Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-23

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to the profits in the bubble AMI risk of
Independent speculation. rather than
calmly undertake obligations to labor
at fixel wage which affords no stimu-
lus to his efforts"
Speaking of the relations between the
Chinese and the natives, Maj. Frank S.
Bourns, in a report to Gen. Merritt,
says: s"The feeling existing between
the Filipinos and the Chinese residents
can be seen any day by anyone who
will take the trouble to notice 1t in the
streets of Manila. The Chinese being
naturally
MORE INDUSTRIOUS AND THRIFTY
than the Filipinos, usually succeed bet
ter, the result being feeling OF ex..
treme jealousy on the part OF the Fill
ipinos. / know from observation that
this racial feeling would be very harl
to overcome" Notwithstanding this
strong race antagonism there are those
who favor the encouragement of Chin
csc immigration to the Philippines.
Gen. Whittier, in his testimony before
the Paris peace commission, represent
ed the merchants of Manila as unani-
nous in saying that more coolie labor
was needed They thought it would be
required in railroad building and in the
development of the country, and be-
lieyed there was room for several mil
lions of Chinese. There are now prob
ably from $4,000 to 10000 in Luzon, al
though the exact number is unknown.
1t is thus evident that the Chinese
problem in the Philippines is serious
one. The enormous coast line of the
islands will make exclusion practically
impossible. A head tax of $40 was inn
posed by the Spaniards, but even this
must have been difficult of collection.
Inasmuch as japanese coolies, who are
no better in any way than the Chinese,
are freely admitted to Hawaii and all
our possessions, and even to the United
States, it is not easy to explain why
Chinese should be excluded from LuZon,
when they constitute the best class Of
workers in the community. The ques-
ton is only one of the many problems
involved in expansion, and serves to
show what a heavy burden We have
taken upon ourselves in jumping at the
chance to rule fifty different races in
the Philippines.
ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON
in the shortcomings of our present fin
aneial system has been afforded by the
treasury's attempt to relieve the string
eney in the New York money market
by anticipating the October interest on
government bonds. To help matters
along the national banks OF New York
have begun charging their circulation
by the deposit of bonds and the issue
of bank notes. And all this has been
done to make up the deficiency in small
change, just the kind of currency that
was supplied by the issue of silver Ger
tificates. The clamor during the last
few months for small notes was some
thing more than the usual summer and
autumn demand for such notes to move
the crops; it was cry from the people
and from the small merchants for more
money. Our natural business expan-
sion in ordinary times absorbes yearly
a large addition to the circulating medi-
UNI, and this addition has been shut
off; for gold, while swelling that part
of the circulation locked up in bank
vaults, does not jingle in the pockets
of the ordinary citizen. 1t would seem
that these facts ought to commend
themselves to the most hide-bound of
our national financiers. The money
question cannot be put at rest as long
as present conditions are allowed to ex-
list, and the treasury is obviously help
less to meet popular monetary needs.
Military justice is of piece the
world over, Notwithstanding compla-
cent American criticism Of the Drey-
fus verdict A writer in the Century
has resurrected the case of Commodore
Levy, who was prosecuted by an anti
Jewish clique in the American navy for
forty years, having been court-martial-
ed six times during that period on triv-
ial charges, and at last
Summarize DISMISSED