| Show A REACTING SCHEME we are always confronted with some sort of social or political loal boomerang an object lesson in how not to do it for the special benefit of the people of the U united n it ea states for some few years last past uncle sam has been besieged with shortsighted short sighted demagogues and scheming malcontents intent upon a revival of the doctrine which the american people stamped out of existence as an organized entity after a brief career more than a quarter of a century ago but because the organization disintegrated under the uprising was no reason why those who held its banner aloft should give up their beliefs or at least claims to belief in the premises and hue hua it to is that we have some perhaps many of them yet they can accomplish nothing by the more honorable because out spoken and openhanded methods of the years agone but the instinct of national if not personal selfishness incites those who remain to devices and sinister practices in order arder to ke p foreign born tople people from our shores with the chances are that the latest scheme in this direction Js ia going to have an effect similar to that of an overloaded gun it will wih either burst at the breech or kick the holder over the transatlantic steamship companies have decided to refuse to take steerage passengers from europe after the first of the now new year and to raise the rates for first and second class passengers at the same time this is presumably a measure of retaliation the intent of which is to force the federal authorities to relax if they will not altogether abandon the present proscriptive regulations some may say that such action on the part of the steamship people I 1 just what is wanted by the in that it will operate in the direct line of their aims and desires by curtailing the down to the rich and well boro bord and at any other time such would undoubtedly be the sefor ca only those who must come to america or those who are in such circumstances as to render them indifferent to the drice of a passage would make the trip but ut it la Is not so now and the reason thereof to is quite us the first day of january begins in reality them the worlds world fair season and those who contemplate exhibiting or visiting the grand show will be putting things in shape to that end As aa to Is customary cua tomary with those who live at groat great distances transportation to Is the feature lov the most moat expense and therefore the airet thing to receive consideration perhaps not a great many of such stich visitors would come by steerage in any event though a few might do so ao while it to la reasonably reacon ably certain that great numbers would come second class and only those who would come under any circumstances will take the first claw clasps with very few exceptions the profits of the great steamers come mainly from the steerage because while such passengers pay less than any others they are also lew less expensive in a greater ratio to the owners while there are many more efthem of them it is to the two higher grades of passengers that the fair managers look for their patronage principally ci but if the governments agents are determine determiner 4 to out off the profits resulting from steerage business busi neos by not such to land or subjecting them to such euch pro prescriptive scrip tests teats that but few will hereafter embark the only chance of the ship companies to keep beep even is to advance the rates to those who are admitted without question this rule will act in the desired direction with double force foice for the castle garden magnates and their allies will have a pressure upon them fore and sit ait from the people of moderate circumstances abroad who would like to attend the exposition but will not do so at advanced rates and from the managers of the show who will not submit to their business being out cut down in any such way if they can help it the upshot all is that the prevailing restrictions will have to be so modified that people against whom nothing can be urged except that they are poor will be admitted freely or our great national attraction will fail to bring to our coffers the vast sums bums from abroad which we might otherwise have and the amount of the falling off it would require many numerals to represent the claim put forth by the pru pro scrip ti that the cholera has no not t entirely disappeared from europe in flimsy in the extreme it la is not at all likely that a cargo of passengers of high low or mixed degree would embark from foreign shores with a case came of that or any other dangerous nature known or even suspected on board The people who come in great numbers hereafter are not coming for the sake of dying or causing others to die but as a rule to enjoy themselves in seeing the sights besides the quarantine regulations are or can be made ample so that nothing that id even suspicious shall be permitted to enter from any point of view and not once referring to what should be the chief considers tion u I 1 ng ou our r national trad traditions irions and maintaining the theory of our institutions the case of the exclusion iota is a weak one and it is to be hoped the steamship companies will carry their point even though they be resorting to indirection to accomplish it |
