The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-04-06
THE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY. APRiL :. 1870.
H.sroe. R.joicipg-wA.o M.a starving.

teenth Amendment ratified and part Of the
Constitution. brings us an account of great
mass meetings of thousands of workingmeu
Of San Francisco. demanding work to save
them from starvation. The negroes were
firing guns, holding Qualification meetings,
and rejoicing over the acts for their benefit,
while white, men were wandering wildly
throusk'the strsetsy seeking vsinly for food
for their starving wives and children.
Such is Radical rule. Y This is the end, or
the beginning of the end, of ten years of Radi-
cal legislati6n. White men stardngl Ne
groes rejoicing! --s' 'l.' .rr-
Three thousand men, in gloomy procession,
march to the City Hall to inform the authori-
ties that they are hungry, that they are with
out bread, that they must have work-fght
or die. whata spectacle is this, on this once
man! And high above the means Of suffering
women, and little children crying for bread,
peal the echoes of those guns, over the anx-
ious faces thropging the streets :-1s,, .ssiiiey=
dedicated to the poor-telling in every rcver-
berating roar of the exaltatio3s of the blacks
and the degradation of the whites One re-
joices, and the other mournsl And this is
Radicalism! no .
Why are these men without the means to
earn their daily bread? A hundred thousand
Cinnamon are on this coast. They find work
They can obtain Il where mo- white man can
for they are working at China rates, and liv-
ing at China expenses-rice their food, novels
their habitations. They are doing the labor
of this coast; there is comparatively none left
for any other people. They have crowded
the white laborer out of nearly every occupa-
ton in the country, and even upon the ,as
that wash its shores. The land is filed with
them. They carry The mortar to the nights
of the, city palace, grade the path of the loco
motive, wind the thread of the manufacturer,
and plant the seed in the fields of the farmer.
and the cry is. Still they eomeglrr,, r,-y
Who are filling this country With these
crowds of slaves, more deadly than the 10
Gusts Of Egypt? Who are circumventing every
attempt of State legislatures to stop this
damnable imrnigrationi Who are encourage
ing this horrible, ruinous competition. by
making and ratifying Chinese treaties, and
multiplying every legislative effort to erect
bulwark against the slavish stream, flowing
from bottomless fountain of one-thiri of the
human racer Who upon the floors of the
Senate Chamber Of the United States squarely
announces that any hostile legislation against
the Chinese shall be promptly metby Chinese
citizenship r.r"F"ft. $3.50 EEr
This Radical party is alone responsible for
the presence Of this China immigration It.
and it alone, is responsible for the misery of
the starving thousands who swarm the streets
of our cities and line every country road.
The Radical party has set the heels of the
negro dancing, and fattened the Cinnamon
into oily redundancy, but upon the faces of
six thousand white men in one city, and thou.
sands packing their blankets upon their backs
along the dusty roads to the mountains. Il has
stamped the gaunt, gloomy visage of hunger,
sorrow, and despair. What matters it that
honest faces and brawny arms ask to swea,
and toll for the poor privilege of livine?. 10,
the Chinaman must he fed, the African be
exalted! As one of these sufferers plaintiveiy
said the other day: "Our bones lie here when
we die, at any rater' Yes sud another.
1--WE are American citizens, yet here are
thousands of us starving around lamp post"
"Who saved the country, and fought its bat
tles2 Did the Chinese2 No, we did, and
now we starve for it, ..taaf !
Verify, there is n retributipn brewing some
where in the deep bosom of the future. It
found prophetic uttersnce in one voice: "It
is better N die mt the point of tho bayonet,
than TO die of starvation 80
Let the Radical ship sail gnyly on! There
are dark tliupders gathering in the sky by Him
who first made distinction in races. and is
swift to ayenge his violated laws. Let the
Radical crew sail gayly on, until they see upon
this coast the uplifting of the bloody banner
of determination which once swept through
the streets Of Paris, borne upon the fearful
cry from thousand tbroats: Bread or
death. That war Of the races will leave no
Chineman on these shores, and the bones Of
the dead will find no kindly sepulchre in the
Flowery Kingdom. TIC -, sl.fan !
The California Legislature was in q state OF
greatexcitement last Wednesday, in the at.
tempt to pass the SouthernI Railroad bill over
Governor Haightsyeto. The motion was lost
by one. vote, and the grand railroad scheme
went under. There Is great rejoicing among
the papers Of the Southern counties. uy 49,.