Public and Private Life of Gen´l Benj; Harrison (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Public and Private Life of Gen´l Benj; Harrison Let us illustrate: The employes of a certain large establishment, to obtain a redress of grievances, go out upon a strike. Some one of their number proposes and insists on a resort to violence, and advocates the use of the torch. Others oppose such measures. Could it be claimed that those thus opposed were against securing a redress of grievances? In reality, would not such opposition prove them to be the true friend of the cause of labor and of the strike itself? Now let us apply that to the case in question and try Gen. Harrison by that standard. Let him be judged from the record, from what he has said and done, and not by the mere assertions of Democratic newspapers or by interested agitators. Gen. Harrison did oppose the passage of the first bill on the subject, not because he was in favor of Chinese immigration, but for the reason, as stated by him in his speeches in the Senate while it was under discussion, that it was in contravention of existing treaties. He urged that the true way was to seek a modification of the treaty. Another bill was proposed and for the same reasons he voted against it. He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations which considered and reported the present law on the subject. He joined in reporting that bill and voted for it. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who was deeply interested in procuring the passage of the restrictive act, declared on the floor of the Senate that it was the best bill that had been proposed on the subject, and would be satisfactory to the people of the coast. As to his record on this question let us see what the papers of the country have said, and take the testimony of those the most deeply interested. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette thus pertinently and tersely puts the whole question: Much has been said of General Harrison´s record on the Chinese question, and there has been some fussy objection to it. All there is of it is that Harrison in the Senate objected to the violation of the treaty obligations with China, though opposed to Chinese immigration. This is the record: "Mr. Harrison entered the Senate at the beginning of the Forty-seventh Congress, in 1881, and sat till March 4, 1887. On April 27, 1882, a discussion was had in the Senate on House Bill 5804: ´A bill to execute certain treaty stipulations with the Chinese.´ Mr. Harrison made two brief speeches on that bill, occupying only a few lines of the Record, and printed at pages 3359 and 3360 of the Congressional Record, Forty-seventh Congress, first session. Mr. Harrison contended that as the treaty used the word ´laborer,´ it was not in the power of Congress to enlarge the meaning of that word by legislation; that whatever the word ´laborers´ implied in the treaty that same word would be held to have the same meaning in any law that Congress might pass. He asked Senator Grover, of Oregon, the pertinent question, whether, if he found the proposed law and the existing treaty in conflict, he would still persist in passing the law and thus trampling upon our treaty obligations? To this inquiry Mr. Grover made no reply. Mr. Harrison´s logic was invincible, and it was sustained by the Senate. It may be added that this position has since been maintained by every President and Secretary of State down even to Grover Cleveland and Secretary Bayard." The California delegation looked this matter up, and finding there was nothing in it cast the vote that announced the nomination of Harrison. The people of California are very deeply interested in this matter, and their views of General Harrison´s record should be accepted as authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
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