Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-08-06
OLYMPIA, SATURDAY MORNING, aug. 6. 1870.
Tn. Result of Radical Management

Puuchinello, the rev comic monthly,
contains some of the best hits at the
prevailing follics we have seen. 1t is al
ways up with the times, and its illustra-
tions are spirited and artistic. The July
number contains fullpagc illustration
entitled "Yan.ki VS.. Yankee, showing
the descent Of celestial crispns upon the
shcemakers of the Bay State, and how they
robbed the native cobblcr of his aN" The
cobbler is represented as dining, with his
family around him. while myriads of long
cued celestials are robbing the table of the
the substantial rcpast which his industry
has supplied. One has seized upon plat
ter containing the roast, another the plate
of rolls, and others are stealing from the
baby its short.cake, while all are scram.
bling for the remaining articles. The H.
lustration speaks to the understanding
with more force than the eloquent tones
of the orator, and is more iudelibly i'm
pressed upon the mind than could be the
most graphic pen-picture of the condition
which must succeed the influx of Chinese
to this country. While the excited meet
ing Of shoenakers at North Adams may
temporarily check the evil in that quarter,
no guarantee ofpermanent relief is afford
ed except in the utter rout and defeat of
the party which has brought the trouble
upon us, party which has Systematically
degraded our citizenship, and which pro-
poses to reduce it still farther when it can
be done without exciting popular appre-
hension on the eve of important results
When the Chinaman shall have acquired
citizenship and political rights, indigna-
ton meetings will have lost their salutary
effect, with the allies which his newly ac-
quircd privileges will have brought to his
aid. The ballot is tho sceptcr which cap.
ital respects, and it must not depart from,
the hands of the laborer if he would fight
successfully against the encroachments
which w-priced labor of barbarians threat.
ems. This power caused the Senate to re.
consider Summers resolution, adopted by
that body, striking the word "white" from,
the naturalization laws, and by a decided
vote to defeat it. The inclination of the
party leaders is manifested, however, as
also in the action which succeeded it, to
extend the benefits Of the naturalization
laws to aliens of African descent, adopted
bya party vote, although they have always
professel to BE- opposed to the proposition
None were more strenuously opposed tc
negro suffrage at the close of the war than
these same party leaders, when Mr.. Lin
coin declared that there was "physical
inequality which would forever proven,
the two races from exercising equal politi
cal rights" But the tendency has been in.
variab'y the same. Professions have
passed for naught. Their platforms have
repeatedly enunciated the doctrine tina,
"tbe question Of suffrage belonged to the
States respectively" and yet We End this
right is taken away the Fifteenth Amend
meat is raid. Just so twill be with Chi.
pese saHrsge, unless power is wrested from
thew. The Ssnser resolution was adopt.
ed in good faith, and reconsidered purely
as measure Of expediency in view of the
approaching Congressional elections.
1t is time that lahoriag men should sec
matters in their trse light. How they can
adhere to . party which has violated all
its pledges, which has professed one thing
and praetiaed another so long, and those
policy is resulting so dsasterousls to their
interests, is beyond our comprehension.
They can nor form some idea of what the
result will be if the food of fanaticism
is not checked. If they continue Joined
to their idols they do SO o. ainst reason aud
and against hope.