Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-07-20
Trouble BREWING.

Trouble Brewing.
For years the people of the Pacific
coast and the labor unions generally
made a great and at last a successful
fight 70 place upon the statute books a
rigid Chinese exclusion law. 1t SO hap
pened that when the last and severest
Chinese exclusion bill was enacted into
law / was a member of the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs and III that
way came to know thoroughly the de-
sires, the fears and hopes of labor un
ious in the premises. ! know that they
regard hard and fast exclusion law
honestly and courageously enforced as
their salvation from ultimate starya-
ton. When the last law was enacted
it was supposed that the whole ques
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 it interferes with trade.
Always the almighty dollar in this age
of commercialism. Unless the labor
unions have radically changed their
opinion they will 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
ed to the United States proper
God save the mark The announced
"a most gratifying piece of news, and
that is that those persons whom be has
been working off III the orient were not
our rambunctious Philippine fellow cit
liens by breyet. but We're a job lot OF
pirates from Borneo already condemn
ed to death by the British Guess &
made little difference to the pirates
whether they were killed by Genera
Wood or by the British.
Mr.. Secretary of War Taft has
stirred up a large sized hornets nest BY
bis assault upon legal technicalities
One of his predecessors in office, Gen
eraI W. w Belknap, was acquitted at
bis impeachment trial by one of the
baldest technicalities ever set up in
any court He went free on the osten-
sible theory that be could not be con
yicted because he had resigned. The
real reason OF his escape from punish
ment was that he was a Republican.
which is also the reason why the sen
ate of the United States has not fred
Reed smoot.
If the Washington dispatches are to
be believed, President Roosevelt con
templates tacIling task beside which
the twelve Iabors of Hercules We're
mere holiday performances the purif-
cation of Pennsylvania Republican pol
itics. If 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 The
president. so the papers say, proposes
to work his reform by substituting
Senator Knox for Senator Penrose as
"leader"- that is, in plain English, as
boss Whether that would work for
publication is problem. Practically
Penrose appointed Knox, and there is.
an old saying that the stream cannot
rise higher than the fountain
Secretary Shaw now claims that
when be made the prophecy Of only
SIS 100000 deficit for the fiscal year
1906 he ought to have made the figures
| So, 100000. as some wicked clerk made
a mistake of s4,500,o0o Hind sight is
better than foresight even with seereF
iaries Of the treasury
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