Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-21
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For years the people of the Pacific
coast and the labor unions generally
made a great and at last successful
fight to place upon the statute books a
rigid Chinese exclusion law. It 80 hap
pened that when the last and severest
Chinese exclusion bill was enacted into
law was a member Of the house conf
mittee on foreign affairs and In that
way came to know thoroughly the de-
sires, the fears and hopes Of labor un-
ions In the premises. know that they
regard hard and fast exclusion law
honestly and courageously enforced as
their salvation from ultimate starva.
ton. When the last law was enacted
1t was supposed that the whole CUES
ton was settled for good and that this
generation would hear no more about
It, but those who took that view were
grossly deceived. Several things have
happened this summer-among others
President Roosevelt's utterances -
which lead to the Inevitable conclusion
that a crusade is on to break down the
rigors Of the Chinese exclusion legisla-
ton because 1t tnterferes with trade.
Always the almighty dollar In this age
Of commercialisml Unless the labor
unions have radically changed their
opinion they viii take up the gauntlet
and fight tooth and nail for Chinese
exclusion law which will exclude:
hence the impending row.
When General Leonard Wood return
cd to ''the United States proper
God save the markL-he announced
a most gratifying piece of news, and
that Is that those persons whom he has
been working or In the orient were not
our rambunct1ous Philippine fellow cit
izens by brevet. but were a job lot OF
/ pirates from Borneo already condemn
ed to death By the British. Guess Il
made little difference to the pirates
whether they were killed by General
Wood or By the British.
Mr.. Secretary Of War Taft has
stirred up large sized hornets nest by
bis assault upon legal technicalities
One Of his predecessors in of1c4 Gen
eral w. W.. Belknap, was acquitted al
his Impeachment trial by one Of thu
] baldest technicalities ever set up IN
any court. He went free on the osten-
sible theory that he could not be con.
| victed because he had resigned. The
real reason Of his escape from punish
ment was that he was q Republican
which is also the reason why the sen
/ ate Of the United States has not fired
Reed Smoot.
! II the Washington dispatches are to
be believed. President Roosevelt con.
templates tackling task beside which
the twelve labors of Hercules were
mere holiday performances-the purif
cation Of Pennsylvania Republican pol
ttics. II the departed spirits Of the
mighty dead take any interest In mum
dane happenings, Simon Cameron and
Matthew Stanley Quay must be greatly
amused by such childish twaddle. They
know that to purify the Pennsylvania
Republican machine Is impossible ex
cept by destroying it utterly. TIL.
i pieSlleut, 81 tlt papers say, proposes
to work his reform by substituting
Senator Knox for Senator Penrose a.
"leader"-that is, in plain English, a.
''boss." Whether that would work To-
publication is a problem. PRACTICAL,
Penrose appointed Knox, and there /.
an old saying that the stream canno
rise higher than the fountain.
/ i
1 Secretary Shaw now claims tha
when he made the prophecy Of only
s1S,O00,000 deficit for the fiscal yea
1905 he ought to have made the figure.
300, 100000, as some wicked clerk mad,
a mistake Of $4,000, 900. Hind sight 1,
better than foresight even with secre
taries of the treasury.
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