The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-10-05
Wilson and
Pfs' The Labor Unions

non especially college profess
Most iI teachers general y, who write
~ anu anu freely and without hope or in
ID tan af hecoming active in party poll
| pnton ~ ant TO say things, or put words
| a,s are T.bich rise to haunt them if fate
0 paper that they shall become prom
iststt IN rational affairs.
ren u ,ss been true in the case of
THIS woodrow Wilson, one time Presi-
pocIoL PRINCETON University, and now
den, 3 len OF the United States;
Ff g5sa Mr.. Wilson was college pro-
N'FN and later as a college president,
tessol3 'of hesitate to speak his mind
! be l'' ,r =" ali subjects, and it may be said
frsets tainr so he left no room for doubt
tba' * ,'Esf he meant. There are few
q: ~ ar speakers in America who
Tryt'S ,Ier than DIR. Wilson the weight
grew a. ~. force of good old English words,
81. u.,t his pen he ornaments any theme
81, l..0 NJ. attempts to discuss.
aFll. ,ss massage of the Adamson bill
s.-+. viI! no doubt be made by the
'1o'',.r Of the Democratic campaign
nsunz the statement that Mr.. Wilson
70 'P .ta1rsh friend OF the workingmen
a~t this has always been true of
By Here. however, and unfortunately
1H wilson, The record rises to haunt
bt- u. Mr.. Wilson made the bacca-
...... dress before the graduating
Ia'. qlceton University. Then, as
-'1- .4 u4s a master OF words, and
.'. t.-.. were not great reasons of
hn should make any efforts
...,.g-. e. shade his meaning l. order
H...... he exact convictions which he
....... ry 10 the minds of the young
audience, young men who
-...- forth into the great worlds
... - and whom Doctor Wilson
wisely just as they were
'. . shold OF their life's work.
Il ~ lsN then said:
.E.. s.pW what the usual stand
.r.. empioye is in our day. 1t
...... .- little as he may for his
. I,s10r IS standardized by the
rus. and this is the stand
.-. -.uUrh it is made to conform.
uttered to do more than
"
nsudicrafts no one is suf-
.-.. . u more than the least skill
rs fellows can do within the
Gifted to days labor, and no
-..... work out of hours at all or
..r any thing beyond the mini
d not point out how economi-
~. astr0us such regulation of
lf. Ii is SO Improbable to the
.rf..sr nat in some trades it will
.r.-su.g not be worth his while to
so.r.i anything at all. He had
s..-, top altogether than operate
star usvitabe and invariable loss.
abo of America is rapidly
t,c1r44 Improbable under its pres
.-t segaatlon by those who have de-
r-.Hn-4 IT, reduce it to minimum.
.-r economic supremacy may be
o~,l cause the country grows more
sr more full of Improbable ser
sagts
Doctor Wilson was of course too gen
ri m MS condemnation of the labor
lHars Naturally, to use the Doctors
..-r.. here are Improbable servants"
b H- sbor unions, just as there are
s.r4 r.-p in all the walks of life whose
.7rGet is below the standards fixed by
.oc ry, but no blanket indictment
Hu4 be brought against any class on
t.t account.
i Doctor Wilson was correct in his
rtg vi few years ago, and has not
r7- z mental sOmersault which would
-s-av elrcus performer to grow green
utt envy, some of his campaign orators
IL eonaally invited TO explain just what
rt mental attitude is today toward
8Cv lnJns and Workingmen,