The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-27
Trouble Brewing.

Trouble Brewing.
For years the people of the Pacific
coast and the labor unions generally
made great and at last successful
fight to 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 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-
tion. 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 sunmer-among others
President Roosevelts utterances -
which lead to the inevitable conclusion
that crusade Is on to break down the
rigors of the Chinese exclusion leglsla-
tion because 1t 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!-he announced
most gratifying piece of news, and
that is that those persons whom he has
been working off in the orient We're not
our rambunctious Philippine fellow cit
liens by brevet, but were u job lot of
pirates from Borneo already condemn.
ed to death by the British. Guess II
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
his assault upon legal technicalitles.
One Of his predecessors in Office, Gen
erai w. w. Belknap, was acquitted ut
his impeachment trial by one of the
baldest technlcalities 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 Republican,
which Is also the reason why the SEN
ate Of the United States has not fired
Reed Smoot.
If the Washington dispatches are to
be believed, President Roosevelt con-
templates tackllng a task beside which
the twelve labors of Hercules were
mere holiday performances-the purih-
cation of Pennsylvania Republican pol
tiles. 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 1t 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 a 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 he made the prophecy of only
$1s,O00.000 deficit for the fiscal year
1905 he ought to have made the figures
500, 500, 900, as some wicked clerk made
a mistake of $4,5OO,0O0. Hind sight is
better than foresight even with secrc-
taEies Of the treasury.
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