The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-10-08
STRAIGHT TALK
FROM WILSON
TO KAN9ANS
STATES INTERESTING FACTS
Ta2 T~-I C01.S,Drnh-IGI OF
A..DAICA.. EoAnI..u..--.. i


"y,ry men Who haze a"sn nr ! aIr
re- stu! ia huiltiire Gp the trusts are
also The ,,rt n,rn WHO HAY" been
most sac salul in preventing iAe or
"ani2atiuu OF lahor WAS the con-
4 ,u,ien al tu4tiu"r Moodtu" IL
son in an adhrr here today devoted
largely /. y al he ch3ra Tlacd as
"tne p"aasi,e power vi the %rrl,
interests which now dominate ou'
development
bon, You know. he asksd t!ai
Que oi the obj.ct, oi their romhiila
on Is 10 control the b.tor ma. oct
Ana do you inla'ino that lhey ha'
rAp So doIlhcrat i.ilna Iar h.A-
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o'
hy 5tr 4 e.'t
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70, sitr hm ap ''t .s~
{, taft. sor.c q Vie ms -
.,iic,isr iu1nstries IN hl@ rolInrI
ral very much Iow"r ~ar"s ihan th
unprotcrtd industries Md some ~
ttc most hishly protected industries
paN wares that are below the NV
ing scale. AT the same time that tn
prices they are MAKING ar" 50 srea'
that they can build new Factories on
uf their surplus every second year
IL is one of the Granlcst pieces o.
,.um and humhug hat has ever been
known in the history of political DE-
ccptiOn.
81 want to widen the market for
American labor | want 10 ser 'on
ditions list in which men viii com
pete fol American labor want
again to see a time come whei W
shall realize that the highest PR ed
Labor in the world is the rhcapcS'
labor in the world, that what /,
produced by brains and intelligence
and ski.lful touch is a great dea
cheaper han what Is produced by
stupidity and dullncss and the whi2
.f tn. llaster,
4 tel you this. that American
labor ~ TO dat" is the cheapest in
the woi ID. can prove it. Amer
lean manufacturers compete in for
cign N rkcts i'm the salr Of goods
mauufa, ,ired in those markets, nca:
those markets, by labor that receives
only onc-third the remuneration o.
American labor Now. what does
that mean? II means they can al
ford to pay American workinSmer
! three times as much and still under
! sell their competitors in tn" foroiE
! mark.ts. and yet the American work
| ingman is told that the amount ~
! ha waYos depends upon the pro'cr-
I,iA, e. iif II doesn u depends
lupon h!A Il depends upon what Is
n Arsi,lu uG his thinking boX- And
, v.hen yut uHrr gct ~ a system "i
REGULATED monopoly, th,n }ou t,
!. sy,trli ri ror,r. i Labor, DOR
for.,j Thar NJ y" lives oi
omprIliion am yol A@t"n thu lines
of iabor control You have lot now
fg,' marlet for your laher aus
,l1re than som hay" i fr"" market
ir. your commodities; Tor undgr this
s. strm of monopoly. rr.;,la;ti or
enreaHIatcd, i'ic n,onopolis- can de-
ttrminr tn" a.aolnt of Goods - be
produced. and therefore determine
ti.r amount of laborcr5 TO - en-
Logged and thc prices that the goods
are 10 bring.
AS travel from onc part ri IN"
country to tho other. continued the
1 governor. Il see ~ essential differ
cncc among the people in the differ
cnt parts of IL The same thing Is
: written in their Yes AMI il IS not 4
! .lcam OF ferccncss. II is a licht OF
: scli-conliicnee. They know what
they want. and they know they are
reing To get it Anybody who sup
nrses that economic questions and
/ POLITICAL questions are two different
> tEinrs is very much mistaken be-
cause those thin"s have been 50
closely married With ore another ia
our recent political practice that n