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Show Hp I ' who, Judged by our own experience, H possess the possibility of developing H: ,DJ usefu) American citizenship. H' ' -. My sympathy goes out io the man Hi ; i Mho has never had a chance In the H C( struggle for existence, to the man Hf1 i0 whoso dreary pathway through life H( j : has never been illuminated by the 1 Mil bright, golden sunlight, of hope, and Hv .ni opportunity. I would not dlscrlmln- H:. nt0 oealnst the Italian, the Hungarian fl "t ortho Pole. I have not forgotten that H ,n Columbus was the son of an Italian H- 7 laborer. I havo not forgotten that B v T among the great sculptors and art- B n lets who havo given Italy her proud H 'f place in tho world of art are the sons H ' o of men who earned their bread in tho '. ti sweat of tholr brows. Ah, genius H knows no nationality and is not the ' fl result of birth or location. No nation M has a monopoly on Intellect, a corner M .t on brains. Italy has her Garibaldi, H c Poland her Kosciusko, Hungary her B Kossuth; and even the learned Prince- M ton professor may profit by reading 2jr tl10 Inspiring story of their heroic Yflwly llvcs In (h'8 InmI of cIl,nl PPrtun- 'TH 'ty, the son of tho Immigrant of today fH4 may ,iecomo tho American stntcsmnn Vfl''( of (ornorrow-Oh, (ornorrow-Oh, ns I read tho pathetic story of tho patriotic struggle of tho people of tho south of Europe for greater freedom and for larger opportunity, and ns I recall all that they have iiw contributed to tho genius of our nn- H tional life, I must take Issue with 1 Prof. Wilson. I bellove that these H, people aro superior in every way to M t tho Chinese and that It Is an insult M to tho Caucaslon raco to say that Hj.' they nro npt. Hjl Wilton the Friend of the Chinaman. H K Prof. Wilson seems to bo especially M i. fond of tho Chinese. Continuing the iiiiBifc!' quotation which I havo just read, on Jg Pago 213, volume 5, of Woodrow Wll- 7s son's "History of tho American peo- Hj$ pie." tho professor proceeds ns fol- w "They" H'' Meaning tho Chinese f "had, no doubt many an unsavory linb H'bfC it bred unwholcsomo squalor In tho fT ' crowded quarters where they most HL abounded in tho western seaports, and H'.lv seemed separated by their very na- f ' ture from the peoplo nmong whom U they had como to llvo" HJr Now listen HI 'Hut It waB their skill, their liitollf- KI' gence, their hardy power of labor their H$H knack nt succeeding and driving dull- V' cr rivals out, rather than their alien iH'A habits, that mado them feared and Bi bated and led to their exclusion nt K' tho prayer of tho men they wero like- Hl ly to displace, should they multiply Tho unlikely fellows who came in nt w tho eastern ports woro tolcrnted be- ', rnimo they usurped no placo but tho H very lowest In the scale, of labor." H& JIr- Chairman, tho history of tho VJcr Gcnry Act, which passed In 1S92, and fR) which resulted In tho exclusion of tho HR? Chinese from t,ho United States tells tween equals. There Is no quallty between an American and a Chinaman, China-man, and Prof. Wilson wholly underestimates under-estimates tho character and the capacity ca-pacity of the American worklngman when ho makes a statement to the contrary. Prof. Wilson seems io be especially especial-ly fond of tho Chinese, and as I read his glowing trlbuto to the "Chinese race' I could readily understand why tho Chinese Students Club of America Ameri-ca met in tho city of New York on tho second day of Febniary, 1912, and -solemnly Indorsed the candidacy of their friend, "Woodrow Wilson." 1 can readily understand why there was such great rejoicing in the Chinese Chi-nese laundries of this country when tho nows went out that Wilson bad been nominated for President at Baltimore. Bal-timore. Even at tho risk of alarming my colleagues on this side of the Chamber I am forced to admit thot tho Chlncso voto Is hopelessly lost to tho Republican party. It has gone over in n body to Woodrow Wilson. Wilson Versus Labor Unions. Mr. Chairman, I bel1YO In union labor and in labor unions. I regard them as the logical outgrowth of our modern Industrial system, and I know thnt they have accomplished much for tho betterment of the conditions of thoso who toll for a living. During tho twelve years that I havo been honored with a scat in this Chamber I think my colleagues will bear mo out when I say that I havo always been a consistent and loyal supporter of any measure that was prntontcd for tho consideration of this llouro which would prove beneficial to tho worklngmen of this country, . be-llovo be-llovo that any man who has evo- gK-en gK-en tho slightest thought to this ,tb-Ject ,tb-Ject is willing to rccognlzo nnd is prepared pre-pared to appreciate the great ard good work that Is being done l t',e labor unions of todav. Tho Democratic parfy In the plat form ndopted at Baltimore pro esses undying friendship for orKiu''.cd labor, la-bor, nnd then, ps nn oi'cntc ot lc sincerity, nomlnntes rs t's ' tmlldat" for President, Woodrow V. ilwi, whu on tho 13th dny of June, HIO'J, only three ahort veors ago, in a bacalaui reato address to n graduating class nt Princeton, expresses tho following rfcinnrkablo vlovs on h'. all Important Impor-tant subject: "You know what tho usual standard o.' tho employee Ib In our dny. It is to givo as llttlo as he may for his wages. Labor Is standordlzed by the trades unions, and this Is tho standard stand-ard to which It Is mndo to conform. No ono Is suffered to do moro than tho avcrngo workman can do; In Bomo trades and handicrafts no ono Is Buffered to do moro than tho least skillful ot his follows can do within tho hours nllotted to a day's labor, and no ono may work out of hours at all, or volunteor anything beyond tho .. .. r . 1 ... .ml.., rttit ImW minimum i nui-u nui I'mitt wv .... economically disastrous such a regulation regu-lation of labor is. It Is so unprofitable unprofit-able to tho employer that in some trndes It will presently not bo worth while to attempt) anything nt all. Ho had hotter stop altogether than oper-nto oper-nto at an inevitable and Invarlnblo loss. Tho labor of America Is rapidly becoming unprolltablo Under Its present pres-ent regulation by thoso who havo determined de-termined a) reduce It to a minimum. Our. economic supremacy may bo lost becnuso tho country grows moro nnd moro full of unprolltnblo servants." ser-vants." I do not ngreo with Prof. Wilson that members" of trndes unions nro unprofitable servants. I do not ngreo with him that tho man who belongs vi a labor organization Is tijing 'to gno as little as poss blo for his wages." I do not agree with him that tho work of tho least skillful skill-ful member ot a labor organization sets tho standard which marks tho amount of work thnt his fellow craftsmen enn perform. I do not be-llovo be-llovo that great organization, tho American Federation of Labor, Is trying no mnko American labor unprofitable un-profitable by reducing It to a minimum. mini-mum. I do not believe that Mr, Gompers, Mr. Mitchell, nnd Mr. Morrison are (rvlllif in flnnirnv n ncnnnmlp an. premacy of tfie United States. If 1 read Prof. Wilson aright, he Is opposed op-posed to putting any limitation on tho hours of labor,, nnd would therefore, there-fore, In order to produce moro "profit-nblo "profit-nblo servants," exact from tho wngo earner all that human endurance Is capable of producing. My friends, tho recognition of tho eight hour day ns constituting a dny's work Is ono of tho grentost triumphs of organized labor. It represents rep-resents years of faithful, patient, intelligent in-telligent effort nnd dtrltntlon, and It is In full harmony with tho enlightened enlight-ened spirit of tho times. Its abolition, aboli-tion, as so manifestly deseed by Prof. Wilson, In order to produce moro "profltablo servants," mny prove popular with n Princeton graduating class, but I am sure that It will never prove popular with tho 20.000 union I men who live and work and voto in tho twenty-second congreslonal dis-' trict of Illinois. And I go further. I measure my wordn well when I say that organized labor would receive a 'blow from which it would"not recover for 20 yearn if a man holding tho views that Woodrow Wilson holds on the question ot, labor organizations should be elected to ihe Presidency on a platform which, limits his tenure ten-ure of office to a single term in the Whito House. Platform or no platform, plat-form, he would consider hlmsclt free to bend every energy and to use the power and influence ot his great office to carry into effect his own narrow views on the question of organized labor. Wilson Versus The Soldier. Mr. Chairman, on the 12th day of December, 1011, 98 Democratic members mem-bers of the present house Joined wlih 130 Republicans nnd 1 oclallst and passed tho Sherwood service pension bill. Eighty-four Democrats and only eight Republicans are recorded in opposition to this bill. Whllo tho provisions of tho Sherwood Sher-wood pension bill were not ns liber-ol liber-ol and generous ns those of tho Sul-loway Sul-loway bill which we passed in tho preceding congress, yet, taken ns a whole, it is a very meritorious measure, meas-ure, and tho gallant veterans ot tho great civil conflict, whoso ranks are eo rapidly thinning, have reason to thank General Sherwood, Mr. Sullo-way, Sullo-way, Col. Bradley, Mr. Russel, Mr. Fuller, and the other member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions for tho splendid work tjhat was done in their behnlt. In the platform adopted nt Baltimore, Balti-more, I find this plank: "Wo renew the declaration of our last platform relating to a generous pension policy." Prof. Wilson, tho Democratic candidate can-didate for President, dots no seem to be In harmony with this declaration. declara-tion. In a review of tho ndmlnlstrn-jtlon ndmlnlstrn-jtlon of Grover Cevcland, whom he eulogizes eu-logizes to the point of Idolatry on page ISO, volumo P, History of the lAmerlcnn people, Prof. Wilson says: "What most attracted the attention of the coilntry, aside from his act'en In tho mntter of appointments to oilier, wns the extraordinary number of his vetoes. Most of them were utircd against pension bills, great and small lloth Democratic House and Republic-nn Republic-nn Sennte wero Inclined to giant any man or class of men who had served In the Federal armies during tho Civil Civ-il War tho right to be supuuted nn der thd National Trensury, nnd Mi. Clevelnnd Bet himself resolutely to check their oxtrnvagouce. He deemed 't enough that those who had been actually disabled should receive pensions pen-sions from tho Government nnd regarded re-garded additional gifts fcr mere service ser-vice bo.h an unjustifinble use of tho I public money nnd n gross nbuse of charity." I t.. ..I...t litn inmnclntiln atllte. ment, I would like to Inquire how many Republicans and Democrats In this House who oted for the Sherwood Sher-wood servlco pension bill, or any other oth-er pension bill, did so on tho theory that any man who hod ever served In tho Federal Army had an absolute right to bo supported out of tho National Na-tional Trensury? 1 would llko to In-qulro In-qulro of the Democrats who supported this bill It they agree with Prof. WU-Bon WU-Bon thnt legislation of this kind Is nn "unjustlllnblo use of tho public money and a gross abuso of charity? ' Tho troublo seems to bo that Prof. Wilson does not comprehend the truo spirit and Intent of our poiiBlon sys-(teni. sys-(teni. I maintain that the man who .spent several of tho best years of his young manhood In tho service of his country Is entitled to the everlasting everlast-ing gratitude of tho Nation, whether ho wiih actually disabled or not, nnd that gratitude can only manifest Itself It-self in a practical way by granting him a pension in hie declining yenrs to compensate him for tho loss thnt ho sustained while nt tho full zonlth of his power nnd capacity to enin a competency for hlmBelf and his family. fam-ily. No, no, my friends, a servlco pension pen-sion Is not "an unjustifiable uso ot tho public money." It is not "a gross abuso of charity." It Is founded on tho eternal principles of right and JII-HICI', II IB UIU U.UI.'S1U11 OI II lU-tlOn'S lU-tlOn'S love for the heroism of tho men who wero prepared to sacrifice tholr lives on the altar of patriotism that "government of tho people, by tho peo pie, nnd for the people might not perish from tho earth." It Is possible that Prof. Wilson hns experienced a change of heart slnco ho wrote thoso cold and heartless lines, for I recall that less than a year ago ho hlniBOlf applied to Andrew Car neglo for a pension nnd basod that claim not upon disability but upon "nicro service" as nn educator. I hope tho fact that bo did not succeed In getting tho Cnrneglo pension will In getting tho Carneglo pension will lend oven him to recognlzo tho Injustice Injus-tice of his vlows ns expressed on tho qtieBtlnn of service pensions. Wllion Versus Bryan. Mr Chnlrmnn, the dominating power pow-er In the Baltimore convention was William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. In fact, William Jennings Bryan, ot Nebraska, has been tho dominating power in tho Democratic party so ong that the memory of a "first voter" vo-ter" runneth not to tho contrary. For 16 long and weary years ho has been Democracy's Old Man of the Sea, gripping her with a strangle hold and choking her Into abject submission to his every whim and caprice. In utter ut-ter defiance of a precedent that has been aB binding as law in every Democratic Dem-ocratic national convention for 60 years, In utter disregard of every consideration con-sideration of elementary decency and fair play, he succeeded In robbing the distinguished Speaker of this House of the honor of n nomination for. the high office of President of the United States after the Speaker had secured a majority of the votes on eight successive suc-cessive ballots, and ho succeeded In bestowing that honor upon a man who was not only not his friend but his pronounced nnd nctivo enemy. If it bo true that Opportunity knocks but.onco nt every man's door, then Champ Clark may never again have a chance to bo President of the United States, but Champ. Clark will live In the hearts and affections of his fellow men long after WllUam Jennings Jen-nings Bryan shall havo been forgotten. forgot-ten. He will live, nnd his nnmo will bo honored becnuso all the world knowB that Champ Clark has always been truo to his friends, true to his Ideals, true to his conception of duty, standing "foursquare to all tho wlns that blow," in fair weather and in foul. And when tho Impartial historian histor-ian of the future shall come n write of bis baso betrayal at Baltimore ho will denounce the act of WIlKnta Jennings Jen-nings Bryan as marking the 't.ry acme ac-me of perfidy, tho culmination if political po-litical trcchcry- t hve sail' that Prof. Witoi woe aot the friend of WlU'nni Iiniitrigisl Brvan, nnd tor a veriflcaton of that stu'ement I refer to pace "'f, volume' 5 Woodrow Wllnon'a History of ill I American People, and this Is vUiat ho says about tho mm who it "d to be your "peerless ' but who t. now your "cheerless" letfar "Mr. Hrynn though ho had been a member of congress nnd has spoken In th Ilotiso upon the coIn.io Cuur. tlon, had mndo no place of l-"ulorshlp for himself hitherto, wns unknown to the country nt largo and oven to the great mass of his fellow partlBais, nr.i! had ccmo to tho convontton with tho delegation trom Nobraskn unheralded, unher-alded, umemnrked. A slnglo spo'ch mrdc frc.n too platform cf tho c n-volition n-volition hud won hi in tho ncin.tiat'ou n sneoch wrought not of argumont but of lire, nnd uttered in tho full tones of a volco which rang clear and passionate in tho authentic key of tho assembly's own mood of voliem-enco voliem-enco nnd revolt. It was a thin1; for thoughtful men to note bow a mere stroke of tolling declnmntlon m'ght mnko nn unknown, untested man tho nominee of n great party for tho high-cut high-cut ofllco in tho land, n nomilar as sembly bo'ng tho Instrument cf choice." Mr. Wilson wns not tho friend of Mr. Bryan In 189G nnd ho wa3 not his friend as lato as April 29, 1907, when he wroto tho following letter from Princeton: "My Dear Mr. Jollne: Thank you very much for sending mo your nd-dress nd-dress at Parsons, Kans., before tho board of directors of tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. I hnvo read It with relish and entlro agreement. agree-ment. Would that wo could do something, some-thing, nt once dignified nnd effective, to knock Mr. Bryan once frr.nll Into a cocked hat." "I hao read It with hollsh and entire en-tire agreement!" And In tho Parsons Par-sons speech Mr. Jollne, the grent trust and corporation lawyer gives utter-nnco utter-nnco to this sentiment: "But I venture to utter what la por-hops por-hops a feeblo protest against the blind and foolish outcry against all railways. You and I know who aro responsible for this eoclnllBtlc, papu-llstlc, papu-llstlc, antlproporty crusade. It Is tho cry of tho envious ngalnst the wo'l to do tho old story. It Is not new to this generation, only It Is loudtr and moro bitter than ever before In this country"' That Is what Woodrow Wilson rend "with hollsh and entlro agreement. ' This was his honest opinion, ns late as 1907 of Bryan and Brynnlsm, nnd yet today, to gratify his ambitions, ho Is prepared to set asldo tho convlo tlons of a lifetime to don sackcio h and nshes and to eat out of tho land of tho man whom ho denounced as an untr'ed declallmor, nnd who, becnuso of his popullstlc and socialistic tendon cles, ho wns anxious to "knock Into a cocked hat onco for all." Oh, what a spectacle for gods and mon! What an oxamplo for tho youth of our land to omulnto! How proud our Democrat lc friends should bo of tho sincerity tho consistency, nnd tho moral cour-ago cour-ago of tholr candldnto for Presldont of tho United Statesl Mr. Chairman I shall not go much furthor Into tho record of this untl-Jefferson, untl-Jefferson, nntlforelgn, nntllabor, ant!-soldier, ant!-soldier, nnd pro-Chlneso cnndldato for tho Presidency. I shall not speak of his remarkable reversal of opinion ns to the efficacy of tho in tUthe, the re-j ftrtndum, and the recall. Suffice it to Bay that a few years ago ho denounced de-nounced this doctrine aj revolutionary revolution-ary and as destructive of constitution-nl constitution-nl government. Yet tiday he loudly I reclaims- it as the one panacea fcr all the Ills that afflict the body politic. poli-tic. I shall not speak of his sneering sneer-ing references to the Farmers' A'l'-ance A'l'-ance and of his characterizat'on cf the Knights of Labor as being ''tinctured ''tinc-tured with the hideous doctrine ot anarchy." an-archy." I believe that It was Job who said, "Oh that mine adversarr had writteji a book." I would sav. "Oh, that the voters of this country would read the books written by mine adversary." For If the History of the American People, that Woodrow Wilson Wil-son wrote, were made a campaign document nnd placed in tho hands of every man who will exercise .the sacred sa-cred right of franchise on the Kth day of next November he would bo bried beneath an avalanche of votes so deep thnt he would never hear the blast of Gabriel's tmmpet on Hie morning of tho resurrection. Mr. Chairman, tho Republican party par-ty faces this contest with coarago and with confidence. We know '1 nt we aro right and wo bnve nn nb.dlng faith In tho triumph of-any question ot truth or Justlco submitted to tlio will of a free and enlightened peoplo. Wo have "an abiding confidence In the discriminating sense of the AmotlcMi voter. Wo bellove that he can distinguish dis-tinguish between wheat and ohaif, between be-tween a statesman nnd a demagogue, between evolution and revolution. The record ot thb administration of wiuiam nowara rait win oo iiuiy vindicated. When the froth and fonm and fury of misrepresentation shall have disappeared, when the billows o billingsgate shall have subsided, "hen the calm succeeds the storm, f-o sober thinking people who re a majority In this country will d? full Justice to this brave, fearless, ana manly mnn who has never failed to 'do the right as "God has flwn him to see the right." Th-v vlll elect William Howard 1it ns his -own successor becauo in him the American peoplo recognize the dignity and the majesty of nn honest mnn who has tried faithfully j;o uphold the best traditions of the Republican par ty, tho party of progress and protection, protec-tion, tho pnrty ot a people's hope and of a nation's desire, the party that believes In preserving In all Its strength and purity nnd glory the Constitution of the fnthcrs. "Wo stand nt Armagedon and wo battle for tho Lord." 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