Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-12
COLONEL REPLIES
I. TO WILSON
ROOSEVELT CHARGES NEW JER
SEY MAN WITH "SUlLEN HOS
TlLlTY" TO LABOR.

Superior, Wis, Oct. 10.-"I probably
shouldn't make the reference to Mr.
Wilson that l am going to make" sale
Col. Roosevelt here today, If he hadn''
attacked me. But when anybody at
lacks me he might as we'll understand
that I won't take it lying down. I'm
q man of peaceful disposition but
think I am able to defend myself
Col Roosevelt stopped for an hour
8, in Superior on his way to Minnesota
His managers had planned q com
paratively easy day for him, after two
days of rapid fire speech making IN
Michigan. He was to spend most OF
the day in Duluth and no speeches else.
where were scheduled save the one at
Superior.
COL Roosevelt's favorite books, his
companions on his other campaign
trips, have been laid aside on his
present tour, and he has devoted all
the time available to the preparation
jof his speeches. Last night he COM
|pleted his speeches for the present
week and today he began those which
he is to deliver next week.
Having given more than month to
the exposition Of the principles Of the
new party, which he believes now we'll
understood, he plans to take new
line of attack during the closing weeks
OF the campaign and '''unlimber the big
guns" His speech in Houghton in
which he criticized Gov. Wilson for the
"sullen hospitality" toward labor
which he said Mr.. Wilson had dis
played in the past was the first Of the
series which he expected to NAVE. At
Houghton Roosevelt said of Wilson's
labor record:
:. "In an address at the Peoples Forum
at New Rochelle as given in the New
York Tribune of Feb. ~, 1905, he (Wil-
sony says: The objection I have to
labor unions is that they drag the high
est men to the level of the lowest
In an address before the South Caro-
lima society as given in the New York
Tribune of March 10, 1907, he says as
follows: We speak too exclusively OF
the capitalistic class. There Is an
other as formidable an enemy to
equality and freedom Of opportunity
as it is, and that is the class formed
by labor organizations and leaders of
the Countrywide class representing
only a small minority of the laboring
men Of the country quite as monopolis-
tic in spirit as the capitalist and
quite as apt to corrupt mad ruin our
industries by their monopoly
AT the commencement exercises of
Princeton university as given in the
New York World of June IA, 1909, he
says as follows: You know what the
usual standard Of the employe is in
our day. 1t is OF give as little as he
may for his wages. The trades union
make the standard to which to con-
form. No employe Is suffered to do
more than the average workman can
do. Our economic supremacy may be
lost because the country grows more
full Of Improbable servants"
Colonel Roosevelt called attention
in his speech here to what he said
were inconsistencies in Governor Will
sons position.
"Mr. Wilson," said he, has attacked
the proposed federal legislation to pro-
hibit child labor In very strong Ian
guage which Is to be found in the North
American Review, colume 1877. He here
denounces as mischievous the effort
for the regulation of labor In mills
and factories by the federal govern
ment.
1.-THE democratic platform in one
plank takes this same position, say
ing:
1--WE denounce as usurpation the
efforts to enlarge and magnify by in.
1irIotjNr tho ne "a foAoro1
government this referring to the
regulation Of interstate commerce. But
in dealing with the trusts the demo.
cratic platform states that it favors
denying the trusts permission to en-
gage in interstate trade at all.
1T seems preposterous to discuss
two such conflicting positions and the
mere fact that they can be put in the
same platform shows the utter worth
lessness of expecting serious social re-
form work from a party capable OF
taking such action In its declaration
of principles .s"
But Mr.. Wilson's own statement as
to the interstate commerce law and
child labor, as quoted above, Is abso-
lutely incompatible with his position
in standing upon the democratic plat
form, with it's plank as given above,
about Interstate commerce. Either
Mr.. Wilson and the democratic plat
form do not mean what they say or
else 1t is Mr.. Wilson's duty to repudi-
ate either the plank above quoted in
the democratic platform or his own
statement about interstate commerce
and child labor"
Dedicate Hopper Gymnasium.
Indianola, Oct. 10.-Two thousand
people attended the dedication OF the