The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-22

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will be able TO make sp for tho loss of
tho home market by IN enlarged foreign
market. Our wo-kingmen have the settle
ment of this question in their own hands.
They now obtain higher wages and live
more comfortably than those of any
other country. They will make a choice
between the substantial advantages they
have in hand an1 the deceptive promises
and forecasts of those theorizing reform
ers. They will decide for themselves and
for the country whether the protection
system shSll be continued or destroyed.
THE FACT OF TREASURY SURPLUS,
the amount of which is varionsly stated,
has directed public attention TO con
sideration of the methods by which the
national income may be reduced to the
level of a wise and necessary expend-
iture. This condition has been secured
upon those who are hostile to protective
custom duties as an advantageous base of
attack upon our tariff lava. They have
magnifed and nursed the surplus which
they affect to depreoate, seemingly for
the purpose of exaggerating the
evil in order to reconcile the
people to the extreme remedy they
propose. A proper reduction of the rev
enue does not necessita.e and should not
suggest the abandonment or impairment
of the protective system. The methods
.ugg BY our convention will not have
to be exhausted in order to effect the
nece ssary reduction. We are not likely to
be called upon, think, to make a
present choice between the sur
render of our protective system
and the entire repeal of the internal tax
e.. Such contingency, in view of the
present relation of expenditures to the
revenues Is rsmo.e. The inspection and
regulation of the manufacture and sale
of olcomargarins is important, and the
revenue derived from it is not SO great
that the repeal of the Law need not enter
into any plan of revenue reduction. The
surplus now in the treasury should be
ussd in
THE PURCHASE OF BONDS.
The Law authorizes this use of it, and il
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 its nee by
stopping the interest upon the public
debt. At least those who needlessly
heard it should not be allowed to use the
fear of monetary stringencF, thus pro
duced, to coerce public sentiment upon
other questions. Closely connected with
the subject of the tariff is that of the
IMPORTATION or YoREIGN LABoRERs
formed here. The law low , in force
prohibiting such contracts received my
cordial support III the senate, and such
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III effectively deliver our workingmen
equitable form of competition
@iit have my sincere advocacy.
The legislation prohibiting the importa-
tion OF taborers under contracts To serve
here will, however, afrord very inadequat.
relief 10 our working people If the system
of protective duties is broken down. If
the products of American shops must
compete in the American market without
favoring duties with the p.oduc;s of
eEesp foreign labor, the effest will be
different, if at nli, only in degree wheth.
er the cheap labor is across the street or
over the sea. Such mpetition vii. soon
reduce wages here to the level OF those
abroad, and when that condition is reach
ed, will not need any laws forblddlng the
VI uuGsE CONTRACT.
they will have no inducement To come,
and the em ployer no indncement To send
for them. In the earlier year years of our
history, public agencies TO promote im-
migration w-re common. The pioneer
wanted n neighbor with more friendly
instincts than the Indian. Labor was
scarce and fully employed. But the
day of the immig ration bureau has gone
D. k1l
ed to proper immigration, we do not
Eeed TO issue special invitations to the
inhabitants of other countries TO come to
Our shores or to share our citiz z.nship.
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 civil position 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
in our civilization.
THE OBJECTIONS TO CHINESE IMMIGRATION
are distinctive aud conclusive, and are
now SO genera ly accepted as such. that
the question has passed entirely around
the stage of arguments. The laws re.
iating to this subject would if l should
be charged with rheir enforcement be
faithfully executed. Such amends ent or
further legislation as may be necessary
and proper to prevent evasious of the
law and to stop further Chinese immigra.
tion would also meet my approval. The
expression Oh ithe convention upon
this subject is in entire h1nlnony with my
views.
THE ELECTION FRAUD GHOST.
Our civil compact Is government by
majorities. and the law loses 1t sanction
and the magistrate our respect when
this compact is broken. The evil results
of election frauds do not expend them.
selves upon the voters who are robbed Of
their rightfui influence in pnolic affairs.
The individual, or community, or party
that practices or coDnives at election
frauds has suffered irreparable injury
and VII sooner or later realize that To
exchange the American system of ma
jority rule for minority control is net
only unlawful and anratriotio but very
uusafe for thDan who prprpot..