The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-09-05

New York, Sept. 5.--Gov. Woodrow I
Wilson spoke for the first time last
night in New York city as the Demo
cratic nominee for the presidency. His
first political address in the metropo-
lis was delivered at the dollar dinner
Of the Woodrow Wilson workingmeas
league.
Before going to the dinner, he met
two score editors Of foreign language
newspapers at the National Arts club
and talked immigration to them.
If we can hit upon a standard which
admits every voluntary immigrant
he said, "and exclude those who have
not come Of their own motion, with
their own purpose Of making a home
and career for themselves but have
been induced by steamship companies
or others to come in order to pay he
passage money, then we will have
what we will ali agree upon as Amcr-
cans.
For am not speaking to you in q
foreign country. I am speaking to you
also as Americans, with myself, and
if we all take the American point OF
view, namely, that we want American
life kept to its standard, and that Tie.
only standards Of American life shall
be the standards of restriction, tAen1
we are an upon a common ground. not
| Of those who critlcise American imtai-
/ grafton, but OF those Who declare
themselves Americans.
4 am not saying that I am wise
enough out pf iIaIa 10 FRAME & the legis-
lation that win meet this ideal I-am
only saying that that is the ideai and
that is what We ought to hoia opr-
selves TO.
: Now, strange as it may seem. to
some gentlemen who have criticised
! me, the only blunder I have made. the
/. only practical blunder have made in
my interest of a liberal policy with re-
{ gard to immigration is that / got in.o
+ the wrong society to encourage If 50
that It was an indiscretion Of fiuig-
g ment and not an indiscretion d oar-
E pose for much interest in immigration
is to see that the immigrant S prop
erly informed is properly safeguard
ed against imposition Of every kind,
e whether by the governmentfor any
J body else and is directed to ihe place
where he can attain the objects he
e has come for with the create advaat-
age to himself. That, to m mind, is
! the solution Of the immigrition ques-
; tion.
E oOf course If the immighnts are 70
q be allowed to come in Unrestricted
e hosts and to stop at the ports where
i they enter. and there to clmpete in 81
a oversupplied labor marlet, there is
e going to be unhappines5 there is so
s ing to be deterioration, lhere is goiaa
) to be everything that W II be detrimen
4 tai to the community a well as defri
y mental to the lmmigrait And, there
u fore, it is to the intefst Of the gov
ernment that the gofrnment should
supply, at any rate e elcouFages the in
srumentalitiea which win prevent
T. thal very thing. Multiplying the ports
Of entry for that pufose, for example
viii ease and facilih hte and guide ih'
" process Of distributbn, and will, above
&C all things, also sup Fy the sympathetic
~ information which is the only vel
as come that is acce table to those Yh'
se come"
ed AT the worki1 1smen's dinner Gov
ed Wilson said.
ar. cone Of the dasons why I am OF
Elk posed to an exaggerated protective
an policy is that is a choosing hefore
at hand to be prdincial and to have q
TO little to do wit the rest Of the worI
"a. as possible-Ihear a great deal sai
nowadays ab iii the danger Of fire.
trade. Therd are circumstances D.
NO mis- country Ehich render It absolute
of ly impossible in our time, | dare say
.se that we shd dld have free trade. "
rt have so di lded the sphere Of tax
tlon. both + principle and BY praf