The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-08-07
Proposed Negro Crusade
Against Chinese Lahorers.
From The Commercial BaIissin.7 i

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It is monstrously absurd, 1t Is pitiabty
mean : but it was 10 be expected. Colored
laborers. OF African descent. are preparing
TO organize a crusade against colored laho
rers OF Asiatic nativity or genealcgv. A.
witness, for example, the resolntions passed.
by the coIorsd labor convention Just helt
in Baltimore. In the same breath. these
resolutions protest against The opposition
Of white men to admit negroes TO work or
an equal footing by their side, saying i,
must be overcome" and distinctly rspel
the idea Of admitting Cinnamon to work
on an equal footing by the aide of-negroes
by calling upon Congress to.lriye Chinese
labor ont Of the country. It is pslpable
that, il there is any virtue in tho demand
Of the fullest measure Of industrial liberty
and equality for tho negroes, there is con-
fessed injustice in the endsayor to prescribe
and expsl Chinese Iaborers. Negroes who
join in crusade to sweep Chinese indus
try from the country have no right to
complain of any prtjudice Or persecution
which they may have suffered at the hands
Of white workingmen. Their outcry
against Chinese immigration eau only be
regarded as one Of the strongest proofs of
its need and its value. II Chinese laborer rs
were not emlnently diIigent and skillfuI,
there would be no occasion to dread their
competition; but they would not be want
ed. But, remarkable as they are for
diligence and skill, their competition is
formidable to Indifferent laborers Of any
class or color therefore they are wanted,
and we are satisfied that, Ia spite of negro
jealousy and the hostile agitations Of deina-
gogues. and however they may be i'm
peled for a time By adverse laws, they will
ultimately pour in, and swarm upon every
spot Of natural fertility and bloom, where
working bees may make plenty Of honey,
bot where now the sweetness i wasted on
the desert mir.
A for The negroes, they should BY all
means for their own good make up their
minds for this evenluality. They will ouly
render their own case finally worse il in
general they take and adhere 70 the s!ulti-
tying position indicated By the resolutions
Of the colored labor convention Of Balti-
more. They viii bring UPON -A''e"seives
the hate. without .-svtTng the composition,
&. ss---asw swarms Of laborers < aud they
viii have no pity Of help from their white
for they will deserve none.
And let them never fear that Chinese i'm
migration Of whatever magnitude can do
any real hurt to the industrious negro or
the industrious white man. For centuries
to como this country viii offer ample room
for theIpro6tsble employment Of ail within
it, limits who have The aatnral ability and
the will "a, work. The more It. resources
are developed, the moro will its opportu-
mites for. enterprise and industry. be multi
piled: That Chinese immigration will
tend ia =, relative sense, to cheaper labor.
i very true. But It u the sheerest delu-
Iion to associate the idea Of labor that is
cheap. compared with the amount Of its
productions. With the idsa @of absoI ute
poverty fov the laborer. LIS to the cheap
- X products that the lsboring masses,
he W6tid over, must look for their sub
l;aDtisl Nealth and we'll being. Combina-
ions q create scarcity Of labor must
,ecesHrily result in creating scarcity of
produces, and in making The world Of
soasumsss, TO exteut Of the scarcity, poorer.
70 enppresslhs Chinese labor which is
sow seeking chances to develop the pro-
luctive capacity ofsthis country would
llioste a u same thing Is to destroy, |
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