Show j THAT PETTY CIRCULAR I A gentleman has sent us up from I Mllford the silly circular which time Democrats put out over the State appealing I ap-pealing to the cowardice of voters by I stating lhat the population of the Philippines Phil-ippines Is over 7000000 tha the great bulk of laborers arc Chinese and Japanese Jap-anese etc and that a vole to retain those islands would be a vote to admit those 15centsaday laborers to this I country to compete with American labor la-bor Een that statement Is a double attempt 10 deceive men The population popula-tion Is over 7000000 and the laborers arc chiefly Japs and Chinese The natural Inference Intended to be conveyed Is that there are 7000000 of tlem The truth oC course Is that the I great bulk of people are mixed Spanish and Malay As to the danger let us see Japan Is much nearer the United Stales than Manila Is and there Is no present obstruction ob-struction to as many Japanese coming to this country as may please to Then Japan has 10000000 people and they are all workers That Is a sufficient suffi-cient answer to the dishonest circular The circular Is an appeal against expansion I pansion held out In the most cowardly manner and Is but a petty trick to try to reap a local advantage by fraud and deception and id i quite a year and a half behind the procession for thc Philippines are ours and probably will I be for the next few thousand years If the Republic lasls that long But Gen Agulnaldo the gentleman who Is killing 1 American soldiers In the Philippines will peruse this emanation of his American Amer-ican alllea with pleasure |