The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18
AN Opinion a, /, an ouinion.

John. then, according to the logic of the
Tribune. is not well adapted by nature, habit
and education to do the british labor re-
quired on the plantations Of the South. but
should be kept in higher ATTITUDES to come in
contact with and drive out white labor in
the North. 1t seems little strange that the
Tribune and the class Of journals which fol-
low its lead have not discovered before this
that the same kind OF labor, which it now as
| serts is unit for the refined and delicate or
eanism of the Asiatic, might also tax heav-
| lily the highly nervous organism of EU-
ropean countries. How is it that these jour
| mails have heretofore failed to make the dis
covery, or recognize the fact that the cultiva-
ton of cotton, sugar and rice in the low lands
Of the South were not well suited to the white
race! 1t was not, however, until it was pro-
posed to unseat and Dust the African laborsr
by the substitution of Asiatics that this Won
derful discovery was made
The columns of the Tribune have teemed
with ponderous sentences for the last four
| years, rendering advice TO the planters Of the
South, In which II was urged that they should
take active measures to encourage European
emigration 10 till their lands and restore them
! to their wonted prosperity existing before the
war. Not only have these journals urged the
South TO invite European emigration but they
have been urgent in their councils TO the
people of the North to hasten southwark and
aid in building up the waste places made desc
Late by the iron hand of war. All this time il
was never dreamed Of by the philosopher Of
the Tribune that the thin-skinned fiaxcn-
haired. delicate children Of the temperate zone
were totally unfit for the labor OF cultivating
the staples in the latitude of the Cane-brakes
and cypress swamps. Whether the fact ever
suggested itself to the philosophers mind in
connection with the white race or not, it is
nevertheless true, and we nre glad that his
mental optics are opening to the fact even
/ though it required the presence of q China
man to disturb the mental syncope into which
he had fallen. This fact was one of the strong
arguments III favor of enforced African labor
IN the South; its advocates holding that the
white race could not redeem and reduce to
cultivation the primeval forests Of the South.
and that the black race would not unless
driven thereto by the law Of force Nor has
anything ranspiTed since the close of the war
calculated to shake their faith in the correct
ness OF that view. The planters, landowners
and people Of the South whose experience
ought to be worth something i'll making up a
Judgment in the premises. are unanimous in
the opinion that free African labor. under the
system as now existing in the South will
rapidly sink into o state far from satisfactory
to the people of that section as we'll as the na-
ton at largo. The landowners of the South
have no confidence in the assertion put forth
ut the North that the want can b. fully sup-
piled by European emigration; SIS in the FIRST
place that class Of cmigrantS would lot como
was the call made ever 30 loudly. for the rca-
son, in part, that they do not fancy the azso-
citation into which they wonld he thrown. and
partly because they believe the climate urfav-
orable for the labor Of white men. 1t being
then impossible TO obtain white cmigrauts
and the African having shown. by experience.
that while the cares Of State are resting upon
him he is not n reliable source of labor. there
remains but two alternatives for the solution
Of the Southern labor problem: the one to nj.
low the country to sink back into semi.barbar.
ism, and the other to introduce Chinese labor
in supply equal to the demand And inthis
we do not agree with Horace, that the Asiatic
is not suited to the ''brutsh labor" Of the
cotton and rice fields of the South He. like
the African, is n child of the tropics. whose
skin is bronzed with the sun of a thousand
centuries and has known nothing but "brut-
ish" labor beneath the rays of that sun in all
tine long ages Of his past.
For ourselves, we believe the Chinese nre
well adapted to the cultivation of Southern
lands, and would much prefer that the tide
now pressing these shores should find an out
let and reservoir into which they may be
slouShed off, in preference to having them re-
main here in competition with free white
labor at the North. If it is decreed ms we
believe II is, that tho Chinese shall find n
home among us, and that n portion of the
present Inhabitants of this county shall stand
aside and make room for their coming. then
we say let it be the African who must give
way to his dusky brother. He is not wanted
in the North. where the Anglo-Saxon has been
In tho past, and is now developing the highest
civilization known to the history of man with
out his cheap and patient labor but not 80 in
the South; that land already wears upon its
far brow the curse and signct wrought by IN
unnatural contact of races, and which will
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