The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-17

part of our country for that OF Asia ?
1t is said we waut cheap labor. We
do not want cheap labor but we'll
paid labor. Interest as well as justice
and humanity calls for this. If all
who labor in this country took the
same wages and spent as little money
as the Chinese laborer, our Govern
ment would be bankrupt and business
Tonld shrink up. Weli-paid labor
spends freely with the business mau
and fills the national treasury by the
imposts and duties it pays upon what
it USES. This is the whole source OF
our financial strength as compared
with other people.
If labor is brought down to the
Chinese standard. there will at once
be q difference in the condition of
classes which will in the end over
throw Government. VIZ pay
higher taxes and interest than any 9th
er people, and if the price of labor is
put down to Asiastic rates, capital will
swallow up the earnings of toll more
rapidly than was ever yet done in the
history of nations. If this is to be
our future we have lost in vain nearly
"a million of lives in the war. -.
1t is not the object of government
like the citizen to undersell others. to
pinch ourselves that we may pinch
others. The great end of statesman
ship is to give comfort and plenty to
each home, and to take care that labor
is well. paid. We should seek to, give
happiness to each fire side circle, and
MOTTO fill the Golfers of capitalists.
~rIt~is sail by some if We shut -yout
Chinese immigration, we do so in the
face of all our professions. This is
not SO. We invite European imnl-
grafton, because it adds to our power
and happiness Europeans do not
overthrow our customs, religion, or
civilization. They do not bring here
any strange blood 1t has always
been our practice to shut out any sam-
migration that is hurtful. We send
back to Europe criminals or paupers,
by virtue of State and National laws.
- Every city and town guards against
incomers who endanger social order or
safety. We are. in ne way bound to
take into our public system auy mis-
chievous elements or to destroy it by
personal influences. It we believe il
Dur religious creeds, in the form and
principles of our government, then
we must believe that Asiatic creeds
and customs are .baleful. To-day we
are dividing the lands of the native
Indians into States, counties and town
ships. l-.
We are driving off from their prop
erty the game upon which they live,
by railroad. We tell them plainly
they must give up their homes aud
property and live upon their own terri
tories, because they are in the way OF
our civilization. If we can do this,
then we can keep away another form
OF barbarism which has nc rights here.
l have no doubt the Chinese have
useful qualities. They are said to he
good servants, ready to do the work
of men or women, but they. have no
the traits which will build up on this
continent n great and high-toned
power. We must not judge oil those
who come here, by those who stay At
home We get only the dregs. There
is but one way OF dealing with ,thls
The policy of exclusion must be rs
sharp and as vigorous as that OF Massa-
or New York against the
~pauperism. 1t must be borne
IN mind that, under the late amend
nent to our Constitution, you can give
hem no qualified conditions, you can
put upon them no political restraints,
made necessary by their peculiarities.
They can grasp the rights of voting
md. law-making despite all State legis-
1t is to be hoped that this subject
will be taken up and discussed in a
air and temperate way by all classes.
We must not let it drift and settle
tself. Unless we are ready to give
Up the consequences of this new
to the public peace and home
happiness of u people, we must
Mt the problem at the outset.
Truly yours,
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
70 Elias Mapes, Recording Secretary
Of Workinginen's Assembly, Ro-