Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-15

Co hire dear workmen. r is unnecessary to argue that in this city where thousands are Idle and mil lions of money not spent in wages because of a similar law to give jobs to citizens instead ito aliens The upshot is that nobody gets such jobs The employers cannot afford to pay the compulsory The cheap labor is necessary to prepare the work for the better paid wageearners IT the cheap labor is made inaccessible by law the result is not that the dear labor the cheap job at high wages but that there is less work for both classes Thus the effect of the law is to deprive labor of property without due process of law The voters or Arizona who are over-ruled are mere handful against thc descendants of those who a century ago asserted the wise and benefcent rules Of the on. sttuton 10 which the local law is suborainatsu ,t woJd be a mockery to sustai nthe Arizona elector- ate against the constitution In not much less de- gree would it be wrong to allow any State to annul the rights faliens which rest upon treaty declara- ton as well as upon the Constitution Fifteen ma tions have treaties with he United States giving their nations equality of treatment here and one State after another is legisatng in contradiction of those treaties such lawless aw-makine is bad faith toward those other countries to which the national faith has been pledged Proposals to enact anything which embarrass the nation with foreign countries or which proposes to establish antagonism between State and Federal legislation. cannot be approved They show deterioration in capacity for seIfgov- enmcnt which always hitherto has been a proud American boast When a citizen or a lawmaker can not control the temptation to do what the funda- mental law forbds he falls below the standard of
 
 comprises SO many interesting and disputed ques- tons of law and policy as these anualien laws The decisions in New York and in California happily are alike, and along the sam elines"
 The Boston News Bureau says Now comes Arizona and with vastly less excuse It's voters have laid upon its legislature virtual mandate to enact tbat fo1r out of every five employees on every pay roll shall be native or qualified citizens The various embassies have naturally been prompt in expressing the repugnance of their governments to any such discrimination as thus threatened Should all ,ue fort-eislt states so legslate their compatrots here would rival the Belgian refugees in bread and butter status
 From the viewpoint of the country as a whole this sort Of thing is almost equally objectionable Were -o prevail universally and alien employment to be restricted to 20 per cent We should be imme- diately crippled and be deprived of future develop ment economically even more than if Europe with drew every dollar of its fxebulion stake now at worS here. Even stronger than our traditional well come to the immigrant and the capital from abroad is our own economic need thereof
 And as often happens this same prospective disadvantage applies even more forcibly than the average to Arizona itself The state needs much phy- sical development; it's chief industry is one depend eut on manual labor. The conditions may be summed up in the statement that barely third of it's mine workers qualified voters The rest are Cornish men, Huns, Mexcans etc The policy indicated Go the legislature might wei lmean dollar and cents hari-ksn to the state in its competition with the thousands of other mines in the world and especial ly SO when metal prices were not high
 Should such an outcome eventuate it would fin fact frustrate the probable main motive inspiring the recent yotea desire part of class to secure in- ordinate privilege by the exercise of political power Instead of fat wages for mine workers there might be no wages Seeing that such considerations did not enter the calculation who could expect there wouid be any thought to whether embarrassment to me state department might also follow
 Incidentally, though not concusivey perhaps the incident is not one to be rapurousy embraced b proponents of the electoral initiative"