The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-05
HIS SWAN SONG
SUNG BY WILSON

he owns and controls.
when I sec this unbIuphing. this
impudent, attempt to Teinstate these
forces without any concealEent or
anv kind. do you wonder that would
IKE to get out again and denounee
the whole crowd as know then!
Because their purpose is to do exactly
what the government Of New Jersey
What they used in the old days OF
the highest tide OF their public.
talk when In private eonclaYe. they
/ used TO do the things that no man
would care TO do in public and when
this state was governed not by It's
legislature, not by its accredited ser
wants. but by men who contrive
things for their own interest without
taking the house into their confidence
at all, backstairs government.
'1f any man votes for the Repuoli-
can state candidates IN this contest
he knows that he Is voting for the re-
establishment Of invisible government
In the state Of New jersey and he Is
betraying the confidence which is re
posed IN every man who goes TO the
ballot box TO exercise the great and
solemn duty Of choosing public ser
wants.
dealt with most Of the men who arc
being offered as candidates on the
state Democratic ticket and know
them to be honest men.
But after all. my fellow citizens.
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 attempt
to set up some kind of handsome is
sue. Not a worry 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 grapple. And after finding that
the search for an issue was in vain.
they came down once more to the
only thing they have in recent years
ever known to talk about and that
was the protective tariff.
They know perfectly well that all
the pretenses about the protective
tariff have been torn away. not by the
oratory of Democratic speakers. but
BIZ the patent demonstration Of fact.
They know that the working men Of
this country may have been deceived
for little while. but they cannot be
decided all the time. They know
just az well as We know that the In
dustries which the highest protection
was given paid the lowest wages and
they know tho highest wages were
paid in the least protected industries.
This is 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 a disgrace to our
civilization.
"They know that the men and
women were ground as low as they
could be ground and that these gen
tlemen, who profess American pat
riotic feeling for the American la
borer were most eager to import la
borers from abroad and employ those
who. because they did not know what
America could AFFORD them were will
ing to take what they could get. They
know that the conditions Of laboring
people In their employ were a patient
contradiction Of all the promises they
had made to these working people
when election vas on.
and now what do We witness.