The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-10-19
Asserts the Democratic Party
and Its Candidate Are Seek
ing a Vote TO Power by
Disingenuous and
Unsound Pleas.
LEFT CLEAN SLATE FOR
WRITING MEXICAN POLICY
Former President Declare That the
Passage Under Dvrsss OF tho Adam.
son Bill Was One OF the Greatest
National Humilistions 10 Which Our
Country Has Ever Been Subjected.

Declar ring that the campaign OF 1915
Is as important as the campaign oil
1896 and resembles that campaign In
that the Democratic party and its can
didate are seeking vote OF power fol-
dlsingenuous. unsound but alluring rea
sons William II. Taft. former President
OF the United States. delivered the
opening address Of the New Jersey Re.
publican state campaign at Trenton.
Mr.. Taft said, In part
The great public advantage In or.
ganiza ton and combination OF cap
ltal and OF wHge-earners we all recog.
nize The power they acquire may,
however, become SO great as TO tempt
to serious abuse and public injury,
and they have done so Hence, we
have had the antitrust law and the
Interstate commerce law. directed
chiefly against combinations OF cap
| ital but effecting In some measure
combinations Of labor. Labor leaders
have sought exemption from such laws
as a privileged class. and In some cases
they have been successful While Mr.
Wilson In one Of his memorandums at
tached to an appropriation bill avowed
! his opposition TO such class legislation
he united with the Democratic Con.
gress In passing, at the demand Of the
unions. the Clayton Act, which. the la.
Dor leaders claim. takes unions out OF
the limitations Of the Trust Act
Unwise subserviency to the demands
OF leaders of organized labor finds its
browning instance, however, In Mr.
Wilson's dealing with the threatened
strike Of the Railway Orders of con.
ductors, engineers. trainmen and switch
men. The orders claim to control 400.
600 men, who run the freight and pas.
senger trains Of the country. which
constitute the arterial circulation of
commerce, and are necessary not only
10 the business but to the health and
lie of the people. Were these men
able TO tie up the railways Of the
country, as they said they could and
would. 1t would mean enormous loss
In business. and great deprivation and
suffering to the public. 1t would mean
that many millions Of other workmen
would be thrown out of employment,
and lose the high wages they are now
receiving, because without commerce
local industries cannot proceed The
Railway unions said TO the railway
president: I'VE wish an elght-hour day
with ten hours pay, and If we work
more than eight hours, we demand 80 |
rtr cent, more an hour for the extra |
hours. II you do not give us this, we |
will not only inJure you. but We will |
bring disaster 10 the country" The |
railway managers refused the demand |
but offered 10 submit 1t to arbitration |
They said IL would increase their cost
of operation SC0000,000. and that this |
of the railway stockholders, by re.
duction Of profits, or out of the ship.
ping public by an increase of rates.
The labor leaders said they had had
arbitration In the past and that Ii was
not satisfactory, tina now unless their
demands were fully granted, no power
under heaven could prevent the strike
with It's disastrous consequences. Tn
der the duress of the threat, the Presi
dent Of the United States and Con.
gress Of the United States suecumbed J
II was one of the greatest national hu.
Lliliations to which the people OF this
country have ever been subjected Ii
struck most hlow at the principle OF
arbitration for the settlement OF in.
dustrlal disputes.
Mr.. Wilson as a publicist attacked
the enactment Of n federal child labor
law as an absurd extravaganza, and o
departure from constitutional limita
tons. and now within the last sixty
days he has personally visited Con
gress to urge the adoption OF exactly
such a measure
For the purpose OF evading RESPONSE
hillty for present conditions. it Is ad
yanced In behalf OF Mr. Wilson and
the Democratic Administration thai
the conditions In Mexico were an In
herltance from the last Administration
The last Administration did nothing
10 compicate Mr.. Wilson's problems
Huerta had been twelve days In pow.
er when Mr.. Wilson came in Up tc
that time nothing had been done com
hitting the government TO one policy
pr another Had the Republican Ad
been continued. Huerta
would haye been recognized. but with
Dnly twelve days before the coming
n Of a new Administration IL would
have been entirely improper and In
for the outgoing Admins !
ration TO commit the incoming 10 any {
policy on the subject Mr. Wilson car !
lot shift the blame for his blunder q
n Mexico He bad a clean slate upor !
which TO write hen be came In I