Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-07-14
WOMAN TRIES III
HECkLE WILSON
Suffragist Interrupts at Labor
Temple Dedication.
He WAS DISCUSSING LABOR
The President Causes Enthusiasm
When He Declares Labor is Not
Commodity.

When He Declares Labor is Not
Commodity.
President Wilson dedicated "to com
mon couase! and common under
standing" a labor temple erected IL
Washington as the new home OF the
American Federation OF Labor.
He told a large audience gathered al
the dedicatory exercises that the great
est barrier to industrial peace mac
been the difficulty OF insurins candle
and dispassionate conference, ana thai
getting our fighting blood up was
"the long way, and not the short way,
Of securing results.
The presidents address was inter
rupted twice by Miss Mabel Vernon
a suffragist, who sought to heckie him
regarding his opposition to natl ma.
suffrage amendment. She was Siienceo
by secret service men and finally TAX
en- away by the police. The Congress
sional Union announced that the effort
was but the first step III new cam
paign to impress the Democratic lead
ers with the advisability Of passing the
amendment at this session OF congress
Mr.. Wilson's plea fer calm counse.
brought repeated applause from the
crowd, which, apparently, interpreted
it as having an indirect bearing on t.e
Mexican crisis. The president, how
ever, did not refer to Mexico or any
other foreign country by name.
THE way we generally strive toi
rights" he said, is by getting oul
fighting blood up, and | venture to say
that it is the long way, and not the
short If you come at me with youl
fists doubled, l think I can promise
YOU that mine will double as fast as
yours; but If you come at me ano
say: Let us sit down and take coun
sci together and, if we differ with one
another, understand why it IS that we
differ, Just what the points at issue
are we presently viii find that we are
not 80 far apart al ter all, and that the
points II which VIC differ are few anc
the points on which we agree are
many, and that T. We only have the
patience auI Tic cardor AMI the desire
to get togctMer, We will get tCgether.'
The president scarcely hal begun tt
speak when the first interruption
came The Guestioner, Miss Vernon
of the Wcman's party, was stan@in
only a few feet from him, and wher
he declared that in his position he was
not permitted 10 think of any one clas:
OF persons, she shouted:
"If you truly desire to serve al
classes, why do you block the nationa
suffrage amendment now before con
gress? Four million women in this
country"
The White House secret service mer
made their way to Miss Vernon anG
quickly si.caced her. She tried un
successfully to induce them to eject
her from the crowd. When she agair
sought to interrupt the president, e
few minutes later, however, city police
led her away from the speakers stand
She was not arrested
HS DI II Hpi''LSA4SLs hftS bi''AS
turbed by the incident. He paused
upon the first question and turned tt|
look al Miss Vernon. who stood with
Miss Alice Paul and Miss Maude
Younger, members CT the Concression
al Union, but lie paid no heel to the
second interruption.
Nothing that the president sal
aroused such enthusiasm as his praise
Of that section of the Clayton act de
claring that labor is not commc dity
Il am sorry" he saii, that there
were any jndEes in the Uni.e.i States
WHO had to be toli that. It is SO OBJ
vinrs that Il seems to me that thai
section CT the Clayton act were re
tIrn t. Il primer Of human liberty;
bu, II julre} have to have the primer
opened before them, | am willing tc
crc2 it"
Referring to the disp'a: Of Ameri
can flags carried by the union workers
in parade which he had reviewed as
part CT The exercises, the president de
clarcd that the flag always should re
call Americas duty in serving the
world.