New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

1 the BODY polite and social, and that
/ rather than see such "A stoppase' INC
government would itself run the trains
II necessary until such time as the
commission could report.
AT the Peoples Forum on repruary
%. 1905. President Wilson said: LABOR
unions drag the highest man TO inc
: level of the lowest In an address a.
8 dinner in the Wsldorf-Astoria on
March IS, 1907. speaking OF the cap
talists, he said: There IS anotner
equally formidable enemy TO equaHui
and betterment Of opportunity, anu
that is the class formed by tne iaoor
organizations and leaders OF this coun-
trV' In letter written January l.,
1909. he said: Il am fierce partisan
of the omen shop. In June OF the
same wear. speaking a. Princeton, ne
said: THE usual standard Of the en-
ploye in our day is 10 give a. iittle "a
he may for his wages.
Needs of Labor Shown.
"Iabor is standardized by the trades
unions. and this is the standard TO
which il is made to conform. need
not point out how economically disas-
-rous such "a regulation OF labor Is
The labor OF America Is rapidly becom-
inc improbable under THIS regulation.
Our economic supremacy may De lost
because the country grows more ana
more full OF improbable servants. /
have no question that when Mr.. VII
son thus smoke he expressed his SIN
cere convictions. Less than two years
later he was in public life. and imme-
diately his attitude changed. There Is
no reason to believe that his convlc-
tious changed.
I'VE Of the United States invite dis.
aster. We sacrifice every principle oil
manhood, II we raise breed OF men
in this country VINO determine vital
issues in such fashion.
If our people follow the President
who has kept them in the easy pain
of temporary comfort and material
case al the sacrifice Of national honor
and of true Americanism, and OF the
immutable principles of Righteousness
then AS a people we shall lose all
moral greatness in the present, and
most assurcdly We shall see this loss
followed by the loss of material great
ness in the future. q,
For Justice in dealing with capital
and labor President Wilson has sub
stituted the policy Of craven surrender
20 whichever side has the superiority
in brute force. Once more IN our IN
ternal affairs, a. in our external al
fairs. he has stood for peace at any
price. He refuses 10 look ahead. He
shows not one shred of that stern and
unyielding courage which enables a
leader TO face temporary risk, discom-
fort and hardship for the sake of a
lofty ideal and a splendid ultimate tri-
umph. He was cowed by the big labor
leaders exactly as he had already been
cowed by Germany and Mexico. He
himself acknowledged the evil Of the
situation when he said 1t must never
be allowed again President Wilson
was the guardian Of the public veal.
He betrayed the public veal.
~ appeal to ny fellow citizens that
they shall elect Mr.. Hughes and re-
pudiate Nj Wilson, because only by
so doing can they save America from
that faint of gross selfshness and cow
ardice which we owe to Mr.. Wilson's
substitution OF adroit elocution for
straightforward action. Mr.. Hughes
embodies the ideal Of -ervice rendered
through conscientious effort in the face
Of danger and difficulty"