The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-05-08

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what a Democratic administration
would do II i; carried out its prom
ises and thus cure the country from
listening 10 such Democratic imprac-
ticable platitudes forever in the flu
ture.
/ Niger in the Wood-PiIe Dis
covered
The Democratic tariff bill places
steel on the free list, but II has just
been discovered that there is a joker
in the bill in favor of the steal trust
1t seems that the steel trust controls
the domestic output and manufacture
of ferro-manganese, an important
and essential element in the manu-
facture of steel. The duty on this
product in the present Republican
law is $3.50 a ton, but the Demo
cratic tariff bill, instead of putting
this product on the free list along
with steel, changed that duty to If
teen per cent ad valorem. which
means, at least, duty of eight or
as much protection as given by the
Republican tariff law.
The Democrats will, no doubt,
claim that this increase of duty is
made to raise revenue, but that ex-
PLANTATION will fall fat when it is dis
covered that all of the steel manu-
facturers in this country are forced
to buy their ferro-manganese from
the steel trust and this duty of
eight or nine dollars ton is big
enough to break up the independent
steel manufacturers and give the
steel trust a complete monopoly OF
the business.
So it seems that our Democratic
friends, while stripping every par
ticle of protection from American
labor and from most American in
dustries and hitting the farmers a
hard lick at every opportunity, has
been careful to give a rich plum to,
at least, one of the greatest trusts
in the country.
Bryan, California, and the Japanese.
When the Legislature of Califor-
MIA was about to pass a bill prohib-
iting any Japanese from owning or
leasing land in California, President
Wilson rushed Mr.. Bryan, his Sec
rotary of State, across the continent
to appeal to the Legislature of that
State not to pass such a law which
would violate treaty relations be-
! tween Japan and this country.
Mr.. Bryan's mission has been a
failure. California has passed law
against which the President and Mr..
Bryan protested. The next day af-
ter CALIFORNIA; action, Arizona pass
ed a similar law, and other States
are threatening to follow suit. In
this matter the present administra-
ton has shown want of capacity to
handle this delicate situation in the
/ West. When Roosevelt was Presi-
dent, the same situation arose, but
he easily convinced the State author
! tiles that the treaties Of our coun-
, try were the supreme law Of the
. land and would be enforced.
However, it must be admitted that
there is intense racial hatred against
/ the Japanese in California. The
people of the South know something
about race hatred toward the negro
/ race, but nobody in the South has
/ ever objected to the negro owning
Or leasing land, indeed, it has been
! the policy of the Southern people to
/ encourage them to buy and lease
! land in the hope that it would make
them better citizens.
Therefore, it is hard for the peo-
pie of the South, even to understand
the cause for the depth and extent
of the race feeling against the Jap
anese in the West. 1t may be the
| fear of industrial supremacy of the
Japanese, an element of danger
which the South has never had tC
fear from the negro.
! Whatever the real cause OF the
race hatred may be, yet the fact tha
it has opened such a field for cheal
politicians and the demagogue tt
play on race hatred, in order to di
vert attention from economic Ques
tons, will, no doubt, appeal strong
" to Secretary Daniels to, at once
use the navy to import the Japs int
Mouth tho South Thj