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If it We're not for the gerrymander?
They have elected none since 1892.
OF course gerrymandering is not
commendable habit in either Demo-
Gratis or Republicans. The intent of
this article is not to defend the prac
tice, but to call the attention of the
CD. to the fact that what is sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander.
If the Republicans persist in doing it
where they have Republican legis-
lature, the Missouri Democrats would
be set of consummate idiots not to
try their hands at the same business.
1t is not an unheard of practice to
fight the devil with fire.
Each party now claims that it will
elect a majority of the lower house Of
congress this fall. The only thing that
renders the situation ut all doubtful is
the fact that every northern state has
been gerrymandered by Republican
legislatures, so the Globe-Democrat
should have the decency to hold its
peace on the subject of gerrymander-
ing.
Again the Chinese.
The laboring people Of the United
States might as well wake up to the
fact that if we keep the Philippines
they are to be made the breeding
ground for q lot Of Chinese laborers
who will put the American laborers
out of business. The exclusion bill
passed by this congress is by no
manner of means what it should
be. The house passed jam up good
had good deal to do. The senate
passed substitute bill, which was
much worse than the house bill. The
bill finally agreed on was not so good
as the house bill, but better than the
senate substitute. One of the best fea-
lures of it was that it shut the Chinese
out of the Philippines. Now the press
proconsul in the Philippines, since his
return to Manila has been advocating
a modification of the law SO that it will
| be made easier for the Chinese to get
in there, the very thing the American
laborers do not want. Every one who
| was around Washington while the bill
was being considered knows that the
covert influence of the Republicans
was against rigorous exclusion, and it
is still against exclusion. OF course
the Republicans pretend to be for ex-
clusion, but they are not. A careful
reading of the following editorial from
the Baltimore Herald, n Republican
paper, will throw some light on the
subject:
The Chinese exclusion act passed during
| the last session of congress applies equal
| ly to the Philippine Islands. Yet in the
archipelago vast majority of the trust
worthy agricultufista and laborers in
manufactures have hitherto been Chinese
in character. The experience Of many
| American employers has shown that the
native Filipino is inferior in Industrial
and commercial qualities to the Mon
golian.
l. AS matter of fact, the tribes making
up the mixed population of the islands
form the tail eng Of Eaeee that has in
the struggle for existence has brought
them face to face. The Moros, a pure
Malay people, while intractable to
marked extent. are about the most highly
developed among the people outside Of
Manila and its enyirons. Yet the Chinese
morally and intellectually
The reason for Chinese exclusion in the
Philippine Islands is not then, probably,
so much to aid the natives as it is to pre-
vent the accumulation of a race that can
Withstand American conditions. yet does
not blend with an occidental population.
In the long run this extension of our
American barrier against Chinese labor
almost TO the doors Of Hongkong will
pay. but 1t is apt to cripple commerce
Ind manufactures until the influx OF
American LABOR will take up the indus
trial destiny of our oriental acquisitions.
The laboring people of the United
States had better put on their thinking
caps and decide now whether they had
not better join in with the Democrats
and get rid of the Philippines, Chinese
and all, rather than wake up a few
years hence and epdeayor to lock the
barn after the horse is gone.
The Prosperity Issue.
Our Republican friends have 50 much
to say about prosperity that the fol-
lowing editorial from the Washington
Post may be read with interest by ev-
cry American citizen:
The prosperity argument being de-
cidedly good thing indeed the best thing
the Republican campaign managers have
in stock, it Is natural and quite proper
for Republican papers to make the most
Of it. 1t may and 1t may not prove a
winning card. Ten years ago there was
unexampled prosperity in this country
and no premonition of the crash that fate
had billed to show up twelve months
later. Prosperity was exploited then as
1t is now, but 1t failed to win out.
One Of the chief causes of Republican
| disaster in that year of maximum pros
perity was labor trouble in Pennsyl-
yania. started by the best paid wage
workers on earth. There Is a much more
serious labor trouble now pending in
Pennsylvania started by men whose
weekly earnings. when they were at wnrb
Homestead strikers in 1892. Will the No
vember roundup of the voters in the
congressional districts be affected by this
| disturbance as 1t was by the episode of
that memorable year? The answer to
that question must await tho event.
Democratic Day. 's'''a
| June 90, 1902, must henceforth be
regarded as Democratic day, for we
took much wool from our opponents
on that memorable occasion. That was
the day on which John S. Williams of
Mississippi, Judge De Almond of Mis-
souri, and myself ran amuck on the
Republicans. That was the day on
which Mr.. Littlefeld of Maine fell to
the bottom Of the coal hole la Mr..
McGinty by saying that Admiral Win
field Scott Schley, the real hero of San