Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-09-20

any plan OF revenue feuicllOn. ne sur
/ plG3 in the treasury should be used in tin
/ purchase of bonds. The law authorize
( this use Of it, and if it is not needed 70
current or deficiency appropriations. tn
| people, and not the banks in which 1t ha
| been deposited. should have the advan
tage of its use by stopping interest upOl
I the public debt. AT least those who need
leSsly hoard it should not be allowed t.
use the fear of monetary Stringenc!
| thus produced TO cOerce public sentiment
upon other questions.
Closely connected with the subject o.
tariff is that of the importation of for
eign labOrerS under contracts of service
to be performed here. The law now il
force prohibiting such contracts received
my cordial support i'll the Senate, anC
such amendments as may be found nee
essary effectively to deliver
OUR woRKINGNTEN AND WOMEN
from this most inequitable form of com
petition, will have my sincere advocacy
Legislation prohibiting the importation
of labOrerS under contract to serve here
will, however, afford very inadequate re-
lief to our working people if the system
of protective duties is broken down. II
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 diff
ferent, if at all, only in degree, whether
the cheap labOrer is across the street, Ol
over the sea. Such competition will SOOr
reduce wages here to the level of those
abroad and when this 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 emplOy6, no inducement to send
for them.
In the earlier years of our history pub
lie agencies to promote immigration
were common. The pioneer wanted a
neighbOr with more friendly instincts
than the Indian. Labor was scarce and
fully employed. But the day of the immi-
grafton bureau has gone by. While our
doors will continue open to
PROPER IMMIGRATION
we do not need to issue special invita-
tions to the inhabitants of other cOun-
tries to come to our shores or to share
our citizenship. Indeed, the necessity
of some inspection and limitation is OBJ
viGuS. We should reSOlutely refuse to
permit foreign governments to send thelT
pauperS and criminals to our ports. We
are also clearly under 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 immigration and the home the most
potent aSsimilating force i'll our clYlllZa-
ton.
ALL RIGHT ON TIE CHINESE QUESTION.
The objections to Chinese immigration
n-,I onV,nl4rCi1ra 0n1 no
now so generally accepted us such that
the question has passed entirely beyond
the stage of argument The laws relat-
ing to the subject would, if should be
charged with their enforcement. be faith
fully executed. Such enactmentS or furth-
er legislation as may be necessary and
proper to prevent evaSiOnS CT the laws
and to stop further Chinese immigration
would also meet my approval. The ex-
preston of the convention upon this sub
ject is in entire harmony with my views.
FREE BALLOT.
Our civil compact is a government by
majorities, and the law loses its sanction
and the magistrate our respect, when the
compact is broken. The evil results of
election frauds do not expend themselves
upon the voters, who are robbed of their
III pttllS ttilttlID. 4 liN
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 American system Of majority rule
for minority control is not only unlawful
and unpatriotic, but very unsafe for
those who promote it. The disfranchise-
ment of single legal electOr by fraud or
inf nniHnfiO1n ic q foo tn no
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 pow
er should be used to make this right Sc
cure and punish frauds upon the ballot.
Our colOred people do not ask special
legislation in their interests, but only to
be made secure in the common rights of
American citizenship. They will, how
ever, 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 compass their dis
franchisement where their votes would
be controlling and their choice cannot be
cOerced.
FREE EDUCATION.
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 ear
ly suggested national aid in the eStab-
lishment and endowment of schools and
colleges in the new States. There is, |
believe. a present eXigency that calls for
still more liberal and direct appropria-
ton in aid of common school education
in the States.
The territorial form of government is
a temporary eXpedient, not a permanent
civilization. 1t is adapted to the eXigen-
cy that suggested it, but becomes made
quate, and even oppressive, when applied
to fixed pOpulOuS communities. Several
territories are well able to bear the bur
dens and discharge the duties of free
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 a
territory should close against them the
doors which have opened to
two thirds of the existing States. But
admission should be resOlutely refused to
any territory, a majority of whose people
cherish institutions that are repugnant
to our civilization or inconsistent with
form of government.
CONCERNING TRUSTS.
The declaration of the Convention
against "All combinations of capital, or
ganized in trusts or otherwise, to control
the condition of trade among
our citizens is i'll harmony with the
views entertained and publicly expressed
by me long before the assembling of the
Ordinarily. capital shares
the losses of idleness with labor; but un
der the operation of the trust in some of
its forms, tile wage-wOrker alone suffers
loss. While idle capital receives its divi-
dends from trust fund, producers who
refuse to join the combination are de
stroyed and competition as an element
of prices is eliminated. 1t cannot be
doubted that the Legislative authority
should and will find method of dealing
fairly and effectively with these and 9th
er abuses connected with this subject.
PENSIONS TO SOLDIERS.
1t can hardly be necessary for me to
say that | am heartily in sympathy with
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