The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13


The inspection and regulation of
the manufacture ana sale of Oleo
margarine Is important and the reYe.
nue. derived from uit 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 ia the purchase of bonds. The
law authorizes this use OF 1t, and If it
is not needed Tor current or deficiency
appropriations, the people and not the
banks. in which it has been deposited,
should have the advantage of its use
Oy stopping interest upon the public
debt. at least those who needle3Sly
hoard it should not be allowed to use
the fear of monetary stringency,
thus produced. to cOerce public senti-
ment upon other questions.
Closely connected with the subject of
the tariff is that of the importation of
foreign IaborerS uEder contracts of ser
vice TO BIZ performed here. The law
ROW IN force prohibiting such contracts
received my cordial support in the SEN
ate and such amendments as may be
found necessary effectively tn deliver
our WorkingInen and women from this
most lneQuitSble sort of competition
Will have ny sincere advocacy. Legis-
iation prohibiting tue importation of
labofefS under contractors to servo
here will however afford very made
quate relief to our working people if
the system of protective duties is brok-
en- down. If the products of American
shops must compete il TIE American
market without favoring duties with
the products OF cheap foreign labor
the effect will Oe different, if at all,
only in degree. Whether the cheap la
bOrer is across the street OF over the
sea, such competition viii soon re-
duce wages here 10 the level of those
abroad, and when that condition is
reached We will not need any laws for
bidding the Imperial ion of ldbOrerS I'M
der contract: they viii have I'D induce
ment to come and the employer TO in
ducemeDt To SeIid for them. In the
earlier years of our history, public
agencies to promote immigration were
common, the pioneer wanted a neigh
nor with more friendly instincts than
the Indian and 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 inhabi-
tants of other countries to come to our
shores or to share our citizenship. In
deed, the necessity of some inspection
and limitation Is obvious. We should
reSOlutely refuse to permit foreign gov
ernments to send their paupers and
criminals to our ports. We are also
clearly under duty to defend our civ
iliZation by excluding alien races whose
ultimate assimilation with our people is
neither possible nor desirable. The
family has been the nucleus of our best
Immigration and the home the most
potent assimilating force in our civiliza-
zion.
The objections to Chinese immigra-
tInn ara 6i0fInptiya and fBn0nln SiVa and
are now SO generally accepted as such
that the question has passed entirely
beyond the stage of argument; the
laws relating to this subject would, il
should be charged with their enforce
ment, be faithfully executed and such
amendments or further legislation as
| may be necessary and proper to pre-
vent evasiOns of the laws and to stop
further Chinese immigration would al
so meet my approval. The expression
of the convention upon this subject is
in entire harmony with my views.
Our civil compact is government
by majOrities, and tile 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
rightful Influence in public affairs.
that practices or cOnnives at election
frauds has suffered irreparauble injury
and will sooner or later realize that to
exchange the American system of ma
iOrity rule for minority control is not
only unlawful and mnpatriOtic but very
| unsafe for those who promote it. The
Acknowledgement of single legal
elector by fraud or 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 hon
estly counted, must not be questioned.
Every constitutional power should be
used in this right to secure and punish
frauds 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 sinceri-
tyOf those party leaders who appeal to
their race for support only in those
localities where the suffrage is free
and election results doubtful, and COM
pass their disfranchisement where
their votes would be controlling and
their choice cannot be coerced.
The nation no less than the states is
dependent ::tOr prosperity and securi-
ty upon the intelligence and morality
Of our people. This common interest
establishment and endowment of
schools and colleges in the new states.
There is, believe, present exigency
that calls for still more liberal and di-
rect appropriations in aid of common
schools and education in the states.
The territorial form of government
| is a temporary expedient and not a
permanent civil condition. 1t Is adapt
| ed to the exigeDcy that suggested it
| INIT haa0xnaa ino6oOnafa 2nn oVan IN
pressive when applied to fixed and
populOus communities. Several
territories are well able
to bear tie burdens and
| discharge the duties of free common
wealths in the American union. To
exclude them is to deny the just rights
of their people and may well excite
their indignant protest. No question
| of the political preference of the people
of a territory should close against
| them the hoSpitable door which has
opened to two thirds of the existing
| states; but admission should be 1880
| lutely refused to any territory. a ma
| jority of whose people cherish inStitu-
tons that are Tepugnant to our civili-
cation, or inconsistent with republi-
can form of government.
The declaration of the convention
against all combinations of capital Or
R6IllZcU III IIOotS OF OS1lOENtbc. 10 Gull
| troll arbitrarily the condition of trade
among our citizens" is in harmony
with the views entertained and public
| ly expressed by ne long before the
assembling of the convention. Ordi-
narily capital shares TIE losses of idle
ness with labor, but under the opera
ton of the trust in some of it's forms
the wage-worker aIOns suffers the loss
while idle capital receives its
| dividends from - trust fund,
Producers who refuse to join the
combination are destroyed and compe-
titiOn as an element of prices is eiimin-
ated. 1t cannot be doubted that the
| legislative authority should and will
find method of dealing fairly and eff
| fectively with these and other abuses
connected with this subject.
1t can hardly be necessary for me to
say that | am heartily in sympathy
with the declaration of the convention
| upon the subject of pensions to our SOL
| diers and sailors. What they gave and