Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-28

ali deeply interested in Western de
velopement. Slightly jealous Of
w Western enterprises and the census
tables, and of the growth of such
W estern commerce and manufactures
as are calculated to cut off New
resources, they are inquisi
tive and speculative as to what is to
follow. Their jealousy of Chicago is
especially prominent, and they spec
ulato in deep earnest upon the laws
of trade, OF demand and supply, aud
always arrive at the same concIe~
sions-that New England, having
the capital and skill, and practical
momentum, must always supply the
West with manufactured stuffs, the
West to furnish much of the raw ma
terial and provisions for the East.
But the Western march of political
centrality and power is most per-
picking thought TO New England
This they are aiming TO defeat by
closer utilization and co operation
with New York and the Middle
States, the manufacturing interests
being the bond of such union.
If "a Western man have doubts "a
to the future greatness, power aud
commanding Importance of his sec
ton of the union, such doubts are
removed by s study of this old
country. | know there are troubles
brewing in the West, the Chinese
question among them, but if broad
Vows arc taken and narrowness set
aside, q settlement will follow, direct
and simple. The West is able TO
feed for awhile with raw labor re-
cruits from the Pacific end. The Old
and erroneous notion that foreign
labor Injuries and demoralizes active
American industry long since proved
untrue in ali its theories, and tue
converse Of this is the established
fact. Demagogues next appealed 10
adopted citizen laborors on the 4 az
negro question, saying to lri5hmel
and Germans, "Why, if these blacks
be freed and allowed to work on an
equality with white men, labor viii
be so cheapened that you carno.
i've" This argument has also fai cd
upon trial, there being still VAS
lack Of labor required to engage he
increasing capital and territory oi
tho country And lastly, labcr.ng
men are again besot by demagogpos
with the old argument added to hc
usual appeals to prejudice, that these
Chinese are to Ovcrrun the country
and do all The work at such cheap
prices that Americans and Foreigners
and negroes cannot live by indus.rg !
Europe and Africa are with US
and those countries are to be liberal
Used, educated and unthroned by the
reactionary conduct OF their people
abroad. Migration to Americ& is
seen to be Gods missionary scheme,
and Asia is to be put in tie same
training with Europe and Africa 10
learn in tho school Of liberty. And
these Asiatics, whom no missionary
enterprise ever reached, are to be
sent to America for an experience
and education, and return to their
own country with such incendiary
notions as shall break the chains Of
oriental custom and superstition, snd
inspire revolution upon revolution
till the old shall pass away. Ameri-
can liberty revolutionised France,
but the French lacked moral founda~
ton, and Spain the same. England
equally troubled with Americ, n
ideas but having moral force, is 4bis
to support democracy. and is DRIFT
ing to it. And China, having the
moral force and industry, may oo-
come republic long before France
and Spain but the change can only
be effected through Gods great mis-.
sionary scheme Of migration to Amer
lea by part of China. In no Q her
way can Puritan clements take root
in any Of those countries.
The Pacific railroad which SO be-
wilders New England, now with
hopes, then with fears, 90, vhat
would Solomon and julius Ce ar
think, were they to be born again
and put in command, and landed ii
Boston, thence by tightening expires.
to San Francisco, distance FIVE thous
and miles from Rome and Jerusalem
These railroads are the equalizers fol
leveling men and nations to q com
mon height. Caesar and Napoleon
conceived war to be the only means
for erecting levels, but such means
in their hands too often leveled tie
people and.their Generals in the dust
But these machine Jewelers. are 1918
ing all the people, depressing none
Even the women are going up he
inclined plane, and the next new
grammar may introduce rule tina
the feminine gender is superior to
the masculine. BUTT is not yet Ger
tain that the women are to demand
q revised bible, and rules of etiquette
allowing them to propose as wei. a.
to refuse.
The main springs of this on-going
elaboration are liberty and education
these still incomplete. Friendly
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better and more practical education
of tthe mastes, especially the poor
And put on liberal views of these
great questions Of races and labor
interests. The negro question il
considered disposed of, and the Chi
neso is precisely similar-evcn to
prejudice of race. Americans and
European born Americans have ali
been benefited in every sense by the
emancipation of Southern labor and
leveling it up to equality with other
labor. Freedom Of the women and
their employment at all light Labor
would further improve manly laboi
profits. Half the American terrific
ry is still wild and open to industrial
development, and no profits arising
therefrom. Let the Chinese come
millions Of them, and improve these
mountain valleys and slopes. and
then return homeward and conouer
China and then Asia so regenerated
will become to America a consumer
of our products and our commercial