Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-10-09
WILSON SPEAKS
TO KANSAS CROWD
SAYS Men Who Built Trust
Do Most to Prevent Or;
ganizatiOn of Labor
CONTROL LABOR MARKET
DECLARES THAT HE WISHES To
SEE CONDITIONS SUCH THAT
MEN WILL COMPETE FOR
AMERICAN LABOR
Bv Associated Press

By Associated Press
Norton, Kan, Oct S.-That the
very men who have been most sue
oessful in building up the trusts are
also the very men who have been
most successful In preventing the or
ganization of labor was the con-
tention OF Governor Woodrow Will
son In an address here today devoted
largely TO what he characterized as
"the pervasive power of the great
interests which now dominate our
development.
Don't you know" he asked that
one OF the objects of their combina-
tion is TO control the labor market?
And do you imagine that they have
ever set deliberate plans for giving
the workingman anything compare
BILE In the way OF wages to the pro-
portion OF the profits which they
themselves pocket? They do not have
to give the laboring man any more
than he can get In the competition
OF the market. And they do not give
him any more AS a matter OF fact.
some OF the most highly productive
industries In this country pay very
much lower wages than the unpro-
tected industries And some of the
most highly protected industries pay
wages that are below the living
scale. at the same time that the
prices they are making are so great
that they can build new factories out
Of their surplus every second year.
II 10 one OF the grandest pieces OF
bluff and humbug that has ever been
known in the history OF political de-
teption.
II want 10 widen the market for
American labor. want 10 see con-
ditions exist in which men will com
pete for American labor. want
again TO see a time come when we
shall realize that the highest priced
labor in the world is The cheapest
labor in the world. that what is
produced by brains and intelligence
and skillful touch is a great deal
cheaper than what is produced by
stupidity and dullness and the whip
OF the master.
II tell you this. that American la
Tor up to date, is the cheapest in
the world. | can prove II. American
manufacturers compete I'm foreisn
markets In the scale Of goods manu-
featured in those markets, near those
markets. by labor that receive only
one third the remuneration OF Ame--
lean labor. Now, what does that
mean n means they can afford
10 nav American workingmen three
times as much and still underseil
their competitors in the foreign mar
kets. and yet the American working
man is told that the amount OF his
wares depends upon the protective
tariff II doesn't II depends upon
him. II depends upon what Is In
side Of his thinking boy. And when
Won once get 20 system OF regu-
lated monopoly then YOU get 10 sys
TEN Of controlled labor. don't forget
that Narrow the lines OF competi.
tlon and you stiffen the lises OF Ia.
bor control You have not now a
free market for your labor any more
than YOU have n free market foI
your commodities: for under this
system Of monopoly. regulated or N
regrla'ed. the monopliist can deter
mine the amount of goods 10 be pro
duced. and therefore determine th'
amount of laborers 70 be employee
and the prices that The goods are I,
bring
AS travel from ono part OF th'
country 20 the other" continued th'
governor. 81 sec no essential differ
ence among the people in tho differ
ent parts OF II The same thing !
written in their eyes and II ls no
CLEAN OF flerceness II Is a ligh
of self-confidence. They know wha
they want and they know they ar
going 10 get a. Anybody who sup
poses that economic questions an
iolitkal questions are two dlfferen
things Is very much mistaken be
cause these things have been so clos
" married with one another in on
recent political practice that II I
impossible 70 discriminate betwee
them
And this gives me an opportu
nifty 20 allude 20 something that
read very recently in ar lnfluentla
newspaper u was an editorial
which mus, say that the editor di
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