The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-07-12
A CREDITABLE DELEGATION.

unassailable pinnacle during the
Philippine debate that the entire
senate was silent in the light of his
clear, careful and siatesmanlike con-
sideration of the subject, and, while
the nations congress was in session.
there were none, even the able st
leaders of the opposition, to dispute
his contentious. Now that congress
has adjourned we see how the force
of his argument is feared. 1t is
shown by the sly attacks made from
the bush through the administration
press. The latest of these reads:
Henry w. Andrews of Yokohama,
former consul at Hong Kow, in COM
menting on trade conditions in the
orient. remarked to reporter:
Il was astonishrd at a speech made by
Senator Dubois during the discussion of
the Philippine debate. and still more
astonished that no senator arose to refute
his statements. The gist of the senator's
talk was against our efforts to expand
American trade in the orient. He
claimed that so far from gaining the
markets Of China and Japan, that we
had better turn our attention 10 keeping
out their goods from our markets. The
least bit of knowledge OF eastern trade
conditions would show the utter fallacy
OF such proposition.
EVERY body ought to know that China
and japan Only sell to the United States
| those things like tea, silks, mattings,
cur os and the like, that are not pro
dcued In this country, and that their I'm
portations OF American goods are con-
stantly on the increase.
Neither the Senator nor any critic
of the "open door" danger has any
desire for any effort to restrict any
purchases China may desire to make
in America in the natural channel of
commerce. Nobody cares how much
tea or silks or other distinctly oriental
products we may buy of China, and
when Andrews of Yokohoma, or any
other hypocritical apologist of admin
lstration visciousness, seeks to put
the issue before the country on such
petty comparisons and studied
assumption of small views as the
above, 1t proves how helpless they
are to conceal evil designs behind
broad argument, or to meet the posi-
ton of those who protest against the
turning loose of the yellow terror
upon the rest of the world especially
this country. Mr.. Dubois did not
base his remarks upon the little
matter of a few Chinese curios or
few ship loads Of mating. He oc-
cupled the greater ground that to
exercise our power, military or other
wise, tor the crammiug of familiarity
with Yankee ingenuity and American
skill into the brain of an oriental and
tropical swarm of initiative cheap
workers, simply for the pur-
pose of pandering to the restless
greed of the age, was the most
deadly thing to do. The Enchanting
OF that dragon is thing that even
the votaries eff gold, greed and gain,
entrenched in political power, dare
not openly suggest and they are
obliged to work in roundabout and
insldious ways, while little, grovellng
publications (subsisting by abject at
tendance upon pernicious principles)
labber, in the narrowest and most
deliberately misapplied channel that
can be suggested, at those whose ar
gument cannot be met on equal
grounds.
Speaking of Senator Dubois. the
state has a right to be proud of the
masterful man who leads our dele
cation at the national capital; in
fact, we can congratulate ourselves
as state upon our entire congress
slonal representation, which, during
the session just closed, won, in both
house and senate, the acknowledge
ment from the best of the nation
that Idaho stood the peer of any
state in the quality and ability of
her chosen agents. On the Philip