Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-31
COME: DO YOU SPEAK CHINESE P

ISOLATION claims that George misinter-
pre:s or misapprehends the objects OF
the association, and that his letter it.
self indicates that he is in sympathy
with the purposes of that organisation,
while he deprecates issues or a plat
form it does not advance. Any plan
70 prevent the coming hither Of foreign
ers. simply because they are foreigners,
of whatever name or race, should meet
the scornful opposition of every true
American. Our ocean gateways shonld
be open, welcomingly open to thedecent,
free people Of all other nations. But
this general declaration, entirely, en-
,irely the declaration Of the great Re-
publican party, does not involve US in
an agreement to admit the paupers OF
England, or the spawn of European Jail
deliveries, or the moral outcasts, so stig-
matized BY tribunals of justice, from any
country. We may and do rightly pro-
test against the system long since adopt
ed and for a long period carried out
with no check at IL ports. of banishing
the thieves and the cut-throats Of Great
Britain and the Continent to our shores.
Massachusetts, ten years ago, found her
self supporting not less than u thousand
English paupers, and discovered that
Boston was the harbor for empsying
whole schools of degraded wretches,
professional burglars and highwaymen,
detected and sentenced ~felons, from the
old countries. Had the old Bay State
no remedy against such an influx, by
direc, restrictions upon that character
of human importation? Or was it un-
republican in her, either by State enact
ments or appeals to Congress, to endeav-
or TO stop the entrance Of such u popu-
latiou in her midst As well ask If
quarantine laws for preventing the
spread of contagious diseases, are I'M
| republican or impolitic. Massachusetts
did proceed, and with considerable sue
cess, in the attempt to stop the imposi-
| ton we have described. She has not
been challenged on her proprIeties, po-
litical or humanitarian, for so doing.
| She sent back, across the Atlantic, ship
loads of paupers-of the battle-maimed
as we'll as those inirma and helpless from
age, and those chronically lazy and Vi
cious, and so resolved on nothing ex-
cept that the world "owed them II liv-
ing" uuearned by labor. Did that
commonwealth thus perpetrate Il great
wrong? Who ever said so? 1t was a
matter of pure self-protection; it WAS an
action under the first individual and
correct social instinct: self-preservation,
Yet the ''poor" were so placed At hel
doors, and she rejected an opportunity
TO do them good. Did even any pseudo
philauthropist say she was censurable
for this? Nay; she was too clearly right
for even any of the na~mby-pamby blath'
erskites of all-creationdom, to read les
sons Of reproach over her elias, of car
go-returns to Europe without the com.
pliments Of the season.
In particular we welcome the politi-
cal e1iles of other lands-those exiled
for desiring or striving to secure free
dom. Is that a reason why we should
permit and encourage the incoming Of
the vile, the utterly degraded? Shall
the encouragement be for other nations
to Danish their criminals to our land
Shall slavery, which We have uprooted
from u own soil, be transplanted
here BY the holders and overseers OF
other countries? 1t cannot be denied
that this is precisely what is being done
by the Chinese. 1t is not denied. And
so are the wages of labor reduced and
thousands Of white men thrown out OF
prohtaoIe employment.
There has been a great deal
Of gibberish printed about "pander-
ing to prejudice" etc. We have had
it thrown at US, time and again: "Pan-
dering to the caste prejudice; pandering
TO the prejudice of workingmen,' etc.
If the dsmphools who repeat this talk,
if the peuny-a-liuers whose custom it is
to wake up from their regular brothel
snoozes with g~ibblegabble about having
all creation dancing and sleeping on the
same barn-door, if they had any sense,
if they were not damphools, we should
notice with some personal censure, the
utter heartlessness implied in the style
in which they allude to this matter.
But having no brain above the sensual
organs, they are not responsible for the
stuff they repeat. But to the intelligent
man, who treats this Chinese slave in
fu1 on our with indifference OF
thought or favor, and who sneers q,
working men for making efforts against
this importation, we do place an accu-
sation: that he is selfshly inclined
against the movement. Consider: the
Coolie comes directly in competition
with the day laborer. He does not
touch your skilled trade or profession,
sir-you who have such naughty con-
tempt Of anti-Coolie associations. The
day laborer is entirely dependant on his
manual service. Often has no other
possible resource for q living. He may
work, o, yes, as you say, he may get
work if he will to-day, by the side of
the Chinaman, and for larger wages
than the Chiuaman receives. But the
Coolie has taken off the profit margin
from the white mans former earnings.
Be just, il not generous, and bring your
self right down to the view as in FOUR
own case. Suppose Coolies were brought
here who were trained in your calling,
aud your equal as a journeyman labor.
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