jelly-fish: he even has
ideals injected into this question The
fact is that DR.. Wilson has been so far
astray from the rightful claims and rec
ognition of labor in the past that he dare
not come out definitely at present on
the subject This means that should the
citizens OF the country make the HIS
take of electing this man to the presi-
dency he will at all ltimes be either un-
der the control of others or else he will
be tyrannically opposed to the interests
of labor There is no denying the fact
that his record and his writings prove
this Were he to have any practical
opinions that promised betterment to Ia
Dor just now depend upon it he would
proclaim them from the housetops-
What Wilson has said on the labor
question in definite form he said when
he was entirely free from the fact of be-
ing a political candidate. These were
his true opinions and his remarkable
silence on these same questions now
prove that he was sincere when he SIAN
dered labor unions and extolled Chinese
labor beyond that of the United States
After dinner try Principe de Lees