The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22
A FILIPINO INVASION.

The Philippines by mere stress Of num-
bers, scattered the brains of a number
of Republican congressman all over their
sentiments of expansion. The laboring
man must be appeased, and Senator Hoar
must have his day in court. The army in
the East must be cut down, and the "open
door" qualified to resistance to immigra
ton of millions of Tagalos. Exports were
a minor consideration, and the wages Of
the cigarmakers were mightier than the
victory of Dewey at Manila Now wages
and exports cannot at the same time go
on increasing. One or the other must
fall by the wayside, if increase is in
sisted on. The laborer must either be
moderate in his demands, or he will kill
the goose of the golden egg. High priced
iron, or cottons, or copper, or boots and
shoes, or flour cannot compete in the
markets of the world The home market
cannot forever support higft-priced goods
in order to sell cheap abroad. The last
straw must inevitably come to break the
camers back, and set the country agog
with discomfort.
The final Puerto Rican law is not such
a bad measure as it might have been
had not the country risen in defamation
against the original proposal. The tariff
is really very small matter, except as
it predicated something else 1t was faith
cred in the foolish fears of Grand Master
Sovereign, and in the weighty reasons Of
Past Grand Master Havemeyer, of the
sugar trust. One was as gullible as the
other, and both together gulIed Repub-
lican majority in congress until Senator
Davis assumed the responsibility of talk
ing sense to his colleagues. But the in
vasion Of Tagalog labor is yet to come.
Millions of them are ready to put to sea
in all sorts of junks, in anticipation of
reaping big harvest of wages in 'the
States" Let Senator Davis beware. He
has let loose a flood that may imperil his
presidential chances for all time. See the
black heads jumping into the water at
Manila bound for San Francisco and
Seattle!
Tagalog labori For 300 years the Phil
ippines have imported Chinese .and Jap
anese labor, and their present laboring
and farming element is an adrnixture of
the native with the Chinese and Japs.
There is about as much to fear from the
cheap labor of the Philippines, in any line
Of our manufactures, as there is to fear
the labor of our beloved Crackers of
the South-whom, God bless them, we
should be delighted to see properly en-
ployed in cotton or other kind of mills,
turning out cheap stuffs for the tropical
countries where labor is still more un-
certain than in our Southern states. The
laboring instinct runs out quickly under
the rays of the tropical sun. and must be
constantly recuperated from the North
But sugar! All, that invader of the
brand new beet sugar fields! The de-
stroyer of babes in the woods-ugh. the
wolf Sugar from beyond Hawaii and
from Cuba. without duty would make
candy shops so numerous throughout the
that every dentist would be a millionaire
and dyspepsia tablets would be as popu-
lar as the gold cure. Sugar from ada
cent to China and Japan. where there are
40O, 100000 people just in the. infancy of
their love for the candy shop, and from
whom 1t would be a radical sin to take
the wide opportunity of indulgence in
something besides opium and cigarettes
CHINA and Japan are only commencing
their careers as sugar and candy consum-
ers, and 1t would certainly be q. grieyous
calamity to admit Philippine sugar into
the markets of the United States free.
when very few years would enable the
Eastern men with the pigtails to eat up
all that could be grown in all the Ocean
lean archipelago.
If we must suffer from an invasion from
the philippines, by all means let it be an
Invasion Of labor, and not one of the en-
emies Of the sugar trust. If necessary.
keep hundred thousand men in Manila
to stand off either invasion, and to keen
eAAC PNOA oCflAo Dy ELlo waters
of the islands. Make Them eat their own
sugar, if necessary to keep the euuilib
rum of things. Cram 1t down their lusty
throats ard tie 1t in with Manila hemp.
What else are the soldiers there for? A
guard upon China? Pshaw! The labor
trust and the sugar trust should both
rise up and demand that the soldiers be
at once employed in seeing to 1t that the
Filipinos eat their own sugar and leave
the manufactures alone. What would an
American Hong Kong at Manila mean
but the shipment of enormous quantities
of cigars and manufactured tobaccos and
molasses candy to all parts of the United
States in exchange for the products of
our steel and iron and cotton mills? Op-
orator, call off Chinai We must not SUBJ
nit to this Filipino Invasion Better that
they should go ungoverned for thou
sand years.
"PUERTO" RICO OR ssPoRTOp RICO.
The correct and the official spelling of
the he iCIo