The "Philadelphia Bulletin" sums up the Exclusion question thus It is understood that at a Cabinet meeting yesterday President Roosevelt took the ground that the administration should favour a continuance of the Chinese Exclusion Act which will expire in May next, and that in his coming message to Congress he will make such a recommendation, There is no doubt that popular sentiment throughout thx country supports the Exclusion Act and that the Administration and Congress would soon be in hot water ions every whoxe if ps Aside from mere race prejudice and the appeals of demagogues, there is a practical and economic side to this question which the nation must always consider, and that is the wrong and injustice which it would do to the millions of its labouring men by subjecting them to a competition with a horde of cheap labourers already anxious to swarm over our borders.
An intelligent regard for our own economic interests makes the continuance of the Exclusion Act a necessity, and it will doubtless be re-enacted this winter by Congress and the Executive with little opposition.
The New York Timor" has the following on the problem of Russia and Manchuria It is quite true that the Russian occupation of Manchuria has thus far cost far fore than it has come to. But that may equally be said of the British occupation of the soil of the late republics in South Africa, In neither case does the fact afford reason for the expectation of s voluntary relin-
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