Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-13

try, he declared emphatically, who suppose that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continne ! if the pan-German plan is achieved and the German power fastened upon the world"
 The president directly asserted that Germany had started the war. an l said he would leave confirmation of this statement to the verdict of history. He referred to Germany's growth to a place in the sum-" and asked why that position. In answer he described the German governments methods of controlling the competition of it's in dustries, and asserted that "all the while there was lying behind its thoughts, in it's dreams for the future political control which would enable it in the long run to dominate the labor and the industry of the world"
 Examples Cited
 MT. Wilson cited in this connection the Berlin-ro-B Bagdad railway, which, he said, was constructed to run tl:e threat of force down the flank of the industrial undertakings of half a doz- en other countries, so that when Ger man competition came in it would not be resisted too far xx x because there was always the possibility of getting German armies into the heart of that country quicker than any other armies could get there"
 Summing up, he said that Germany is determined that the political power of the world shall belong to her, but that never before had such ambitions been based upon so exact and pre- else and scientific plan of domina- tfon"
 Gompers Eulogized
 The president voiced in terms of edlogy his approval of the conduct of Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, and the spirit of cooperation he had man. ifested in his relations with the ad- ministration.
 ''I like to lay my mind," he said, alongside of mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral" The presidents ref erences to Mr Gompers were loudly applauded.
 While we are fighting for freq dom," MT. Wilson asserted after these references, we must see among other things that labor is free. x We must see to it that the instrument talities by which the conditions of la Dor are improved, are not blocked and checked. K Nobody has a right to stop the processes of labor until all the methods of conciliation and set dement's have been exhausted"
 The president took occasion also to denounce the mob spirit, which, he said. 'is displaying itself here and there in this country"
 On SeIf-ControI
 He declared that If our men have not self-control. they are not capable Ol tudl Sicdl luiuS WuiSu we CdA democratic government"
 A pledge of loyalty to the govern ment was contained in the annual re- port of the executive council of the federation which was submitted to the convention today. This report, accord ing to the usual procedure, was re- ferred to committees named by Mr. Gompers, and it's several sections will be taken up by the convention as soon as reported back.
 Deny Pending Fight
 At the afternoon session Secretary Morrison read telegram from Frank J. Hayes. president of the United Mine Workers of America, denying a report that Hayes of the Mine Work CTS intended to lead a fight against President Gompers or the war poli cies of the government"
 Governor Whitman of New York, who also addressed the convention. declared that the fight that democracy may live is the fight of labor, for labor and democracy are one.
 American workingmen," he said. "are fighting for the workingmen of the world, for 1t is not on the battle fields alone that the war is being fought.
 Tt is not only what the workingman