Show THE LAST BUGABOO A mortal fear has seized upon a near contemporary lest when things me settled set-tled In the Philippines the United States will be overwhelmed by millions of cheap laborers And yet while Spam hold the Philippines for SOO years I there was not onetwentleih part of a t million there that ever learned to work There Is Jugt about as much danger of their coming to Interfere with the labor of Lids country as there Is that the men of Madagascar which France has 1 ttilan In charge will come to Paris and push aside the French artisan from hit employment or that the semlsavagea oC UiCSlralls settlements will Invade England by l millions next week to push British vvorkJiigmen away from loom I and forge and farm Our Democratic frlQiids always have dyspepsia Just before be-fore election TJiolrllvcrs arc out of fix und that gives them forebodings of evil that dulls their eyesight that makes them pose as Idiots before an intelligent people l and still with a perseverance per-severance that cannot be abated every four years they turn up with the same advertisement with ihe same prop uostlcatlons oC misfortune with the same assurance to the people of the i United Stales that unletfl they are restored re-stored Immediately to powor the country coun-try will go to smash and that time light of this Republic like the Jight of tho slar that has fallen will go out and leave the entire world in Plutonian darkness To human progress they are I I the brakes on he wanon and In presidential I I pres-idential years though I I Jt Is I upgrade all the tlme > they lash the brake down and hold it there up to election day oven if the friction is so great that It threatens to burn un the wncon r Referring to the same subject the I bugaboo of cheap Filipino labor competition com-petition Arthur Hugh Frazier late of I the United States Volunteer Signal corps Just returned from the Philippines Philip-pines Quotes the remark of cxGov Boutwcll that the Filipinos canmau age a bank and run a laundry with a certainty of success that cannot be foretold of any other people whether English or American and says of It I An exsoldier feels tempted to rub his I eyes and wonder where the commer l cial paladins concealed themselves during dur-ing his sojourn in their midst And adds that the returned American soldiers l sol-diers came home with the impression that the ablebodied workers the trust I I ed confidential 1 clerks and bank tellers were Chinese the merchants I and planters Spanish English or German Ger-man leaving to the I natives undisputed sway In tho hackdriving business and similar intellectual pursuits His linal conclusion Its h that the shrleker in this I country who would prejudice labor against these poor devils is either Ignorant Ig-norant of recent experiments or ese a victim of selfdeception |