The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-07-24

PHILADELPHIA, JULY "a, 1889.
q. BEN J., REPoHrER
The EnemyFs Policy.

when we lately proposed that the operators
should try the experiment oi using Chinese
labor, The Age eagerly caught it up and
represented Ii as a partisan device 10 get rd OF
the miners votes they being mostly democrats
Here the reader will see che influence that sus-
tains these miners Il Is political, and very
leading partisan who thinks he can make a
point sgainst an opponent by appealing to the
interests Of the miners, does precisely as The
age did
Under All ihe cir sumstances we emph aticaiy
repent our recommendation that Chinese la
borers be imported 70 Sork the mines and are
glad 10 learn that the operators think ary well
of tue proposition North American July 8 }
A few weeks since we referred 20 the man
(save the marb) WAC penned the above, as
degenerate Irishman, a man base!y false to the
country of his father, and 10 that Of his adop-
ton, and the language We now quote is addi-
tioual Justification OF the applicability Of or
epithets. lie proposed 3aring the pendency Of
the miners supervision, az effective means Of
Furnishing tie superintendent, for the manly
temerily AID sense Of right which impelled
them to CO operate IL defense Of that principle
winch holds tie la6orer worthy Of his hire AZ
unlimited, systematic importation OF Chinese, to
take The places Of the naleontents "a forced
influx of semi men, 50 base as not to appr5 ciate
even their own yitiate1 manhood, who, in
their idolatrous Ignorance and d"arth Of all
money ambition, would be contel- to toll for
tile merest pittance, to subsst upon food only
sailed 40 beasty pa-ates, and 70 dwell in novels
fitted only TO the occupancy the hithiest Of
brutes. ID we're wise that Philadelphia work
iDgu en-, from Ehose city this dirty sheet dis
seminates is fIh, should ponder well AID
deeply the recommend ton, and the language
in which . Is couchej, that Of an arrogant, self
ordained poteuiate, not merely because they
are, Or ought to be n sympathy with their iel.
low toers AZ the mine, bit because such Ian
gusge Il but tie Key note " a policy he ana
the class Bis paper represents, would tain make
universe % iis application, ala they but dare.
Yet ne and his ils have the barefaced assur
auce u ask OF workingmen their sympathy,
support aud subscriptions, On the plea that
they advocate policy thar means protection
to American labor" Was ever subterfuge more
transparent. They shut our ports against goods
made by the cheap labor Of Europe, in order
nat they may import cheaper from Asia, and
without fear Of competition, feast upon the
profits Il nets them. And they expose their
policy wi,h a competency THAT makes the
emtars Of liberty glow again, 10 tie bosom o!
every honest man, who, while he despises and
hates them, Is imp0tent in his hatred, because
Of tie want Of uni'y among his fellow working
men This country bought its freedom with
rivers Of good blood, from a country which as-
saved to rule il, precisely as it il now being
ruled BY its moneyad classes. England at
10 make the colonies tributary to its
exchequer, while il denied them voice in her
legislation. THAT suicidal policy brought revo-
luton what revolution brought, every school
child kno 5, Perhaps the attempt Of a few
such men as those who conduct aad believe in
ths North American in the blindness q the If
folly 70 enforce similar policy, may produce
similar results. Let them beware. Such things
are possible, aye, and probable.