The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-10-19
During Washington's Administration the
Star Role Was Played by Alex
ander Hamilton.
Of the Cleveland Cabinet, Only Eleven Years
Ago, John G. Carlisle is Now the
Sole Survivor.

At the present time Taft ix on 4 MIS-
sion which includes the opening of the
new national assembly in the Philips
pines and which will have consultations
with the mikado and the car as so,ns
of Its incidents While in Japan he will
endeavor to arrange treaty by which
the optional and provisional exclusion
of Japanese under the recent congress
sional immigration act will be made de-
finite and complete. This part Of the
secretarys work will be watched with
especial interest by several nations.
especially by England. Through the
British Columbia race disturbances the
Japanese exclusion issue is brought up
to England in particularly embarras-
sing shape, because of her treaty Of
alliance with Japan. and because tho
sntipathy Of the British Columbians
to the brown men is even more intense
than is that of the Californians.
The labor unions Of Canada's 'Pacifie
provinces demand the exclusion Of the
Japanese. and measures are beir1
adopted to shut them out on the plan
enacted for the United States by Con- :
gress last winter. IT. Secretary Taft .
is successful IN, arranging treaty
with Japan whereby the exclusion will
be definite and not depend on the with
holding by the Japanese Government !,
of passports to It's emisrsnts. a like
adjustment will probably be adopted
for Canada
Bars Against Japanese.
Already Australia has set up tho
bars against the Japanese, but Hawaii
is distribution point for them under
present conditions and it. is the desire
of the Canadians to shut them out al
together. whether they come direct
from japan or pass through the Sand
wich Islands halfway house. For !l.is
reason Canada will feel almost as much
interest in that part of Secretary Tas,'s
Oriental and European mission as will
the United States. This is the second
Of the secretarys errands to the Phillip
pines and the Orient.
A star role was played by Hamilton
In the cabinet Of Washington. In that
administration the secretary of the
treasury wrote, or shaped, several Of
the presidents important state papers.
He had hand in writing the farewell
address which Washington issued in
1896, near the end of his second term,
when he. made it. known that under no
conditions would he accept a third
election. Hamilton was decidedly the
most influential member Of Washing
toms ofncial family, although jefferson
was secretary Of state, and that ONCE.
especially during the Napoleonic wars,
had many perplexing problems put up
to 1t.
Hamilton and Jefferson represented.
respectively, the two great schools Of
political thought of tho time. Hamjl-
ton, as head of the Federalist party.
stood for the strong central government
theory while Jefferson represented the
particularist or state sovereignty. idea.
Party lines had not been drawn deen-
itely when Washington entered office.
but before the end of his second term
there were two fairly we'll defined par
ties. Hamilton being at the head Of one I
Of them and Jefferson at the head Ct
the other. Jenerson's was. the. Repub-
lican party. which adopted the Denlo-
Fcratic name later on. and is the party
Of Cleveland and Bryan. Washington.
though theoretically belonging to no
party, leaned to the Federalist doc.
trine of Hamilton, Adams and Mar
shall.
Two notably strong men were in
Jefferson's cabinet These were Mad :.
ison, the secretary Of state. and CAL
latin, the head of the treasury. Jeffer-
son made Madison his political heir to
the extent that he let it be. known. near
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