The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-07-16
JAPAN' s. AMBIYlON
She Is Trying to Secure Control Of
the Island of Hawaii.
DON'T LIKEOUR NEW TARIFF
The Mikad0's Government Is Becoming
Very Impudent in Her Demands.
Her Poorly Paid Labor.

The Japanese protest against this
government annexation of Hawaii
has developed into one involving the
rights of the laboring japanese now
on the Island of Hawaii. For some
years those islands have been receiving
large numbers of japanese laborers
and during the past year, and espe-
cially since the close of the Japanese
Chinese war, increased numbers have
been filling the islands, ostensibly as
laborers, but it is known fact that a
great many students and other higher
class Japanese have been landing in
Hawaii for the purpose of overturning
the government and forming it into a
Japanese dependency.
If Japan could obtain possession of
these islands it would give her the
most desirable and convenient port as
a coaling station and supply depot for
her great fleets, and would place her
in very dangerous proximity should
she conclude to. extend her colonization
purposes. or III case of war with this
country or any other on the American
continent
The Japanese in their re-awakening
from their long dream of semi barbar-
ism are as thoroughly wide awake as
any nation in the world, being splen-
did sailors, and soldiers endowed with
a bravery which fears not death ed
ucated in the schools of the best ma
tions of the earth, they are certain TO
become factor in the geographical di-
visions of the Orient.
Japan is much disgruntled at the
United States because of the tariff bill,
as it has increased the duties upon
much OF Japanese manufacturers which
will tend to equalize the labor ques-
tion as existing between that country
and this. In Japan good silk weaver
can be employed for 80 cents a day
and similar help in this country is
worth from So up. and it would be
question of only few years when the
Japanese commodities would entirely
supplant all those of American manu-
into our markets GU equal terms. The
new tariff bill has effectually stopped
this and places japanese silks and like
manufactures on the list so high that
they are very much dissatisfied and are
now protesting vigorously. If this
country is to be protected from the
cheap labor of India, China and Japan,
and our laboring people insured right
to live III accordance with the genius
of American institutions, our laboring
people must be protected by an almost
prohibitive tariff, otherwise with the
low wages paid in those countries, and
their exceeding adaptability and cum
Mug in manufacturing, the American
wage Garner will be starved to death in
endeavoring to compete with them.
If this tariff when it becomes a law
proves insufficient other measures will
have to be adopted by this government
for the protection of our own people.
Self preservation in nations as we'll
as individuals is the first law and the
statesman who will ignore this funda-
mental principle Of his existence is
very unwise indeed.
Some of our anti tariff people claim
that the superior intelligence of the
American wOrkmen will always be
sufficient to protect him against the
low wages of those countries, but if we
take into consideration the fact Of the
largely increased amount Of experts
from those countries into the civilized
nations of the west during the last de-
cade it will be seen that they have
equal ability to produce beautiful arti-
cles, we'll made, which would thor
Oughly SupDlant the manufacturers of
America and England.