United labor bulletin., 1912-10-03
ADV TISE Mt
WILSON'S BAD RECORD

country as an active candidate for the
presidency of the country for months.
He has addressed numerous meetings
and written columns of opinions" on
various questions. He has artfully ap-
| pealed for the support of labor but never
| once has he ventured to explain why he
] has placed on record the most villifying
and false charges against organized la
Dor that has ever been placed on the an
nails before the nation.
Never once has he explained his posi-
tion on injunctions or any of the import
ant questions that affect labor. He has
said that the Democratic platform is
only a program or in other words that
it is not binding.
1t is the aim of those who are in true
sympathy with labor and its rights, the
justice of its aims, the reasonableness of
its policies and fairness of its methods
to insist that the public be kept apprised
of the ISLANDERS uttered against organized
labor by DR.. Wilson at time when he
had no thought of contesting for the
presidency of the country
The cry has even come from far off
Nebraska. Everyone in the labor move
ment knows 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
20, 1910, he writes editorially in his pa
per as follows:
"Bury This Man.
Woodrow Wilson has been nominated
by the Democrats for governor of New
Jersey.
IF this man Wilson is not buried be-
meath an avalanche of workingmen's
votes it will be because the workingmen
of New Jersey are false to themselves.
woodrow Wilson, president of Prince
ton University, is sample of what some
people are pleased to call the scholar in
politics. He isn't in politics. He has
merely been put up as a fgurehead by
the discredited Democracy of New Jer-
sey in the hope that his personality will
deceive the people into supporting it. 1t
may deceive some, but if it deceives any
voting members of organized labor it will
be those who are either too ignorant or
too lazy to read.
President Wilson is a scholar-no dis
counting that fact He has book le,.rti-
ing galore. He also possesses a gosd
reputation for honesty and probity. But
his education is that of the bookworm
and his honesty is of that kind warped
out of shape by ignorance of worldwide
conditions.
Does President Woodrow Wilson de-
serve the vote of any intelligent organ
lied labor man?
Speaking at New Rochelle N " on
February 25, 1905, he said:
The labor unions reward the shift
less and incompetent at the expense 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 it is unworthy the
votes of intelligent and unprejudiced
men.
Again, in his baccalaureate sermon
at Princeton on June Is, 1909, President
Wilson said:
You know what the usual standard
of the employe is in our day. 1t is to
give as little as he may for his wages |
Labor is standardized by the trade
unions, and this is the standard to which
it must conform.
Once more the utterance of a man
who is either too ignorant of facts to
speak thereon, or too subservient to sell |
fish interests to be put in the place OF |
authority in civic life.
Princeton University, like Chicago |
University. Cornell University, and many
another university, is dependent for sup
port upon the gifts of the ultra rich /
whose gifts carry with them the admoni- 1
ton not to teach anything that is cal
culated to arouse the people to a sense
OF the wrongs inflicted upon them by the |
special interests. The trail of this ser
pent is over them all-and the serpent is
trying to crawl over even our state uni
versities.s
Let the bedraggled and discredited |
Democracy of New Jersey play for pop
ular favor if it will by trying to thrust
scholars in politics upon the working |
people, but let the workers who keep the
wheels going and hold in check to some
degree the greed of their oppressors-let |
such work from now till the closing OF |
the polls on election day to make of this |
arch-enemy of trades unionism and this |
willing mouthpiece of vested rights the |
worst defeated man that ever aspired |
to the governorship of a great state"
Candidate Wilson has resolved to deal |
with nothing but the tariff question. In |
his efforts in this respect he has so far |
completely ignored the Democratic party !
platform. But DR.. Wilson, on the tariff |
question, just as he does on all others, |
insists on lodging the real issue He |
will not face the facts of free trade as |
they have applied to the industrial con- |
ditions of this country. He absolutely !
shuts his eyes to the disaster that the |
Democratic policy of free trade, or re-
ducing tariff. brought about in this coun-
try by the Wilson bill. DR.. Wilson wants |
to follow in the footsteps of his name
sake.
We can Judge this Wilson only by !
what the other Wilson did. inasmuch as |
their opposition to protection is identical |
and their methods of handling the tariff |
question the same.