New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-19

garine is important, aud the revenue derived
from 1t is not 80 great that the repeal of the
law need enter into any plan of revenue re-
duction. The surplus now in the treasury
should be used in the purchase of bonds.
The law authorizes this use of it, and if
1t is not need for current or deficiency aD-
preparations, the people. and not the banks
IN which it has been deposited, should have
the advanta ge of its use by stopping interest
upon 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 upon
other questions
PAUPER IMMIGRATION.
Closely connected with the subject Of the
tariff is chat of the importation of foreign
laborers under contracts of service to be
performed here. The law now in force pro-
hlbltlng such contracts received my cordial
support in the senate. and sucn amendments
as may be found necessary effectively to de-
liver our working men and women from this
most inequitable form of competition will
have my sincere advocacy. Legislation pro-
hlbiting the Importation of laborers under
CO. tracts to serve here will, however, afford
very inadequate relief to our working peo-
pie If the system of protective duties is
broken down. If the products of American
shops must compete in the American market,
without fayoring duties, with the products
of cheap foreign labor, the effect will be
different, j. at all, only in degree, whether
the cheap laborer is across the street or over
the sea. 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 Importation of
laborers under conttact-they 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 pro-
mote immigration were common The pio-
neer wanted a neighbor with more friendly
instincts than the Indian Labor was scarce
and fully employed But the day of the i'm
migration bureau has gone by. While our
doors will continue open to proper immigra-
ton, we do not need to issue special invita-
lions TO the Inhabitants of other countries to
come TO our shores or to share our citizen
ship. Indeed, the necessity of some
INSPECTION AND LIMITATION
is obvious We should resolutely refuse to
permit foreign governments to send their
paupers and criminals to our ports We are
also clearly under duty to defend our
ultimate assimilation with our people is
neither possible nor desirable The family
has been the nucleus of our best immigra-
tion 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 so generally
accepted as such that the question has
passed entirely beyond the stage of argu-
ha low rnlo To io1)
would, if should be charged with their en-
forcemenU, be more faithfully executed
Such amendments or further legislation as
may be necessary and proper to prevent
evasons of the laws and to stop further
Chinese immigration would also meet my
approval. The expression of the con-
vention upon this subiectsin entire harmony
with my views. Our civil compact is gov
eminent by maiorities; and the law loses it's
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 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 a single legal
elector by fraud or intimidation is o 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 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 secure 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 distranchisenle nt where their
votes would be controlling and their choice
cannot be coerced The nation, not less than
the states, is dependent for prosperity and
security upon the intelligence and morality
OF the people, This common interest very
early suggested national aid in the estab-
lishmenJ and endowment of schools and col
leges in the new states There is at present
an exingency that calls for still more liberal
and direct appropriations in aid of common
school education in the states
TERRITORIA RIGHTS.
The territorial form of government is a
temporary expedient, not permanent civil
condition. It is adapted to the exgency
that suggested it, but becomes inadequate
and even oppressive when applied to fixed
and populous communities. Several terri
tories are well able to bear the burdens and
discharge the duties of free commonwealth
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 territ ry should close against
them the hospitable door which has opened
to two-thirds of the existing states But adj
mission should be resoiutely refused to any
territory, a majority of whosepeople cherish
institutions that are repugnant to our ciyiliz-
alton. or inconsistent with a republican form
of government The declaration of the con-
vention ag ainst @all combinations of capital
organized in trusts or otherwise, to control
| arbitrarily the condition of trade among o1l1