The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-11
WALL STREET IS 'STONINC WILSON
 WITH HARD CASH
Amos PinchOt Calls Opponents of President "Bell Hops of
 Privilege"


 New York, Oct. 11-Replying to a request from representatives of the labor press for a statement of his views on the issue of the campaign, Amos Pinchot, formerly one of sthe closest friends and enthusiastic sup porters of Colonel Roosevelt, today is- sued the following statement: Wall street and Fifth avenue have marked Woodrow Wilson for slaugh- ter Whether he gets slaughtered or not is fortunately a question for the public to decide.
 "In New York, my State, the Re- publican organization is owned, as it generally has been, by highly respect able representatives of Wall street and Fifth Avenue. They hold the check books. and the machine does the rest. Today, there is no such thing in this State as a Republican party, in the lsense of a group of people organized to carry out definite principles-that is, unless protecting opportunities to make money at the public's expense and politically killing off anybody who gets in the way is, a set of defi- mite principles.
 "In this State alone, the bell-hopS of privilege,' to whom. Colonel Roose- welt now adds himself as patriotic recruit, q ask his pardon for the hy- phenated word bell-hop), will prob ably spend about two million dollars to beat Wilson. If they succeed. they will call it cheap at the price.
 "I am not a Democrat, nor @ per- sonal friend of the President; but I am going to work and vote for him, because, as I look at it, he has been the attorney for the average Ameri- can citizen in the struggle that ever lastingly goes on between him and the privileged class, between the person who earns dollar and the one who gets it.
 wall street is not only stoning Will son with money, it is shrewdly using an appeal to patriotism to get votes for it's own candidate. It charges tha- the President acted unpatriotically in preventing the United States from es- tablishing American rule in Mexico. From Wall streets point of view, this lis probably a perfectly sound argu- ment for Wall street has about three hundred million dollars more money invested in Mexico than the Mexicans have. From this it follows that we should intervene or grab Mexico. There is no use arguing this propnsi- tion with Wall street. American in vestments would be safer if the Presi- dent would send the army down there to look after them.
 '"The President. however, does not see it in that light. He takes the ground that the chances are that the Mexicans will work out their own sal- vation better than Wall street will do 1t for them. He has given that strug- gling neighbor of ours a chance to es- cape the absentee landlordism of for eign wealth that has brought it's peo- pie to revolution and starvation. As a western Congressman wrote me, all the Mexicans need from the United States is little time a little humanity. If Americans are to shoot .Mexicans at all it ought to be in the stomach with corn and beans.
 ''As to Germany, there were just two ways for the United States to set tie the submarine question. One was war, the other was diplomatic nego- tiations. Wilson chose the latter. By those despi1d l"notes' he avoided war, won agreat diplomatic victory anu gave the Ou1L0Q StdCeS q T1SnC to hold up her head and say that ohe was still a civilized nation.
 "Yes,. but in all this, says Wall Street, he has been un-American. It was un-American of him to bait the trusts, especially the Steel Corpora tion; un-American to stand for the Clayton bill; un-American to protect the rights of labor, and particularly un-American to put the peoples great est lawyer on the Supreme Court bench.
 There is something perfectly de- lightful about Wall street suddenly appearing as the protector of Ameri- canisnn. It ought to be set to tune and sung in music halls. Having a good deal of confidence in the sense of humor of the public, don't think it is necessary to point out the high lights of the situation I expect that on election day a majority of the farm CTS. wage earrfers. small business men and other ordinary, citizens. whom Wall street suddenly discovers as con- siderable in years divisible by four, will go to the polls with broad grin.' HluH0 AuRDA nu>-.