Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-21
WILSON DECLARES HIS
AMBITION To WIPE
.OUT CLASS FEELING
Nations Chief Addresses DEL
egation From American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor Which
CongratuIateS Him
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-President
Wilson told delegation from the Amer
lean Federation of Labor late today
that all class feeling in America should
be wiped out by the establishment of
Justice with a heart in it," He de-
clared that no one who fails to work
for this end is qualified to call himself
true American.
The delegation comprised the mem
bership of the federations annual con-
vention which has been meeting in Bal
timore. The delegates came to WASH
ington on special cars and marched to
the White House headed by band to
congratulate the president on his re-
election. Samuel Gompers, president of
the federation, acted as their spokes-
man, declaring laboring people had
come to recognize that Mr.. Wilson
stands for justice, freedom and right
eousness. 1--WE have taken joy in UP.
holding your hands in your great work."
said Mr.. Gompers.
L need not say that, coming to me as
you do on such an errand, L am very
deeply gratified and very greatly
cheered," said the president in reply
1T would be impossible for me off-hand
TO say just what thoughts are stirred in
me by what Mr.. Gompers has said to
me as your spokesman. What l have
tried to do as to get rid of any class
division in this country, not only, but
of any class consciousness and feeling.
SEEKS UNITY OF SPIRIT.
1.-The worst thing that could happen
to America would be that she should be
divided into groups and camps in which
there were men and women who thought
they were at odds with one another,
that the spirit of America was not eX-
pressed except in them, and that posi-
bilities of antagonism were the only
things that we had to look forward to.
"As Mr.. Gompers said. achievement is
a comparatively small matter, but the
spirit in which things are done is of the
essence of the whole thing, and what
am striving for, and what / hope you
are striving for, is to blot out all the
lines of division in America and create
unity of spirit and of purpose found
ed upon this, the consciousness that we
are all men and women of the same
sort and that If we do not understand
each other, we are not true Americans.
f we cannot enter into each others es-
sential welfare, then we have not yet
qualified as representatives of the
American spirit.
WOULD CLOSE RIFFS.
Nothing alarms America so much
as riffs, divisions, the drifting apart
of elements among her people, and the
thing we ought all to strive for is
to close up every rift, and the only way
to do It, so far as / can see, Is to es-
tablish justice not only, but justice with
a heart in 1t, Justice with pulse In it,
Justice with sympathy In it. Justice can
be cold and forbidding or 1t can be warm
and welcome, and the latter is the only
kind of justice that Americans ought to
desire. l do not believe L am deceiving
myself when L say that L think this
spirit is growing in America. 1 pray
| God it may continue to grow, and all
have to say is to exhort every one
whom my voice reaches here or else
where to come into this common move
ment of humanity"
In addressing Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Comp
ers said the delegates had decided with
out any Encouragement to come and
| congratulate the president.
eve hope that your next four years
in the White House." he continued, will
be filled with the meat of achievement
for the good of humanity"
After the speeches, all the delegates
shook hands with the president.
'Look out for my boys" said Moth
err Jones, as she greeted Mr.. Wilson.