Show Our morning contemporary te in a great deal o trouble I Is grieved to death that the Constitution has been torn to shreds In putting a trifling tariff on Porto Rican products J wanted that len open for two reasons I One was to show how trusts could go to Porto Rico buy xlp the product of pauper labor and ship them into this country to the great loss and detriment detri-ment of our workingmen hence It Is grieved that the ConstItution has been so razzlednzlcd so to speak The other reason was that if free trade could be established with Porto Rico a little island not so big as Box Elder county why then the same rule would have to apply to the Philippines and there would nine million pauper laborers la-borers rush Into this coUntry immediately imme-diately to absolutely starve all work lngnicn Now the fact is I that the Filipino pino In his native state does not give a cent for the United States he is not In love with hard work and if he can get along through the week with what he can earn on Monday the other six days oC the week ha does not work Indeed nearly all the work that Is done there except on the lllllc farms Is done by the Chinese who have been Imported into thai country Furthermore of the seven millions of people that are supposed sup-posed to exist on those islands it has required about three hundred years for Spain to reduce 20 per cent of them to a state of barbarous civilization BO to speak the rest are little better than savages and as n factor in the working work-ing world are exactly as significant and no more so than were and are the aborigines of this country Of the email percentage that are thus civilized twothirds are women and children and the other third know no other place than homo and do not desire to Hence that danger Is a little removed re-moved It may begin to tel In about three hundred years not sooner and by that time especially If in the meantime mean-time we have four or five Democratic Administrations the wages in the United States will not be much better than they will be in the Philippines Hence the grief of our neighbor is somewhat farfilched and Its tears have a crocodllish look and are not liable to awaken the apprehensions or the sympathy of the Independent workIngmen work-Ingmen of the United States |