Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-10-26

vent mis- hostility TO national woman suf-
frag" being revealed TO the people Of
Chicago
Negro walters employed AT the Press
club utilized the presence Of President
Wilson at lunch there to gain for them
selves n raise in wages. without invcs-
tiFaton and without compromise. Just
before the President was due to arrive,
20 special walters, who were to serve the
luncheon. put on their coats preparatory
90 walking out They had not asked for
moro ray, but when stopped by tho stew
ard told him they had decided they must
have a 50 per cent increase on the con-
I'tract Price before they would begin their
duties. The advantage was theirs and
the Increase was granted.
! Mrs Wilson accompanied the President.
Dressed in black and wearing a large
bouquet oc orchids and violets. she drew
almost az much applause as the Pres-
dent.
Between his speech to the women and
his night address. the President went
to the western democratic campaign
I headquarters and for the first time wit
messed the details OF tho machinery used
in an effort to re-clect him. Afterwards
I the President had n brief conference
with Senator Walsh. chairman of the
/ hcarquarttrs, and was told that "a de-
cided swing had set in in the West for
! the democratic ticket"
! At the meeting of women the president
was introduced 10y Mrs Ella Flag
/ Young, former superintendent of Chi
/ COS schools. who declared he had kept
/ tho United States honorably at peace.
| Miss Jane Adams who recently came
| out for him, occupied a seat in box.
/ The President defined his message to
/ the women as follows
Society is now organizing its whole
/ power in order that it may understand
itself. in order that it may have new
| organization and instrument of civiliza-
! ton. and ! am ambitious that America
should show the way in this great enter
/ prise
He did not touch on votes for women
Politics ought to eXempify the get
together spirit, he said,
II have said before and I say again
that one of the things that most deeply dis
tressed me in the recent conference OF
the heads of the railways and their en-
| ploycs was to find that there was a pro-
found mutual misunderstanding, distrus'
and hostility
at ought not TO be so. Something is
wrong when the men who are working to
I Cether at the same thing do not trust one
another and that wrong thing rests, am
, profoundly convinced, upon ignorance
Politics, my friends, consists OF soms
: thing that You can almost express in tn,
formula 'Get-together.' Try to unde:-
stand what the common task is, and al
Il take part in it in the same spirit, because
rpoitiCs is nothing but a systematic at
tempt to keep the law adjusted to the rc;u
facts. keep the law behind the real hand
some, helpful, constructive forces OF so
ciety. and YOU cannot do that unless YOU
understand society. You cannot under
stand society unless you understand thC
component larts SO that after all the fo:'
muia Fct-toGether' lies at tho base of il
all, and the first step is for the elements
Of society to understand one another
."lf You are wrong you viii get it KNOCK
cd out of you and if you are right YOU Wi
help knock it out OF other people.
"What difference does it make that 70.
think as Il republican If it is wrong? VIVA
difference does it make that you think
thing as democrat If 1t is not true
Your being a republican or democrat does
not make it true. And what differonc,
J does party make, or a partY's intere Z
make as compared with the interests o
the nation itself?