The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-24
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Governor Hawley, General P~leasanton
General Horace Porter, Governor Jewell
Stewart L. Woodford, Rev. Henry War
Beecher, General b. F. Butler, and othe
personages, illustrious as orators, states
men and soldiers.
Such an assemblage would, of itself
give character to any Fourth of July cele
bration; but when we say that the oeca
sion was seized for the propagation o.
well-considered thoughts on a question
of great magnitude that is now dawnine
on the Republic, the Woodstock celebra'
ton assumes a political significance
which party followers throughout the
Country would do well to consider
and ponder upon. The principal ora
tons were delivered by Henry Ward
Beecher and B. F. Butler. The latter,
with his usual ability, handled the
several live questions at issue before the
Country, and in doing SO tackled the Chi
nese question with power and perspica-
CITY. Looking far beyond the imme-
date nresent, he sees in the unrestricted
;mportation of coolies another blighting
curse foisted on the Country, in viola
ton of the principles settled by the late
struggle, and in direct conflict with the
system of Free Labor and voluntary i'm
migration which has raised this Country
to an unparalleled hight of prosperity.
When before that illustrious presence,
and within the rapt hearing Of ten thous-
and American citizens, he declared that
intelligent labor vas the very corner
stone of our existence and greatness
the shield of our liberties and the guar
antee of our perpetuity as a Nation, he
only reiterated what had been said a
thousand times, both by the lights Of
slavery itself and by the patriotic leaders
who drove it, we hope forever, from u
land. But when he solemnly declared
that any system of evasion. or any condi-
ton that might arise in the career of the
Country, which would threaten to Cypress
or supplant American labor, was not
only to be opposed but warded of, he
gave utterance to a great truth which
must before long become a cardinal
practical principle with every party that
hopes to rule this Country. This is not
a question as to those 'cheap-laborers
already in our midst, and who have
come as voluntary immigrants to better
their fortunes, but as to that great and
illimitable mass of human machines,
who look owe towards us from another
Continent, and who, as articles of mer-
chandise, are dealt in by Chinese COM
panies to supply the labor markets of
the world.
We could carry the Asiatic alloy We
have already on hand, if we could only
be assured against further and wholesale
importations. Interest and money
making could easily, in a space of time
that counts as nothing in the history of
a nation, oyerwhelm us with one or two
hundred millions of these living labor
machines. Formidable in numbers, and
simple in wants, they would, if not re-
stricted, revolutionize and lower the
standard of the industry of the Coun-
try, and croud out our people from every
field of employment that requires only
muscle and industry, coupled with COM
mon intelligence, as a capital to go on.
However beneficial such a result might
be to capitalists, it would ultimately
destroy every vestige of our present
republican prosperity, and leave the
nation divided between moneyed mas
tiers on the one hand and plodding
pariahs on the other. The splendid
representatives of a spirited, intelligent
and well TODD industrial nation-its
right arm in war and its guerdon of Sc
curity in peace, would be gone. The
masses would be mere living machines,
and the noble institutions of our Country
would melt away with the CELEBRATION OF
the ace of men whose energy and in.
dustry, and whose intelligence and love
of freedom had made our nation what
she is.
1t is in this spirit, and with o careful
consideration for the future welfare oil
the nation, that this great question ought
to be treated. The rights of the humblesI
alien who in good faith voluntarily
reaches our soil, should be as sacred in
the eyes of our rulers as those of the
most conspicuous and notable immigrant
that aver crossed the sea. But when
hot-headed demagogues invoke mob-vio.
lence, and preach sedition and high.
handed expulsion in connection with 9
question of this character, every right
minded citizen will frown upon then
and, if need be, punish their blatant
temerity with summary rigor.
Let those who are now exciting the
worst passions of the Pacific metropolis
beware how they insanely enter upor
a sea of political thought which is far be
yond their depth. Let them not trif'
with an issue which must be solved b,
the great minds of the Country, an,
which is in good keeping when it is il
the custody of such illustrious men a
those who graced the platform on indie
pendence Day at Woodstock, Vermont.