Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-10-08
WILSON IS
IN KANSAS

! People from many counties of
western Kansas gathered here today
to hear Governor Woodrow Wilson's
first set speech of his cross state
journey. His two principal speeches
in Kansas were to be made here and
dresses in Kansas City tonight, one
at a democratic banquet and one in
convention hall.
very men who have been most sue
cessful in building up the trusts are
also the very men who have been
most successful in preventing the or
ganization of labor was the conten-
tion OF Governor Woodrow Wilson in
an address here today devoted largely
to what he characterized as the per-
vasive power of the great interests
which now dominate our develop
ment."
Don't you know" he asked, that
one of the objects of their combina-
tion is to control the labor market?
And do you imagine that they have
ever set deliberate plans for giving
the workingman anything comparable
i'll the way of wages to the proper
tion of the profits which they them
selves pocket? They do not have to
give the laboring man any more than
he can get in the competition of the
market. And they do not give him
of the most highly productive indus
tries in this country pay very much !
lower wages than the unprotected in
dustries. And some of the most high !
ly protected industries pay wages
that are below the living scale, at
the same time that the prices they
are making are SO great that they
can build new factories out of their
surplus every second year. 1t is one
of the grandest pieces of bluff and
humbug that has ever been known in
The history of political deception.
81 want to widen the market for
American labor. l want to see condi-
tons exist in which men will com.
pete for American labor. / want again
70 see a time come when we shall
'ealize that the highest priced labor
n the world is the cheapest labor in
he world, that what is produced by
orains and intelligence and skillful
ouch is a great deel cheaper than
what is produced by stupidity and
lullness and the whip of the master.
Il tell you this, that American la
,or up to date, is the cheapest in the
world. l can prove it. American
compete in foreign
markets in the scale of goods manu-.
actured in those markets, near
hose markets, by labor that receive
My one-third the remuneration of
lmerican labor. Now, what does that
lean? 1t means they can afford to
ay American workingmen three
ines as much and still undersell
l6lT tllc
cts, and yet the American working
ian is told that the amount of his
ages depends upon the protective
ariff. 1t doesn't. 1t depends upon 4.
i'm. 1t depends upon what is inside
his thinking box. And when you
nee get to system of regulated
then you get to system
( controlled labor, don't forget that.
arrow the lines of competition and
gu stiffen the lines of labor con-
'ol. You have not now free mar
ct for your labor any more than you
ave a free market for your COM
ODDITIES; for under this system of
onnpoly, regulated or unregulated,
lie moncpolist can determine the :
mount of goods to be produced, and {
lerefore determine the amount of |
borers to be employed and the s
ices that the goods are to bring.
"As l travel from cne part of the q