United labor bulletin., 1912-09-05


out the nation that should be more in
terested in the election of president
of the country and its general progress
and the uplift of the people entirely de-
pend on the manner in which their
rights, comfort and general well being
are attended to by the law makers Of
the land. A president of the country
has much to do with the policy OF the
government and of the laws that eman-
ate from Congress. There is vast
power in the hands of a president which
he can WELD for the veal or woe of the
masses. 1t is to. their lasting interest
that they should be as searching and
vigilant as possible in finding out why
they should support or oppose any par
ticular candidate.
No man can be candidate for the
highest office in the land without pub
lie past of some kind; of course 1t is
possible for such an unknown citizen to
aspire to the office and be contestant
but there is no probability OF such an
occurrence. Every candidate SO far as
known has a busy record behind him,
out of which wage workers can select
abundant proof of what that particular
candidates attitude Is toward the man
who tolls and makes up the onward
moving power of. the country. In the
present instance. that is, in the present
contest for the highest honors that the
citizens of the country can give. every
candidate has a record amply prolific
enough with declarations and works
from which to Judge as to his fitness
for the Office he seeks from a wage
workers point of view. Particularly is
this the case regarding Gov. Woodrow
Wilson. He has been long enough be-
fore the public and busy enough declar-
ing himself relative to those who work
for wages to enable every one of us to
Judge correctly as to his fitness. his
general opinion of the. masses and their
methods designed for their own better
ment and his attitude toward govern
mental policies that SO far have been
the great source of this country's indus
trial greatness and the greatness and
the high material standard of the wage
workers of the nation.
Governor Wilson has made it an easy
task for any one to prove that he Is no
friend of the wage worker. He has re-
corded more than plenty of evidence
that his theories and policies are those
now held by the very bitterest enemies
of organized labor, and in fact labor of
any kind His own declarations prove
this beyond the peradventure of a doubt.
We need only quote his own words to
prove his most mischievous policy and
theories. These declarations on his part
conclusively show that not a wage
worker in the country should vote for
Woodrow Wilson to become president of
the United States.
Before directly quoting Gov Wilson's
own words concerning his opinion of
the wage workers and the policies that
concern them, 1t may be remarked that
there is every reason to expect that a
man of Gov. Wilson's antecedents can
not be expected to have any sympathy
for the wage workers, nor anything like
correct conception of their practical
struggles of life. Their real aspirations
trials and burdens are unknown to him
simply because he has not been in any
sense or form mixed with them, nor in
anything like close contact with them at
any time. His life has been in univer-
siiy confines where his living has been
earned from the wealthy. the aristo-
cratic. the naughty. the exclusive and
those who ever look upon the wage
worker as a chattel or an ordinary COM
modify that is in the market for value
in exchange His environments have alb
solutely been such that il is natural that
his mind should be absorbed by the
shadowiest theories and notions OF the
most injurious kind as a professor and
instructor OF the scions OF the million
aires he has ever been accustomed to
think of and estimate the masses by aid
OF abstract reasoning and measurement
such as is used by scientists in dealing
with the lower animals or with mani
mate nature. Far from the actual oper-
alton and beating of human pulses and
activities of the common horde" has
this man theorized and concluded his
abstract reasonings concerning the
wage workers. And he has done things
amid all the powerful influences of the
and wealthy who were pay
ing him for his labors.
So that it is not at all to be Won
dered at that Gov. Wilson enters the
public contest trammeled with all the