The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-21

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Omaha, in the southwest and on the
Pacific coast, on the railroad lines
which center In Alabama and Ten
nessee, steps have been taken to pros
ecute those granting rebates and those
conspiring to grant and receive them.
Public feeling and public action on
this subject cannot and will not stop
with rebates. Railroad officers are
aware of this. Their abolition of rail-
road passes Is recognition Of new
and higher code in corporation man.
agement. Personal privilege and per-
quisite must go. The public has con.
demned insurance officers who profit
ed by the ownership of stock in subsi-
diary corporation. 1t will be as quick
to condemn railroad directors and
management, If ownership lin trust
companies cost insurance officers their
places, ownership by railroad officers
In abattolrs, in express companies, in
baggage delivery companies will be as
serious for them. Insurance officers
and railroad officers alike are trustees
Of property belonging TO others II in-
surance revelations have damaged,
railroad revelations of like charac-
ter will damage in like way.-Phila-
delphia Press.
WHAT THE CHINESE DEMAND.
BY far the most interesting utter
ance heard for many a moon on the
question of Chinese exclusion Is that
found in the ~ demands discussed and
accepted at a meeting held atlHong-
kong on Sunday, in which American
merchants, Chinese guides sand the
Canton boycott committee participat-
ed. The raising of the boycott finally
and completely is made contingent
uson the acceptance of these demands
in letter or in spirit, by the United
States government. The demands
we're published in full in special ca
BILE dispatch which appeared in The
American of recent date, and need not
be reiterated here ,.exceptsto say they
recite that all Chinese except labor
ers shall be1permitted free entry to
and exit from the United States with
out let or hindrance, or:to engage in
business other than laboring, upon the
same terms as other foreigners. Such
persons having a passport from Chi
nese officials shall receive a certif.
cate from American .consuls in China
that they are eligible, and this shall
guarantee the bearer courteous treat
ment, freedom of action and all the
rights accorded citizens of other for.
eign countries.
"The pivotal part of the matter Is
In the first demand that the word
laborer' shall be distinctly defined ac-
cordinP to the standard English die
tionary, and shall be limited to such
classes and persons as 1t was originally
intended to designate by both govern
ments under the exclusive treaty of
1880 as laborers. Chinese American.
DISHONESTY IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
The question very naturally arises,
Why do so many men fall victims of
dishonesty when elevated to public
office? Due is III to various causes,
the influence OF example, the demand
of extravagant living, lack of charac-
ter, and oftener than supposed from
false standards of duty. The public
Official acts too often on the prlnci-
pie that public money Is a sort of
prize for the politician who gets there,
and that 1t is perfectly Legitimate to
use the public's funds in ways that
honesty foroids concerning private
money.-Louisyille Herald.