The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-08
The Chinese Question.

cheapest, at home abroad This might be tru
were labor bale Of goods to be bought sold
mere money element. But il is much more The Il
borer is human being in society," and in this countr
he is voter Labor, therefore, is moral, Social
political element, to be dealt with accordngly EarI
estly, hut hopefully, Iappeal even to those WHO al
most vehement for flooding this fair California Ian
| with Asiatic labor who would vainy reconstruct gu
State on quicksand / ask them-pareularly them
to look with the two central figures Of the grea
: drama that is unfolding on the workineman
China, and the worlsingman OF the American State
California
First, let me show you the coming man who is heG
aided with such hosannahs in lie cause or matcfia
progress, OF cheap labor" in the much abused NAM
OF " humanity, and in all other names and catchword
under which monstrous social evil is brought ints
the land. His narrow brow, yellow, vacant face, squa
figure and dull eve show him the hereditary Asiati
laborer of twenty centuries As such he has podan:
industry, certain patient Intelligence and market
faculty Of imitation He is frugal witha for hi
daily wants are few and rude they thousand
years ago When this much il said for him. all is said
He is the product of civilization Asiatc and Pagan
which, though the Oldest in the world has added moth
ing to 1t; has stood STILL if speil-bouna wltbon
onward movement, for two thousand years. trnt
son of the nncfangng East, he strides through your
streets to-day, single file, Indian fashion, just his
forefathers strobe the plains of Asia thirty
ries ago. HE'S Initiative but not progressive. His
ideas are not ours, nor his manners, his customs
Thoroughly Asiatc, all new Institutions foreign to
him lie does not care for them. He will, in his
| fashion, conform to them, but he will never identity
himself with them He has written code of morals
which, ii it ever had any e has long ago eyaporated
into unmeaning phrases and empty forms. a Pagan
and an Asatic OF the centuries half way back to the
food he is made up of the errors and the vices, moral
social and political which in all ages have made Asia
despotis have left her the easy prey
of the western races have kept her shut up from
ilisaton and Christianity and have tainted her chill
dren with leprosy Of sin not to be among
Her women, as We see them here the most de-
graded Of their he and they add nothing to the
sound social elements Of the country He furnishes
no material ont Of which to build Or maintain The
State in peace war he only impair if he docs
not destroy, the moral forces, which the sole life
Of the nation.
ANOTHER CoNrRAsr-Look at that pale delicate wife,
the mother Of aarge family of children, accustomed
before the 10 all the uxnries and refnements of
Southern life, standing today by heated stove pre-
pairing frugal meal for those children while her pol
shed husband, now absent FROM home il engaged in
labor to which he Is equally unaccustomed to supply
the food for this frugal meal prepared with snch
signed devotion. They the of large
plantation worked before the by slaves whom they
had inherited. Where they now? Look at the
of cabins built on that hillside built of e re-
fuse mbers Of the gutter the stolen odds and ends of
the diapidated garden there where once the crimson
myrtle drew the mock Bird and the cloth Of gold mod
estly wed with the spendors of the magnolia Seated
in front of these miserable huts dozen more
of Africa's emancipated daughters combing their
kinky heads with jimcrow cards, baskng in the
shine of August day, with luxurious appreciation
of its piping heat only equalled by the onstretched
alligator the sand bank in front OF that river plan
fnfin hath whit aal,
where the rank weeds hide the burrows that then
enriched the commerce of the world These sable wo.
cannot be induced to cook or to wash for $40 or
$l2a month How do they lives Ask the .neghbors
where their cows their hogs their pigs and their
poultry, and look yourself about nght.fal and you
will their husbands returning from the sports of
the field with gun in hand and two three rabbits
perhaps, with the anglers rod and single CATFISH
the reward Of whole days honest-work. Yet we
must have Chinese, because forsooh their Asatic
and Pagan notions don't suit the highest form Of Pur
tan civilization.
Coon IDEA.-A Memphis exchange says that a
Commercial Convention has been formed in that city,
whose policy is to bring prominently and ina practical
form before European faets the profitable field
for the employment of capital in the Southern States
The association is stated to represent all the leading
men in the South and Southwest" and to be entirely
free from all political questions. It is commercial
and economic movement. To give authentic informa-
ton on the present position and prospects of the
South and to foster direct trade between the cotton
fields of America and the factories of Europe Mr.
F. G. Morehead, the gentleman depnted on this mis-
zion, has just arrived in Liverpool and the address be
obo eli
the Cotton Supply Association will deserve especial
attention, from the Importance of the subject and the
authoritative manner in which it will be elncidated
Is POLLARD "DoRG ?n-Mr. Pollard in bis late
,ook The Life of Jefferson Davis refers in the fol.
owing kind and complimentary TO the wife of
hat iustrious man:
" She is a braBny, ablehoded woman. who has
much more of masculine mettle than of feminine
race. Her complexion is taWny, to the point of
nulattoism woman loud and coarse in her mannera
nd full Of social self-assertion."
The New Orleans Times, in printing the above, says
hat the entire South will not only be now better able
appreciate the value Of Mr.. Pollards book, but WILL
course, be ready to indorse the opinion Of the New
ork Tribune thatthe author has
imsef perfect genteman-a cheyaer without shame
I
RATHER Soon "A New Orleans exchange speaks {
lyateriousy Of meeting in that city of certain old
saders Of parties in this State mentioning Governor
Vickliffe, Surveyor General Heinn-Atorney General
re presume--and Senator Eagan. The Picaynne aays
1ey smoked the pipe fpeace and reconciliation with
HON it is not stated, and selected candidate for
GOVERNOR to be voted for two years from this coming :
november. Why they should start so soon on that !,
unit cannot conceive There is whole legislatgel
to intervene besides another Of the present Leg
lature. What s to tranapire within that three legis
tive years, it is hard to forete. =
CuBA.-A Washington dispatch OF the Esd states n
lat the cable kilograms from Madrid stating that
eaty has been signed for the cesson OF Cuba to the
ubans, is generally credited there, though no official te
ispatches area hand from Special Agent Forbes, b
no. in connection with Sickiea has been conducting W
lie negotiations framed in accordance with proto- G.
u agreed on this city July lst md exclusively III
atailed in these dispatches on July 8 The treaty III
i'd to have been sgued requires approval Of Ces n:
ades and this Government who are to be III GONE 20
ay responsible for the security of purchase money
The New Orleans papers chronicle thedpa,h OF John
Robinson old merchant of that city. The Plea. 10
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