Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-05
LET 3 THINK.


The laboring man has had a good
deal to think about thus far in the
present campaign.
Let him devote some portion of his
time to thought upon this particular
subject, making a broad application OIL
| the facts to the whole of the territory
now controlled by the Constitution
! or by the armies of the United States.
The point about to be made hinges
upon a report just made by George II.
| Mead, professor of philosophy in the
University of Chicago, who has just
returned to the States from a prolonged
visit to the Sandwich Islands, where
he was a close observer of events, po-
political, sociological and economic.
Professor Mead reports that the Repub-
lican political machine ALREADY con-
trolls the islands," that political cor
ruption holds full sway, that the
laborers have, by a strike, increased
their wages to $1S per month, and that
to prevent a further rise in compensa-
ton to the mar who works with his
hands above the pittance, "importa-
tions of negroes and Porto Ricans are
contemplated In addition Judge
Estee, an oppointee of President Nc
Kinley, has, by a decision, let down
the bars as to Chinese labor, holding
that a Chinaman, shipping from any
port in the United States for any other
port In the control Of u government,
is entitled to land. The case at bar
was that Of one All Sing, who shipped
from New York for Honolulu. Having
shipped from the United States, he had
a right to land at any other United
States port. Let the workingman take
the reverse of this decision which, OF
course, holds good, and see where It
lands him. If a Chinaman can ship
from any port of the United States
fo- any port controlled by the United
States, n and all Cinnamon in ports
controlled by the United States can
ship for any American port. That re-
leases the tens Of thousands of Chinese
and Japanese, Malays, Mongols, and
half-breeds, accustomed to working for
a pittance, from all the ports of the
Philippines, from Sulu, from the La
drones, from Cuba, and all the other
fsr-scattered islands we have taken
or purchased from Spain, and throw
open to them the doors of America.
where they may freely come into COM
petition with American labor. The
Philippines are next door to the swarm
ing millions of China. To patrol the
coasts of the islands would require a
feet larger than that of England. A
Chinaman once in the Philippines, in
the Sulus, in the Ladrones, in Guam or
il the Sandwich Islands, has a prima
facie right, under the decision of Judge
Estee, to enter any port of the United
States, in numbers not to be counted
at present, and to have the general run
of the land.
The decision of Judge Estee is the
opening wedge of what is to come from
the incorporation of Eastern countries
irto our body polite, and is not the
least Of the evils of the Republican
policy of Imperialism.
There are over a hundred thousand
Chinese in the Philippine Islands, and
with American rule secure and per-
petuated, they will all be entitled to
free access to this country, and that
they will come is certain, for here lies
the assurance of better wages thar are
to be acquired in the far East. Other
tens of thousands will take their
places from the main land, and in turn
they will come over under the guise of
right, and so it will go. The day may
not be far distant when, under a Re-
publican trust p~rotectorate and by
reason of Republican policies of for
eign conquest. the Chinaman will be
in evidence in the mills and mines and
workshops of the United States. When
that day ome the American working
man cannot make the plea that he did
not have fair warning.