The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-10-14
AMOS PINCHOT
Close Friend of Roosevelt Saws Wall
Street Has Marked Wilson For
Slaughter.

New York, n. Y.--Replying to a re-
quest IRON representatives of the labor
press for statement of his views on the
issue OF the campaign, Amos Pinchot,
formerly one of the closest friends and
enthusiastic supporters of Colonel
Roosevelt, today issued the following
statement:
wall street and Fifth avenue have
marked Woodrow Wilson for slaughter.
Whether he gets slaughtered or not is
fortunately question for the public to
decide
in New York, my State, the Repub-
lican organization is owned, as it gen
orally has been, by highly respectable
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
Republican party, in the sense of a
group of people organized to carry out
definite principles-that is, unless pro-
tecting opportunities to make money at
the publics expense and politically kill
ing off anybody who gets in the way is
set of definite principles.
in this State alone, the bell-hops of
privilege, to whom Colonel Roosevelt
now adds himself as patriotic recruit
q ask his pardon for the lyphenated
word bell-hop), will probably spend
about two million dollars to beat Wilson.
If they succeed, they will call it cheap
at the price.
u am not Democrat nor a personal
friend of the President; but | am 60
ing to work and vote for him because,
as | look at it, he has been the attor-
ney for the average American citizen
in the struggle that everlastingly goes
on between him and the privileged
class, between the person who owns a
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 its
own candidate. 1t charges that the
President acted unpatriotically in pre-
venting the United States from estab-
fishing American rule in Mexico, From
Wall streets point of view, this is prob
ably perfectly sound argument, for
Wall street has about three hundred
million dollars more money invested i'll
Mexico than the Mexicans have. From
this it follows that we should intervene
or grab Mexico. There is no use ar
guing this proposition with Wall street
American investments would be safer if
the President 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 salvation bet
ter than Wall street will do it for them.
He has given that struggling neighbor
of ours chance to escape the absentee
landlordism of foreign wealth that has
brought its people to revolution and
starvation. AS western Congressman
wrote me, all the Mexicans need from
the United ,tates is little time and
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 settle the
submarine question. One was war, the
other was diplomatic negotiations Will
son chose the latter. By those despised
notes he avoided war, won a great
diplomatic victory and gave the United
States right to hold up her head and
say she was still civilized nation.
"Yes, but in all this, says Wall street,
he has been un-American. 1t was un-