The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-22
NUMBER 30

stiBets than the Indian. Labor was
scarce and fully employed. But the
day OF the Immigration bureau has
gone by. While our doors will con-
tinue open to proper immigration We
do not mean to issue special invita-
ton to the inhabitantsof of other coun- !.
tries to come to our shores or to slIafe
our citizenship. Indeed. the neces-
slty Of some inspection and limita-
tion is obvious.
We should resolutely fefuse2O per-
NIT foreign governments to send
their paupers and criminals to our
ports. We are also clearly under q
duty to defend our civilization by
excluding alien races whose ulti-
mate assimmilation with our people
is neither possible nor desirable. The
'fstssfii y has Deen the nucleus in our@
best immigration and the home the
most potent assimilative force in our
civilization. The objections to Chinese
immigration are distinctive and con-
elusive and are now so generally ac-
cepted as such that the question has
passed entirely beyond stage of ar
gument. The laws relating to this
subject would, if should be charged
with their enforcement, be faithfully
executed. Such amendments or fur.
ther legislation as may be necessary
proper TO prevent evasion of the laws
and to stop further Chinese immigra-
ton would also meet my approval.
The expression of the Convention
upon this subject is in entire har-
mOny with my views.
Onr civil compact is government
by majorities and the law loses its
sanction and the magistrate our re.
spect when this compact is broken.
The evil results of election frauds
do not expend themselves upon the
voters who are robbed of their right
full influence in public affairs. The
individual, or community, or party
that practices or connives at election
frauds has suffered irreparable injury
and will sooner or 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 pro-
mote it. The Acknowledgement of a
single legal elector by a fraud or in
timdation is crime too grave to be-
regarded lightly. The right of every
qualified elector to cast one free bal
lot and to have it honestly counted
must not be questioned. Every con-
stituti0nal power should be used to-
make this right secure and to punish
fraud upon the ballot. Our colored
people do not ask special legislation
in their interest, but only to be made
secure in the common rights of
American citizenship. They will.
however, naturally mistrust the sim
cerity of those party leaders who ap-
peal to their race for support only in
those localities where the suffrage is
! free and election results doubtful and
compass their disfranchisements
where their votes would be control
ling and their choice cannot be
cOerced.
The nation. not less than the states
is dependent for prosperity and se-
curity upon the intelligence and mo-
rality Of the people. This common
interest very early suggested nation =
al aid in the establishment and en-
dowment of schools and colleges in
the new States. There is, I believe,
present eXigency that calls for still
more liberal and direct appropria.
tiOns in aid of common school eduea-
tion in the States.
The territorial form of government
is temporary expedient, not a per-
manent civil condition. 1t is adapt
ed to the exigency that suggested it,
but becomes inadequate and even OPP
pressive when applied to fixed and
popnlouS communities, Several ter
rtories are we'll able to bear the bur-
dens and discharge the duties of free
commonwealths in the American I'M
ion. To exclude them is to deny the
just rights of their people and may
well excite their indignant protest.
No question of the political prefer
ence of the people of territory
should close against them the hospi-
table door which has opened to two
thirds of the existing States. But
admission should be resolutely refus-
ed to any territory a majority of
whose people cherish institutions
that are repungent to our ciyilizatiCp ~
or Inconsistent with a Republican
form of government.
The declaration of the Convention
against "all combination of capital.
organized in trusts or otherwise to-
control arbitrarily the condition of
trade among our citizens" is in har-
mony with the views entertained