Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-05
Mr.. WILSON MAKES
COERSION CHARGE
IN CLOSING CAMPAIGN

IN CLOSING CAMPAIGN
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whole crowd as 1 know them? Because
their purpose Is to do exactly with the
government of New Jersey what they
used to do in the old days Of the high
est tide Of their power. when in private
conclave they used to do the things
that no man would care to do in public.
by it's legislature. not by its accredited
servants. but by men who contrive
things for their own interest without
taking the public into their confidence
at all-backstairs government.
the people of New Jersey are going
to be deceived by this thing. Deceived?
why should they be? There is no con-
ceaiment of the purpose. II any man
votes for the republican state candi-
dates in this contest he knows that he
is voting for the establishment of
invisible government in the state of
New Jersey. and he is betraying the
confidence which is reposed in every
man who goes to the ballot box to
exercise the great and solemn duty of
choosing public servants. cannot
speak with too much emphasis on this
subject, because l know what l am
talking about.
that are wrong. 1t is delightful to hit
something that is worth destroying.
The only thing that is disappointing
in. contests of this sort Is that these
fellows dodge and will not get hit.
They sneak and will not reveal their
purpose. They have no sand or stom-
ach for the fight in the open, and they
erect things that look like bulwarks.
but are mere pretenses.
IT want to testify that l have dealt
with most of the men who are being
offered as candidates on the state DEM
ocratic ticket and I know them to be
honest men. / would trust them. ana
the only people you can AFFORD TO put
into office in this year of grace are
orbit you can calculate beforehand,
people whom you have tested and
whose position Is known to you IN all
its frank particulars.
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 transpar-
ency of purpose. Look how the cam
paign has gone. First Of all, an at
tempt to set up some kind of handsome
issue. Not very interesting attempt,
because the issue was new one every
week. AS soon as you approached
what was said to be the issue it seemed
to fade and disappear. and there was
nothing for you to grasp or srappie
And after finding that the search Tor
an issue was in vain, they came down
once more to the only thing they nave
in recent years ever known how to
talk about, and that was the protective
tariff
"Pretenses Torn Away"
"They know perfectly well that all the
pretenses about the protective tariff have
been torn away, not by the oratory of
democratic speakers. but by the patent
demands of fact. They know that the
workingmen 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 m
dustries in which the highest protection
was given paid the lowest wages. and
they know that the highest wages were
paid in the least protected industries.
This is a matter Of record. Not only that,
they know that in some of the most highly
protected industries the conditions under
which the laboring people lived were
disgrace to our civilization. They know
that the men and women were ground as
low as they could be ground ana tna L
patriotic feeling for the American laborer
were most eager to import laborers from
abroad and employ those who. because
they did not know what America could
AFFORD them. were willing to take what
they could get. They know that the con-
ditions of the laboring people in their
employ were patent &c sont aaa tn no. OF
working people when election was on.
Coercion Of Laborers."
"apd now what do we witness? Having
despaired Of an issue, they are filing the
country with alarms 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 lsborer = AWAKE ,aat .h ne az ias d
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
demanded 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 the
| country: now they control nothing but
| the betting. So that 1 think as we look
back upon this campaign-for we are
| now looking back upon 1t. and we hear
| now nothing but cries of 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 DIFF
ference between the republican rarty
and the democratic is: The republt-
can party offers them masters; we offer
them comrades and leaders. The re-
publican 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 a right
| to give them The ranks are formed.
| The discipline is self-disciplining.
No man needs to guide them in their
are and in their minds eye they see
those little coteries that used to gov
eph the affairs of this country and con-
sitting in secret conference trying to
determine how, in the last days of the
campaign. when no man will have an