The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-10-10
THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE.
Ro0 M DH TUESDAY czoss1 MORNING TR ADVERTISERS
RODERlG ., MATHESOE EDITOR
Wilson's Labor Record

~ 5 was pointed out as a probability by The
= Advertiser some weeks agl the famous
Adamson Act which President Wilson rammed
down the throat OF congress at the dictation Of
the railroad brotherhoods is proving to be boom.
erang. The first idea following the passage oi
the bill was that the President had accomplished
tremendous political coup and had made his re-
election certain by gaining the labor vote. Now
II is generally known amongst labor circles that
the so-called Eight Hour Law is bit Of Dead
Sea fruit ,whie the motives that impeed presi-
dental support for it have united in opposition
to Mr.. Wilson those who are advocates of fair
play and opposed to unconsidered legislation.
The President was not always such lover Of
organized labor and trade unionsm as he attempt
ed to appear in the case OF the Adamson Act A
baccaaureate sermon, delivered by Prof. Woodrow
Wilson on June Is, 1902 three years before his
election has been dug up by the Wall Street Jour
nal and republished. In this sermon. the now
President said:
You know what the usual standard Of the employee
is in day. II is to give little he may for his
! wages Labor ii standardized by the trade union and
this the standard to which il is meant to conform
No IS suffered TO do than the average work"
do. In some trades and handicrafts one is
suffered do more than the least skfu Of his fellows
do within the hours allotted to day labor, and
work ont Of hours at all, or volunteer any.
thing beyond the minimum. I,...
/ need not point out how economically disastrous
such regulation of labor is, 1t is Improbable to
the employer that in some trades IL will presently
he worth his while to attempt anything at all. He had
better stop altogether than operate a an inevitable
and invarabe loss. The labor Of America is rapidly
becoming Improbable under its present regulation by
those who have determined reduce it to minimum.
Our economic supremacy may be lost because the eoun
try grows and full Of improbable servants
Amplifying these views, the Journal publishes
n Nv he
. about the time in reply to an invitation to
speak at banquet of anti-strike and anti-boycott
advocates. The letter is dated January II. 1909,
and the quoted part says:
am fierce partisan Of the open shop and of every.
thing that makes for individual liberty, and should
like contribute anything that it might be possible
for TO contribute to the Qualification Of thinking and
the formation of right purposes in matters OF this kind
At a dinner in the Waldorf Hotel on March lS.
1907, DR.. Woodrow Wilson spoke as follows:
We speak too exclusively Of the capitalistc class
= There Is another formidable enemy to equality
and freedom Of opportunity as it IT, and that is the
class feaed BY The labor organizations and leaders of'
These excerpts from utterances OF President
Wilson, says the, San Francisco Argonaut. in
comment, taken in Connection with his coursE
during the past month, mark the moral defciepty
of the man under pressure Of political ambition.
The contrast recalls persona1expefienee: Late
in the year 1911 the editor OF the Arg0naut visit
ing New York City, dined in company with a
group OF gentlemen representative of important
phases of the life of the country. Among them
was man OF great repute who at that time
though he later discovered his eEror--was giving
support to the pre-convention caFdidacy of Wood
row Wilson. II
This apology, for it was, nothing less was
not without obvious surprss- accepted at the mo-
ment illustrating the character of the man
When Mr.. Wilson's frend>had retired several re-
NAMED to further talk the>expressions of the
evening. One and all felt that IL attempting to
justify his friend the gentleman whose words are
above quoted had in reality damned him asa mora
and political chameleon, man who in>hls am,
btion for the privileges and distinctions ofNSfice
was willing to make unmanly concessions Verify
1--WE say it in Observation-Disclosures events have
justified this conclusion
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