The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-09
IDAHO WORLD.
NOGGLE ON CASSERLY.


Noggle says Senator Casserly of California;
said, and now we will give, to show how unsafe
Noggle is on quotations, just what Senator
Casserly actually said:
I am charged with having said then, that
"the Chinese are the most frugal, industrious
and ingenious people on the face OF the earth.
T uttered no such fulsome eulOgy OF the Chl
naman-no such absurd libel on the working
man of America and Europe. l spoke OF the
Chinese as competitors not to be desplsed
even by our skilled mechanics, for the reason
that. as race, they were industrious and tru-
gal, and ingenious in many handicratts.'
Tn like manner, have been reported as
having said that it were better the Paclhc
Railroad had never been built than that it
should have been built by Cinnamon" APP
plause.
This also is untrue. What | said was, that
"if the Pacific Railroad was to be the cause OF
inficting on this coast and the country Chl-
hese labor to the exclusion of White labor, us
o fixed element in our social organization, IL
were better far that the railroad had not YET
been built; but had been left for another ana a
wiser geperation to build" Such are the views
I really expressed; have seen no occasion TO
change them in any respect.
And, in order that his language should not
be misunderstood, Senator Cassery explained
lust what he meant, in the following grand,
noble, eloquent remarks He said:
| ask them-particularly them the advo-
Gates of Chinese immigration and of Chinese
cheap labor Ito look with me on the two cen
trail figures of the great drama that is now un-
folding; on the wOrkingman of China and the
workingman of the American State of Calltor-
MIA. To all such | say, now and here: Friends,
YOU are against me and my cause, but hear me
First, let me show you the coming man who IS
heralded with such hOsannas in the cause OF
material progress, of cheap labor" IN the
much-abused name of humanity" and IN all
the other names and catch words under which
q monstrous social evil is brought into the land
His narrow brow, yellow, vacant face, square
figure and dull eye show him the hereditary
Asiatic laborer of twenty centuries. As such
he has Flooding industry, certain patient IN
telligence and marked faculty of imitation.
He is frugal withal, for his daily wants are
few and rude as they were thousand years
ago When this much Is said OF him, all
is said. He is the product of civilization
Asiatic and Pagan, which, though the oldest in
the world, has added nothing to the world
has stood still, as if ell bound, without on
ward movement, for two thousand years. y
true son of the unchanging East, he strides
through the streets to-day, single file, Indian
fashion, lust as his forefathers STROBE over the
plains of Asia thirty centuries ago. He Is I'M
itative but not progressive He may BE- among
us, but he is not of us. His ideas are not ours,
nor his manners, nor his customs They arc
the reverse of ours, as q rule. If he puts on
ours for time, it is to throw of again as he
would an irksOme garment. Thoroughly
Asiatic, all new institutions are foreign TO him.
He does not care for them. He will, in his
fashion, conform to them, but he never dentl-
fed himself with them. California will be-
come Chinese before he becomes Californian.
He adds little to our wealth, and he leaves
nothing that man can take away, not even his
bones after he is dead He has written code
of morals, which, if it ever had any life, has
long ago evaporated into unmeaniug phrases
and empty forms Pagan and an Asatic Of
the centuries half way back to the food hr Il
made up of the errors and the vices, moral,
social and political, which in all ages, have
made Asia q vast centralized despOtlSm; have
left her the easy prey OF the Western races:
have kept her shut up from civilization and
Christianity, and have tainted her children
with leprosy of sin not fit to be named among
men. His women, as we see them here, are
the most degraded of their sex. He and they
ada nOLnlng 10 the SUund social elements OF Inc
country. They are certain to take much away
from them. He furnishes no materials out Of
which to build or maintain the State in peace
or war; he can only impair, if he does not
destroy, the moral forces Hhich are the sole
life of the nation.
Now, friends and advocates Of Chinese Ia
Dor, look on the other figure in this contest
1t is the working man of America. In moth
ing so clearly as in him is the benign and ele
waiting influence of American institutions made
manifest. Clergymen. lawyers, doctors, mer,
chants and bankers throughout Christendom
are very much the same. But | would show
to a thoughtful philosophlc stranger from
Europe the intelligent, progressive working
man of California, as the browning fruit and
glory of the American idea of government and
society. Look at him, you who think his place
among you can be filled from Asia. The latest
born of the sons of labor and the most favored
on his broad white brow is stamped the seal
and the power of the highest civilization in
history. His manly pert, as he looks upon the
sun proclaims him, by birth or adoption, the
citizen of land where he is the peer before
the law of the best among you. At his side is
the partner of his life, linked to him in the
golden round of Christian marriage and about
them rise up sons and daughters. As he turns
upon these his softening glance his heart gows
with the thought that for them is a perennial
future of hope and promise. 70 them, as to
plo q,