New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-24
President, in His First
Campaign Speech,
Explains Passage
HOLDS PRINCIPLE
ISN'T ARBITRABLE
Refused to Let the Roads
Force Rate Raise
Concession.

lbrOir a SIAN correspondent OF Inc AE4LNi.'.4
Long Branch, y. j., Sept. 23.-ln the
first speech of his campaign for re-
election President Wilson to-day de-
Tended the eight-hour law. He de-
clared it had been passed by Congress
mot because the men demanded 1t, but
because it was right" and he chal-
lenged the assertions that the subject
should have been investigated before
the law was enacted. He denied he had
abandoned arbitration, declaring he did
not "regard the question OF the prin-
ciple of the eight-hour day as srbi-
trable.'
Labor is not a commodity the
President declared, leaning forward
over the porch railing at Shadow Lawn
and pounding it for emphasis, ut is
form of cooperation. II | can make
man believe in me, know that | am just,
/ can get ten times as much out of him
than If ne were an antagonist. II he Is
a mere tool of has employer he is only
as serviceable as a tool. Human re-
lationships are governed by the heart,
and if the heart is not in 1t, nothing is
in it,"
The nation is never going to say to
an individual, the President declared,
that he must work, whether he was
willing or not, but it did have the right
TO say to an organization of persons,
you must not interrupt the national
life without consulting US"
In many quarters this was taken as
prediction by the President of the
adoption of the Canadian scheme Of
compulsory investigation.
Small Crowd Hears Him.
Between LOO and 1000 persons
gathered at Shadow Lawn to hear the
Presidents words. His speech was
mainly extemporaneous and was de-
liyered to the Wilson League Of Busi-
ness Men, who made up only a small
fraction of the audience. The rest
consisted for the most part of summer
residents. among whom women predom-
mated. On the porch as the President
talked, were gathered a small group Of
politicians, including Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson. Attorney General Greg
ory. Colonel Z. W. House. Henry Nor
gcrthau. Jacob II. Schif and several
Democratic candidates for New Jersey
Offices.
President Wilson'S speech in part
follows:
There is sense in which the busi-
ness mon of America represent Amer
ica because America has devoted her
seq. time out OF mind, TO the arts and
achievements Of peace, and business is
the organization of the energies OF
peace.
The problems that are before Ameri-
can business are world problems rather
than American domestic problems.
Some men seem 10 think that the way
to advance American business is TO
walk backward and to attempt again
the provincial policies which have char
acterized an age when We shut our
doors against the influences of the
world But the chief cloud that is upon
the domestic horizon is the unsatisfac
tory relations of capital and labor.
Too Much Lawyer.
"You know that we have been legal
istic people. ! say with all due respect
TO some men for whom | have high
esteem that we have been too much un-
der the guidance OF the lawyers, and
that the lawyer has always regarded
the relations between the employer and
the employe as merely a contractual
relationship, whereas, it is. while based
upon contract, very much more than
contractual relationship.
81 have recently been through an ex
perience which distressed me. | tried
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