Show CHINESE EXCLUSION president roosevelt is said to favor the further exclusion of chinese after I 1 the expiration of the present lar this will bo good news to the people of the west where the people have had one experience peri ence with cheap oriental labor and do not want a repetition which would certainly follow the opening of alic gancs to the hordes of coolies waiting an ap port unity to get away from chilua sea port towns the san francisco chronicle has full faith in tho action to be taken by the r republicans in on the proposed exclusion measure and it gevea aa its rea acon for its confidence tho fact that ho shutting out of cheap labor is apart of alic plan of protection to american labor as enunciated in Ile publican conven lions and accepted ai a tenet of alo party tin illustrates its point as follows alio inseparable 1 relationship of alio policy of protection and that of the exclusion of the cheap labor of china waa brought out very clearly in the testimony given by robert hornun a philadelphia manufacturer of ingrain carpets before the congressional industrial commission ingrain carpets aro peculiarly ail american product their manufacture in the united states gives employment to about skilled workers it is one of the industries to development under the stimulus of a protective tariff projectionists protectionists hao reverted with pride its only competitor as a covering for the floors of abc couii riles of tho majority of tho people of this country is chinese matting until the latter entered tho field ingrain matiu the market exclusively and the industry flourished to the advantage of all the bard glinca pro 1 deuced by a administration and abo operation of tho bill accompanied by a fall in the price of silver from cents to 68 cents i avo conditions which the dingley haa since been ina dequa to ro chinese batting is w labor costing 20 canta per day paid in its allver value deliverable deliver ablo in alio united states ir cents per quara yard the operation of ex alila iff reduced according atif the treasury to 57 rents per yard on athla alio dingley tariff Iro posea a duty of 3 cents A manufactured pro duct from chann unlit directly into at 07 cents per yard with a distinctively amerian ameri an product ACOt ng under the higher price paid to american labor 47 12 1 2 canta per yard abo extent of this encroachment ti of the product of chinese cheap labor upon alio legi market of an american industry in shown in the imp oita tiona in 1802 the total importation of chinese matting to only 8 square yarda ill 1900 it haa grown to yards in the year named exchange did not affect tho original arico of matting which was the banie to the importer as to alio chinese exporter when delivered here namely cents per yard to restore it now to its original cost mr dornan explained to would require a duty of per cent and to give adequate protection tu american jabor an additional duty of 30 per cent there will be a grand ball at diggans Dig nans hall Tuesday kov given by foat ars military band fords and dignani Dig nana orchestra with additional pieces will furnish alio music the proceeds will go towards purchasing the necessary instruments for le new organization which now numbers 43 pieces everybody is earnestly to aid the fund and a fino band |