The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
WOODROW WILSON
BY PHIL n. BROWN,
Assistant Director of Publicity, Re-
publican National Committee.

m0nC OF our people, anu IL is DG1nS re-
marked that the absence of erstwhile
prominent colored Democrats in the
activities Of the poor apologists is
positively painful. Of course, there is
always man for every job; men have
been found that are willing to scuttle
a ship or cut throat, but in this cam
paign it is hard to find colored men
who are willing to do for Woodrow
Wilson what he has not had the
effrontery to do for himself.
1t has been the boast of the present
occupant of the White House that he
thinks as Southerner and acts as
a Southerner, and he has lived up to
this principle too faithfully for the
colored voter.
When he was elected four years ago
it was hoped that he would take his
cue from Grover Cleveland, who gave
the Negroes a square deal, but the
President has disappointed the col
ored people just as he has disap-
pointed everybody else. Consequently
it can be predicted that every self
respecting colored man in the United
States will vote against him.
Of the vast horde of time servers
who are stumping the country asking
that the President be given four years
more of experiment in the intricate
problems of diplomacy and state
craft, not one will ask colOred man
to contribute his vote to the enter
prise. Not one of them has had the
nerve to make such request in the
face Of Wilson's declaration that
political question"
That segregation and peonage has
had a glorious inning under the Will
son administration no man, white or
black, will deny. The President has
done everything in his power to hui
initiate the colored citizens of the
country, and has succeeded far beyond
the most ghoulish dreams of Varda-
man and Tillman.
Discussions Of his attitude have
brought out his backhanded treat
ment Of the Negro in diplomacy. At
the outset much was expected from
him on account Of his supposed tenn
permanent and environment. He was
expected to be at least fair, but in
no case had he measured up true to
form. He stalked the Negro as the
hunter would an animal and sought
every opportunity to destroy his
rights This is true not only of the
colored citizens Of the country he
vowed to serve, but he visited his
venom upon those of other countries.
All Of the traditions and purposes
Of the civil service have been thrown
over the scrap heap in his zeal to
make places for deserving Demo
Gratis" as Secretary Bryan frankly
stated it. White Democrats were
found to fill every position Of honor
and trust that had for forty years
been given to the Negroes. White
men were sent to represent the gov
eminent even in the Negro republics,
and when Haiti and Santo Domingo
were seized by Wilson's marines the
first solicitude was to place a multi
tude Of deserving Democrats" on
the jobs in the custom houses of those
countries to loot the natives Of their
piitiable revenues.
Haiti Being Robbed.
During the week former consul
from Haiti to an American port, a
Mr.. Felipe, has been visiting in Chi
cago, and he submits grave indict-
oiVS o%r Of ~ fc.
cal affairs of his country by the Will
son appointees. The scandal that ac-
companied the recall of the Demo
cratic minister to the SantO Dom1n-
lean republic pales into insignifcance
by the story that Mr.. Felipe unfolds.
It will be remembered that Wilson,
smarU1ng under the ludicrous failure
of his watchful waiting policy for Mex
leo, tried to create a reputation for
leo, tried to create a reputation for
aggressiveness by rushing an armed
force to Haiti and Selling it's custom
houses. In Mexico the public debt,
even if there should be sufficient peace
to compute it, would appear to be a
fabulous amount. Wars have been pro-
longed in that country upon various
pretexts, to which Woodrow Wilson
has contributed no mean degree by
his vacillating policy. In Haiti the
public debt is less than $3O,OOO,OOO,
but the President deemed it neces-
sary to take over the revenues Of
that country with view to liquida-
ton.
The truth of the matter is that Will
son feared Mexico, and, like all other
DULLES who are at heart towards, he
fell upon the weak Negro republic to
make some display of policing the
continent.
With the advent in Haiti came his
inherent desire to provide places for
deserving Democrats" and the d.
rector Of the customs service appoint
ed by Wilson gets the handsome
stipend of $4,000 a year out of the
miserable funds Of that poor little
country Aside from this there is a
small army of carpetbaggers who re-
ceive such large salaries that it will
take a thousand years for Haiti to
pay her debts. Wilson employees are
paid out of the Golfers of Haiti before
anyone else is paid. No native re-
ceives as much as $500 a year.
What striking example of Wilson's
"New Freedom" when he unloads a
horde of personal partisans upon the
little Negro republic, which grafters
are sent there for the avowed purpose
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