Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-07-06

Tor Chinese coolies to come in is plain
as the nose on ones face-even such a
nose as Lord Napier's or the Iron
Dukes. I am teetotally opposed to
Chinese coolies coming to this country,
because our laborers cannot compete
with them and live.
It is also clear as the sun that our
government is more and more becom-
Ing bureaucracy, and to that l am
opposed. No executive officer ought to
be permitted to suspend either wholly
or In part law Of congress. If he does,
no matter how high and mighty he is,
he ought to be impeached.
Not long since in the house I sue
cinctiy stated my position on both these
points of interest to the American peo-
pie in the following words:
Mr.. Chairman. am in favor Of this
amendment increasing the appropriation
for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act
from $4,000 to 100000. In 1904 we appro-
priated 100000 to enforce this Chinese
exclusion law. In 1906 we appropriated
$500, 600 again. Now Commissioner General
OK immigration Sargent says that last
year they did not expend 100000. and
therefore this year they come and ask for
only $4,000.
remember that two or three years ago
my friend. the gentleman from Georgia,
Judge Bartlett, offered an amendment
here aprropriating s25o,0oo to prosecute the
trusts-a special fund. The gentleman
from Iowa. Colonel Hepburn, not satisfied
with that. raised" Judge Bartlett at his
own game by offering an amendment to
Judge Bartlett's amendment, increasing
the amount Of the special fund to prose-
cute trusts to 100000. Colonel Hepburns
amendment was received with great ap-
Dlause and went through with whoop.
We thought that we had surely furnished
abundant ammunition to kill the trusts
Il turned out at the end Of that fiscal year
that the department OF Justice had only
expsnded-my recollection is-thirty odd
thousand dollars out Of that money-at
any rate. only a small portion Of the half
Ainfon. During that time the land was as
full OF trusts as Egypt was Of lice, frogs
or files, and 1t Is as full of trusts yet. If
that 900 had been effectively expended
BY the department of justice in vigorous
prosecutions every trust in the land would
have been killed dead as smelt long be-
fore this.
The great body Of the American people
particularly the laboring people = want
these Chinese coolies kept out of here. 1t
makes no difference how much 1t costs,
and 1t makes no difference whom 1t makes
mad. Congress did its duty by passing a
good exclusion bill and then supplemented
that action by doing Its duty by appro-
Drafting 100000 a year for two years. 1t
- the executive branch Of the government
that failed in its duty, according to the
testimony Of Mr.. Commissioner Sargent
himself. by not enforcing the law as it
stands. That ts the reason the last ap-
preparation Of 10000 was not exhausted.
Our Chineas Trade-
We hear much talk about this Chinese
boycott Our trade with China is a mere
bagatelle. Our exports to China only
amount to 2h per cent Of our total ex-
ports; our imports from China only
amount to 81 per cent Of our total i'm
psrts. And the truth is that the Chinese
do not buy from us because they love US;
the English do not buy from us because
they love us. A very great affection has
been engendered In the last two or three
years between us and England; it's so sud
den, don't you know-too sudden to last
But nobody buys our stuffs because they
love US: they buy our stuffs because ours
are better than anybody else's stuffs or
because they are cheaper than anybody
else's stun. Love and affection count for
little or nothing in commerce. It is bust
ness pure and simple and nothing else.
30 long as We make better products than
other people and sell them cheaper we will
Ootocn OtueT udIluuS, DuC II OlQec nations
make better products or sell them cheaper
they will outstrip us in the markets of the
world. That's the whole case in nut
shell and all there is to 1t.
A Frisky Diplomat.
The truth about this boycott, as I under
stand 1t now, Is that that celebrated and
risky diplomat, WI Ting Fang. who be-
fore he went home committed enough in
fractions Of the diplomatic proprieties in
this, country to have caused forty white
diplomatists to receive their passports,
when he went home. pretending to be
great friend Of the American people, orig
mated and engineered that boycott. He
went around this country advising peo-
pie what to eat and wear and how to be-
have; inQuiring Of women how many chill
dren they had and Of husbands how
many wives they had, poking his bill into
American affairs generally. If he had
been white man he would have been
ordered out Of this country long before he
went. Washington ordered Genet out of
the country for committing not one 1.-THE
OF the improprieties that the Chinaman
did. Grover Cleveland sent Lord Sack
vile West out of here In a hurry for do
Ing thing that at the worst was very
slight improperly.
Gentlemen say they simply want the ed
ucated Chinese classes to come over more
freely. That's the theory as it is pro-
pounded, but the trouble about this en-.
tire Chinese question is that all Cinnamon
look alike to US, and you cannot tell one
rom tothsr or tother from which.
They get the coolies In here in every
sort OF way and by every sort Of trick
The gentleman from New York [Mr. Fitz-
gerald stated that tho persons interested
In getting coolies in-that is, the Chinese
BIZ Companies in San Francisco ana a
good many up on the northern border
- = H.
nake profit OF from i've hundred to one
thousand dollars head for every China
man they smuggle in. read on the train
today q piece in one Of the Philadelphia
papers, which I intended to cut out and
use here, not knowing that this question
was coming up SO soon. but I left the
paper on the train. It gave an account of
some place on the border where they had
actually rugged up a tunnel to get the
Chinese In here on the sly. It is lucra-
I'VE performance, and bad men work at
Il constantly and successfully. 1 agree
with what the gentleman from Kentucky
INT. Sherley] said awhile ago, and l have
heard the chairman of this committee
EMr. Tawneyl make the same kind of an
objection dozen times to other things
that this government is drifting into a
government Of bureaus Instead of con-
Eress running the United States lot of
hureaucrats are running It, We pass a
law. What is the business Of the execu-
tive department? / do not care straw
whether 1t is the president or a member
OF the cabinet or some understrapper.
The business Of every one Of them is to
rigidly enforce and carry out the laws
which we pass. The way to get rid of
bad law is to enforce it. Let us see what
Mr.. Sargent says. Here is an extract
from the hearings before the appropria-
tons COMMITTEES which ! most heartily
commend to all who favor goXernment by