Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13

wages here to the level OF those ABROAD anO
when that condition is reached we will not need
any laws forbidding the importation Of laborers
under contradictory 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 com
mon The pioneer wanted neighbor WIFE
more friendly instincts than the Indian. La
Dor was scarce and fully employed But tne
day of the immigration bureau has gone by.
While our doors will continue open to proper
immigration. we do not need to issue INV
tations to the inhabitants of other countries
to come to our shores or to share our citizen
ship. Indeed, the necessity of some inspec
ton and limitation is obvious. We should
resoiutely refuse to permit foreign Governments
to send their paupers and their criminals tc
our ports. We are also clearly under duty tc
defend our civilization 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 anc
the home the most potent assimilating force II
our civilization.
The objections TO Chinese immigration are
distinctive and conclusive, and are now so gen
orally accepted as such that the question ha:
passed entirely beyond the stage of argument
The laws relating to this subject would, if
faithfully executed. Suca amendments OF
further legislation as may be necessary anC
proper to prevent evasions of the laws and Il
stop further Chinese immigration would also
meet my approval The expression Of the con
vention upon this subject is in entire harmony
with my views.
Our civil COMPACT is government by MAORI
ties; and the law iGses its sanction and the
magistrate our respect whe.c this compact Il
broken. The evil results Of election ,auos "
not expend themselves upon the voters wn,
are robbed OF their rightful influence IN pub
lie affairs. The individual, or community, o,
party that practices connives at election
frauds has suffered irreparable injury, and
viii sooner or later realize that to exchange
the American system of majority rule for mi
nor1ty control is not only unlawful and unpat-
riotic, but very unsafe for those who promote
1t. The Acknowledgement of a single legal
elector by fraud or intimidation is 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 secure and
punish frauds upon the ballot Our colored
people do not ask special legislation in their in
terest, but only to be made secure in the COM
mon rights of American citizenship. They will,
however, natura ly mistrust the sincerity of
those party leaders who appeal to their race
for support only in thoe localities where the
suffrage is free and election results doubtful
and compass their Acknowledgement where
their votes would be c. ntrolling and their choice
can not be coerced
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 National
aid in the endowment and establishment of
schools and colleges in the new States. There
is, believe, present exIgency that calls for
still more liberal and direct appropriations In
aid OF common school education in the States
The territorial form of government is a tenn
porary eXpedient, not permanent civil condi-
ton. 1t is adapted to the exigency that sug-
gested it, but becomes inadequate and even op-
pressive, when applied to fixed and populous
communities. Several Territories are well
able to bear the burdens nd discharge the du-
ties Of free commpnwealths in the American
Union.
To exclude them is to deny the just rights of
their people and may well excite their indig-
nant protest. No question Of the political pref
erence 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 resolutely refused to any
Territory, majority of whose people cherish
AhoeAbusAOho tAob ECpuSudnI 10 our ClVllZd-
ton or inconsistent with a republican form of
government.
The declaration Of the convention against
All combinations Of capital organized in trusts
or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition
OF trade among our citizens" is in harmony
with the views entertained and publicly ex-
pressed by me long before the assembling of
the convention. Ordinarily capital shares the
losses of idleness with labor; but under the
operation Of the trcst in some of its
forms, the wage worker alone suffers
loss, while idle capital receives its dividends
from trust fund Producers who refuse to
join the combination are destroyed and COM
petition as an element of prices is eliminated.
1t can not be doubted that the legislative au-
thority should and will find method of dealing
fairly and effectively 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 soldiers and sailors. What they gave
and what they suffered I had some oppor-
tunity 70 observe, and in small measure.
to experience. They gave ungrudgingiy It
was not trade, but an offering. The meas
ure was heaped up, running over. What
they achieved only distant generation can
adequately tell. Without attempting to dis
cuss particular propositions, / may add that
measures in behalf Of the surviving veterans
Of the war and Of the families of their dead
comrades should be conceived and executed in
. spirit Of justice and Of the most grateful lib
eraltty and that, in the competition for civil
appointments, honorable military service
should have appropriate recognition.
The law regulating appointments to the
classified civil service received my support In
the Senate, In the belief that il opened the
way to much-needed reform. ! still think
so and therefore or1cially approve the clear
and forcihle expression Of the convention upon
this subject The law should nave the aid
Of Q friendly Interpretation and be faithfully
and vigorously enforced. An appointments
uudes IL sAHuld b Absolutely free rum mn