The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-11-18

yourself, ask your wife, & ask your
children. II they he old enough to
understand the question, What are
we going to do about it," + will
tell you what we think you ought
to do Cease patronizing them;
cease buying anything that is made
by them; don't patronize q place that
employs them to the exclusion Of
boys and girls, and some good will
come of 1t.
Our friends the Socialists advocate
another remedy, and far more drastic
in it's operation. They say: LET
the Japanese come In droves; let us
employ them; let us buy all we can
from them because, they sell cheaper.
and the result will be that the work.
ingmen will finally awake, the small
dealer will awake, the great army Of
shabby-genteel will awake, and they
will rush to enroll themselves in the
growing army of Socialism" Like
the sailor, 1--WE are between the devil
and the deep blue sea-" but sooner
or later the choice must be made.
The cry of the sentimentalists is
that they are here by our invitation
and must be permitted to remain
Are they here by the invitation Of
the people? Or are they here at the
| solicitation of the advocates of cheap
contract labor? 1t is said that being
here, they must be permitted to ,oc-
cupy the positions usurped from the
American workers, or they will steal.
If they want to steal instead Of re-
turning to the land which the Gods
of their fathers have set apart for
them, there are plenty Of prisons, or
there is plenty Of room to build more,
and there are plenty Of stones that
need breaking. We will not let them
rot in ldleness.
The Jap says that he comes here
because the Americans have invited
him; that he stays because they want
him; that many more are coming,
and what are we going to do about
it? It is true that he is wanted, but
only by certain class of people, a
class which has always advocated
cheapness and always will; class
which enslaved the Scotch and Irish
people who were deported to the
plantations Of Virginia and the Caro-
linas by Cromwell and his Parlia-
ment; the class which advocated the
importation and enslavement of the
negro; the class that kept him in
ignorance and prevented him from
acquiring knowledge through fear
that his thoughts would turn to free
dom; the class that filled their Golfers
with gold obtained with the proceeds
of his labor, until his labor became
curse; the class that today fosters
the antipathetic race feeling and en-
deavors to prevent that era of good
feeling among the black and white
workers that should have come twen-
ty years ago. These are the people
who desire and encourage the impor-
tation under contract of Chinese, JAP
| anese and other contract labor. They
care nothing for their country or fell
low citizens. They care not if their
country be precipitated into a dtsas-
trous war in it's efforts to get rid of
| an undesirable race. Like Nero, they
| would fiddle if the whole United
States were in contiagration, provided
the gold in their Golfers did not melt
and disappear. No fear of such peo-
pie rising in their majesty to defend
their home 3. AS the shopkeepers Of
Europe did to the Corsairs of the
Barbary coast, they would purchase
immunity at the price of their coun-
try's honor. The poor devil of a
laborer is the one to be sacrificed to
the God of war, while the bond
sharps and commercial sharks would
take advantage of the distresses of
their country and volunteer-not
their bodies-but their bonds and
old worn out steamers for a fabulous
price.
Whose homes were desolated in
the war for the preservation of the
Union? Whose homes were desolat-
ed in an unjust war to wrest territory
from our neighbor for the creation
of more "Cheap labor" States?
Whose homes were, and are still be-
ing desolated for the acquisition of
tnsular territory that it may be ex-
plotted by the American plutocracy
at the expense Of the American peo-
pie? and it's native population? Our
territorial dependency in Asia has so
far brought us nothing but trouble,
and we will leave to the coming gen.
Grafton and their defendants nothing
but trouble, that our commerce $50
per cent of which is in the hands of
foreigners, and 80 per cent of which
is carried in vessels under foreign
f1ags) may be increased.
We who are passing from the stage
of active duty are leaving to you
glorious Inheritance, worthy the peril
of your lives and the sacrifice of your
fortunes. Preserve it intact, and un-
sullied with the blood of an unde-
sirable race. We have a country
with population Of 100000 OF
people, seven-eights of whom are
homogeneous: The other eighth is
slowly, but surely, working out its
own salvation, recovering from the
untold miseries inflicted on their
forefathers by many generations of
our own ancestors.
This, your splendid Inheritance,
has to the WESTWARD 60O,0OO,OO0,
and more alien and un-Christian peo-
pie. Upon this your native. or adopt