Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-12

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or impairment of the protective
system. The methods suggested by
our Convention will not need to be ex
hausted in order to effect the necessary
reductions. We are not likely to bt
called, l think, to make the presen
choice between the surrender OF oul
protective system and the entire repea
of our internal taxes. Such a contin.
gency, in view of the present relation O.
the expenditures to the revenues, is re-
mote. The inspection and regulation ol
the manufacture and sale of oleomar-
garine is important, and the revenue de.
rived from it is not SO great that 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
authorizes 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 advantage Of it's use, by
stopping the interest on the public debt
AT least those who needlessly hoard it
should not be allowed to use the fear OF
monetary stringency thus produced, to
coerce public sentiment opon other ques-
tions.
FOREIGN CONTRACT LABOR.
Closely connected with the subject of
Tariff is that of the importa ton of for
elgn laborers under contract of services
to be performed here. The law now in
force prohibiting such contracts re-
ceived my cordial support in the Sem
ate, and such amendments as may
be found necessary effectively to
deliver our workingmen and women from
this most inequitable form of competition,
will have my sincere advocacy. I.egis-
lation prohibiting the importation of la
borers under contract to serve here will,
however, afford very inadequate relief to
our working people if the system of pro-
tective duties is broken down. If the
products of American shops must COM
pete in the American market, without
favoring duties, with the products of
cheap foreign labor, the effect will be
different. Whether cheap labor is across
the streat or over the sea, such competi-
tion will soon reduce the wages here to
the level of those abroad, and when that
condition is reached we will not need
any laws forbidding 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 pub
lie agencies to promote immigration were
common. The pioneer wanted neigh
bor with more friendly instincts than the
Indian; labor was scarcer and fully en-
ployed; but the day of the immigration
Bureau has gone by. While our doors
will continue to be open to proper immi-
grafton, 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 me-
cessity of some inspection and limita-
tion 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 de-
fend our civil position by excluding alien
races, whose ultimate assimilation with
our people is neither possible nor desir-
able. The family has been the nucleus
OF our best immigration, and the home
the most potent assimilating force in our
civilization. The objections to Chinese
immigration are distinctive and conclus-
i've, and are now so generally accepted as
such that the question has passed en-
tirely beyond the stage of argument. The
laws relating to this subject would, if 1
should be charged With their enforce
ment, be faithfully executed. Such
amendments or further legislation as
may be necessary and proper to prevent
evasions of the laws, and to stop further
Chinese immigration, would also meet
my approval. The expressions of the
Convention upon this subject is in entire
harmony with my views.
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Our civil compact is a government by
the majority, and the law loses it's sane.
ton, and the magistrate our respect,
when this compact is broken. The evil
results of election frauds do not expend
themselves upon the the voters who are
robbed OF their rightful influence in pub
lie affairs. The individual, or commun-
ity 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,b but very un-.
safe for those who promote it. The dis
franchisement of single legal elector,
by fraud or intimidation, is crime too
great 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 Consti-
tutional 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 interest,
but only to be made secure IN the COM
mon 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 suffrage is free
and election doubtful, and compass their
disfranchisement where their votes would
be controlling and their choice cannot be
coerced.
EDUCATION.
The Nation not less than the State is
dependent for it's prosperity and security
upon the intelligence and morality of the
people. This common interest has very
easily suggested National aid in the
establishment and endowment of schools
and colleges in the new States. There
| is, believe, at present an exigency that
calls for still more liberal and direct
appropriation in aid of common school
education in the States.
| TERRITORIAL ADMISSION.
The Territorial form of government is
temporary expedient and not perma-
nent civil condition. 1t is adapted to the
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