The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-09-23
fully respond to these inquiries.
THE BuRLINaAME TREATY,

indicate the fact that it is the settled
policy of that people to draw upor
the resources of all other nations In
every available form, and their pecul.
iar control over their own subjects fa.
cilitates tho accomplishment of theil
purposes, in this respect, to a remark
able extent. The last hundred years
have Witnessed NIL Europe and Ameri.
ca shipping to them their treasure and
taking III exchange tho peculiar pro
ducts of China. Wherever tho Chi.
nese have been permitted to go abroad
they seem still to have been under
the control of the home Government
to the extent Mt least that their earn
ings have been returned To their M.
tive land. To facilitate this policy d
the Chinese Government they have
lately procured the ratification of 4
treaty ut Washington by which, "a tho
compact declares, citizens Of the Unit
ed States visiting or residing in Chins
shall enjoy tho same privileges, i'm
munities or exemption III respect tc
travel or residences as may be enjoyed
by the citizens or subjects of the mos,
favored nation, and reciprocally, tho
Chinese subjects visiting or residing
III the United States shall enjoy the
same privileges, immunities and ex.
emptions III respect To travel or resi-.
dence rs may be enjoyed by the citi.
zens or subjects OF the most favored
nation. The pretended reciprocity oi
his treaty IL an absurdity The most
favored nation stands upon the mar.
rowest limits in China but in the
United States upon the broadcst. BY
tins treaty our people receive no en-.
largement of rights III China, but the
Chinese are admitted freely To our un-
eXacting wealth. They are even ad.
mitted TO our mines without tax Oh
tribute Ia our Government ever guar
antced 10 tn alien.
cHisEsg sUFFaaGE.
Chinn aggregates population great.
er than that of all Europe and the
United States combined. She hangs
like portentious cloud over our po-
litical horizon. Her people may
swarm Ill upon us like locusts. Thei.
coming viii unhinge labor, degrade
industry, deinoraliZe the country, and
10y claiming and receiving the ballot,
may npturn our system of goyernmen;
altogether; for We have the most seri.
Gus apprehensions. from the present
policy of the General Government to
enfranchisc ali inferior aud scrvile
races and TO encourage their migra-
tion to the United S;ates, that the bal
lot system inay become despicabIc.-
This view alarms tha1@ who revere
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intelligence, virtue and honor consti-
tute tie only safe base of free Gov.
crnne1t.
cAS THE CHINESE DE- EXCLUDED
1t il said that If we restrain the i'm
migration or importation of Chinese
we abandon the hereditary policy OF
the Government. This objection is
not well taken. Our Government in
this respect was framed upon the idea
that the States held the right to admit
or exclude such persons as they shoulo
decri proper, and Congress was
prohibited from even excluding any
class of persons previous to the year
1905. Il Article l, sec. 8, United States
Constitution. i Since that date Con-
gress has exercised this right by pro-
hibiting the importation OF Africans,
and the naval power of the Govern
ment has been used to enforce the
prohibition. Our Government has
removed Indians from States to Ter
ritories, and IRON one Territory to an
other, and confined them TO limited
boundaries. The States have exer.
cised the right to exclude paupers and
other classes of persons constantly
from the very beginning of our histo-
Iry. The States now hold the right tc
admit or exclude such foreign persons
as they choose to admit or exclude
subject only to the treaty making pow
err. BY the 3lst section of the bill o
rights IN our Constitution, the Legis
lature has Authority to restrain ant
regulate the immis sration to the State
of persons not qualified TO become cat
izens of the United States. Were i
not for the existence of this treaty the
State could exercise the power to pro
tect itself against the incursions of sucl
of the Chinese as it should deem detri
mental to its well being.
/ regard it, therefore, to be of the
gravest consequence that the treat,
with China and the policy on which j
is based, receive an earnest and Wig
orous protest.
Upon the subject of immigration
herewith submit communication re
ceived from Committee of the Boart
of Trustees of the Labor Exchang,
Association OF. Portland, and recon
mend the same to your favorable
consideration as emanating from
source of high respect.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
II Since your last meeting, by tn
! PRONUNCIATION of the so-called 15tl
Amendment to the Constitution of th
United States, Oregon has been de
! prived, defeated of the first element O
J it's constitution guaranteed by her ad
mission into the Union, the right t
, regulate suffrage. In the farewell
! address Of Washington, we hear til
| following remarkable and prophet
) admonition Toward the presel
walton of your government and th
} permanency Of your present happ
state, it is requisite not only that 20
4 speedily discountenance irregular OF
8 position to its acknowledged author
S ty, but also that you resist with cai
J. the spirit of invasion upon its prime