Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
PRESIDENT ASSA|LS
c. D. P. LEADERSHIP
IN PERIOD OF CRISIS
Are Making Sport
of Unsettled Issues to Gain
a Partisan Advantage, VIII
son Says
by Associated Press.)

men ana charged lnaI pOlllcal capital
is being made out of unsettled questions
which. if not settled wisely, might
bring this country at any time into the
world conflict"
Predicting Democratic victory next
Tuesday, the president declared:
Having despaired of an issue, they
are filling the country with alarm: They
are not only filling the country with
alarms, but they are attempting coercion
of their laborers. They imagine that
these men are not their own masters and
dare not vote as they think, but at last,
thank God, the American laborer is
awake.
Let them fill the country with
alarms; the alarms are their own, not
ours. They used TO control the credit
OF the country; now they control nothing
but the betting
$50 my fellow citizens" he contin-
ued, Il feel rising in my pulses already
the inspiration and impulse which is to
come not only TO the United States, but
TO the world next Tuesday"
TARIFF q. o. p. ISSUE.
Mr.. Wilson asserted that the Repub-
lican party had fallen back on the pro-
tective tariff as its only issue.
They know perfectly WELL" he said,
that all the pretenses about the pro-
tective tariff have been torn away"
adding that the industries with the
highest protection have paid the lowest
wages.
The difference between the Republi-
can party and the Democratic party is
thisA'' ne continued, 'fthe Republican
party offers them masters; we offer them
comrades and leaders. The Republican
party offers to take care OF them, we Of
fer to go into the fifht shoulder to Shout
der with them to get the right which
no man has a right to give them"
The presidents address was delivered
before a large gathering which came
from Jersey City, Newark, Trenton,
Princeton and other towns and cities in
the state, including a delegation of
Princeton professors and students. Gov
ernor Fielder. of New Jersey, presided.
President Wilson began his speech by
deaOuncine what he termed this un-
blusning. this impudent attempt to re-
instate invisible government in New
Jersey.
But after all, my fellow citizens"
he declared, 'the thing that is being
attempted in New Jersey is only part
of what is being attempted in the
United States and being attempted in
the United States with more and more
transparency OF purpose. Look how the
campaign has gone! First of all. an at
tempt TO set up some kind of handsome
issue. Not a very interesting attempt,
because the issue was a new one every
week As soon az you approached what
was said TO be the issue it seemed to
fade and disappear and there was notn-
ing for YOU to grasp or grapple. And
after finding that the search for an is
sue was in vain they came down once
more TO the only thing they have in re-
cent years ever known how to talk
about, and that was the protec live
tariff
PRETENSES TORN AWAY.
They knew perfectly well that all
the pretenses about the protective tariff
have been torn away. They know that
the working men of this country may
have been deceived for a little while,
but they cannot be deceived all the time.
They know just as well as we know that
in which the highest protec-
tion was given paid the lowest wages
and they know that the highest ges
We're paid in the least protected indus
tries. This is a matter Of record. Not
only that, they know that in some of
the most highly protected industries
Che conditions under which the labor
ing people lived were a disgrace TO our
civilization. They know that the men
end women were ground as low as they
could be ground and that these gentle
men who profess American patriotic
feeling for the American laborer were
most eager TO import Iaborers from
abroad and employ those who. because
they did not know what America could
afford them, were willing to take what
they could get.
And now what do we witness? Hav-
ing despaired of an issue, they are fill
ing the country with alarms. They
are not only filling the country with
but they are attempting coer-
cion of their laborers. They imagine
that these men are not their own mas
ters and dare not vote as they think,
but at last. 1 thank God. the American
laborer is awake. He at last judges his
friends by what they do and not by
what they say. He knows that he has
found friends because he has found men
who will do the things that he has de-
manded should be done in justice and
equity to him.
Let them fill the air with alarms.
The alarms are their own, not ours.
They used to control the credit of tho
country: now they control nothing but
the betting So that l think as we look
back upon this campaign-for we are
now looking back upon II, and we hear
EOW nothing but cries or distress as
We look back upon tive can see a
very heartening and encouraging thing.
I'VE can see the American people at
last asserting themselves by rejecting
the old leadership under which they
were so long led astray and turning to
do things for themselves. The differ
ence between the Republican party and
the Democratic is; The Republican party
offers them masters; we offer them COM
rades and leaders. The Republican party
offers TO take care of them; we offer to
go into the fight. shoulder TO shoulder
with them. TO get the rights which no
man has any right TO give them. The
ranks are formed.
The discipline is self-discipline. No
man needs to guide them in their vot-
ing. They know what the Issues are
and in their minds eye they see those
little coteries that used to govern the
anairs OF th;s country and control the
treasury OF the United States sitting
in secret conference trying to deter
mine how, in the last days Of the cam
paign when no man will have an OPP
portunity to answer them, they may re-
peat the receptions by which they have
been controlling the votes Of American
citizens. You know that If you show
your hand too often you are not al
lowed to play IL at all That is the
position i'm which these gentlemen now
find themselves.