Milford chronicle., 1912-11-01
FOR CHINESE
IMMIGRATION
What Woodrow Wilson Wrote
in His WeII-knOwn History"
PREFERRED IT TO EUROPEAN
more to Be Desired as Workmen, If
Not as Citizens, Than Most Of the
Coarse Crew That Came cr0wdins
Every Year at Eastern P9rts'

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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 az 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 212, volume 3, Now
there came multitude of men of the
lowest class from the south of Italy
and men Of meaner sort out of Kun
gary and Poland, as if the countries
Of the south of Europe were dis
Ourdenine themselves of the more sor-
did and hapless elements Of their pop
ulation"
From page 2lS, volume ): 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. |
It was their skill, their intelligence, |
their knack of succeeding and driving |
duler 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 workingmen 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
ana might make etter citizens than
700 are. and that you are tolerated be-
cause you usurp no 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
Wilson's History of the American PeO-
PIE" 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
population Of $4,000 900 ia
jhina many millions would like TO
,ome to America. If admitted they .
ould soon drive American labor our
II the mills and workshops and also
lut OF retail and much of the whole
ale business. At present Wilson is
.eeping very mum on the subject, but /
here can be no doubt whatever that I
e would, if elected president, attemp5 5
0 carry out his published views. ani q
pen the door to the Chinese In this
e would have the backing of the .
outhern Democrats, who would be q
lad to nave the Chinese come over I
nd work for them in place of the !
egroes. !
In this connection we suggest par
cular attention TO Woodrow Wilson's G
lpressiOn about the unlikely fellows" d
'om southern and eastern Europe be -
lg tolerated because they usurped I
0 place but the very lowest in the
Gale of labor.
The Republican party, whose FIRST
resident was Lincoln tho rail splitter,
hose second president was Johnson -
le tailor, whose third president was
rant the tanner whose fifth presi- -
ant was Garfield the towpath mule
-ver whose eighth president was ~
cKinley, in his youth an iron found. pc
, regards and treats all honest labor sal
! honorable and as not merely to be
olerated." but honored.
Wilson's slur upon the labor of the
reign born finds no echo in the ut
RANGES 0f President Taft who, re- e.
rning from a visit to the west, in the
urse Of which he addressed large We
therings of our adopted countrynien.
clared thar nothing had gratifed N
N so much as the intelligent inter
shown by his hearers in American -
stitutions and their earnest desire to r
derstand the spirit and meaning o.
c constitution of the United States.