Show JIKINLEY ON PERMANENT PROSPERITY In the New York Journal of Sunday last was an interview with President McKinley on the great cotton mills strike Among other things the president presi-dent is reported as saying I have for a long time been in favor of restricting immigration he said decidedly and a great industrial disturbance turbance like this accentuates the importance ortance of acting promptly As you know the immigration bill now before congress has passed the senate and I I hope it will pass the house In fact I will use what personal influence I have with the house members to have the measure considered promptly and I favorably I think there is no doubt that it will be passed I have held for some time that we cannot avoid serious I seri-ous industrial disturbances I if we leave b d I the gates of our country wide open and allow immigrants to come here when I our own people are not fully employed The restriction of Immigration is the first important thing to be done if we I expect permanent prosperity If he is correctly reported this doesnt Indicate that the president is avery a-very broadguigod man in fact it indicates in-dicates quite the contrary What we desire specially is to draw I attention to the last sentence Mr McKinley declares that the restriction I of Immigration Is the first important thing to be done if we expect permanent perman-ent prosperity Isnt the present boasted prosperity of the permanent kind Is it possible that the omnipotent omnipo-tent Dingley law could produce a prosperity pros-perity that is not as permanent as the everlasting hills In 1S96 Mr McKinley stood forth the champion of the theory that the first important thing to be done to secure permanent prosperity was to defeat free silver Well that was done Then after he was elected president and installed In-stalled In the White House he became i the champion of the theory that the first important thing to be done to secure se-cure permanent prosperity was to enact en-act a highly protective tariff law and for this purpose he convened congress in special session and the great prosperity pros-perity producing tariff law known as the Dingley law was enacted The prosperity has come for the protective tariff papers declare that It has and they couldnt possibly be mistaken And now that it is here like Solomon In all its glory the president says that the restrIction tf immigration Is the first Important thing to be done if we expect ex-pect permanent prosperity It is much to be regretted that he did not state what the second and third important Im-portant thing to be done to secure permanent prosperity is for surely there will be atsecbnd and a third important im-portant thing to n6fifcto I3c imJ o f 4 permanent prosperity so soon as immigration im-migration is restricted It is astonishing upon how many things prosperity has had to depend In turn since the election of November 3 189B Next I |