Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-10-18

Woodrow Wilson, Democratic can
didate for president Of the United
States, has declared himself in the
most public aud permanent manner
in favor Of Chinese immigration as
preferable to foreigners from southern
and eastern Europe, whom he calls
"the coarse crew crowding in at the
eastern ports"-that is, New York,
Boston, etc. As a very large proper
ton Of the workers In New England
mills belong to the class denounced BY
Wilson as less desirable than the Chi
nese. they ought to be interested in
the views which he has expressed and
which we quote as follows from page
and volume Of Wilson's History OF
the American People"
From page 212, volume 5, Nov
there came multitude Of men Of the
lowest class from the south Of Italy
and men Of meaner sort out Of Hun
gary and Poland, as If the countries
OF the south OF Europe were dis
purdenlng themselves Of the more sor-
did and hapless elements of their pop
ulation."
From page 21s. volume 5: "The
Chinese were more to be desired as
workmen, If not as citizens. than most
Of the coarse crew that came crowd
ing in every year at the eastern ports.
1t was their skill, their intelligence,
their knaek Of succeeding and driving
duller rivals out rather than their
alien habits that made them feared
and hated and led to their exclusion
at the prayer of the men they would
likely displace should they multiply.
The unlikely fellow who came in at
the eastern ports (that is, the immi-
grants from Europel were tolerated
because they usurped no place but the
very lowest in the scale of labor"
Foreign born worlIingInen and work
ing women OF New England. what do
you think OF this statement by Wood
row Wilson, Democratic candidate for
president of the United States? He
says that you are "a coarse crew"
that the Chinese are better workmen
and might make etter citizens than
VOC are, and that you are tolerated be-
cause you usurp no place but the
very lowest in the scale Of labor"
We have given you page number
and volume number where these state
ments are to be found in Woodrow
Wilson's History Of the American PEG
pie" You can go to any library and
read them for yourself.
Woodrow Wilson is the first candi
date for president OF the United
States who has declared himself in
favor of Chinese immigration OF the
estimated population Of 350,O00,O00 IL
China many millions would like tc
come to America If admitted they
would soon drive American labor out
OF the mills and workshops and also
out of retail and much of the whole
sale business. At present Wilson Il
keeping very mum on the subject, but
there can be no doubt whatever thai
he would. If elected president, attempt
to carry out his published views. AM
open the door to the Chinese. In thls
he would have the backing of the
southern Democrats, who would be
glad to have the Chinese come over
and work for them in place Of the
negroes.
In this connection we suggest par
ticular attention to Woodrow Wilson's
expression about the unlikely fellows
from southern and eastern Europe be
ing tolerated because they usurped
no place but the very lowest in the
scale Of labor"
The Republican party, whose first
president was Lincoln the rail splitter
whose second president was johnson
the tailor, whose third president was
Grant the tanner, whose fifth presl
dent was Garfield the towpath mule
driver. whose eighth president was
Mckinley, in his youth an iron found
er. regards and treats all honest labor
as honorable and as not merely to be
Tolerated" but honored-
Wilson's slur upon the labor OF the
foreign born finds no echo in the ut
tsrsnces Of President Taft, who, re
turning from a visit TO the west In tbs
course Of which he addressed large
gatherings of our adopted countrynien
declared that nothing had gratifiec
him SO much as the intelligent inter
est shown by his hearers in American
Institutions and their earnest desire tc
understand the spirit and meaning o.
the constitution Of the United States