Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-07-31
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 81, 1855
1.-THE Dignity Of Labor"

1t is time that every man who earns his
living by daily toll, should reflect upon the
alarming tendency manifested to cheaper
labor by Introducing that of the inferior
races in many avenues where it has never
heretofore been known. Under the pres
cnt system Of collecting revenue, when the
law absorbs part every article we make,
cat, drink, or wear, the struggle for a live
lihood isno easy one and is traught at times
with many serious forcbodings. We OBJ
serve the man of wealth. with his untaxcd
bonds, becoming richer, and the poor man
growing poorer as the burrows ofagc settle
upon him. This is the lifchistory now;
what will it be when the labor of the info
rior races is brought into full competition
with his falling strength?
A few years ago We predicted this state
of things as the natural result of the CHI
iranchisemcnt of a race whose political in
fucncc would be simply a subject for bar
ter. Although the prediction was scoflcd
at then, it has been fulfilled to the letter,
and we are beginning torcalize in q measure
the inevitable sequence. The fallacy of the
declaration that political equality will not
bring the races into competition in labor,
or else degrade the manhood of the superb
or race, is apparent when we consider facts.
The Radical party leaders arc composed of
of two classes, the political aspirant and the
bond-holder, the one does the planning
and the other executes. Wealth controls
labor; and if the laborcr does not submit
to be controlled by that master, there arc
plenty Of negroes and Cinnamon who will,
and that is the end of the matter. This
view is not overdrawn. Right here, in
this community, we have found men who
from mere prejudice alone, withheld their
patronage from men whose only offence
ceptcrcd in the fact that they did not vote
their ticket Give such men the control
OF capital, and the prospect of continued
exemption from an onerous tax, and what
stronger motive. could they possess to act
the petty tyrant?
The negro, as has been proven by the
experience OF the past few years, will not
be slow in availing himself of all the ad-
vantages in the game. Sly, cunning, and
devoid of that manly individuality which
distinguishes the white man, he is the
supple tool ofhis employer; he just fills the
bill, and the next step has been to push his
sphere Of usefulness, and the trades have
been filled with negro apprentices, in vio-
latlon Of equity and common sense. The
Government Printing Office at Washing
ton has been turned into sort of nursery
for the propagation of Radical ideas, and
men are required to instruct these woolly-
headed awards of the Government" to
enable them to take the place of their white
"brethren" soon as they learn the mere ru-
dlmcnt OF the trade. In the navy yards
this same system is pursued with reference
to other trades, and consequently in few
years, If the present party remains in pow
err, we may expect that all the laborers en-
ployed by Government and the New Eng.
corporations will be either negroes or those
who believe in and uphold the doctrine of
equality of the races.
Having placed the negro on the high
road to glory, still more material is wanted,
and the present amendment to the Consti-
tuition is the entering wedge whereby the
Chinaman will soon, by the aid of "appro-
pirate legislation" WELD the privileges of
iull citizenship. John Chinaman can work
Tor twenty cents day and subsist on boiled
rice at live cents day, if need be. White
laborers must do the same if John votes,
and he wishes to compete with him, for it
Is an established rule that interpretations
have no solls."
Thus it is that Radical politicians and