Arizona republican., 1916-07-05
UP OUR
FIGHTING BLOOD
IS WRONG WAY
[Republican A. P. Leas-a Wirel

IReDuDliCdn y. r. Lease Wtret
WASHINGTON, July 4-President |
Wilson today dedicated ITO common
counsel and a common understand !
ing a labor temple erected here. as
the new home of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. He told a large |
audience gathered at the dedication |
exercises that the greatest barrier
to industrial peace had been the diff
ficulty of insuring candid and dispas-
sionate conference. and that getting
our fighting blood up" was "the
long way and not the short way" of |
securing rights.
The presidents address was inter-
rupted twice by ID woman suffragist |
who sought to hecle him regarding |
his opposition to a national suffrage |
amendment. She was silenced by
secret service men and finally taken |
away by the police. The Congress |
sional Union announced tonight that
, the effort was but the first step in
a new campaign to impress demo-
cratic leaders with the ACCESSIBILITY of
passing the amendment at this SEES
! sion of congress.
Mr.. Wilson's plea for calm counsel
| brought repeated applause from the
crowd who apparently interpreted it as
having an indirect bearing on the
| Mexican crisis. The president, how
ever did not refer to Mexico or to
any other foreign country, by name.
The way we generally strive for
rights" he said, lis by getting our
fighting blood up, and / venture to
say that it is the long way and not
the short way. If you come at me
with your fists doubled l think
| can promise you that mine will
double as fast as yours; but if you
come at me and say let us sit down
and take counsel together, and if we
differ with one another, understand
why it is that we differ, just what
points are at issue, we presently will
find that we are not so far apart as
all that the points in which we diff
fer are few and the points on which
We agree are many. and that if we
only have the patience and the can
dor and the desire to get together
We will get together"
The president scarcely had begun
to speak when the first interruption
came. The questioner. Miss Mabel
Vernon, of the woman's party, was
standing only few feet from him
and when he declared that in his po-
sitiOn he was not permitted to think
Of one class of persons, she shouted,
If you truly desire to serve all
classes. why do you block the nation
al suffragist amendment now before
YOU" The White House secret ser
vice men made their way to Miss
, Vernon and quickly silenced her She
tried unsuccessfully to induce them
to eject her from the crowd. When
she again sought to interrupt the
president a few minutes later. how
, ever, city police led her away from
the speakers stand. She was not ar
rested.
The president APPARENTLY was I'M
!, disturbed by the incident. He paused
upon the first question and turned
, TO look at Miss Vernon, who stood
with Miss Alice Paul and Miss Maud
Younger, members of the Congress
sional union but he paid no heed to
the second interruption
Nothing that the president said
aroused such enthusiasm as his praise
of that section of the Clayton act,
declaring that labor is not COM
modify.
Il am sorry he said that there
were any judges in the United States
who had TO be told that 1t is so OBJ
Nious that it seems to me that that
section of the Clayton act, were a
/ return to the primer of human lib
I erty; but if judges have to have the
: primer opened by them, | am willing
& to open it,"
!, Referring to the display Of Ameri-
can flags carried by the union work
ers in a parade which he had re-
viewed as part of the exercises. the
: president declared the flag always
should recall Americas duty in serv-
ing the world.
America" he said, did not come
: | into existence to make one more
great nation in the family of nations
to show it's strength and to air mas
terry America opened her doors to
everybody who wanted to be free
and to have the same opportunity
that everybody else had, to make the
most of his faculties and his oppor-
tunities, and America will retain its
greatness only so long as it retains
and seeks to realize those ideals. Nc
man ought to suffer injustice in
America. No man ought. in America
S to fail to see the deep dictate OF
e humanity"
d Mrs. Wilson, vice president Mar
n shall and several members of the
cabinet attended the exercises. Sec.