Show TRADE AND immigration it cannot escape public attention nor pass unnoticed by tho politicians that the trans congress at portland and the reciprocity conference at chicago have taken up somo very potent and very practical po lotical questions out of these questions will issue the politics of the immediate future commerce and immigration are brought to the front pushed ip by the thought of the people while the governors of oregon and washington in addressing the portland congress saw only one faction of the immigration question governor pardee of california brought it all into focus and took the only tenable ground by insisting that all nations have equality of treatment in respect to immigration any other policy Is not too narrow tor the dignity of a great country but it is injurious to our commerce it is interesting that the old issues in politics which were sentimental have entirely passed away and we are now entering the period of economic politics in the past we were alarmed lest the national soul go to now we arc solicitous about the body how it shall be clothed and wherewith it shall be fed it useless to decry this as commercialism and this as a commercial age seest thou a man diligent in his business ho shall stand before kings and he shall not stand before mean men was uttered in a commercial age every age has been the student of pol who intends to take an active part in public affairs must inquire into the economic conditions that have brought anen into conference in portland and chicago we are not going to have any more race issue or sectional politics all that is buried with the resolutions of and 1799 the mississippi com comi i promise the wilmot proviso and the dred scott decision we have now the politics of three meals a day and a change of shirts |