Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12
An Irrepressible Conflict.


same terms as people of the most
favored nations, the absolute repeal
of the present exclusion law. These
men dominate such organizations as
Chambers of Commerce and Boards
Trade of the larger cities, and claim
to represent public opinion, when
they only act surreptitiously to mis-
represent the will of the whole peo-
pie. to promote the most sordid of
considerations
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
has been foremost in promoting this
form of duplicity. Several years ago
it feted prominent Cinnamon who
were on visit to this country, and
Mr. Charlton of the Northern Pacific
Railway company placed a special
train at their service and conveyed
the Mongols to that city with the
most profound manifestations of sub
serviency. A short time ago, this
same Chamber asked the too willing
President of the United States to ad-
init this pest to equal rights on
American soil, and protested against
any change in the present immigra-
ton laws looking to the exclusion of
Japanese labor. This protest was
done with secrecy, and did not, and
does not, represent popular senti-
ment of the true citizenship of the
West.
The Seattle Japanese Corean Ex-
clusion League, an organization COM
posed of members of union labor
last week adopted q resolution and
forwarded it to the President asking
that steps be taken Immediately by
the country's lawmakers to adopt such
Legislation as will bar laboring classes
of the Orient from the United States.
The action was taken at a meeting
Sunday, when the attitude of the
Chamber of Commerce was declared
to have been based on hypocrisy and
falsehOOd, based on desire for personal
gain on the part of manufacturing
and contracting interests.
Both these structures will apply.
Their action is based upon falsehood,
and founded upon the most palpable
evidences of venal selfshness.
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AN ALARM THAT WILL AROUSE
WITHOUT ALARM. - The Scientific
american of the 9Th inst. contains an
Illustrated article showing a very
simple means of connecting phono-
graph with a clock in such manner
that it can be made to trip lever
and start the monograph performing
a march from Sousa, or singing a
song by Melba, or Bryan to declsim-
ing, and doubtless (soon as the record
is made) Roosevelt to scolding, at
any hour of the day or night. 1t is
said that the idea was suggested by
the provision made by Andrew Car
negie, to be awakened every morning
by the grand harmonies of a pipe
organ, played by a well-known musi-
clan, on a salary for that service.
Most of us are unable to own q grand
organ or to hire a skilled organist,
but nearly everybody can own q 81. so
alarm clock, and, say, a $25 phono-
graph outfit, and all else needed is
a piece of cord and ordinary ingen-
uity to release such chosen harmonies
as may be best adapted to calling the
weary pilgrim from slumber to &C.
tivity, from rest to labor, without
the Notwithstanding clangor of the
ordinary alarm-clock. Then again, if
one finds pleasure in q lullaby on
Dropping OFF to Sleep" or a sere-
made that loft on the Silly Night"
may Charm the Soul with Thoughts
of Thee, and kindred fuzzy-growths
on the borders Of Dreamland, he has
at hand an opportunity to turn on
just the form of ear-thralldom that
may best suit conditions and circum-
stances.