The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-29
BIC CROWDS HEAR
GOVERNOR WILSON
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vania. and I advise the gentleman
to look into the mater
The governor took up the issue of
the Merchant marine and quoted his
friend, who had To travel to Austra ALA
before he found ship carrying the
American fiag-James Gordon Benz
netts yacht.
Without q merchant marine, the
governor said. the Panama canal
would be of little use to US. but would
Increase the trade Of European mer-
chants.
We are very philanthropic," he
said cynically, ito build canal that
VIII be a help to foreign trade and
not to ourselves"
Replying go the assertions OF the
Republicans that panic is certain to
follow the installation OF Democratic
administration. the governor said:
viii Be No Panic.
We have no commiss on to disturb
anything that Is able or honest. or
sound in America You have been
told again and again and again that
thers will be a panic. BY the way, |
was very much interested TO see this
prediction made yesterday in that
section of the Pubic Ledger devoted
to fiction. 1t Is either figment of the
brain, or else II IS malicious pur-
pose. Have you reflected upon that?
There is no sign Of 1t. The gentle
men are not going to interrupt the. r
own profits to get up a panic. They
are not going TO shut off their own
earnings by closing their mills. 1t
| is all childish blun, but even II II
| were not, there IL only one way to
create Il panic in America. and that Is
hxy ,rty no N
they themselves now have and ar
! resting all the processes of American
/ industry deliberately. They can do IT.;
| l wonder If they will dare do It."
| The speaker tald how he proposed
| TO set the government free by reEu-
lating competition.
| IT propose 10 safeguard American
merchants against unfair competition
he said, land that then they Viii oe
| able to take care Of themselves. l
have been told that there are serious
| obstacles to competition. / say we
can remove these obstacles one by
one. ne they disclose themselves by
| directing thu statutes of the law
against them .
QUESTION Of FALLING.
| Someone said he did not like the
| idea of putting everybody In Jail
II am not desirous of putting every
body In jail" said the candidate. Sc
lected specimens will do"
How will you squeeze the water
out of stock" was another question:
II won't" was the reply. Il will
let them carry it. like the man who
carried csit every day until he car
ried a full grown bull. II they can
carry the fun grown bull l will take
off my hat to them as Americans.
How about Roosevelt came IN
"a high pitched voice.
well, sir replied the governor, y
have denied myself the pleasure OF
discussing Colonel Roosevelt for the
present. But We ought. In all SOBER
ness. to discuss the issues ard leave
out persons
When the governor had finished ms
address he got a tremendous oVaion'
He was hurried to Convention an.
where his entrance was vociferousiy
enthusiastic His address mere was
along the lines of his Academy OF
Music address minus the intorrnp-
lions.
Wages and the Tariff.
Al Convention hall the governor
voiced a new argument upon the re-
1ation of WAGES to the tariff that ne
said America paid higher wages imam
free trade England. and free trade
England paid higher wages than pro-
tective Germany. Therefore. he ar
gued. wages and the tariff did not
sesm to be the result of each other,
Hs-s said that high wages resulted
from the skill Of American work
fngmen, and that America had been
paying higher wages than the rest OF
the world ever since she had been
separatel from England. -. ~. ~.
THE cost of labor" he said, is
the determination OF the SKIN ana
ca nacity of the country, and not Of its
economic disadvantage"
The governor was greatly cheered
as he said, In a portion Of his speech:
II don't want to use my mind To
govern yours l want to use my MIND