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Show SECRETARY OF LABOR LAUDS TIE PRESIDENT William B. Wilson Addresses Ad-dresses Big Gathering at the Auditorium. RECORD IS DISCUSSED Declares That Chief Ex-1 ecutive Has Done Great ! Service for Country. J Willi am B. Wilson, sec rotary of the , department of labor, replied to the charges of Senator W. E. Borah anil' other Republicans n gainst President I "Wilson and the Democratic administration administra-tion 'ii a iov.'cful talk yesterday noon nt tlu- Richards ytrcot Auditorium. And: lie was rot ecu tent with a defensive i attitude, but. instituted a counter-attack against (.'Lanes E. Hughes and the Republican Re-publican party. "It must have rendered Mr. Hughes highly indignant to learn that the president pres-ident had surrendered to a body of workmen, as he run rjes, " Secret ary Wilson declared in answering some ot the charges against the Adamson eiht-bour eiht-bour law. ' ' Kcpublican presidents have been accustomed to surrender only to the trusts ind monev interests their nuisltrs and no doubt anything that hinl ed of capitulation to the common-pi'oplo common-pi'oplo was utterly opposed to their customs, cus-toms, and traditions.'' Secretary Wilson denied that President Presi-dent Wilson had been unstable in his attitude on national and international questions, hut asserted that the term vacillating might be fitly applied to the campaign tactics of Mr. Hughes and the leaders of the Republican party. Attendance Is Large. Approximately 3000 persons attended the noonday meeting, an unusual audience, audi-ence, according to the Democratic leaders, lead-ers, in view of the time the meeting was held. The audience was composed to a great extent of laboring men, but there was a big representation of .business .busi-ness men of all parties. While Secretary Secre-tary Wilson spoke in behalf of the Democratic-Progressive ticket, the meeting meet-ing was held under the direction of the Salt Lake and Utah Federations of Labor. La-bor. Judge A. J. Weber acted as chairman. chair-man. , Wecfretavy Wilson first took up the Adamson eight-hour law, which, he said, ba! b'een pounced upon by the Republican Repub-lican leadeis ac one of the big issues of the campaign. He defended the attitude at-titude of the president on the question of an cight-h-Mir day and declared that it was only another step toward recognizing recog-nizing the rights of the masses. "I know of- no more pathetic figure," lie said, "than the Republican presidential presi-dential nominee going- about the country eearclilng for an Issue. At last he thought he found It In the Adamson bill and charged the administration with having hav-ing completely surrendered to labor. i:;t after he tried H out a while, the much-sought much-sought issue proved worthless, so now he and his supporters have just dlseovfrtd that it Is a gold brick which means the destruction of labor organizations. Declares It a Joke. "To the intelligent worklngmen this argument is a joke mere prattle. It is a reflection upon the intelligence of the leaders of the four great railway brotherhoods broth-erhoods and some 600 delegates who were in Washington and approved of the bill as drafted and passed. Furthermore, every ev-ery time Mr. Hughes or hts supporters condemn the Adamson bill they take a direct slap at seventy members of their own party who voted for the passage of the bill in congress. "Now, about the assertion that President Presi-dent Wilson urged the passage of the bill without Investigation. Through the department of labor the president had been investigating the question for more than a year and the heads of the brotherhoods brother-hoods freely admitted that when he called them into conference, after all hope for a settlement had been abandoned, aban-doned, he knew more about conditions and the real situation than they themselves them-selves did." Secretary "Wilson then took up other legislation enacted by the Democratic administration which was of interest to labor. He discussed the Clayton antitrust anti-trust law and declared that it marked the end of a 600 years' Btruggle between labor and capital. He approved the workmen's compensation bill, the child labor law and the president's foreign policies. Replies to Borah. 'Senator Borah has claimed credit for the children's bureau established by the Democra tic administration." Secretarv Wilson declared. "He has said that he , is t lie author of the bill and that it originated during a Republican administration. adminis-tration. That may be; I do not know. However, I do know that with all his influence in-fluence lie whs unable to get it through congress during a Republican administration, adminis-tration, and it is action and not. vords that counts in our lawmaking. The Republicans Re-publicans have claimed credit for several bills enacted into laws because they were discussed during Republican ad minirt rations, ra-tions, but it took a Democratic administration adminis-tration to make them of any service to t he Deople. "Those who criticize the foreign policies poli-cies of President Wilson have the advantage advan-tage of It no wing subsequent circumstances, circum-stances, in other words, of hindsight. But they have not told us what they would he ve done. Would they have declared war on Germany when the Lusltania went down? Would they have declared war" on England because she interfered with our commerce on the high seas? Would Charles E. Hughes have intervened In Mexico? Would he have annexed northern north-ern Mexico? What would he have done? Let him stand before the American people peo-ple and say what he would have done. "Don't you believe that it would have been much more satisfactory to the people peo-ple of nearly a score of European conn- i tries if their rulers had resorted to note ; writing: rather than to have precipitated j the bloodiest war in the world's history' What would Hughes have accomplished' by war with Germany, England or Mex- '. iio that Woodrow Wilson lias not accomplished ac-complished through peace and diplomacy'?' Secretary Wilson declared that the Progressive Pro-gressive party of four years ago was made up of hero worshipers, disgruntled Republicans and those who favored Progressive Pro-gressive ideas. The hero worshipers and tli e disgruntled Republicans, he said, vould probtibly follow Colonel Roosevelt back into the Republican party, but the fire Progressives recognized in Wood row Wilson the true Progressive leader. Secretary Wilson left yesterday after-, after-, noon for Cheyenne. He has made a trip across the countrv to the Pacific coast, and now is on the way home. In every labor center and in every state visited on the trip Secretary Wilson declared he had found an overwhelming sentiment in favor of the re-election of President Wilson. |