The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-24

More wisdom has been demon
strated in that course of the Conven-
ton not to adopt such system and #
Iany evidence is wanted as to the utter
impracticability and wrong of such a
system the attacks of the Hearst
chain of newspapers furnishes the
strongest argument in defense. Here
is a man, wholly unworthy of respect
or confidence either as an American
or as a human man. This man with
his newspapers in many parts Of our
,Country from Massachusetts to Cali
fornia, with his millions for his news
paper enterprise, transmitting the
manufactured news to all the other
newspapers which find it either cheap
or convenient to use that concern,
with a circulation of these combined
newspapers alone Of about eight mil
lion copies a day, and in a drive daily,
twice day, endeavoring to besmlrch
the character Of man to his fellows,
what kind OF an opportunity, would
Isuch a man have to defend himself
from the great wrong?
I'm the war he was the lickspittle
war he was in constant Communica-
ton with the kaiser's ambassador,
Bernstorf, in the war he was engaged
with Bola Pasha with Captain Boy
Ed, with the whole gang of them,
and now let me say there are two
main things why Hearst does not like
me and l will tell you what they are.
First, in his rattle brain there ger1nin-
ated an aspiration to be president of
the United States, and both in con-
ference with him and with his main
representative-he tried to chain me
to his mad chariot for the presidency
m IS Iaa
street, I could not see him. (Ap-
Eplause). And l frankly told him so.
During the convention OF the In
ternational Typographical Union at
Washington-and a man now passed
taWay, union printer whose name |
shall not mention, came to me and
asked me whether [ would not help to
arrange a mass meeting in the Ma
,tional theater in Washington in furth-
erance of Hearst's candidacy for the
presidency and l told him that l
would not. He then asked me if the
meeting was called would | preside
over the meeting and speak and l
said | would not do it. And they said,
will | please attend the meeting,' and
l answered, L shall find some other
and more amusing or interesting en-
gagement to keep Iaughter). And
so whether he had chance Or not for
the nomination | do not know, but at
IIeaSt he could not get my assistance
I'm the American labor movement
[ have learned of the spirit not only
of patriotism and of humanity but
have learned of the principle of the
international brotherhood and the en-
Ideavor for its establishment. | be-
|lieve in the destiny of this western
hemisphere and hold that, though as
II L.
hood, that it is the first duty of the
peoples of this western hemisphere to
Establish the closest relations and
lbonds of unity and fraternity, and in
THAT connection we have fathered and
Ifurthered and nurtured the Pan
IAmerican Federation of Labor, the
closest neighbor to US of all the latin
American republics. In the republic
of Mexico and the Hearst interests
have large land holdings in Mexico
and Hearst's thirst for wealth and
Ipower has made him declare in the
editorial columns of his newspapers
the demand that the United States
send its military forces into Mexico
and plant the American flag there and
never take it down. l have no ex-
Ialted opinion about my power and in
ltuence but whatever power and what
lever influence l may have l proposed
and now propose and will continue
to propose that we shall try to see to
it that Mexico shall go on undisturbed
and not overrun by the American
forces. (Applause.)
whether Mr.. Hearst believes |
have power or influence or not makes
very little difference, the fact is that
he believes that l am a thorn in his
side, and that l am an obstacle in his
he
government of Mexico by the forces
LOT our government and our people to
annex that land to ours. So you
know at last two of the causes which
prompts this uncanny Individual, this
man who can find no confidence at
lhome or respect elsewhere in the
world. He is not even admitted to
what his millions entitle him-the So
Icalled respectable society. applause
and laughter). He made an attack
upon the members of the executive
council he made a dirty attack upon
Frank Morrison, Matthew Vol,
that he did not have the happiness to
have been born in the United States
That editorial he published time and
time again in different language and
words, all to the same effect, and |
wrote a letter in reply Perhaps 1t
was silly on my part to attempt to say
anything that would penetrate the
rhinoceres hide of hypocricy of Will
liam Randolph Hearst, but in that
letter | called attention to these two
when he questioned our loyalty or
the right to speak for the American La
Dor because he said that we were not
born here, | answered him by saying
something like this: I am willing that
the government Of the United States, or
the people of the United States, shall de-
eide between you and me as to who was
more loyal to the Republic of the United
States in its greatest hour of danger, me
or him, and | said this, too, bear in mind
that in the gravest period of the revo1u-
tionary war for independence the man
who gave it heart and spirit was Tom
Payne, an Englishnan, and that the man
convicted as being the greatest traitor to
the Revolutionary cause was Benedict
Arnold, born in America (applause). But
he did not publish it Caughter) and SO |
did the best | could with the letter and
published it in the American Federation
ist Now, probably have taken up more
time in speaking of this deviling than |
ought to have done, but | want to re-
turn to the question just for a moment
or two.
Il want the American Federation of
Labor in any of its declarations it makes