The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-26
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
Eastern question: by shipping building ma
teriGls and equipments for railroads into
china and BY preparing 70 dc business on a
can PRODUCTS have been heretofore shut out
sen Antonio Express.
American enterprise will not do that very
iong; It will go oter there and avail itself OF
the cheap labor to be found In unlimited guam
titles. Here Is sample OF the labor sitta-
ton In japan, given by the Hartford Courant,
republican gold standard newspaper:
Factories for various purposes have boon
own cotton mills. Great barrark-like brick
buildings they are, but without the Improves
arc Q matter OF course now In America. There
are a. present In Japan. says Percy Allen in
tho outlook. flfty-nine such Mills. chiefly
spiun:ng factories. employing IN NIL 1900
men and $1,000 women. The women are chiefly
ycunk girls brought by agents from the COUP
Try, wfere they have lived almost entirely IN
the oIen air. When they reach the factories
they are bound by contract to work twelve
hoCrn day, Sundays included. with but Two
holidays q month. For days work they are
pniG Nh amount that is equivalent to ccnts
Of Our money. and from this amount 4 cents
tay are kept back BY the employers to pay
Th,s iSaves tbs girl i cent in cash each aay
MS the remuneration for her labor.
Japan is the most civilized and progressive
OF ril the Eastern countries. 1t was so very
civilized that 1t adopted the gold standard
q year or two ago,
Tho Houston Post advocates constilutioaai
convention to remodel AMI renew the present
Instrument and cut Off the expense Of con-
tfnuing tc vote upon amendments. The iua-
jority, of the. people. we honestly believe.
iuundcdly rcor.--Colorado Citizen.
The peoples poverty has nothing to do with
It, 1t will cost them much less to have a
convention than to DO constantly paying for
elections to pass upon aniepdments. And be-
sides. a new constitution could and doubtless
would be the means OF many needed reforms
which would result in a saving to the people.
~
These two items IN the same column of the
| Glotc- Democrat, make strange blending OF
comedy and tragedy to one who understands
beth. The first Is as follows:
The praise for st. Louis on account OF the
splendid honest money majority which I
rolleo up in the election is coming from all
quarters Of the country. 1t is well deserved.
ST Louis has been the right side OF ths
finance question almost constantly ever since
silversm came
The second Is this:
Tifty-seven highway robberies and bur-
giarien are the record for single month In
St Louis. The police force fixed up for this
there as a political machine, but 1t is in
competent 10 deal with crime In st. Louis.
~
Galveston seems to be particularly anxious
TO impress upon the balance of tho State the
fant that the republican congressman elect in
the Tenth district reached the Galveston ccun-
" line with plurality of the votes and
would have been elected with Galveston s vote
left entirely out OF the cot nt.--San Antolio
Express.
| Yes. but suppose Galveston had treated all
| the democratic nominees alike II every man
| In Galveston who claims to be a democrat
| had voted the ticket straight Judge Robson
would have been elected
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| TIE men who are predicting Bailey's defeat
| for leadership of the democrats IN congress
| are about on a par with regular election uno
| political prophets. OF course, II majority
| OF the democrats In congress don't want him
| for tier leader. he will be depcsed but the
| lucky man VIII know he had race for It,
| Sher man Register.
! THO Post has no idea that Mr.. Bailey will
b, displaced. He is the best equipped man in
| the party for the position OF house leader, and
| the fight on him comes from those who care
| ltllo for the party
The esteemed Galveston Tribune still In
sists that nil the democrats Of the Tenth dis
tiict need to do to win In 1900 Is to abandon
their principles. Houston Post.
The Tribune is merely insisting that the
same discretion exercised In Neberg's and
this sound money district. The Tribune is
not 1ustifyinV democratic detection In the
Tenth. 1t Is pleading for generous and dis
Greet recognition OF conditions as they exist
Galveston Tribune.
| Granting all the Tribune says to be true,
the comparison is odious In the Eleventh and
| Twelfth districts the old line democrats wore
| not Mt all pleased with some things done in
congress by Mr.. Kicberg and Mr.. slnyden;
| they disagreed with these gentlemen on the
subject of tho tariff. but when tho nominat-
| ing conventions spoke this objection was
| waived. The democrats of these districts were
| loyal party men; they refused to knife the
| party nominees because they disagreed with
these nominees on one particular Issue. In
the Tenth dstrict-and especially IN Calves.
ton--it was different according to the Trib-
unes way of thinking. There are democrats
and democrats.
| The republican majority OF the next house
| Is not as large ms II might have been, but Tom
! Reed has had experience in stretching major.
| ities.--Washington Post.
Has somebody given Judge Noonan tip
aloag this lineg
! / dosrc TO state that no such caucus was
| held. nor have by word or act intimated my
| iri,rtion to return to the democratic party
| Harry Tracy.
| And II can I've stated as fact that the
democratic party has not By word or act, in.
timated any desire to have you come back.
Seat,
SOME Pos1NsCnII'Ts.
Gcvornor-elect Charles S. Thomas OF