The hydraulic press., 1861-04-13
TINE ScRAMRLE roR OrrIcE-An the cor.

THE SCRAMBLE FOR OFFICIAL the cor
respondents from Washington to the press
of this State, concur in asserting that dis
graceful scramble is going on among the
ofice-seeking portion Of the Republican
partyfrom California now in That city. COL
Baker, it is said, has kindly consented to inter-
fere in the matter. lie has Democratic
son-in-iav, named Stevens, for whom he is
'desirous of securing the Mint-theres mod
'esty for you !-and it is pretty roundly hint
ed that the means resorted to for that object
are not the most creditable to the Oregon
Senator.
Conspicuous among the pilgrims we notice
the names of Butler, Birdseye, Cheeseman,
Rankin, Stanford Sellover and Washburn
Several of these are good men, and one or
two of them rotten parasites, who formerly
clung to the official teat and derived their
whole nourishment from the old democratic
party. Old Abe would teach this class, and
indeed the entire batch of place a
salutary lesson. if he would pass quietly
over their claims and confer his appointments
on equally as good, if not better men, who
have remained at home, not expecting to be
rewarded for the voluntary zeal displayed in
the cause of his principles and party.
THE CHINEsE.-There is trouble ahead in this
State, on account of the rapid influx of Chinese,
and the growing disposition in certain quarters,
to bring them in competition with white laborers,
elsewhere than in the mines. They are being
introduced as work hands on farms, and in
woolen factory recently started at San Francisco,
they are exclusively employed. The Call says:
'We are told that cigar maker has about
hundred in his employment"
On this subject the Marysville Express adds:
g We confidently predict that unless effective
measures are taken quickly to PREVENT it, Chinese
labor will eventually almost entirely supercede
white labor. The reason why this will be done
we think is obvious. The price of labor must
necessarily be nearly uniform. Labor in one
shop cannot be worth more than it is in an ad-
joining one of similar character nor is it more
valuable on one ranch than another 1t is per-
fectly natural for capitalists, matter how they
employ their money, to use it as to make it
the most remunerative. Every one knows that
notorious fact that the Chinese can and will
work for much smaller wages than white men
can. The former can live ON mere song. His
food is limited to few very cheap articles, and
his habits of life such as require but very
small outlay of money to support him. Hence
wages, which would support him comfortably
and leave him surplus, would scarcely keep
white man from starvation. Let Chinese labor
once become common, and the white man must
either enter into competition with them or
abandon the field entirely. 1t is not difficult to
tell what would be the result"
Since the Supreme Court has decided that the
Legislature has no power to exclude the imrni-
grafton of these people, let it pass law forbid
ding them to be employed in any other than
menial occupations. This would drive white
men from our kitchens, where they have no busi-
ness, and introduce the Chinese there, where
they properly belong. Their presence among us
is slavery, anyhow; for the "Se Yup," "Tong
I'll" and other such companies, have them in
vassalage, and derive most of the benefits of
their labor. This should accrue to white people,
and we hope the day is not far distant when it
will.