The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-17
FOR Chinese
Immigration
What Woodrow Wilson Wrote
in His WeIl-known History"
PREFERRED 1T TO EUROPEAN
"More to Be Desired as Workmen, II
Not as Citizens, Than Most Of the
Coarse Crew That Came Crowding
Every Year at Eastern Ports"

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 PIP, volume 5, Now
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
Durdening themselves of the more sor-
did and hapless elements Of their pop
ulatiOn."
From page 213, 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 knack 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 Europe) were tolerated
because they usurped no place but the
very lowest in the scale of labor"
Foreign born workinglnen 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 mo place but the
very lowest in the scale of labor"
We have given you page number
and volume number where these state
nents are to be found in Woodrow
History of the American Peo
DE" You can go to any library and
'ead them for yourself.
Woodrow Wilson is the first candi.
late for president of the United
states who has declared himself in
aVor of Chinese immigration OF the
'stimated population of 35O,OOO,OOO i'll
jhina many millions would like to
ONE to America. If admitted they
'ould soon drive American labor our
t the mills and workshops and also
ut OF retail and much of the whole
ale business. At present Wilson is
eeplng very mum on the subject, but
here can be no doubt whatever that
e would, If elected president, attempt
carry out his published views, ana
pen the door to the Chinese. In this
e would have the backing of the
oIthern Democrats, who would be
lad to have the Chinese come over
nd work for them in place of the
agroes.
IN This connection we suggest par.
cular attention to Woodrow Wilson'S
,pression about "the unlikely fellows"
ON southern and eastern Europe be.
g tolerated because they usurped
place but the very lowest in the
ale of labor"
The Republican party, whose first
esident was Lincoln the rail splitter. I
hose second president was Johnson
e tailor, whose third president was
ant the tanner, whose fifth presi.
mt was Garfield the towpath mule q
1Ver, whose eighth president was
cKinley, in his youth an iron found
regards and treats all honest labor y
honorable and as not merely to be 9,
olerated," but honored. u
slur upon the labor of the 20
'eign born finds no echo in the ut. q
'ances Of President Taft, who, re. n
ming from visit to the west, in the Y
lrse of which he addressed large y
therings of our adopted countrynen. ~
clared that nothing had gratified