Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1912 — BOUGHT HIS SOCKS IN SCOTLAND. [ARTICLE]

BOUGHT HIS SOCKS IN SCOTLAND.

Governor Wilson is a free trader and is so recognized by the rank and file of his party. The truth Is a little by the fact that he buys his socks in Scotland. His apparent indifference to the condition of American laborers may be due to his ability to get along without being obliged to eat bread in the sweat of his brow. He has been extremely fortunate in this respect His autocracy has been deeply tinged with aristocracy during his entire career as an educator and dabbler in literature. He has neither by personal experience or observation acquainted himself with the actual struggles and needs of the ordinary wage earner. During the trying times that this country was under the blight of free trade in 1894, ’95 and ’96, Woodrow Wilson was enjoying a liberal income that was in no degree affected by the deplorable conditions surrounding the laborers in this country. Mr. Wilson is not to be condemned for his good fortune. On the contrary, we should be disposed to congratulate him, but tn . self Interest the less fortunate should protect themselves against the enforcement of his tariff theories and policy, a trial of which has been given more than once with deplorable effect upon the industrial life of this country.—Trenton Gazette