Assignment Due 12-3

Woodrow Wilson

"The most corrupting thing in this country has been this self-same tariff.....The working men of America are not going to allow themselves to be deceived by a colossal bluff any longer. One of the corporations in the United States which has succeeded in mastering the laborer and saying to him, "You shall not organize; you shall not exercise your liberty of cooperating though we employ you are using the power of organization to the outmost point of absolute control"

I chose this passage because I found it very interesting that the issues of this time period is reflected in today's current political issues. The idea or working men and women being taxed had always been and in my opinion will always serve as a major political issue as long as it remains a requirement to be paid. Employers took advantage of their employees at the current time frame. Not allowing employees to take breaks, or even vacations. It was as if the larger corporations goals were to pay its employees as cheap as possible and get the most work from each employee. This is an issue we also see in today's times with larger corporations. Larger corporations want to make the highest profit possible. It is evident that employers.



The Great Depression in the United States

"What was truly novel about the New Deal, however, was the speed with which it accomplished what previously had taken generations. In fact, many of the reforms were hastily drawn and weakly administered; some actually contradicted others. And during the entire New Deal era, public criticism and debate were never interrupted or suspended; in fact, the New Deal brought to the individual citizen a sharp revival of interest in government."

I chose Thai particular passage because it exhibits the youth of the system of government and it implements how many people have tried to create a system if government that was successful in many aspects. It also provides a comparison of the government then and now and it shows that we are still in the same predicament. 







This picture represents the larger employers over working and "killing" their employees. This picture represents what is being discussed in class because this is why labor laws and other employee safety laws was implemented. The government intervened and seen that the working man was being over worked and in some cases it resulted in the loss of a life due to inadequate working situations.

Assignment Due 12-03

The Gettysburg Address (1863)

"With deportation, even to a limited extent, enhanced wages to white labor is mathematically certain. Labor is like any other commodity in the market---increase the demand for it, and you increase the price of it. Reduce the supply of black labor, by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much, you increase the demand for, and wages of, white labor.

 
My Interpretation  

This particular portion of the Gettysburg Address highlights the idea that by deporting African Americans from this country is a guaranteed strategy that will result in enhancing wages for "whites". By empowering and influencing white labor the best way is to decrease the supply of black workers. If there are no black workers left to work the demand for white workers will increase tremendously. I chose this particular portion of the speech because I found it interesting that this was actually being appealed as an option. Instead as viewing both "white" and "black" workers as valuable and equally the only other result that was being promoted was getting rid of the black worker all together.