Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-19
TO SUPPLANT WHITES
American Workmen Will Be Put in
Competition with Cinnamon by
Conquest Of the Philippines.
PLAN ALREADY OPERATING.

A0N AA0GAO Vx Elm x4N0s
Never in the history of this gov
eminent has the labor of this coun-
try been so menaced by the threatened
influx of the Monaghan and Malay
cheap labor of the far east as seems
probable under the Mckinley policy
of Imperialism, should that dangerous
policy be ratified by the American peo-
pie. Without the labor vote that policy
cannot be approved. 1t behooves the
laboring people, therefore, to look out
for breakers ahead. What does the
conquest of the Philippine islands
mean? 1t means that they shall be-
come American territory. What rights
does that proposition carry with it to
the people of the Philippines? The
Mckinley policy to make the Philip
pine islands American territory by con-
quest, and subject to American juris-
diction, carries with it the right of
the people of those islands to free 10
comotion to travel whittier they will
from one part of American territory
to another without let or hindrance.
What has happened in the Hawaiian
islands under the Mckinley admins
tration since those islands have been
annexed to the United States will take
place in this country. Fourteen to
twenty thousand Japanese coolie la
borers have been imported into the
Hawaiian islands by the rich sugar
planters, under contract, since the
annexation of those islands: and this
too, in violation of the contract labor
| law. Why did not Mckinley as the
chief executive of this nation whose
duty it was to enforce the law, pre-
vent this influx of Japanese coolie la
| Dor? Simply because he is bound
| hand and foot in the clutches of the
| syndicates and trust combines of the
| country.
What have we in. store for the
Philippine islands should the Nc
Kinley war of conquest be endorsed
The influx of Chinese coolie labor into
those islands under the sanction of the
| Mckinley administration! General
| Wesley Merritt and General Charles
| A. Whittier. U. S. ", and other land
and naval officers went to is~from
Manila to testify before the Paris peace
commissioners as to the Philippine
| people, their wants, needs, capabilities
| and government. General Whittier
said:
Then the question of the admission
Of Chinese, with the strong argument
on both sides. The merchants of Ma
| Mia are unanimous in their represen-
tations of the necessity for more cooley
labor. They, and many others, re-
quire it in Manila, and think that it
will be necessary in railroad building
and in the development of the coun-
try, saying, There is no question OF
competing with American labor here
there being no such in the country
nor can there be. the climate prohib-
iting that. Cheap labor and plenty OF
it is the life blood Of the Philippines
There is room for three millions Of
Chinese comfortably, while 10000 is
the present estimate"
The Omaha Bee (Republican) sale
editorially Oct. Ia, 1898, if we Absorb
the Philippines, with their million:
of cheap laborers, and proceed to the
development of those islands indus
trially and commercially by the utili
zation of this cheap labor, NOTHING
CAN BE MORE CERTAIN THAN
THAT IN TIME OUR HOME LABOF
WILL SUFFER FROM THE COM
PETITION. WE SHALL NOT Be
ABLE TO PERPETUALLY SAFE
GUARD 1T BY THE SYSTEM OF
. PROTECTION NOW IN OPERATION
Territorial expansion a
now proposed is very serious mat
ter for American labor and the op
position of that labor to expansion
should have more vigorous expression
than has been given
This was when the Omaha Bee wa
! opposing the conquest of the Philip
, pines and endeavoring to shape tn
course of the administration.