The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-29

home ports; they sailed and-who car
tell the rest? On the 9th of last No
vember the bark Keepersoff left Bel
bingham Bay for San Francisco, con
signed to her owners here, Pope, Talbot
IL Co. On the Sd of December the bark
Vernon, belonging to the same mer'
chants, left Port SAMPLE for Honolulu,
and from that time 10 now not word
not stick, not solitary spar comes
within human ken to tell what has been.
The fact is noted in a papers CONNER
cial columns, the ships are struck of
the register at Lloyds, "Foundered" is
written in red ink across the page which
chronicles their history, the insurance
is paid, and breaking hearts at home
must weep on; for that is the last
AND TWELVE HUNDRED CHINAMES.
Such is the concluding clause the
newspapers Use i'll publishing the list
Of passengers from China by every
steamer
Twelve hundred more to run our sew
ing machines, to manufacture our CT
CARS, to make our boots and shoes, to
preside in our kitchens, to swarm in cur
orchards and vineyards, to harvest our
crops, to drive our poor women from the
wash tub, to fill the land with temples
erected to Toss. Twelve hundred more
white men to be thrown out of employ
ment, to beg, or steal or starve, or add
more names To the fearful catalogue OF
suicides.
And vet this continued locust swarm
is scarcely noticed; mentioned in a
paragraph and forgotten.
Their custom is useless. They. pa
tronize neither hotels, banks nor insur-
ance companies They neither improve
ner bcautiiy their homes, embeIlish
their gardens, contribute to our schools
and academies, our churches or our
charities Slowly, steadily, surely, they
drive the white laborer from every
avenue of employment, curtail the field
OF his industries, and overrun this fair
State with their pauper influx
Millions can be voted TO enable com
panics bloatcd with wealth to hrinI
these people to our country, hundreds
of millions can be donated 10 million
aires TO protect their manufactures, but
nothing can be done in the interests of
the toiling masses whose bone and
sinew have made America to-day the
hope and desire Of tramplcd humanity
everywhere. \ fearful duty rest, upon
The shoulders Ot--ome one. Wisdom,
irmncss, honor and courage are de-
manded oi-somc one. And Vel the
times show no indication of the coming
statesman. whose task il will be to
grapple with this tremendous subject.
Our State Legislature shrank from 1t,
Congress is too busy forging chains for
tne Southern sistcrhood to notice it, the
successor of Washington and Andrew
jackson has his soul absorbed in lobby
ing West Indian treaties, the mantle OF
Jefferson, Webster and Clay, is thrown
in the dust, and the finger Of Provi-
dcmcc points 10 none as worthy towear 1t.
A. sure as light shines and God
reigns, unless something is shortly done,
this great country and its noble people
are ruined.
In the Atlantic Srate, although
the evil with which California is
cursed is neither felt nor understood,
the Government intcrieres TO protect
Eastern against European labor by
means of a tariff upon the wares and
goods manufactured in European States,
but here where the laborcr has com
petitor much more formidable than his
Eastern compecr has in the English or
German woriimcn, no protection Is eX-
tended
The future is dark with the threat
enings Of the coming storm, and if this
Chinese question is not quickly met,
with vigor and ability, the results
will he such - soon to wakcn the most
apathctic.