Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-04
Labor After Wilson's Scalp.

Labor After Wilson's Scalp.
Labor, the country over, is arising
at the eleventh hour against the pos
sibility of tariff slashing that would
be likely to result in such conditions
as the country suffered in 1S9497.
Labor was the chief sufferer when the
country's industries We're slaughtered
by the tariff for revenue only
crowd. Men of fixed incomes were
in clover, in those days, but millions
there were who had no income be-
cause they could not get work at any
wage.
Organized labor's publications all
over the country, like the American
Association of Labor Papers, (an or
ganzation of the labor press of the
United States and Canada) are APP
pealing to workingmen the country
over. to oppose Wilson and his know
nothing tariff professions. Such
strong labor organs as The Labor
World and The Progressive Workman
are doing all in their power to defeat
Wilson and the Inevitable results of
Democratic free trade and tariff for
revenue only fallacies.
DIR. Wilson has all along ignored
his party's platform declarations, ana
now he openly repudiates free trade
But, as Democratic paper the
Lewiston SUM said Wednesday, IN
substance: what does he offer in
place of it?'
DR. Wilson says generally that he
would cut the special privilege out
of protection" but he does not pre-
tend to know how, or what the "spe-
cial privileges" are. If he means the
great industrial trusts; the birthplace
and home of all of them is New Jer-
sey. He has never as governor lift
ed a finger to dislodge or disturb
them.
Thursday morning the Portland
Argus quoted DIR. Wilson as saying:
IF | become President | will do
everything in my power TO destroy
monopoly; | will never consent to its
adoption and mere regulation"
Sounds fine to crowd that doesn't
know any better but is misleading
and silly. Where has he ever shown
his enmity and power to oppose
monopoly? On tariff and on monop-
DIV alike. DIR. Wilson lodges the issue
and for good reasons. Perhaps these
reasons are best set forth by Will Nj.
Maupin, of Lincoln, Nebraska, LABOR
editor and noted labor leader, one OF
the organizers of the press bureau OF
the American Federation of Labor.
Under date line of September ~,
1910. he writes editorially in his
paper as follows:
woodrow Wilson has been noml-
mated by the Democrats for Governor
of New Jersey.
If this man Wilson is not burien
beneath an avalanche of WORKING
mems votes it will be because the
workingmen of New Jersey are false
to themselves.
Woodrow Wilson, president ol
Princeton University, is a sample OF
what some people are pleased to can
the scholar in politics. He isn't n
politics. He has merely been put up
bU "a dlSrrenlteu
democracy of New Jersey in the hope
that his personality will deceive the
people into supporting II. may
deceive some, but If it decelVes any
voting member of organized iapoi
II will he those who are either TOO
ignorant or too lazy to read.
president Wilson is a scholar
no discounting that fact. he mas
book learning galore, He also pos
seeses a good reputation for nom
est and probity. But his education
is that of a bookworm, and MS
honesty is of that kind warped OUT
of shape by ignorance of world-W
conditions.
Does President Woodrow wilson
deserve the vote of any intelligent
organized labor man?
Speaking at New Rochelle, n. "
on February %, 1905, he said:
1.-The labor unions reward the
shiftless and incompetent at the ex-
pense of the able and Industrious
THAT is the statement OF either
an ignoramus or the plant tool OF
| the task masters. In either event
| the man who gave utterance to II is
unworthy the votes of intelligent
| and unprecedented men.
Again in his baeealaureate ser
| mon at Princeton on June IL, 1903
| President Wilson said:
| You know what the usual stanu-
ard of the employe is in our day. II
/ is TO give as little as he may for ms
] wages. Labor is standardized by the
| trade unions, and this is the stahu-
ard 10 which il must conform
| once more the utteranee OF
man who is either too Ignorant o.
facts to speak thereon, or too SUP
| servient to selfish interests To be pu
in the place of authority in civic NE
/ princeton University, like en-
cago University, Cornell University
and many another university, is de
..na.la,,+ fa, sapnarf upon the GIT