Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28

o. F. PAYTON--- -Multnomah County
BE NOT ALARMED.
A contemporary of questiona-
BILE sanity, published not thous-
and miles from Corvallis, is visi-
bly, afrighted over the pessibil-
ity of this country being inun-
dated by a flood of Filipino inn
migrants eff we should make the
PHILIPPINES a part of the United
States" This an echo of the
excited cry of the cepperheads
of 1861-64. "Free the negro"
said they, land we must some
time expect to see in every town
and hamlet, on every railroad, in
every shop and factory in the
North and West, a negro laborer
competing and disputing with
our present laborer for the very
employment that is the laster's
livelihood and his farnily's sus-
tenance. -
But climatic and other condi-
tions in the North and West
were not congenial to the negro,
and after nearly 40 years we
still find him south of Mason
and Dixon's line.
Lincoln emancipated 1000,
900 slaves and conferred upon
them the rights of citizenship.
They were all in this country,
but neither our citizens nor
our institutions have suffered
from that act. Mckinley
has elnancipated II, 900, 900 peo-
pie from the Spanish yoke,
and Our citizens and our institu-
tions will not suffer from that
act. There has boen no barrier
in the past to prevent the peo-
pie of the Philippine arehipel-
ago from coming to this country,
and there is no reason why they
should swarm to Our shores un.
der the policy of the republican
party in any greater numbers
than they would under the pro.
teetorats of Bryan.
If these people love their coun-
try as we are told they do, and
are willing to make the sacrifices
for it, that we are told they are,
they will not desert it for land
uncongenial in climate and Gus
toms. If the day shall come
when the people of the Philip
pine Islands reach the standard
ofour own citizesnhip, and there
fore deserve the privileges of
citizenship, they will be valuable
additions to our population and
we will welcome them to our
shores. But that day is distant.
When it arrives American capi-
tai and American enterprise will
have developed the magnificent
resources of the islands and the
probability is that the Anglo
Saxon with his energy and push
push will do the swarming
and 1t will be toward the Philip
pines. In that day the Fit
pino will find more vs. ;sduee
him to remain at home es,a hs
has ever had in the past. kEe will
have enjoyed the blessing Ct fsee
schools, religious free. : aad
contact with higher civinza-
ton. His standard of living
will have been raised, and he
will demand wages worthy of
his ability to earn.
If by some wonderful hokus
pokus or hidden charm our SOW
ereignty over the islands should
suddenly find the people of the
Philippines seized with desire
to swarm to our shores, out OF
the 1000, 900 men, women and
children constituting the popu
lation of the entire archipelago
there would no. be enough who
would reach America to
form corporal's guard, let alone
to menace the 1aborer of the
United States. If tho entire
population should desert their
beloved country and should come
to this country in body, and
were skilled enough to supplant
1000, 900 of our own people in
our various fields of labor there