Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-12
Mr.. HARRISON ACCEPTS
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the loss of the home market by an enlarg-
ed foreign market. Our workingmen haYe
in their own hands. They now OBJ
tain higher wages and live more
comfortably than those of any other coun-
try. They will make choice between the
substantial advantages they have In hand
and the deceptive promises and forecasts
of those theorizing reformers. They will
| decide for themselves and for the country
whether the protective system shall be
continued or destroyed.
REDUCING THE SURPLUS
The fact of a treasury surplus, the
amount of which is variously stated, has
directed public attention to a considers
ton of the methods by which the national
income may be reduced to the level Of a
wise and necessary expenditure. This
| condition has been sliced upon by those
who are hostile to protective customs du-
ties as an advantageous base of attack
upon our tariff laws. They have magni-
fed and nursed the surplus which they
affect to deprecate, seemingly for the pur-
! pose of eXaggerating the evil in order to
reconcile the people to the extreme remedy
| they propose. A proper reduction of the
revenues does not necessitate, and should
not suggest, the abandonment or i'm
pairment of the protective system. The
| methods suggested by our convention
will not need to be exhausted in order to
effect the necessary reduction. We are
not likely to be called upon, think, TO
make present choice between the surren-
der of the protective system and the entire
repeal of the internal taxes. Such con-
| tingency, in view OF the present relation of
expenditures, is remote. The inspection
and regulation of the manufacture and
| sale of oleomargarlne IS important, and
the revenue derived from it is not SO great
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any plan Of revenue reduction. The sur
| plus now in the treasury should be used in
| the purchase of bonds. The law author
ICES this use of it, and if it is not needed
for current or deficiency appropriations
| the people and not the banks in which it
has been deposited should have the advan-
tage of its use by stopping interest upon
lessly hoard it should not be allowed to
use the rear Of monetary strlngency
thus produced to coerce public sentiment
upon other questions.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN LABOR.
Closely connected with the subject Of the
tariff is that of the importation of foreign
laborerS under contracts of service to be
performed here. The law now now in
force prohibiting such contracts received
my cordial support in the senate, and such
amendments as may be found necessary
women from this most inequitable form of
competition will have my sincere advo-
cacy Legislation prohibiting the impor-
tation of laborers under contract to serve
mere Will, however, afford very inadequate
relief to our working people if the system
of protective duties is broken down. If
the products Of American shops must
compete in the American market with
out favoring duties with the
products of cheap foreign labor,
the effect will be different if at
all, only in degree, whether the
cheap labor is across the street or over the
ocean. Such competition will soon reduce
wages here to the level of those abroad,
and when that condition is reached we
will not need any laws fOrbidding the i'm
portation of laborerS under contract-they
will have no lnducement 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 neighborS
with more friendly instincts than the
Indian. Labor was scarce and fully en-
ployed. 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 need of some inspection and
limitation Is obvious We should resolutely
refuse to permit foreign governments to
send their pauperS and criminals to our
ports.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
We are also clearly under duty to defend
our civilization by excluding alien races
whose ultimate assimilation with our peo-
pie is neither possible or desirable. The
family has been the nucleus of our best
immigration and the home the most po-
tent aSSimllating force in our civilization.
The objections to Chinese immigration are
distinctive and conclusive, and are now SO
generally accepted as such that the. queS-
ton has passed entirely beyond the stage
of argument The laws relating to this
subject would, if l should be charged with
their enforcement, be faithfully executed.
Such amendments or further legislation
as may be necessary and proper to prevent
evasions of the law, and to stop further
Chinese immigration would also meet my
approval. The expression of the conven-
ton upon this subject is in entire har
mony with my views.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
Our civil compact is government by
majorities; 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
practices or cOnnlveS at election frauds,
has suffered irreparable injury and will
sooner or later realize that to change the
American system of majority to minority
control is not only unlawful and unpatri-
otto but very unsafe for these who pro-
mote it. the Acknowledgement of a sin
gle legal elector by fraud or intimidation
is {. crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
The right of every qualified elector 10 cast
hnl lnr nd fn
counted must not be questioned.
Every constitutional power should be used
to make this right secure and punish
frauds upon the ballot. Our colored peo-
pie 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 doubt the
sincerity of those party leaders who appeal
to their race for support only in those To-
calities where the SUFFRAGE is free and
election results doubtful and COM
pass their disfranchisement where their
votes would be controlling and their choice
can not be coeerced.
The nation, not less than the states, is
dependent for propriety and security on
the Intelligence and morality of the people.
This common interest very early suggested
national aid in the establishment and en-
dowment of schools and colleges in the
new states. There is. | believe a present
exigency that calls for still more liberal
and direct appropriation in aid Of
common school education in the states.
Tie territorial form of government is
temporary expedient, not a permanent
civil condition. 1t is adapted TO the ex-
igency that suggested it, but becomes
inadequate and even oppressive when
applied TO fixed and populous commu-
mites. Several territories are well able TO
bear the burdens and discharge the duties
OF free commonwealth in the American