The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-20

neer wanted q neighbor with more friendly
instincts than the Indian. Labor was scarce
and fully employed. But the day Of the Inn
migration bureau has gone by. While our
doors will continue open to proper immigra-
ton, we do not need to issue special invita-
tions to the inhabitants Of other countries to
TO our shores or to shar 70 our citizen
ship. Indeed, the necessity Of some
INSPECTION AMI uTAT1o
is obvious We should resolutely refuse to
permit foreign governments to send their
paupers and criminals to our ports. We are
also clearly under a duty to 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 immigra-
ton and the home the most potent assimi-
lating force in our civilization. The objec-
tions to Chinese immigration are distinctive
and conclusive, and are now go generally
accepted as such that the question has
passed entirely beyond the stage of argu-
ment The laws relating to this subject
would, II I should be charged with their en-
be more faithfully executed
amendments or further legislation as
may be necessary and proper TO prevent
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Chinese immigration would also meet my
approval. The expression of the con-
yention upon this subject isin entire harmony
with my views. Our civil compact is q gov
eminent by maiorides; and the law loses its
sanction and the magistrate our respect
when this compact la broken. The evil
results Of election frauds do not expend
themselves upon the voters who are robbed
of their rightful influence in public AFFAIR."
The individual, or communitv, or party, that
practices or connives at election frauds has
suffered irreparable injury and will sooner
or later realize that to exchange the Ameri-
can system Of majority rule for minority
control is not only unlawful and unpatriotic
but very unsafe for those who promote it
The Acknowledgement of o single legal
elector by fraud or intimidation Is q crime
too grave to be regarded lightly. The right
Of every qualified elector to cast one free
ballot and to have 1t honestly counted must
not be questioned. Every constitu-
tional 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 ecu In the common 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 the suffrage is
free and election results doubtful and COM
pass their disfranchisem emit where their
votes would be controlling and their choice
cannot be coerced. The nation, not less than
the states, ia dependent for prosperity and
security upon the intelligence and morality
of the people. This common interest very
emily suggested national aid in the estab-
lishment md endowment OF schools and col
Ieges in the new states There ia at present
an exingency that calls for still more liberal
and direct appropriations in aid OF common
school education in the staJeR
T~ERRIToRiAL RIGHTS.
The territorial form Of government lie a
Temporary ~expedient, not a permanent civil
condition. Il is adapted to theSaxigeaaY
that suggested it, but becomes
and even oppressive when applied
and popnlous communities.
tories ara~sel. able to bear the d
|discharge the duties Of free com
Bn tho American Union. To exc
TO deny thu just rights of their people, and
may well excite their indignant protest. No
question Of the political preference of the
people OF . territory should close against
them the hospitable door which has opened
to two-thirds Of the existing states. But adj
mission should be resolutely refused to any
territory, q majority Of whose people cherish
institutions that arc repugnant to our civiliz.
alton. or Inconsistent with q republican form
Of government The declaration OF the con
vention against Fall combinations OF capital,
organized in trusts or otherwise, to control
arbitrarily the condition of trade among our
citizens is In harmony with the views en-
tertained and publicly expressed by me long
before the assembling Of the convention.
Ordinarily capital shares the losses Of idle
ness with labor; but under the operation Of
the trust, in some Of its forms, the wage
worker alone suffers loss, while idle capital
receives It's dividends from q trust fund.
Producers who refuse to Join the combina-
tion are destroyed, and competition as an
element or prices is eliminated. II cannot
- doubted that the legislative authority
should and viii find q method Of dealing
fairly and effectively with these and other
abuses connected with this subject e can
hardly be necessary for me to say that / an
heartily In sympathy with the declaration Of
the convention upon the subject Of
PENSIONS \ OUR soIDIEKs
and sailors What they Y nnd
what they suffered I have had some
o~pportunityto observe and, In q small meas.
ure, to experience. They gave ungrudg-
ingly; it was not q trade, but an offering.
The measure was hcaped up, running over
What they achieved, only q distant genera
ion can adequately tell. Without attempt
Ing to discuss particular propositions, I may
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