The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-07-07
Lstt.r from Winpemmucea.
wrNSkMuccA, July 8, 1869,


EprroRs INDEPENDENT The labor question
is attracting some attention among the labor
ing classes, and considerable notice is given
it in our public prints. The importance and
necessity of coolie labor are being studiously
impressed upon the public mind by nearly all
of the newspapers and pensioned scribblers
ON the Pacific coast. The advantages to be
derived from this class Of labor; the intel
igence, industry, virtue, and docility of the
Chinese rice, rs pictured from day to day by
these journals, are attracting the attention of
eastern manufacturers, planters, lumbermen,
and railroad companies. Already, the tel
egnph IL forms us that hundreds of thou
sands of Chinese slaves have been contracted
for in the Atlantic States. Our ocean steamers
plying between San Francisco and China, are
freighted with coolie laborers and with the
rotten, venal carcasses of Chinese prostitutes.
Our coolie orators cOolie newspapers, and
coolie pimps become grandiloquent in their
lubilations, and gloat over the grand and sub
lime scene. Whenever an expression is
developed by any of the leading men of our
political parties that can be construed by the
utmost stretch of the imagination, into favor
ing coolie labor, it is seized upon with the
utmost avidity and given special and con-
spicuous notice in the coolie organs. If
the San Francisco papers can be relied on i'll
this matter, the several distinguished guests
from the Atlantic States found nothing SO
attractive, In all their journey, as the Chinese
institutions of the Pacific.
Ii would appear that the Committee of
Ways and Means, while at the Bay City, spent
the principal part of its time in the studying
of zoology and learning the peculiar flavor
and quality of lizards, horn-toad, tumble-bug
and grasshopper soups, with the chief Gel
estials, with n view of not only encouraging
Chinese mi mi bnf ba tntr Of
Chinese diet among the people, in order that,
by well regulated system of tariffs on these
Injuries, an immense revenue may be derived
by the Government
Imaginary outrages of the most revolving
character, perpetrated upon cur moon-eyed
brethren, are held up in the most vivid colors
to an n .1nished world. mercenary court
and corrupt, cringing grand jury, ut the nod
OF soullcss, monicd corporations, hasten to in
dict and incarcerate free white American citi-
Zens without law and without the shadow of
authority, for pretended crime known to
no law, human or divine. The subsidized
organs of the court and of said corporations
teen with the most malignant and base false.
hoods and slanderous destinations against
the defendants, who have again and ngain
demanded trial demand the right tn meet
their peTjured accusers face to face before II
jury of their peers again and again is their
demand denied ; again and again is the
judicial ermine disgraced and stained with
corruption. And all this is done and toler-
nted as an eXnmple-as terror tn the free
labor movements and organizations and to
pave the way for the introduction of China
men into our mines, mills, forests. and into
all business where capital requires dnily
laborers.
One political party makes this question Il
theme, and charges the other with being in
favor of not only Chinese labor but Chinese
suffrage. The other party denies both nc
cusations, but, Mt the same time its every act
on the subject tends to the establishment of
both while the holder men of the party adj
vocate both measures upon their individual
responsibility, and its being party measure,
so that its accomplishment may be the more
easily effected. The truth is, both of the
great political parties of the day are so COM
pietely in the clutches of monopolies, and our
Lending politicians so mercenary in their
political actions, that we can expect no relief
mt either of their hands, and no aid in staying
the hordes of Asiatio idolitary and petit
larceny thieves now hocking to our shores by
the invitation of shortsghted and presumpt-
Gus spirit of modern progress and by that
maudlin divinity of universal brotherhood
and equality of the human family. With
your permission, desire in series of articles
to call attention, through the columns of the
INDEPENDENT, to the following and kindred
topics, bearing upon the labor subject
The impending danger to the lnboring
ciasseS now IL may be aVerted mOnied aris-
tocracy the most dangerous enemy of Re.
publics the interest of capital and labor is
to work hand in hand capital the aggressor
free laborers must organize for the conflict
what their platform should be the course Of
action to he pursued the great principle
solved in the interest of free labor and oul
country. Yours, &C.,
IsoTHERMAL.
ExcELsIon AND Observation-Disclosures of or,