The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
TRIBUTE IS PAID ID GOVERNOR WILSON Tells Men to Vote as They
 Believe TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES Says He Is Not on the Platform to Discuss the Candidates-The
 Need of Merchant
 Marine
TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES

Philadelphia October S.-After rising in prayer, tremendous crowd paid tribute to Gov. Woodrow Wilson in the Academy of Music here tonight. The meeting was arranged and held under the auspices of the League of Independent Republicans. Gilbert E. Roe, a former law partner, and brother-in-law of Senator LaFollette. and Rudolph Spreckles of California. or ganizer of the Wilson National Progress sive Republican league, preceded Govern or Wilson with speeches in his favor.
 "The only question before the country" said the governor, lis do you trust men who are now leading the democratic rarty? If you believe they are the ene- mics of legitimate business. don't vote for them If you believe they are wiid- eyed reformers. who don't know the course of change in this country, Jon | vote for them If you believe they are inexperienced tyros who don't know right from wrong, don't vote for them But vote as you believe. and as you trust. And if you see any one promise the things which you think can be done. vote that way. l am not here as partisan. Ii there is somebody else who can and will do the job"
 Cries of Wilson, Wilson," interrupt sd tke governors speech and when the dem onstraton subsided a man called ou.. How about Roosevet?''
 To Discuss the Issues
 'I have denied myself the pleasure of discussing MT. Roosevelt this week, :" answered the governor. "I am on the platform in this closing week of the cam paign in all soberness to discuss the issues and not the persons
 Once during the governors speech somebody asked: How about the ref erendum?' and the governor promptly replied:
 Pennsylvania should take care of that; it Is not a national question. but let me tell the gentleman, who mentioned 1t, that there have been times at Harrisburg when no legislature was so sorely in need of having it's act referred to the people, as that at the capital of Pennsylvania.
 An outburst of cheers greeted this re- mark.
 The governor declared that without merchant marine other ma ations would ben eft more by the opening of the Panama canal than the United States. The nomi- nee again advocated a regulation of competition and the removal of favors which he said were bestowed by the pro- tective tariff.
 Governor Wilson addressed big over flow meeting outside the Academy of Music and then motored to convention hall in North Philadelphia where q big democratic rally brought out a great crowd that cheered the governor en- thusiastcally. The nominee argued in his speech that the wages of the country were not dependent upon the tariff
 There is only one way for a panic to occur in the United States he said, and that Is by a small number of men who control industry deliberately creating one. We know the list of those men and we know who will be responsible. The demo- crats do not want free trade. The only thing the democrats are out to bag is those special private interests which lie hidden in the protective system and which the general body of American working men are not permitted to share. America pays higher wages than free-trade Eng land; England pays just as much higher wages than Germany. which is protected. Now, what has protection got to do with wages? l suspect that something else be- sides the protective tariff determines the rate of wages. America has been p;vDng higher wages than the rest of the NSeld ever since she was separated from Eng land and the American working man could earn more wages in proportion as he was skillful The cost of labor Is determination of the skill and capacity of the country and not of it's economic dis advantages"
 Corporations Keep Wages Down
 The governor declared that corporations such as the United States Steel corpora ton has been the chief enemies of or ganized labor in keeping wages down.
 T don't want to use my mind to govern yours" added the governor. q want to use my mind to save yours. Throughout this campaign, I have insisted that there is no personal question involved. It is not corporation of persons. hut of pur- poses, of conceptions and of programme"
 The nominee said obstacles to freedom of enterprise and the destruction Of mo nopoly, could be removed ''by directing the criminal statutes of the federal law as ainst those who held private monopoly
 q heard the other day said the goy- ernor. that some prominent business men did not like this idea of putting of lenders in jail. Do these gentlemen think that am desirous of putting everybody In jailg Selected specimens will do. Any body can keep out of jail who knows what the law is.'
 The governor spent the night here. To- morrow he will go to Trenton for state .l< KY '