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seems. It is certain that vast damage and

suffering have been caused. The West In

dies nre among the unhappiest spots on

earth. Politically disorganized or econom

icallv impoverished in all the larger isl- J

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1899.—TWELVE PAGES.

amis, with revolution and war threatening

the whole island of Hayti, and with Cuba

hardly emerged from years of bloody strife,

the Antilles are now visited by one of the

most violent storms of a hundred years.

The American tropics arc the breeders of

everything convulsive, whether it be a vol

cano, an earthquake, a hurricane or a rev

olution.

The article on Chin ‘se labor in the Phil

ippines, from the Manila Times, reprinted

in another column, shows how the impe

rialist mind is working and the conclusion

it will come to with relation to the labor

question in the tropics. The demand in

Manila is already strenuous that the Chi

nese “must come.” Such has been the cry

in Hawaii for years, although it happens

that the Japanese now control the Hawaii

an labor market. In the United States the

cry has been that the Chinese “must go.”

American workingmen ought to consider

this question: With the cry. "the Chinese

‘must come,” prevalent in these depend

encies, how long will it be before the cap

italists will be raising the same cry in the

United States? As for the idea that the

Philippines can ever furnish opportunities

to any considerable number of white men

from the United States, it must be aban

doned forever. The average American

workingman can never go there and ele

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Springfield weekly Republican. (1899). Springfield, Mass., 1899-08-18. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1899-08-18/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1899-08-18.