Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-06-28

ing? The right to work is again and
again insisted upon. as more important
than the right to vote, and the cry Of the
right to work is supplemented by the
cry that the state furnish work to all
who cannot obtain it elsewhere.
care we likely to aid in solving this
problem by bringing into our national
life 100000 or 10000, 900 Of unskilled
Malay laborers ave have shut the doors
against the Chinese. Are they any
worse than the Malay? Shall we intro
duce in this nation more cheap labor? !
do not wonder at the action OF the FEEDER.
alton Of Labor in protesting against a
new competition of cheap labor as we'll
as an increase Of the army, with it's con-
sequent increase Of burden and taxation
OH the employed laborer.
QUESTION OF MONEY.
"But there is money in it. And after
all this ia really the most potent factor in
tie proposed reaching out after the islands
of the ORIENT. The wealth OF Ornus and
Of Ind is today, as in the days Of Milton,
the expectation and the dream Of many.
Possession of the Orient, with it's &C.
cumulated wealth OF centuries, dazzles
the Imagination and confuses the judg-
ment. The haze OF mystery hangs over
that vast domain. Wealth untold is be.
lieved to be there, ready to be appropriated
by any dominant power. All the nations
and tribes come within Lord Salisbury's
definition OF dying nations, and must
soon be divided between and appropriated
by the living and growing nations.
China is held out as dying nation, filled
with inexhaustible wealth, and why
should not we share in it's appropriation
What picture this is! The eagle of
liberty standing like buzzard to grow
fat over an expected corpse.
III fares the land to Fastening ills a
When wealth accumulates and men
decay.
"The Caesars saw the spears OF their
victorious legions flash in the sunlight Of
every known land, and in their trium-
plant return they brought with them the
accumulated wealth OF all the nations
they had subdued. The splendor OF i'm
perial Rome outshone the world, but the
wealth thus obtained without value given
undermined the empire, and the glory Of
Rome is simply memory. Napoleon
beheld the shining star Of destiny; and
then? Does human nature change
through the centuries? We stand today
facing the temptation which comes from
the possibility Of rapidly accumulated
wealth. What right have we to antici
pate that the same result will not follow
if we pursue the same course Of taking
what we have not fully earned?
THE DESTINY CRY.
"The problem we have sought to worl
out in this nation is that OF government
Of and by and for the people. A grea
nation upon that principle seems possible
only under federal system which rele
gates all matter Of local interest to tn
, several states, and exercises through tn
national government only those power
and functions which make for the geners
=. welfare. We have wonderfully prospere
in administering such system in a con
i pact, continental territory, each part
b which has been possessed and controlle
by race capable Of self-government.
"This is no triAng question, and is nc
n answered by any gush about duty an
destiny. We are not the victims but tn
n masters Of fate, and to attempt to un'oa
II upon the Almighty responsibility II
r that which we chose to do is not only
70 insult to Him, but TO ordinary hume
v intelligence.