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Show GOOD EVERY WORD OF IT. The people have Jong recognized that Roosevelt is a superior typo of the American, in-public life. They are becoming be-coming convinced that Parker also ;s a dignified type of public man. Roosevelt Roose-velt and Parker are different in their temperaments and::tn their opinions: but the quality of their .patriotism and their high sense of political duty are. not far apart.: pays . the Catholic Citizen of Milwaukee.. Parker is behaving, admirably in the lime-light of the ( great publicity that is now upon him. .His speech of acceptance ac-ceptance last week" was one in which even a non-partisaji must find many things to applaud. Particularly gcoJ was the following passage every word of which has the sterling ring of Jeffersonian Democracy: "I protest against the feeling, far too prevalent, that by reason of the commanding position we have assumed in the world we must take part in th? disputes and broils of foreign coun-1 coun-1 tries; and that because we have grown great we should intervene in every important im-portant question that arises in other parts of the world. (Secretary Hay will please note.) I also protest against the erection of any such military establishment es-tablishment as would be required to j maintain the countryi in that attitude. We should confine our international j activities solely to, -.matters in which the rights of the country or of our citizens are 'directly involved. That s not a situation of isolation, but of independence. in-dependence. "The government of the United States was organized solely for the people of the United States. While Jt was contemplated that this country should become a refuge for the oppressed op-pressed of every land who might be fit to discharge the-duties' of our citizenship, citi-zenship, and while we have always sympathized with the people of every nation in their struggle for self-government, the government was not cre- ated for a career of political or civilizing civi-lizing evangelization in foreign countries, coun-tries, or among alien races. 'The most efficient work we can do in unlifting the peop'e of other countries coun-tries Is by the presentation of a happy, prosperous, self-governing . nation as an. ideal to be emulated, a model to . be followed." UNSKILLED LABOR, During the ftecal year ending June 30 last ' 815,361 immigrants landed in this country. Of these two-thirds were males, and of the adult males a grea: majority were ? unskilled laborers. Where is work to be found for them at this time except by taking it from other unskilled laborers who have been here a little longer? There is urgent need at the south' of a seemingly simple kind of labor which really is skilled labor. Several hundred thousand men can be given work in the cotton fields of Mississippi, Alabama, and a half a dozen other states. It is a question whether the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe, .who never saw a cotton plant in their lives, can be used, to advantage advan-tage in the cotton fields. Many planters plant-ers are about to try the experiment. They h'ave sent agents to the con-jested con-jested cities of the east for laborers. . If ' Italians. Hungarians and Poles j prove to be as efficient in the cotton fields as the negroet? an occupation will be found for some of the unskilled labor of which the country has too large a supply. The great cities of the , country would he most grateful to the south if it would find a usefor the surplus. 1 . i , The unskilled -laborer in the north who has a job ought not to be blind to the significance of the influx of j other laborers ol-the same kind who are willing to w6tk-for a little less than he is. The places of some of the men who struck at the stockyards have i been j taken by new arrivals who have i not learned -yet the difference between the. , European . and , American wage scale!. '--- |