Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-10-05
ANOTHER MENACE
TO THE LABOR OF OUR HAIR
RAISED COUNTRY.

then Chinese Labor will Have to Be Fought
Over Asain-The Exclusion Act Expires by
Limitation in 1902, and There is no Assur-
ance from the Administration Party that it
will Be Re.enacted- Senator Morgan says
PAY the Public Debt" as an Economic
Measure--A Woman's Appeal for Bryan
The Political Sky is Frightening.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1900.
Mr.. McKinley's extraordinary and
apparently unaccountable friendship
for China, which has been so plainly
shown from the beginning of the
trouble down to his abandonment of
the allies and the order for the send
ing of the American troops in China
to the Philippines, has caused lot of
thinking. Attention has been called
to the fact that the Republican plat
form failed to say word about the
continued exclusion of Chinese labor
ers from the United States, although
it must have been we'll known TO the
makers of that platform that the
present Chinese exclusion law will ex-
pire by Limitation in 1902, and that
unless it is extended by Congress our
ports will then be open to Chinese
cooley laborers. 1t has been noted
also that the Chinese Minister to the
United States has done considerable
talking of late about the probability of
the increased friendship between his
government and ours resulting in the
removal of immigration restrictions.
That large employers OF unskilled
labor in this country, not to mention
the sugar planters trust of Hawaii,
are anxious to see the restrictions on
Chinese immigration removed is we'll
known. By putting all these things
together Mr.. Mckinley is placed in a
suspicious attitude toward American
labor. Perhaps mention OF Chinese
exclusion was purposely left out of the
Republican platform, in order to just
ify the Republican Congress in not re-
newing that restriction, and the re.
election of Mr.. Mckinley may mean
the flooding OF this country with
cheap Chinese labor. The existence
OF such an intention would account
for Mr.. McKinley's Chinese policy.
1t should not he overlooked that the
Democratic national platform con-
tains this clause: ave favor the
continuance and strict enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion law and its ap-
plication to the same classes of all
Asiatic races" 1t is not surprising
that those who are interested in the
welfare of American labor are doing
some deep thinking. 1t is time for
them to think and TO act.
Senator Morgan, in a speech before
the Jackson Democratic Association
devoted himself to the financial ques-
ton, which he declared was the most
interesting topic to him. He said
"The only way to settle the financial
question is to pay the public debt, and
it would be very easy to do so by saw.
ing some of the wild expenditures we
are now making. In the course of q
few years we could save over 500, OOO, ).
600, and We should commence to-day
in order to save the interest which the
people are paying. The system ere.
ated by the last Congress is designed
to increase the national debt, and
under that legislation the debt canno,
and will not be paid, but will be in.
creased from year to year. The pay.
ment Of the debt would not underpiu
the national banks, but would force
them to the old Jscksonian idea OF q
specie basis, and we would not be de.
pendent for q circulating medium on
government bonds. When that il
done the financial question will be
settled, and settled right"
Mr.. Jackson H. Ralston, of Mary.
land, made this reference to our trade
with the Philippines, in q speech this
week to the Bryan and Stevenson
Club: "Our exports to the Philip
pines have been $1,000 men, at O cost
of $l20.0O0,OO0. Our imports from
the Philippine Islands have been 25,-
600 msimed, diseased, and crippled
American citizens"
Mrs. S. F. Norton, treasurer of the
newly organized Woman's Bryan
Antitrust and Anti-War Club, made
II ringing speech at the first meeting
of the club, in which she said: at
behooves every man who is suffering
from the results Of combined capital
to vote for that candidate who at least
promises to destroy those conditions
which Cypress him. Every man
whose living is earned by the sweat OF
his brow is to-day the slave of the
money power. Vote for the man who
believes trusts exist and promises to
crush them. who pledges himself in
no measured terms to the protect ton
OF your interests"
Ex-senator German, whose political
judgment is conceded to be as good as
that Of any man in the country, was
in Washington this week, and said of
the outlook: "There is q drift-a
very decided drift-in favor of the
Democrats which justifies the hope
that Bryan will be elected. Political
conditions seem much as they we're in
1892. The men who are managing
for the Democrats in New York say
that they are going to carry the State.
They are sincerely confident. They
believe they are going TO succeed.
The Democratic managers generally
feel confidence in the general situa-
ton and believe that Mr.. Bryan is 60
ing to be elected. The drift is strong
ly in that direction"
The Spanish War Veterans, at their
annual encampment, held in WASH
ington, this week, paid Gen. Nelson
A. Miles the compliment OF electing
him commander, in chief by . unani.
nous vote. Col. James III. Tillman,
of South Carolina, was elected senior
commander-in.chief, over two other
candidates, one of whom was Gen. Joe
Wheeler. DEN.
WHY is the Administration sending
battleships to Chinaf Are we at war
with that countryi If we are. what
navy has China that can call for hat.