Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-12

best be reduced to the level of wise and l necessary expenditure.
 This condition has been seized upon by | those who are hostile to protectiyS custom duties as an advantageous base Of attack | upon our tariff laws. They have magnified and nursed the surplus, which they affect to deprecate, seemingly for the purposes of OK | aggerating the evil in order to reconcile the people to the extreme remedy they propose. \ proper reduction of the revenues does not l neceSSltate and should not suggest the aban- donment or impairment of the protective Sys- tenn The methods suggested by our conven- ton will not need to be exhausted in order to effect the necessary reduction. We are not likely to be called upon, think to make a present choice between the surrender of the protective system and the entire repeal of the internal revenue taxes. Such contingency, i'll view of the present relation of expendi- lures to revenues, is remote.
 The inspection and regulation of the manu- facture and sale of oleOmargarine is impor- tant, and the revenue derived from it is not so great that the repeal of the law need enter into any plan of revenue reduction.
 The surplus now in the treasury should be used in the purchase of bonds The law au- thOriAes this use of it, and if it is not needed for current or deficiency appropriations the people, and not the banksinwhich it has been deposited, should have the advantage of its use by stopping interest on the public debt. At least those who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the fear of a monetary stringency thus produced to coerce public sentiment upon other questions.
 Closely connected with the subject of the tariff is that of the importation of foreign IabOrerS under contracts of service to be per formed here The law now in force prohibit inCr Such contracts received my cordial Sllrl- port in the senate, and such amendments as may be found necessary effectively to deliver Dur wOrklngmen and women from this most negotiable form of competition will have my sincere advocacy. Legislation prohibiting the importation of laborers under contract to serve here will, however, afford very in adequate relief to our working people if the system of protective duties is broken down. If the products of American shops must com pete ill the American market, without favor ing dutieS with the products of cheap foreign labor the effect will be different, if at all, only i'll degree, whether the cheap labOrer is across the street or over the sea Such com petition will soon reduce wages here to the level of those abroad. and when that condi- tion is reached we will not need any laws for bidding the importation of laborers under COntract-they will have no inducement to come and the employer no inducement to send for them. In the earlier years of our history public agencies to promote immigration were common. The pioneer wanted neighbor with more friendly instincts than the Indian. Labor was scarce and fully employed But the day of the immigration bureau has gone by. While our doors will continue open to proper immigration we do not need to issue special invitations to the inhabitants of other countries to come to our shores or to share our citizenship. Indeed, the necessity of some inspection and limitation is obvious.
 We should resolutely refuse to permit for eign governments to send their paupers and criminals to our ports We are also clearly under duty to defend our civilization bv excluding alien races whose ultimate assimila- tion with our people is neither possible nor desirable. The family has been the nucleus of our best immigration and the home the most potent assimilation force ill our civiliZa- tOn. The objections to Chinese immigration are distinctive and conclusive and are now so generally accepted as such that the question has passed entirely beyond the stage of argu- ment The laws relating to this subject would. if l should be charged with their enforce ment, be faithfully executed. Such amend ments or further legislation as may be neces- sary and proper to prevent evasions of the laws and to stop further Chinese immigration
 
 sion of the convention upon this subject is in entire harmony with my views.
 Our civil compact is a government by ma, jorities, and the law loses its sanction and the magistrate our respect when this compact is broken. The evil results of election frauds do not expend themselves upon the voters who are robbed of their rightful influence in public affairs. The individual or community. or party that practiseS or connives at election frauds, has suffered irreparable injury and will sooner later realize that to exchange the American system of majority rule for minority control is not only unlawful and unpatriotic, but very unsafe for those who promote it. The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. The right of every qualified elector to cast one free ballot and to have it honestly counted must not be questioned. Every constitutional power should be used to make this right se- cure, and to punish frauds upon the ballot.
 Our colored people do not ask special Iegis- lation in their interest, but only to be made secure in the common rights of American citizenship They will, however, naturally miStrust the sincerity of those party leaders who appeal to their race for support only in those localities where the suffrage is free and election results doubtful, and compass their
 
 controlling and their choice cannot be CO., creed. NJ
 The nation, not less than the states, is de- pendent for prosperity and security upon the intelligence and morality of the people. This common interest very early suggested na tional aid in the establishment and endow lnent of schools and colleges in the new states There is, I believe, present exigency that calls for still more liberal and direct an propriations in aid of common school educa- tiOn in the states.
 The territorial form of government is temporary eNpedient, not a permanent civil condition. It is adapted to the exigency that suggested it, but becomes inadequate and even oppressive when applied to fixed and pOpulOus communities Several territories are well able 10 bear the burdens and dis charge the duties of free commonwealths in the American union. To exclude them is to deny the just rights of their people and may well excite their indignant protest No oues- tion of the political preference of the people of territory should close against them the hospitable door which has opened to two thirds of the existing states. But admission should be rCS0lutely refused tC any territorv