Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVNRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Q. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. »1,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. » Entered at the postofflce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, JUNE 27. Senator Foraker has been endorsed for re election bv the Ohio republican state convention. J. A. Kantz. editor of the Tribune, has been named by the powers that be, for postmaster at Kokomo. President anti Mrs. McKinley expect to leave Washington the first of the week for their Ohio home at Canton. and where they both will spend the hot summer months. It is probable that the dedication of the soldiers’ monument at Indianapolis will take place some time this fall and that President McKinley as well other public men will be present The third party organized last week at Kansas City, got a weak start. Some of the things thev advocate an* all right but as a whole they are a flourishing set of kickers and extremists. Congressman Ji.m Robinson wrote a very interesting article in the World Review, upon expansion as it affects the laborer. It is good enough to re produce and. you will find it in this issue. The Ohio state convention was strictly the creature of Senator Hanna and did his bidding with true diplomacy. such as is only known since the reign of this mighty dictator. He usually holds a full hand and plays his cards well. Mayor Harris n of Chicago, issued ‘ an edict that any merchant of his I citv who sells a toy pistol cr cannon , fire crackers shall be subjected to n heavy fine. With the Fourth of July one week away this proclamation is certainly timely? - The Berne Witness is busy these hot days printing street and sewer 1 improvement notices, and as they appear on paper, there is no doubt about | their stability and the citizens of I Berne an* to lie congratulated for the ; public spirit manifested. Jacob P. Denn, editorial writer ou| the Indianapolis Sentinel, has l>e-*n appointed city comptroller by Mayor; Taggart. Mr. Dunn is a well known I literarv gentleman and we suppose; his knowledge extends to finance, with which he will now have to en-1 gage. Congressman George W. Cromer! was in the city last Friday giving th-* boys the glad hand, and as the post mastership is yet in the crude state.' many were the warm hands extended 1 to the eighth district statesman. To! a Democrat representative Congressman Cromer said the Decatur post office would not be taken up until after the first of next year, and as a result the many aspirants here will be allowed to tieklo themselves with the, thought that they are “it."

Senator Fairbanks' boomlet for a presidential nomination is sadly in need of a wet nurse. Lagrange Dem ocrat. _________ Logansport is making extensive preparations for the entertainment of the Indiana editors at their meeting, July 11 and 12. The wool grower is awaiting a defense of the protective tariff on wool, by some respinseble and energetic republican journal. Col. Bryan is on a lecturing tour in the east, and while in Buffalo made the sterotyped statement that he was no candidate for president dr any other office. He further testified that [ he had no knowledge or connection with the new third party movement. Now will you lie good. The Fourth of July celebration in this city will be one of the best ever given. Much credit is due the Decatur Driving Club for their exhibited pluck and energy to say nothing of their enterprise. It will cost the club SI,OOO to celebrate this day, but they are going to do it in a fitting way. So says W. Burke Cockran: “This J talk of candidates for nomination in I IM M strikes me as too absurd to notice. I It is a far awav cry to the next nation- ] al campaign and it is practically im-1 possible at this time to settle on any | man as a logical candidate. The is- | sues. too. are not decided upon. Do I consider the issues of last year exploded! Well, no issue is so dead that it cannot be revived nor none so; far ahead that it cannot be overtaken." | The Commoner. Mr. Bryan's paper, suggests Justice Harlan, of the supreme court, as a candidate for the presidency upon whom all democrats could unite, on account of his opposition to the Porto Rico decision. We coincide with the judge in his views on these questions, but as a democrat in the rear ranks we are inclined to the opinion that the democrat party had enough experience flirting with a republican candidate for president in 1872. Plymouth Democrat. ————————— By far the most important question l*efore the people for settlement says the South Bend Times, is the curbing ! loftrusts and combines. That over-1 shadows everything else. Nothing i short of a national law governing cor- I I poratious will answer the purpose.! The taxing power will probably have ' to be resorted to in order to reachi monopolies like the Standard Oil Com- , pany. The public welfare demands j that something be done to check the | I growth of the octopus. Bt t a little push and energy will i ' give the board of trade an opportunitv I ,t > increase our manufacturing interests. The complaint of some of the protected interests against Secretary; Gage is that he enforces the tariff I laws without intelligence. He sees i • what is written in favor of sugar and ! ! petroleum, and he carries it into effect i i regardless of the other hearts' that may ache. Your true protec-1 t. ni-t believes iu enforcing some laws ! ' and in ignoring others, in making a i bluff here ami tra le there, but taking : rare all of the time not to interfere; with the good things which any of, ti * f iv- r>-J. interests mav enjov. Mr. , Gage evidently does not understand | the game that he is playing. ’ What can be expected, however, of a i , man who was a tariff reformer in 1892! | Chicago Chronicle.

Come and see us JULY 6. We will have a Surprise for you. \\ e have an accumulation of about 400 to 500 pairs of odd pints of which the coats and vests have been »old. Some of the choicest merchandise are among them. About one-half of them are black and blue clay worsteds and serges, and the balance are fancy wor:teds, cassmeres and cheviots. They will go at this special sale at less than manufacturers price. We have applied the knife and have cut them deep to make them go quick.. We are needing the money and the room Be sure and come in. You should see them to appreciate the bargains. Remember the date, July 6—one day only. Holthouse, Schulte & Co

AMERICAN LABOR BY EXPANSION. Rapid transit on land and sea, the swiftness and ease of telegrapic and ' other communication, and the facilities for combinations of enterprises have of themselves produced in recent vears an evolution, if not a revolution. in labor. Economic changes that come as the result of improvement in human agencies and affairs, and are not the outgrowth of selfish ness. should be heralded as lieuefactions; and though they affect in a measure established conditions, ultimately they will show results of universal goal . It is not to such changes that I shall address myself, but to the ; process now going on which seems to bv* bringing the labor of different classes and different climes to a common level. If any benefit arises to American labor from the acquisition of the insular possessions it must be in profit from labor performed on American soil, outside of the islands acquired. The distance of the islands, the climate and the labor conditions bring no hope for the profitable employment of American labor, either in Hawaii, in Porto Rieo or in the Philippine I Islands. The Hawaiian islands, lying 2,100 miles southwest of San Francisco, I were the first acquisition under the J ; recent policy of expansion. They I were annexed by a resolution of congress passed July 7, 1898. The area of the eight islands of the group is 6,740 square miles, equaling in extent the state of New Jersey. Although I these islands had treaty relations with I the United States from the year 1526. ami with England and France from almost the same period, and frequent communication with these and other European countries, vet at the time of annexation in 1898, out of a total population of 110.000. we find the following distribution in races and countries: Americans. 3,086; British, 2.250: Germans, 1.432. and French. 101. At the time then* were 21.600 Chinese, 23,400 Jananese, 15,200 Portuguese. and 39.500 native Hawaiians I and mixed Hawaiians. Os the total I population two-thirds were males. The principal industries of the islands in the order of their importance ; | are sugar, rice and coffee, the latter I ' but slightly developed. The Chinese 1 and the Japanese work in the sugar 1 I mills and on the plantations. Americans and Europeans cannot work in ' the marshy land required for the eul- | tivation of rice, and as the Japanese decline to do so, this work is performed almost entirely by the Chinese. After the islands were annexed m i 189 s something like 40.1M.M1 Japanese I laborers were brought in under a labor contract similar in terms to that | under which nearly all the Chinese ’ I and Japanese theretofore had been ' I bound. The obligation of these con- ! I tracts was dissolved by the act of I ’ congress providing a government for ; , Hawaii, passed April 13,1900: but the | lab :i rs remain and work at wages i i r mging from fifteen to seventeen dol- j I lars a month, and furnish their own I , board and clothes. Tne resoulution of annexation pro-! I vided that a commission of five should ! investigate and report legislation ' deemed necessary and proper. In its i report on the laber conditions we find this statement: •'The question whether white lalxar can be profitably utilized in the sugar plantations is yet a problem." This report was made by I Senator Cullom as chairman of the ; committee. With thes-» labor eon- ' ditions prevailing and with the large I proportion of cheap oriental laborers

already there, the probhtn of labor seems to be solved in favor of the oriental elements of the population. The Japanese show an adaptability and quickness, an alertness anil ambition that are menacing labor, not only in Hawaii, but in the states along the Pacific coast as well. By the annexation resolution it was provided that nothing therein contained should be construed to permit the Chinese in the islands to enter the United States, and bv the subsequent organic* law for the govenment of the islands they were expressly prohibited from doing so. As the islands were annexed without any restrictions in the the act, like those imposed on Porto Rico, it is doubtful whether the Chinese in Hawaii can be excluded from the United States. Be that as it may with reference to the Chinese already there, vet there is a real menace to American lalior in the Japanese immigration to the United States. The Chinese are prohibited from coming to our country by the Chinese exclusion act; but stringent as that act is, they hover along the northwestern and northeastern boundaries and break across; and in this way and through Mexico thousands come into the United States every year. This system, encouraged by navigation and transportation companies engaged in I the traffic and in collusion with agents greatly harrasses the United States authorities, who so far have 'neen unable successfully to cope with it. Japan, with it 540,000.000 of population. is a greater menace to this country than is China with her 400.000,000. I This is due to the difference in the characteristics of the people. The Chinese are conservative and religiously attached to their country and always expect to return to it. The Japanese are bold, adept and alert: and when they secure a favorable location they hope always to remain. The Japanese are quick to learn and adapt themsehes to surroundings with good facility. The commissioner general of immi- | gration in his last report referred to the increase of Japense immigration ' and expressed the opinion that unless I cheeked it would produce serious trouble where aliens are used as I I cheap laborers to take the place ofi American workingmen. It mav be inquired why legislation ' similar to the Chinese exclusion act | ■is not enacted against the Japanese. In some senseat least the answer can ■ be traced to the policy of expansion. We have in the Japanese treatv of 1 5 94 a saving clause which reserves to iht* United States a right to legislate as it will with reference to the im migration of laborers from Japan: but I in the late Chinesetroubles the favors shown bv Japan in quickly responding with troops, and the aid she gave to the allies, gives her a prestige that seems to cause our government to hesitate in taking any drastic measi tires against Japanese immigration. It should be restricted by a law simiI lar the Chinese exclusion act. The difficulty now encountered in the ena< tment of laws and their en- | forcemeat will only be augmented bv ! th'* increase of interestsin the opposite | direction, by the increase of lines and I borders to be guarded, and by the acquisition of islands which must perforce furnish bases from which I cheap labor can more readily enter i into the United States. The observations I have suggested |on the exelusion from profitable emI ploymeut of the American in the Ha--1 i waiian islands obtain also with referJence to the Philippines, when* he

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must come into competition with the Chinese, the Jananese and the Filipinos. The Filipino has many of the characteristics of the Japanese, and if the same free egress to this country is accorded them as is given to the Japanese the like evil will result. The conditions in Porto Rico with reference to labor are not dissimilar to those prevailing in the two other insular possessions, save that there are no Chinese and Japanese; and the native Porto Ricans are not a class with which Americans can compete in price of wage. In addition to the above comparison of the Philippines with Hawaii, we find in the report of the Philippine commission, under he head of public health a condition, climatic and otherwise, that would make it impossible for American labor to find a field for occupation. It says: ‘There is a custom prevailing in Manila of keeping within doors from twelve to three, which is universally commended. It is doubtful whether the white race could work in the sun.” It is clear from the facts and conditions I have mentioned that American laborers have nut profited in ex pansion by securing a field for their later outside of their own country, nor are they secure against the influx into the United States of,Lose against whom they cannot compote abroad. It is well known, also, and recognized that American labor is not. and cannot be, preferred in manning ves seis on the sea, if profit alone is looked to; for the American cannot work for the wages on board ship that people of many foreign countries are willing to take. Therefore the conclusion must be drawn that the American laboring man must expect to profit, under the present policy of expansion, from labor performed in this country, and not from that in fields to which he might go. It is equally clear that he must te protected against the incoming flood of later. cheaper than his own, or he will suffer. Whether the American laboring man secures any Ixmnfit from expansion I leave without dincussion; that ho fails to secure it in the ways I have adverted to is clear. Congressman J. M. Robinson in The World Review. Kansas democrats have wisely repudiated fusion, and henceforth ‘ will manage their owu ship of state. The experience of the past two presidential elections have given the party leaders much practical knowledge upon this subject, and in the future they are pretty certain to sto'r clear of any alliance, no matter from whom it may eminate. J

Yoli Should Know that in the past thirty day- we have sent out, direct from s (O Yobqg Meq ■”!« 18 YoUqg Worqer| into business offices in this i other cities. This work is g 's' on every month in the year. N vacations. You can enter at y time and in a few months pre; co yourself for a good situati Wo Give Instructions at Your t+onie by Mail if you cannot come to Fort Way: •> Send us the names of ten tut people in your locality who n. v be interested in our line of « * and we will send you. FREI r one year, our college jour; 1 Fall term Itegins Tuesday. > teinber 3. Catahigue free. V I Busies Qoll???. Fort Warne, Indiana. The Snn. A Qtrnnnniorc in fbftt H'fmct elements like Iron, silicon and caiU a. perhaps dissociated into Hiuipfi-r substances. are present 8« vap< rs hi the atmosphere of the snn and that many others of our well known clement including hydrogen, are also pn-.t’t n this glowing atmosphere, while the heat of the sun's surface and that of the hotter stars Is vastly higher than that of the electric furnace. 111. A«e. Being asked his age, a colored citizen in a BillvlUe district replied: “Well, snh, 1 some older dan dnt pine tree yandcr, li'l bit younger dan dat live oak by de gate en not quite so ez de house wbar 1 llvln at. I a!’ l ' much on .Aggers tnyse’f. but .wu Ida count up en see!”—Atlanta Constitution. The Nearest He Ever Cnme to 1’ “Colonel." she asked, “have you ever t>een up In a balloon?” “No," he answered, “but 1 !l ’ talking art to a Boston lady once, ano she had me away up Id the air ln» lJe of two minutes.’’-Chicago Herald. A Neighborly Dl.tnrtmnce. First Neighbor-Well, my daughter doesn't play the piano any worse t a your son writes poetry. Second Ditto—Perhaps not. but It - be heart! so much farther.— b etru Free Press.