Arizona republican., 1898-12-19

ing Hawaii as a land flowing with milk and honey. The outgoing ships then be- came crowded with fortune seekers. Many of these were sent back because they lacked the ss9 which the law re- quires each prospective citizen to pos sess, and even those who had the suffi- cient amount have become stranded and have had to be helped home. The amount of relief which we have had to extend to Americans has become a seri- ous matter. and it is worth while to ut ter warning note to these who have an idea that as soon as they land i'll Hawaii they will find good employment and a chance to make fortune"
 MT Shingle says that the owners of the largest sugar plantations are talk ing California farmers 10 work upon the cooperative system and nope be- fore long to supersede the Chinese and Japanese contract labor.
 The effort to bring to the attention of congress the recent race troubles in North Carolina is apparently quite widespread and determined. Otherwise there would be no occasion for sending to congress the reports of the meetings held in various parts of the country to protest against the ill treatment of ne groes in the south One Of these re- ports was presented to the senate yes terd2y by MT 1urpie, and was full account of mass meeting of protest ing negroes at Terra Haute. It was ac- companied by a petition for legislation which would give thu negroes their sui frage rights under the constitution, and as the peti;ion and the report Of the meeting were referred to the committee i1i1 l,3f init will have reason to consider the question if it shall so decide.
 Senator Money of Mississippi, who has given the negro problem consider able thought, talked interestingly yes terday about the situation in his state. We have had no trouble with the ne gro for years he said. "and in fact there is no reason why there should be. It is generally understood that the white men will control the state and municipal governments, and 1 know that the personnel of our colored uni versity, an institution largely support ed by the democratic legislature, votes the democratic ticket"
 Does the educational test result in the disfranchising of the negro?"
 "In very slight degree. The voter has to read CT understand a clause of the
  the judge of election helps out the vot- CTS, both white and colOred. A more stringent barrier is the requirement that every would-be voter who is chal- Ie2ged shall produce his tax receipts for the two years prior to the election. There can be TO evasion of this pro vision. Either he has the receipts or he has not; and if he cannot produce them he cannot .vote''
 
 The cloak room stories of statesmen who had to change front in the annex ation question right in >-he middle Of the campaign are frequent these days. There is generally no effort to conceal the coercion they were compelled to submit to-the alternative, of course, being withdrawal from the canvass or defeat at the polls. T was anti-Ha- waii," said the conservative and judi cial minded Representative Crum- pacher of Indiana to group Of repub- licans yesterday, lat the last session. stood the racket for six weeks. Then laid down.
 Judge Crumpacher's decision un- doubtedly saved an excellent member to the next house of represe entative5, but his submission to the popular clam or for more land has not allayed his fears for the future, for he still thinks that we have made a bad bargain, but must make the best of it.
 There have been like changes Of heart in the small block of seats as signed to house populisls. The rather rural looking Representative Edwin Reed Ridgely of Pittsburg, Kan, the only populis5 member of congress who