Show HOME WORK FOR HOSE WORKMEN tho city council instructed the committee on police and city prison to advertise for meals for city prisoners and the following bids were received LEH SANO chinaman 16 cents B M jr 17 conta and T E 17 cents the latter two aro citizens of the united states and spend their money in building up the country the former is a celestial who hordes up his gains in this country with a view to taking it to his native country sou and if he dies here the country is not even considered good enough for his last resting place still because the chinaman bid lower than our citizens the city council felt obliged to award the contract to him it ig enough to make one who loves his country and its home interests blush with shame to think our city solons would institute such a principle it is not because the contract amounts to much that THE ENQUIRER censures the act of the council in awarding it to a chinaman four or biye hundred meals per month at the rate proposed in the bids will not make any one rich but there is a principle at stake we believe in home work for home workmen every time and any one who is not a citizen nor a bonafide resident of the country ought not to ba granted public contracts if foreigners can be awarded a small contract they can with equal grace be given a large contract it will be understood therefore that it is not because LEE SAG is a heathen or because we think him in anyway dishonest or potent that we object to him being awarded the contract of furnishing ib iyub i caioli cu ioli have no interests in this country and just BO soon as they horde up enough money to get back to their native land and there bo able to eke out a miserable existence in their low condition of life they will leave our shores we hope abo city council will let no more contracts to to the exclusion of our own citizens grew up under a tariff and new her wares are able to baand at the side of all competition protection to home industries dus tries is but a stepping stone in the history of the country that will isad to ultimate free trade |