Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02

Let us briefly refer 10 Professor
Wilson's opinion of workingmen ana
his attitude toward labor unions. as
publicly expressed at time when
he was not seeking their votes to
helm elect him to the highest office
in the land, but at time when he
expressed his candid opinion as 10
what he thought of the workingman
and labor organizations.
February, 1905, at the People S
Forum in New Rochelle, n. y, Pro-
fessor Wilson said:
Labor unions reward the SHIFT
less and incompetent at the expense
of the able and Industrious. "
"The objection l have to labor
unions is that they drag the highest
man to the level of the lowest. l
must demur with the labor unions
when they say, You must award the
dull the same as you award those
with special gifts. '"
The following is taken from Wood
row Wilson's History of the Ameri-
can People:
"The Chinese were more to be de-
sired as workingmen, If not as citi-
Zens, than most of the coarse crew
that came crowding in every year at
the eastern ports
"And now there came multitudes
of men of the lowest class from the
south of Italy and men of meaner
sort out of Hungary and Poland, men
out of the ranks where there was
neither skill nor energy nor any in
itiative or quick intelligence"
That is what Professor Wilson Of
yesterday thought Of the laboring
man of this country before he be-
came a politician
Again, we have the following re-
marks from Professor Wilson OF yes
terday taken from an address .deliy-
cred at the Waldorf Hotel, New
York, March IS, 1907:
1--WE speak too exclusively Of the
capitalistic class. There is another
as formidable an enemy to equality
and freedom of opportunity as it is,
and that is the class formed by the
labor organizations and leaders OF
the country"
MY friends, that is from the re-
marks of Professor Wilson of yester-
day, delivered before very fashion,
able audience at one of the most eX-
elusive hotels in this country, the
Waldorf Hotel. New York city. From
the remarks made, and the place OF
the address, it can be very readily
surmised that no laboring man was
in that audience. Professor Wilson
had no thought of the man who
earned his bread "by the sweat OF
his brow" he was then speaking to
tickle the ear of different class.
That there might be no doubt as
to Professor Wilson's attitude toward
labor. we will quote from another
address delivered by him on January
70, 1909, in reply to an invitation
for a public address on labor ques-
tions. He said:
Il am fierce partisan of the open
shop and of everything that makes
for individual liberty, and | should
like to contribute anything that
might be possible for me to con-
tribute to the Qualification of think
ing and the formation of the right
purposes in matters of this kind"
Again we have Professor Wilson of
yesterday speaking to the graduates
of Princeton University under date
of June 13, 1909, published in the
New York World democratic news
paper) on June IA, 1903. He makes
the following observations.
you know what the usual stand
ard of the employe is in our day. 1t
is to give as little as he may for his
wages. Labor is standardized by the
trades unions, and this is the stand
ard to which he is made to conform.
No one is suffered to do more than
the average workman can do
"In some trades and handicrafts
no one is suffered to do more than