The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-10-23

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not all to take ourselves off and leave the
soil to its original owners. "Roland"
would find himself in some difficulty, |
even if his supposed right existed, in de- |
termining the persons to whom it be-
longs and who ought to be allowed to ex-
ercise it.
'Gapital and labor" says sRoland,"
''are natural antagonisms." We did not
know that there was yet any one being
living and looking on the earth who be-
lieved in this exploded nonsense. Ac-
cording to ''Roland," the man who buys
is the natural antagonist of the man who
sells. Can capital get on without labor,
and labor without capital? And can
two things mutually indispensable be
likewise mutually antagonistic? Gro
land" might as well tell us that two and
two which go to make up four are natur-
al antagonisms. ''Roland's" own in
stincts, however, soon triumph over his
hyperbolical assertion for he says, with
great truth, that 'sthe workingmen's la.
Dor is their capital" What about natur-
al antagonisms now?
But, of course, 'Roland's" great point
is that the introduction of Cinnamon will
cheaper labor and injurc the working
classes-just the old objection to ma
chineryli in new guise. Grant that the
men now in possession have the right to
say that nobody else shall have the right
to come in, if their coming should re-
duce the wages of labor. We deny that
the immigration Of the Chinese will have
any such effect The Chinese will help
to develop resources which otherwise
must remain wholly or long unde-
veloped that is all. We do not treat as
serious "Roland's" proposition that the
land of this country is already suffi iciently
occupied There are still, we believe, a
few square miles to be had in Texas /;
and we have heard that along the line of
the Pacific railway travellers observe
SoiHc CIedi spdCCS. Lfci thiHS saw "
the Chinese now would have applied with
equal or greater strength to the Irish
and Germans a generation back. The
wages of labor are inordinately lowered
where masses of workers, many of them
only half competent, crowd into great
towns and crush the lives out of each
other But the resources of the United
States are almost unlimited. We only
want hands to develop them. ."Roland''
speaks of the poverty of the English la,
borers; and means, we presume, the ag,
ricultural laborer. Does he really i'm
agine that it is foreign immigration which
has caused this poverty2 Why, in some
English rural districts, where the mer
and women are poor as rats, and mlser
able as scarecrows, stranger, even al
: Irish reaper, has never done days work
, during the memory of man. Giles Sc-og
gins works and starves where Giles faith
r er, grandfather and great grandfathe
worked and starved before him and nj
| innovatins Mongolian has ever sat foo
on the soil which poor Giles may onl,
l dig, but does not own. The condition
/. of England and America are wholly diff
: ferent. Fcudalism and ignorance hav
S made Giles Scroggins what he is; free
: dom, a wide soil, and the possibility o
r owning something, make the territoria
e democracy of the United States. "Re
i lands" alarm at the Chinaman is onl
5 like his grandfather's protest against th
steam plow.
d "Roland' prophesies that the hosts c
II workers who were an army but the otf
}. er day (yes, and who were foreigners tn
r other day also) will never submit to th
r. importation of Chinese, but will have r.
: course to strife and bloodshed to prever
:. it. We have much greater faith in tn
@ Justice and the good sense of the worl
J. ers. They know and are proud of tt
Il knowledge that America has elected
N live in an atmosphere of liberty an
l. they will not, for any supposed and en-
10 merical dread of rivalry, consent to d
.e mand any of the conditions of a despot
Al and Oriental exclusiveness. They wi
,r welcome the Chinaman to Americ
l. They will never consent to turn Ameri'
to into China, with legislative enae
IS ment for wall against the stranger.-I
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