The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-09-14
Chinese Trade.

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| Chinese Trade.
Hon. John Barrett, minister pleni-
potentiary, etc, has broken out again,
this time on the burning question of
our trade with China. Evidently he
has been lying awake of nights invit-
ing insomnia by Fostering his noddlc
over the way we have mistreated the
disciples of Confucius. lie seems to
carry around false impression that
the American people should smack
their lips and pronounce delightful any
thing that he likes. He Is stuck on
John Chinaman and, ergo, everybody
else should be. The way he comes to
champion the Chinese against Amer
leans is that he resided among them
ten years in the orient. 1t may possi-
bly, be that when the rest of us have
had a similar experience we may ac-
quire similar tastes, but it is well for
Hon. John to wake up to the fact that
the rest of us are not likely to reside
ten years In the orient on good fat
salary, hence are not liable to acquire
his vitiated tastes. In passing it may
be remarked that he belongs to that
class of public men who could not be
elected dog pelters, but who manage
nevertheless to bag desirable positions.
How he manages to do it. like the
peace of God, passeth all understand
ing. Why he should be favorte of
administration after administration is
a profound mystery. Why he is not
| NAIIa 30 ot hi trln in
post and discharge the duties for which
he draws salary is another mystery.
Somehow or somehow else he manages
to play in unending good luck to keep
himself constantly in the limeligbt.
He thinks, or he thinks he thinks
that the Chinese boycott Is dreadful
thing, and he pronounces the yellow
peril wild cbimera and tommyrot.
, This was the substance of his speech
at the Portland exposition. What
.. American laborers will think of his
remarks remains to be seen. Unless
they have changed their minds radical
ly since the last Chinese exclusion bill
was passed, what they will do to the
,, politician and party that undertake
to let down the bars so that Chinese
coolies may come in ad libtum will be
a-plenty. Perhaps after this last break
= ON the part of the Hon. John the presi-
n dent may find it feasible to muzzle
r him-a great desideratum.
The Kansas City Times and Star are
2 exploiting "The Morals of Seneca,
d "The Philosophy of Epictetus" and
= "The Letters of Lord Chesterfield tt
a His Son" these hot days. There is
Il much interesting reading matter IL
: these ancient and more or less famous
i documents. 1t will do its clientele
a good to peruse them-more good thar
n most Of modern literature, If repro
y duced, would accomplish. Old Ber
Franklin once amazed the wits ant
r. savants of Paris by reading to then
y the book Of Ruth, which he pretended
e and which they believed to be a new
!, work which sly Ben had picked up
N The Times and Star might enlivel
" things on the Kaw by reprinting ex
e cerpts from the Bible.
II Great guns! How have the might,
st fallen! Philadelphia papers now re
:, fer to the senatorial seat held by Boie
at Penrose as vacant. Nothing quite 81
sarcastic has been said by anybod,
ot in the City of Brotherly Love sine
"a = Benjamin SFranklin shu6led off thi
Is mortal coil. Evidently Matthew Stan
nt ley Quay made n serious mistake whel
he bequeathed his mantle to Penrose
Sc 1t doesn't fit him any BETTER thai
re James j. Jeffries' mantle would fl
Mt Tom Thumb.
a. When Hon. Elihu Root read Hon
d. Serene f. Payne's glowing nomination
"A Of Secretary Taft for president, wlIic
as Hon. Serene made betwixt the wa
ne nuts and the wine in faraway Manila
he most probably recalled Tennyson'
ut lines:
Id oh, would that my tongue could utter
n. The thoughts that arise in me!
s. That performance by Brother Payn
re seems to have stirred up bad blood i
It. Washington, for they are talking Q
IN taking away from him the titular leat
1t ership of the majority In the hous,
at which would be as severe blow t
In him as 1t was to Ii Hung Chan
On when he was stripped of his yello'
of jacket.
- Hon. Joseph L. Bristow, late fourt
co assistant postmaster general, in his n
~ tirement in rural Kansas could Civ
-, some valuable pointers as to what
. costs Republican statesman to set Il
as a reformer. He was ordered to II
nc nc vestigate corruption in the postofiic
m department, and he was guileles
". enough to take that assignment ser
mt ously, Consequently he proceeded I
;na n, investigate, and as result he wa
ho h divorced from the public service. |
the Republican lexicon reform mean
nd whitewash. w ~
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