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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
4
The article warns of a rising influx of Hindus along the western coast from British Columbia to California. It notes Indians as British subjects, argues for migration restrictions, and compares to Australia, urging early action to curb what it calls a cheap labor threat amid broader racial concerns.
Two thousand pupils in a New York City public school form a self run city government with a Russian mayor a 12 year old district attorney and three judges plus a police and health department. Warnings are issued, arrests made and trials held as in city courts with detentions after hours as the common penalty. The principal says discipline improved truancy and moral tone. The school city aims to teach real government knowledge and civic duty and may spread beyond the school.
A senate committee debates whether married women should be allowed to collect and spend their own salaries. Some members fear it would ruin the home, while the chairmen support the measure. Also notes political contests in New Mexico, a railway report showing growth, and New York’s governor history.
The passage lists ten United States senators, notes George Clinton as the first elected governor of New York in 1777 succeeding William Tryon, and compares the 1904 New York vote to Jackson’s 1824 tally. It quotes Secretary Root praising Taft as a major, versatile figure, emphasizing the word without the lisp.
A London observer reports that immigration in the United States is being assimilated by Americans. He notes Gentile and Jew, Anglo-Saxon, Celt, Slav, and Magyar workers living harmoniously together, despite English doubts. Lindsay of the British legation adds that an American type may not exist, but assimilation has progressed since colonization, with no clear force stopping it, though newcomers bear a high cost in early elevation.
Washington notes the winter agenda for Congress includes tax reform on fortunes, tariff revision, currency reform, hours for railway workers, child labor bans, immigration limits, ship subsidies, river and harbor work, antitrust and education clauses for migrants, naval expansion debate, eight hour law, insanity law amendments, and parcels post, with focus on education clause and subsidy measures.
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