The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-08-07
CIIHNAmEN AGAIN.

last on "Chinese Labor, South" The
Oreyoaiian applies the word "adroitness'
to the argument of that article and says
that it affords striking proof of tho Aex-
ibility of Democratic principles. In an.
sweripg, it further says:
'sThere is nowhere in the world any held OF L.
Dor which ''fhe white men win not touch,o pro-
videi it willpay. But the Democrot says that the
South must have cheap labor or she can produce
40 cotton. SO, VIC answer, Oregon must have
cheap labor or she produce no iron, but little
wheat aud few woolsn goods. Oregon is just Al
much interested IN having cheap labor as any
Southern State can be. tits absurd to say tha
Chinese labor eompctes with white labor in Ore
gon, but that such competition can take place
in the South. The distinction raised by the Al
bany paper is simply device to rescue its party
from the dilemma into which il is thrown by thS
embarrassing demand Of the Southern Democracy
81 the introduction Of large numbers Of Chimes
sborers."
True, there is nowhere field Of labor
that white men will not touch provided il
viii pay. Blu. the field to which wC
alluded it ell not pey white men to touch
And here is just where the difference i:
between the South aud Oregon. Here
the employment of white labor in the
production of iron, wheat aud wooden
goods has paid, does pay-will pay.
In 1860 the South produced 1,T67,
6S6, 1888 lbs. of cotton worth s19l ,S06,,
$50. In 1867, three years after the wal
had closed and while the South was en-.
joying the bencfcent sway of patriotic
Congress, it produced All ,573 800 lbs. Sc
that With free labor great part of which
is still cheaper than white labor in the
North, aud with the price advanced fully
hundred per cent, there was a falling
of Of nearly three-fourths in the cotton
produced between the two periods. The
demand for this single article, already sc
enormous, Is likely to be doubled in the
next twenty years and the Importance ol
its production to America is readily seen
The effect Of our falling off has been tt
stimulate the cotton culture in other por
Hons of the world. The British govern
znent, through its coHsuls and commercial
agents, has made numerous and well di
Tected efforts to this end. The dispatch
es published in this paper only last week
stated that that government was project
ing railway system in Iudia TO facilitate
the transportation and thus foster the
growth of cotton in that country, on &C
count Of the insufficient supply from
America. The destruction of slave labor
has thus brought into existence formids
bic competition to America. To be sue
sCessful in competing with these we mus
find cheaper labor-as chesp or nearly ST
as that in India, Egypt, Turkey, Liberia
British Guiana, Fegee Islands and many
other places where cotton Is being success
fully cultivated. Our white labolers car
not go into this competition and will not
The Cody as we said before is the grea
desideratum. Here he is in nobody
way. Here let him take the place made
racant by the slave Within these cir
cumscribed bounds let him toll and Sc
all of the spindles in the world in mo
'tion; and build the South to an unexam
pied prosperity, and himself become
benefactor Of the human family.
But you cannot apply this reasoning
to Oregon any more than you can trans
form cotton and sugar plantations int
acres of wheat or rice fields into meadows
a Oregon must have cheap labor or she
can produce 10 IRON, bat little wheat anc
few WOODEN goods" Her labor is cheay
-eneugh for al of these results. Whit.
labor has been successful in respect o
these pursuits from the first. Our far
mers and manufacturers lave prosperet
and with the additional facilities for trans
poTtation now promised will enjoy amp!'
enumeration for the labor employed at it
present value. In other words it pays
In the production of wheat, iron, al.
woclen goods they are not competing witt
the cheap labor of India, Egypt, Fege
Islands, Liberia, etc. And now pra
don't expect them to compete With Chin
labor. Freemen raise wheat, slaves cot
ton. This is the instructive lesson of thes
tmes and has been of all times. If tn
OrsgOnian means to say that VIC mus
have cheaper labor, why don't it say 8
at once? Say to the working men in Or
egOn: "Weintend to bring here one million
coolies we will swarm all of the field
Of industry with them; We will have Ia
Dor skilled and unskilled at 81 and 8
cents per day instead of 81 so and 81, 90
For that sum you must feed and cloth
your family and educate your 'childre
and pay your taxes" Why do not thes
advocates of Coolie Immigration put thei
flags over their tents and let these me
whose earnest every day work uphold
ur social system see the designs an
principles of the men for whom they al
asked to vote
We want population to make this cour
y great. 70 make it richer you say
yes in the essential elements of society
in citizens. We want men for citizen