The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-09-07
OPENS CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE SPEAKER
AT "DOLLAR DINNER"
Makes His First Political Address in
Gotham, Since Becoming Party's
Standard Bearer, to Woodrow VIII
son WOrkingmen's League-Also
Talks on Immigration Before Two
score Editors of Foreign Language
Newspapers.

New York, September 4.-Governor
Woodrow Wilson spoke for the first
time tonight in New York city as the
Democratic nominee for the Presiden-
cy. His first political address In the
metropolis was delivered at the dollar
dinner" Of the Woodrow Wilson
Workingmen's League.
Before going to the dinner, he met
two score editors Of foreign Ian
guage newspapers at the National
Arts Club and talked immigration to
them.
IF we can hit upon q standard
which admits every voluntary i'm
migrant" he said. land excludes those
who have not come Of their own
motion. with their own purpose Of
making home and a career for
themselves. but have been induced by
steamship companies or others to
come In order to pay the passage
money. then we will have what we
will all agree upon as Americans.
For am not speaking to you in
a foreign country. / am speaking to
you as also Americans with myself,
and just as much Americans as my
self, and II we all take the American
point Of view. namely, that we want
American life kept to the standards
and that the only standards Of Amer
lean life shall be the standards of re-
striction. then We are oil upon a COM
mon ground, not Of those who criticise
immigration. but of those who declare
themselves Americans.
II am not saying that I am wise
enough out Of hand to frame the leg
islation that will meet this ideal. l
am only saying that that is the ideal
and that Is what We ought to hold
ourselves to.
Now, strange as II may seem to
some gentlemen who have criticised
me, the only blunder I have made,
the only practical blunder have
made In my interest in a liberal DO
Icy, with regard to immigration, is
that got into the wrong society to
encourage 1t. So that 1t was an in
discertion of purpose and not an in
discretion Of purpose, for my interest
in immigration Is to see that the i'm
migrant Is properly informed, is prop
erly safeguarded against imposition Of
every kind, whether by the Govern
ment or anybody else, and Is directed
to the place where he can attain the
object he has came for with the great
est advantage to himself. That is the
solution of the immigration question.
"Of course. II the Immigrants are
to be allowed to come in uninstructed
hosts and to stop at the ports where
they enter and there to compete in an
oversupplied labor market, there is
going to be deterioration. there is 60
ing to be everything that will be de-
trimental to the community as well
as detrimental to the immigrant. And.
therefore. 1t Is to the interest Of the
Government that the Government it
self should supply or, at any rate,
encourage the instrumentalities which
Will prevent that very thing. Null
tiplying the ports Of entry for that
purpose. for example, will ease and
facilitate and guide the process of dis
tribution and will above all things also
supply the sympathetic information
which is the only welcome that is ac-
ceptable to those who come"