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JUST AS THE DEVIL WOULD DO THE ACT John P. St John, He of Bleeding Kansas, Has Hi's Fling. ; PARODY ON "EDITOR" SHELDON An Imitator Who Vainly Imagines That He Could Run Matter and Things Just as His Satantic Maj esty Would Run Them. The editor of the Atchison Cham jlou concluded lie would have his pa per ruu for a week as the devil would run It and wrote to various prominent men for their opinions as to how they thought his Satanic Majesty wouiu handle the Job. Among those who an swered was ex-Goveruor John p. t, ' John, who said: "I have received yours of the 20th ult, asking me to give my opinion as to 'How the devil would run a paper,' and in reply thereto I desire llrst to congratulate you on your excellent Judgment in selecting me to answer that question, for my familiarity with his Satanic Majesty enables me to Impart to you a lot of Information that the ordinary pious man knows but lit tie about "Tho llrst thing the devtt would do would be to write a salutatory. He would give It an intense religious toiio. He would shout for Old Olory,' and scream for liberty, and pitch Into the Mormons, but would not say a word about tho thousands of slaves, and our government salaried sultan and his -seventeen wives under the protection of the American flag on the Island of Sulu. Ho would openly fa vor bimetallism, and secretly work to put the government on a single gold standard. He would talk long and loud about the 'people's money', but place them at the mercy of the na tional banks to get It. Ho -would de clare that the Cubans 'were and of a right ought to be free,' and then refuse them their freedom. He would de nounce fraud and then send word to the canncrs of rotten beef to clean up and get ready to bo whitewashed. He would stand quietly by, and without even a protest see the organized trusts rob the people of hundreds of millions annually and cnll It prosperity. He would advocate the levying of a high tariff tax on the poor mnn's food and clothing and toll blin it was protec tion. He would be as quiet' ns a graveyard while we were burning ne iiroi's at the stake, und punching their eyes out with a red hot Iron, here In our own country, but would make his columns speak in thunder tones Hi' fa vor of sending our soldiers eight thou sand miles from home to shoot our civilization and Milwaukee beer Into the Filipinos. In a desperate frenzied effort of a powerful monarchy which has been a robber and oppressor of weak nations, to crush by brute force a brave people; In South Africa who are struggling, as our forefathers struggled four generations ago for the right of self government, the devil would bo. on the side of the monarchy, and gloat over the downfall of the re public. He would lnko hla position In his newspaper that by the providence of 13 oil, Porto Rico was the property of the United Slates, and that her people were our people, and by this same di vine providence nud by cry of 'benev olent assimilation' and to impress upon the Porto Hlcnus the lesson, that 'Whom the Lord loveth he ehnstlseth,' be would put a 15 per cent tariff on the prducts of their labor. Ho would indulge In long prayers for temper ance and editorially wluk at the Klondike Jolntisls to close up during the dull season, but throw llielr doors wide open again Just before the vet erans' next pay day. He would stand for McKlnloy nud bitterly denounce Bryan, and llnnlly bis Satanic Majesty would make a will, In which bo would provide, that 111 case of his death or removal from the United Slates, his newspaper should be turned over to Mark llniina." THE CROWNING INFAMY. An Extract Rouubliahod by tho Orogonlan, Maroh 1 i , From every section of the Union Re publicans have called upon their Re publican representatives to undo the groat wrong contained In the tarllT provision of the I'ner.o Rleo bill. We In the great West know that that demand Is almost unanimous througa out the Republican party In this sec tion. But If that wrong Is persisted 111 If the Republican party In Congress, through false -pride or IN OBSTI NATE SERVILITY TO Tllli MYSTIC- RIOUS POWER BEHIND THE HOUSE BILL, enacts Its Puerto Rleo tariff Into law. It will become tho over shadowing Issue in the l'rosiileiitnl cnin.miru. Wo do not know what they think In Washington would be the result of nrh a campaign. But hero In the West Ave know that such n tidal wave of popular Indignation would sweep across the prairies that the Democrats would capture the House or uopresen tiitlvcs. even If they did not defeat President .McKlnley. Chicago Times Herald. Power Behind the Throne. The sulilolnod extract from the New York Independent was copied by the Oregoiilnn, March. 17. 11KH), and there by glvon Its endorsement: What. then, is the secret of the ex traordinary situation In Congress? Evidently there Is a pressure of Inter ests which know how to enforce their demands. IT IS BKET SUGAR AND CANE RUG All AND TOBACCO. It will be a revelation to tho people of the United States that the growers of these crops have power suddenly to revolutionize tho policy or a great par ty, to bring recalcitrants swiftly Inlo lluo, and to force an unpopular ineas lire through both houses. Has the Republican party, through Its representatives In Congress, taken tho contract to dig its own grave? In effect, It Is working nt that Job with a ..,.wlHna n,wl aven U'lint RlII'kH Clllled a "quadruiuanous" activity. Congress every uay is matting muici-mi ii Democratic campaign. Whv shouldn't Puerto Rico be treated like Hawaii? THE GREED OF PROTECTED TRUSTS ON THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD 18 THE OB-STACLE.'-Oregonlan, Marfli 1st, 11)00. Representative Tongue's defense of the Puerto Rico tariff is Interesting anil no doubt conclusive to him. The measure's merit consists iu provision for ilolnir away with the tariff It en acts ns soon ns possible. Thin Is like l he schoolboys defense or Chinese highbinder wars, on the ground that large numbers of oiijeci.onanie 0111 nese were thus destroyed and removed from troubling us. If the tariff is Btich a good tiling, why ask credit for amending the law so as to uo away with It? Oregoulnu, April a, luuu. MORE SAD FACTS ABOUT THE PORTO RICO TARIFF A Few Republican Papers Opposing the Crime and Exposing It Bitterly. List of Republican papers opposing the Puerto Rico tariff lummy: Boston Transcript. Boston Advertiser. Boston Journal. Manchester (N. H.) Mirror. Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. Hartford Couraut. Worcester Spy. Tho U'hlladolphla) Ledger. Tho North American (Philadelphia). Tho livening Telegraph (Philadel phia). - The Inter Ocean. Tho Times-Herald, Chicago. Tim livening I'ost, Chicago. The Cleveland Leader. The Milwaukee Sentinel. The Minneapolis Journal. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Topeka Capital. Balltiinore American. Washington Star. Snn Francisco Chronicle. Snu Francisco Evening Post. Spokane Spokesman-Review. . Portland Telegram. Portland Oregoniau. The Hawaiian Gazette. The Honolulu Star. THOS. H. TONGUK HAS SERVED TWO .T tilt MS IN CONGRESS AND HAS NOT PASSED A SINGLE PUB LIC BILL. THE INFAMOUS PORTO RICO TARIFF BILL RECENTLY PASSED. Thieving Meaiaro In Interest of Sugar and Tobacco Trust. "THE CAPITALIZATION OF THE SUGAR TllUST IS 173,000,001). THE CAPITALIZATION OL' THIS TOBACCO TItllST IS $70,000,000. CAMPAION FUNDS A KB NEED 101). THE PEOPLE ALL OVEU Tllli UNION AltB ASKING, AND ASK ING LOUDLY: DO THESE AND OTHER GIGANTIC TltUSTS ABSO LUTELY CONTROL THE OOY- GltESS AND Tllli PRESIDENT OF HIM UNITED STATES V" The excerpt printed above Is from the Portland Telegram, one of the leading Republican dally newspapers of Oregon. NO PENSION FOR THEM. Indian War Veterans Must Wait Be cause of Other Expenses. Gov. T. T. Gecr, yesterday, received a letter from George B. Cortelyou, sec retary to the president, answering the governor's letter respecting the Indian War Veteran s pension bill. The let ter simply acknowledges the receipt ol I he communication. Speaker D. B. Henderson also ac knowledges tho receipt of the letter addressed to him on the same stibjo'.'t, saying: I have given tho subject mutter of your letter considerable thought. It is a bad tluic to urge this at present with our tremendous burdens ot ap propriations, although something may be done In this congress, if not at this session." Salem Statesman. ("Something may bo done, but not at this session," Is cold comfort for the aged veterans, who redeemed Oregon from the Indians. They must wall, some of them In actual want, because of the constantly piling up expenses of I he army, navy and a horde of otllic holders made necessary under the new Imperialistic regime of the present t lamia adinlnlsirat Ion. Editor. MR. DALY AND MR. TONGUE. A Distinction and a Difference Most Emphatic. Some ot our Republican friends are shocked at the Impudence of the Dem ocrats nominating a man born lit Ire laud for congress. Well, as his oppo nent was born In England, they come to us from under the same crown. There Is this difference between them: Dr. Duly has the liberty-loving spirit of n Patrick Henry and Mr. Tongue the subnilssivencss of a subject of King George. The former stands for liberty for all down trodden people, even the Boers; the hitler Is hand and glove with the aristocracy of both continents. Portland Dispatch. Tllli . LEGISLATIVE CANDl HATES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S PARTY ARE THE ONLY ONES PLEDGED HY PLATFORM TO Tllli SUPPORT OK THE INI TIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. It Is ald that one of the reasons why "our plain duty" to Porto Rico was ana'uloned was a statement that free trade would Injure the tobacco- growers of Connecticut. Yet the Hart totd Couraut. a loading Republican pa per, says the Porto Ulen tariff bill Is both unnecessary and Impolitic. OX NARD AND MY1UCK ARE ABOUT ITS ONLY PROMOTERS. THE POW ER OF SUCH MEN OVER CON GRESS IS A MOST UNPLEASANT REVELATION TO THE COUNTRY. Orcgonlnn, March 20, 1000. OLD INDIAN FIGHTERS ARE AFTER TONGUE Pioneers Who Defended Their , Homes Against War Parties. TONGUE UNFRIENDLY TO VETS In the Oregon Indian War Issue an Ad' dress of Inquiry to Speaker Hen derson The Venerable Old He roes Feel Deeply Aggrieved. At a meeting of Bennett Camp No. H of ludiun War Veterans of the North Pacllic coast, held in the city of Sa lem, Oregon, .May 5, 1000, the follow ing address ami resolutions were unanimously adopted:. The Capital Journal was requested to give publication of the proceedings of the meeting, and all other papers in sympathy with the cause of the much neglected nud abused Indian War Veterans. The Veteran's Address. Address of Captain Bennett Camp, No. 8, of Indian War Veterans of the North Pacific coast to their dear com rades and friends. In 18K0, whea Col. T. B. Walt was our llrst grand com mnndor, he said in a speech before the grand encampment: "That we must organize and get every vote together for our interest. It is now thirty years since we went to our country's rescue, and what have we received Comimrntively nothing. "You should show how many votes we have. Knock somebody down that Is In our way, and then they will want to' know what the old fellows want They think we are dead, or, if not dead, wo have so little sense that they can fool us a plenty. ' "If the Grand Army of the Republic had not have had votes, and used them, would there have been anything said about their patriotism? When a member of congress Is in political ac cord with the house of representatives, and does nothing for us, see that he stays at home next time. Then, and not until then, will you get what is Justly your dues." Though spoken fourteen years ago, Comrades, we ask you, were not tho words of our lust grand commander, Col. T. B. W. Wait, prophetic words? lave we received anything, and is there any prospect that we will ever? Every two years Just before election we get a dose of Mr, Tongue's tatty, spread on thick with Colonel "Wood's eonlldeutial assurance mop. that In a few months nt the furthest we will lie looked after to our heart's content. It Is now forty-four yars that we have been seeking recognition In vain; now let us nppeal to our comrades and friends to stand by ns, and for snido congressmen's scalps. Leave not a stone unturned nor SV' vote uncast against those do-nothing congressmen. who think that with a little taffy Just before election they can fool us until wo have passed Into our graves, and then the future historian will write: Seven thousand Indian war veterans of the Pacific Northwest, within fifty years, all passed into their graves without recognitions that very small politicians might go to congress." ,T. II. ELGIN, Captain Bennett Post, No. 8. S. T. NORTHCUTT, . Secretary. Memorial to the Speaker. The following resolutions addressed to the speaker of the lower house of congress were unanimously adopted: Wherens. We have learned through our representative in,, congress, Hon. 1 lionms li. Tongue, that the speaker of Hie house of representatives of the United States is opposed to any legis lation tending toward the relief of those old Indian war veterans who served in the early Indian wars iu Oregon, who for ninny years have been asking to be placed on the pen sion roll, or to receive at least some recognition nt the hands of this our government, and Y herons, wo are Informed by our representative in congress, Hon. Thomas II. Tongue, that Speaker Hen derson lias taken the same stand in this matter as did the former speaker, Thomas B. Reed, and Whereas, We have been put off from year to year with different explana tions of this matter, and would like to locate the source of the opposition to our Just demands, therefore, Bo It: Resolved, By the Indian war veterans of Bennett camp, that we hereby most respectfully call niton the Hon. Speaker Henderson, of the house of representatives of the United Slates, to give his reasons for bo op posing the legislation that we ask Selein Capital Journal. The Oregonlan'a Prophecy. Representative Tongue Is reported in saying that he Is more and more con vinced that Puerto Rico ought not to be admitted to free commercial Inter course with the United States. This means that in his opinion our new in sular possessions should be held under a system of Imperial government, and not be perniltjcd to participate to full extent iu the advantages of connec tion with the sovereign country. THE OllliGONlAN WILL TELL MR. TONGUE THAT HE CANNOT BE Rii-ELECTED ON THIS ISSUE Or- cgoiiian, March 15, j'.HH). Kincald is Cauetio. The organs that denounced Tongue for voting for the Puerto Rleo tariff und said he could not be re-elected on that Issue, are now barking on the back track and declaring that Tongue Is all right and can easily be rc-clecteii. The party brand was slapped onto him by ,11m Eddy nt McMlnuvllle nud that makes Thomas a "horse of another color." Whatever the party opposes must be wrong. When the party log rolls Us $100,000,000 ship subsidy steal through congress and Hanna orders It signed, the organs that arc now calling it "colossal robbery, will say It Is all right: -Oregon State Journal. If Murk Hnnna bad read the Ore gi ulaii he wonldu't have said, ''Then are no trusts." TONGUE AND MOODY AND THEIR ATTITUDE Upon the Most Shamefaced Steal of the Age. WHY ARE THEY SILENT NOW? The People, as Self Protection, Should Send Men to Congress Who Will Protect Them From the In iquitous Trusts. Ill 1S00 Congress passed a bill to set aside certain lands in the State of Washington as a public park known as tho Mt. Rainier National l'urk, and provided that the Northern Pacllic Ruilroad Compauy might relinquish tile laud granted to it within the pub lic park to the government, and select iu place of same any uou-niiueral pub lic lands iu any stale Into which said railroad ran. In accordance therewith, the North era Pacllic R. 11. Co., relinquished thousands of acres of. land within said park which was utterly worthless and without value and not worth the taxes paid on them, and arc now In this state gobbling up all the best timber lauds we have. Nearly 200,000 acres have already been taken up by these "laud grabbers" in the Oregon City and Roseburg districts, many claims right in Liuu county, and tho end is not in sight. The N. P. R. R. Co. has less than 50 miles of road in Oregon. It has no In terest whatever in building up the state, nud yet it lias been permitted by a Republican congress to come to our state and rob the people and houie seckers who would settle upon these lands nnd build homes for themselves. Iu a short time all the lands of this country will be iu the hands of rail road corporations. The lauds owned by Ihein within the public parks are said to be without value and could not be sold by the company at any price, but by this act they are permitted to acquire lands worth from $10.00 to .$20.00 per acre. The railroad grants were bad iu the beginning, but this last piece of Republican legislation is vicious in the extreme.- r . And to show the extremes to which these Republican legislators have gone 111 this bill, the company can select nnd get patents at once for these tim ber lands whether surveyed or unsur veyed, a right which Is denied a settler who Is seeking to pinke a home for himself, and the further fact that no proof of these lauds beiug non-mineral iu character is required from the com pany. A poor settler must establish the non-mineral character of his home by proof. The rich corporation can- ac quire lands without any proof what ever. How long are tho people of Or - ego., going to stand this treatment? Thomas 11. Tongue is a party to this. m V,'? W . . AOlTS0fn .t v" Linn ( iii; tiiwiv nut. , uiv iu, j.k.uai -Albany Herald. The net of 1809 in the Interest of the N. P. It. R. Co., is but a part of the laud grabbing logib.ntion for the bene fit of certain railroad and military wa gon road companies. The first legisla tion of the kind in favor of these com panies was rue act ol June m.,, the ship will simply be nu additional authorizing them to exchange any land, flt t0 ,ts own pald b the lubo,. held by them iu the forest reserve, uonf t1. Pm.nrrv "-niwmii.in Ainvci, 1 matter of how little value the lnnd' might be, for any other land of equal acreage Hint they might select out of the public domain. They were even allowed to select unsurveyed lnnds that could not be purchased by set tlers. By the passage of the act the value of their lauds in the forest re serve was increased to three or four times their original value. THOS. II. TONGUE HAS SERVED TWO TERMS IN CONGRESS AND HAS NEVER PASSED A SINGLE PUBLIC BILL. A MOST COLOSSAL GRAFT NOW BEING COOKED UP The Outrageous Ship Subsidy Bill Now Perldlng In Congress of the United. States. SHALL WE TELL THE SECRET OF THE SUBSIDY BILL? Then It is this: Ship construction Is booming. Let us hurry up nud pass the subsidy bill; THEN WE SHALL SAY TO THE PEOPLE, BEHOLD WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS DONE FOR OUR MERCHANT MA RINE, WITH ITS SUBSIDIES! Vote for McKinlcy aud all the rest of us Republicans. Then we can go before the Pro tected Interests and say, Behold your friends! Then we can go to the labor veto and say, Behold your fortress and high tower! As to the subsidy bill, haste must he made or It will be too late; for almost every day the news conies of keels laid, contracts signed, trans-Atlnntc and trans-Pacific lines organized, war ships building In American yards for everywhere. To claim tills present ac tivity for a bill to go into effect next January will be a work of extreme hardihood. As to the labor vote, it Is doubtless sufficiently Informed how Inrge a part of the tariff goes Into Its wages, and how much it achieves through Its trades organizations. Then if we de duct the labor vote that will go for Debs as n socialist, and that that will go for Bryan or McKlnley anyhow through partisan predilection, the game to be had through the Puerto Rico trap is not very promising. AS TO THE PROTECTED INTER ESTS, THEY ARE. APPARENTLY. WELL SERVED. AND HAVE NO EXCI SE FOR DISPLEASURE. But havo thev all the votes worth having? -Oivgonian, April :!, 1900. Mr. Wni. Schnlmerlch, Mr. Win. Sohulmerlch. the Demo cratic People s nominee for dairy nnl fin d commissioner, li n resident of Washlnct'.n county, where he hns been engaged In the dairy business for a number of years, conducting one of the largest nud most successful dairies in the state. He was born in Eldorado county, California, and with his par- ents came to Oregon In 1875. Mr. 8. uas made a success ot the dairy busi ness when others have fulled, because he has .made a thorough study of It. He has done much to advance the In terests of the State Dairy Association, and Is very active In bringing to public notice all efforts of adulteration in it. At present be is vice-president of the suite association, and has a large ac quaintnnce with . dairymen, all of whom recognize his fitness to properly administer the duties of the office to which he aspires. Democratic Times, "The revised ship subs.dy bill, of which we have a full copy through our correspondent at 'Washington, is little improvement upon the original form, If any nt all. It Is long aud cumbrous, and what it means can only be ascer tained through a rent deal of study. Its authors profess to have kept In view the design of reducing the sums to be paid to high-speed ships, of th class devoted to passenger service nt the great Atlantic ferry; but why should it be thought part of the duty of the United States to furnish theso luxurious ships for foreign travel? In general, THIS IS A PROPOSI TION TO PAY TO CERTAIN SHIP OWNERS NINE MILLION DOL LARS As YEAR FOR TWENTY YEARS. THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY IS AUTHORIZED TO "CONTRACT" WITH CERTAIN OWNERS FOR THAT PERIOD. OB VIOUSLY, THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO PREVENT REPEAL OF THE LAW . FROM ENDING THE BOUN TY. The authors of the scheme are working for the "dead cinch." It is all fixed In their favor. Builders are to be allowed five years In which to make a contract, accompanied by n bond; and then they are to have five years more In which to build the ships. In other words, ships-built ten yenrs hence may begin to receive the sub sidy. Even then, If the ships are not completed In the time stipulated, the secretary is to have power to extend the time for such period ns he may see fit. The subsidy-seeker Is to have every point In his own hands. But why any subsidy for the ocean-carrying busi ness, admittedly one of the most prof itable lines of business in tht world? Ship property Is good property; the world over.- It is universally admit ted that we ran the railroad subsidy to an extreme.. Are we to enter unon n similar policy in the ship bounty busi ness? No sufficient safeguard is provided In the bill against evasion of the speed requirement. Nor are the vessels re ceiving the subsidy to be required to carry American sailors to an extent or proportion of more than one-fourth of the necessary crew. Every advantage Is to be left to the receiver of the bounty. These things are not acci dental. They are provisions deliber ately planned, nnd their object is to get money out of the treasury for hid I i", , , ' ' p rhV P"" servlcc- Bllt whel.0 or wllnt wlll be tlle service? The prices of our pro- ducts are made in foreign' countries where they are sent for market, and ,he 8hins th(lt recelve bounty wlu not carry for less than those which do not because they will be under no neces sity of doing so, nnd the law of trans portto take all the traffic will bear- will not be superseded. The bounty to - innn OXNARD "REVERSES" HIM. Sad Plight of a Man Not Unlike Tongne or Moody. Representative Payne, of New York. is chairman of the ways nnd means committee. At first he was in favor of free commercial intercourse between Puerto Rico and the mainland of the United States. BUT HE TELLS PLAINLY HOW OXNARD, THE SU GAR LOBBYIST, CAME ALONG AND "REVERSED" HIM. And if tills the Porto Rico tariff bill goes through you wlll see what plight the Republican party will be in during the political campaign the com ing fall. How will It answer the crit icism of the Democratic campaigners ON ITS SUBSERVIENCY TO THE PROTCTED INTERESTS AND THE TRUSTS? IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY, OR A MERE POCKET BOROUGH, THE PROPERTY OF TRUSTS, ADMIN ISTERED THROUGH THEIR LOB BY ?-Orcgonian, March 17, 1000. Senator Simon's estimate of the ef feet of the Puerto Rican mess upon Oregon in November is perfectly cor rect. And he might safely have In cluded the election in June also. Ore goulau, April 4, 1000. If congress nnd tnc president per sist In their present course nothing can save the Republican party from defeat next November. It will surely cost them the house of representatives and it mny cost them the presidency. Chicago Times-Herald, (Republican). It would be ns useless ns It would be criminal to deny the peril of the present situation. To the senators and to the representatives who can appreciate no higher consideration, let tt be said that the wnole future of the congressional campaign Is staked on this Issue. In the West there arc 22 close congressional districts, and In every one of these nil signs point to sure Republican defeat unless the present resentment of the people be allayed by a complete repudiation of the Puerto Rico monstrosity. Chicago Inter Ocean, (Republican). There Is one thing certain, friends, we could hardly tnnke a worse mistake than to return Mr. Tongue, who evej: tiody knows has done absolutely noth ing for the people, hut all he co'tll for the railroads and other corpora tions. The People's Press. Attorney General Griggs Is con vlnoed that the government cannot 111' tcrfcre with trusts, aud the rest of us arc convinced that the government Is not trying to. The Tribune, Detroit CHINESE AND JAPANESE V FLOOD OF IMMIGRANTS The Exclusion Act Expires Next March and Danger Threatens.; WORSE THAN BUBONIC PLAGUE t is a Tenet of Democratic Talth and - a Plank In the Democratic Platform , to Protect the American' La borer From the Asiatic. The followilll? rosnhlttnn wna imnitl. mously adopted at the recent state convention: Whereas, The Chinese exclusion act spires In March, lwl; be it . Resolved. That nut cnmll,lnt..a - congress be aud they are hereby ln- ucicu to use tnelr utmost endeavors hllVll Kllill lllW ru..l,lr.l.l nrltl. .... - - - - ....ii. n 1 1 1 1 11 11 11 amendment Including Immigrants from Japan. The enactment: nf thn Chinuua sion law was enforced by the reform parties against the stubborn opposi tion of a majority of the Republican- lucuiwiH ut congress as a matter of necessity for the nrotnctlnn nf ivhtt laborers on tills coast In particular from a ranidlv iucrcnsiiip- nr,,,,. f coolie laborers. While this law will expire Within a venr nnrnwlln. in it., limitation, it is a remarkable fact that uo enort mis been made In congress to renew or eytmwl ire nnii.niin.. a... i , uauuu, AUU at the same time Japanese laborers are cuming into tue united states by thou sands aud no effort is made to restrict cueir immigration. We can sav with- tlt cxnirircrnHmi Hm t-lw, nvi-n... this undesirable Japanese immigration Is nlnriiiinrr: and ver muni, ,...,..,. wlll the condition become if the Chi nese exclusion law be allowed to ex pire and armies nf CM anese laborers be allowed to luvade iue uuueu states at the same time to compete with our white labor? The Situation ricmnnatrntoa Ilia ..Annai.i a .....w iuw nvvaaiiy ol- electing to congress from this state mm uuu uuie men wno are free from every suspicion of railroad and other corprate Infiuenee and iu full sympa- iuj nun iue mooring men und com mon people. Tacoma. Anril l)ln,.,ii ' offlcerliitBe Northern Pacific steam ship Goodwin, over 10,000 Japanese were booked for passage to this coast in Kobe and Yokohama in the two ivcuks preceding the sailing of the Goodwin from .Tnnnn Of i Mo i army of coolies, over 3400 arrived on: me oouuu msiue or three days; the Rlojuu Warn having 1300 nboard, tho. German, steamer Mtln inu ...,.i i... Goodwin. 1117, while the Brnemer Is followlnir With 101(1 nf thorn .. eral other shins clenrimr f,.' TJ,.ti.,.,.i and other ports containing tho rcmniu- m mis luiuy or coouo laborers. This officer says that if something Is not done soon to cheek the Influx of Japanese, before the year Is out at least 20,000 more of tlioin will bo booked for tlm .April 20th, 1000. ' ' EXPANSION VS. IMPERIALISM GRAFTERS ARE OBSTRUCTING .' 'i Private Interests Must Give Way to Public Weal or the Public Suffers -' Most Unmercifully. Exnansinn wilt nnl- lm nr,,,tii-. i run into impcrialsm, for the AniercaJi, peopie win not nave expansion on the imperial oasis, xnat is, they will. not have Colonies or flnnnnnn,lAa tn be held nnd tnvixl mum ,iu Ai........ of dscrimination against their own luv leiesis, or uenieu tne advantages of free commercal iiitowniiiHMi with United States. Congress has full pow-' er to hold the new acquisitions Iu a ter ritorial relation to the United States, aud mav do this for nn !iwi.Hiiitn ,u.i-, od, but the proposal to treat them as uncus, in iue matter or commercial lu-. r.ercourse, is a ruing tue people of the, United States will never approve. THERE WOULD BE NO SUGGES TION OF SUCH A THING BUT FOR THE INTRUSION OF THE SU GAR AND TOBACCO LOBBY .AT, WASHINGTON. We have acquired all these 1.- lauds by treaty, yet they are alien l.indnt: Hns such stultification any pnrni.cl in', the history of parties? PETTY n'TTDTTfJlT tv'I'WVI. V SELFISH, INTERESTS ARE DOINGr mis wukja.. A powerful Amercan syndicate con-' trols the plantations and products of Hawaii, wants free trade, and gets It.' THE SYNDICATE ON THE OTHER SIDE HAVE HOME INTERESTS TO) SUBSERVE, AND THEY RULE POR-' TO RICO OUT. Congress yields , i one argument in the one case and to' the opposite argument in the other; yet In each ease the argument comes from the same source of protected greed. It Is not the people of the United Stntes who are demanding this dis crimination nnd its exactions. IT 18 A HANDFUL WHO ARE WORKING THE "GRAFT OF PROTECTION" FOR THEIR PRIVATE SCHEMES, THROUGH THEIR- LOBBY- AT WASHINGTON. Oregoulnu, March 24, 11)00. Tho Oregonian and several other Re publican newspapers are kept busy "pointing with pride" to the achieve-' ment of the Republican party In hav ing "settled" the money question by permanently adopting the gold stand-, nnl and in calling upon the voters to' assist them In winning a victory for7 the gold standard so that they can keep on settling the financial question. From the manner lu which 1 li Ore goulnu attacks Senator Daly boeiuso he favors free coinage one would think that Scott was ever afraid bis party would lose control of the United StaUis Senate. If the trusts persist In their way warduess. Chicago will bold another; trust conference, nnd hov will thoy like Hint? Chicago Record. ': ''