The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-10-07

sat few day too long or did RICH. to create
the officers which Governor Hayes recon-
me1ded or TO allow cities ard towns to
tax themselves.
I. If it be true that the session Of this Leg
islature cost more than the last, it was be-
cause the last Republican Legislature in
creased the per diem Of the members And
If the Legislature unwisely created some
officers which the Governor recommended
/ it is also true that they refused to pass an
expensive and odious registry law, which
he twice urged upon their favorable atten-
ton.
The scheme cf reconstruction of this Adj
mInistration, its action toward Virginia, its
administration OF foreign affairs, its neglect
as American citizens who have been I'M
prisonsd and murdered in Ireland or Caba,
its utter shamelessness in selling high
Offices, It's utter want Of appreciation Of its
grave duties and responsibilities, all these
are tempting subjects Of discussion, but [
refrain at this time.
will discuss Federal politics so far only
as they directly affect the people Of our
own State.
i2Hai FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
|, ! oppose the adoption Of the Fifteenth
Constitutional Amendment, because it is
material radical change in cur system of
government because it destroys the rela>
ton of the States to the Federal Union,
which the Constitution established, and
degrades them because it takes away from
the States without their concent that es-
sGntial attribute of a self governing COM
niuniiy; the right to determine who shall
exercise the right of suffrage.
2 | Object to It's adoption, because it was
inf ended to- and it will, introduce negro
Suffrage in Ohio against the will Of the
people. Two years ago the people of Ohio,
without distinction OF party, by an immense
majority, refused TO amend the State Con
stitution. They did this after a fair argu-
tient-aftcr full consideration Of negro
suffrage. ! see no reason to believe they
have changed their opinion. Yet now the
attempt is to be made to force them to sub
nit 20 the system which they so emphatic
ally and deliberately rejected The Con
vention which nominated General Grant
declared as part Of its creed The ques>
ton Of Suffrage in all the loyal States prop
erfy belongs to the people Of those States I"
And yet in one short year the test Of loyalty
and patriotism, by the same party, is to
deny to the States the regulation of the
suffrage
II object to its adoption, because the
strongest implication it confers upon Cons
gress. and reserves to the States The right
to exclude from the ballot persons of our
own white race because of their nativity or
their creed, or their want of education, or
their poverty, aud prohibits the exclusion
only of another race. And thus if the in>
tcrpretaion Of Senator Morton and Senator
Howard be correct, under this amendment
OF Congress the State may exclude an Irish
man, or German. or a Catholic, or a
Protestant, or poor man, from the enjoy
ment. of the suffrage, but may not exclude
the Negro or the Monaghan.
..... CHINESE IMPORTATION.
l. | object to its adoption because it is Part
and parcel OF sclcme to food the coul try
with forced importation Of an immense
number Of Chiuese-of coolies-and thus
for e:ond time to bring INTO our midst an
alien race, and to repent In a more difficult
form the social and governmental questions
which have so unhappily divided our PEG
pie
Tie opening Of the Pacific Railroad the
demand for labor at the South, the desire
for nimbe hands aud less voracious appe-
tites in the factories, have turned the at
tention OF spectators to the teeming popu
latjons OF the East. They find these warm
and fertile counties densely crowded with a
patient, degraded and heather race.
Their skilled laborers get three or four
dollars per month, and with this they seem
content. They work from daylight to sun
set, and have but a single holiday in the
year Their food consists of rice, salt, a
few vegetables, and sometimes fish" The
plan proposed is to bring immense numbers
OF these people here to supply the demand
for labor IN the fields, and the factories, and
tha shops. We in Ohio have not app e.
ciated the importance Of this movement.
| protest against it now, in time, before
1t Is carried out-before they come among
us-betore we are confronted with duties,
and obligations, and interests, growing out
OF their presence. They are an alien, an
Inferior aud ld0latrous race. They have
not our tastes, or habits, or manners, or
development, or religion. They are not fit
10 become citizens, or to enjoy the right of
suffrage AmalgamatiOn would iniure both
their race aud ours. Isolation will give
rise 70 great troubles. England, Ireland,
Germany, Norway, France have an over
flowing population Of our own race, similar
t. US Ii blood, in manners, in habits, and
IN religious latham Industrious, sturdy,
self>reliant, self respecting people. They
are fit to become citizens. They will mix
with us, and our commingled blood is purer
for the association. Let us invite them
with open arms to come to us. Let US
people our country with the best races Of
men.
But the Chinese will give US cheap labor
Cheap human tabor. | despise the word.
1t signifies crime and shame. Ii signl
fes squalor, degradation, ignorance, vice.
Are not laborers men, our fellow men?
They have bodies to clothe and stomachs
to feed, and minds to educate, and spirits
to elevate, aud old age to provide for
They have homes which they love. and
wives whom they cherish, and children
whom they hope to make worthy citizens
the honest fathers and the virtuous moth
er5 of succeeding generation. And can
you remember these duties and see these
aspirations; can you contemplate the pa
tlent hopeluness Of cheerful and contented
because fairly compensated, industry. and
talk of cheap tabor? Labor is too cheap
now. Labor does not receive its just reward
This country needs skilled laborers, and
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