Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-03-27
Dubois and Philippine Tariff.

DuDOlS anu FuiitppiuS ioihi.
Senator Fred T. Dubois recently
delivered forceful speech on the floor
of the Senate against the Philippine
tariff bill. We regret our inability To
reproduce the entire speech, but must
be content with the following extracts
"Mr. President: ! shall cheerfully
give my support 10 the substitute OF.
fered by the minority of committee on
the Philippines and shall vote against
the bill of the majority. Holding, as
I do, that when the treaty OF peace was
ratified by the Senate this archipelago
became part of the United States it
is impossible for me TO discriminate
against them in the imposition OF
taxes. My Interpretation Of the con-
stitution is that we can not tax them
with discrimination so long as they
are part OF this country.
"Mr. President, / left the Repub.
lican party and the United States SEN
ate in 1896 not so much on account of
the money question as because of the
tendency of that party to allow the
great corporations and the power Of
| wealth undue influence in the councils
of the Republican party. The bill be-
| fore us is on the same lines-and il /
had not left the Republican party for
reasons which were sufficient To me
then, | phould have left it fifty times
since after it started on this colonial
policy. No one can deny or will deny
now that when this bill shall have
been parsed we will have colony
The time has gone by when those on
the other side attempt to deny it.
"The capitalists who will be invited
to go to the Philippines will establish
great factories. They will establish,
for instance, cotton factory. They
will employ a great many Chinese
hands, because there are 100000 900
Cinnamon at their doors, for laborers.
They will make goods as well as any
other people can, under our guidance
and superintency, and put those goods
in competition with us here. Ii will
be so in regard to wool. They will get
it from Australia and the Mongolian
plains, It will be SO in regard to iron.
Gentlemen may say that by this bill
you have demonstrated that you Car
put tax on their goods and KEEP
them out of this country. When they
are at work there, if you keep tn,
) goods out of this country 10y law, yo,
can not exclude them by law iron
other countries, and their goods vii
be in competition with ours either her
in the United States or else 10 TIL
other markets OF the world, and es-
I pecialiy in China. say you can no
exploit those islands without Chimes
3 and Japanese labor, and, further, tha
the next step will be to allow them L
come in here.
81 went into factory in Hankow
on the Yangtse river, and | saw 2,50'
. Chinese men and boys employed IN
q wooden factory, with only one viii:
r man, the superintendent, around tn
e premises The Cinnamon were re
Y ceiving the mnniticent salary Of ST.
a MONTH and feeding themselves
e They are so initiative that under skill
: full superintendents from Amerie
: they can make jnst As fine goods a
: We make The clamor, say,is now *
: ing on to let the Chinese and the jar
: anese enter the Hawaiian Islands
n and the japanese can not be kept ou
S of the Philippines and the Chinese wi
i not.
e THE whole thing appears to me
be wrong. 1t is time for us TO think
little of what is to co'ae."