The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-09-08
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At last there is Joy in the Democratic
camp. Mr.. .Kimball has found "live issue''
which he proposes to take under the Demo-
cratic wing and tenderly foster.
Slavery now being dead and gone issue
proposals to drop the race of Ham and take
up the business OF expressing another "inferi-
or race" nipping them in the bud by prohlb
iting their landing on our shores AID retain
ing this as not only ''whte mans govern
ment" but essentially white mans country.
No "beathen in his blindness" is hencefortb
stone" in the land of universal liberty, or in
wade the realms of Bridget in the kitchen and
Patrick on the railway.
Free trade has lost its charms. Protection
is what Is now wan'ed and that of the strong
est kind. Caucasian labor is to be admitted
tree, w1ile MOngolian is to be contraband
commodity.
Borrowing an idea from the inferior race,
we are to close our ports against them; we
John! You mustn't land here! You don't
come to stay, and we don't want transient
company
Meanwhile our railroads are waiting to be
built, our canals to be dug, and men who
should be rich in skilled labor are swinging
The pick and sweating in pursuits requiring
muscle, and not brains, while the overfowine
old world is ready 10 furnish any number OF
human machines ready to open up our coun-
try by relieving the unskilled labor of cities
and giving it a chance to seek more profitable
labor, or to till the soil.
The little cloud mo bigger than mans
hand" of pig-tailed Cinnamon at North
Adams, will yet overshadow the land, if the
present feeling of opposition between capital
and labor is kept up. So long as manufac-
turers are hampered by the oftentimes absurd
and tyrannical rules Of the trade unions, and
are constantly haiassed by strikes and COM
blnations, they will seek every method of tree
ing themselves from their dependence upon
united body, who at any minute may taboo
them. and stop their business for any real or
fancied fault or infringement of regulations
he Lad no hand in framing. The demand for
labor or any other commodity, will seek its
supplies In tfe cheapest market, and a sur
pius IN any one country is as sure to flow into
another where it is at a premium, as that
water will run down hill; and Niagara could
as easily be damned with a shovel full OF
sand, as the tide OF emigration could be stop
ped by such movement as is proposed.
When all the labor saving machines that
now enable one man to do the work of fifteen
or twenty. were inverted, the feeling among
the ignorant was that they would reduce hum
dreds and thousands of operatives to starva-
tio1, and that every loom or spinning jenny
erected, was taking the bread frUm many a
mouth; but the more business dOoe the more
there vast do, and the makers found them
selves elevated few Steps, with easier work
and better pay than before.
SO it will be with these human machine:
every one superseded by them will find his
superior skill advanced in value as the drudees'
places are filled by the unskilled heathen.
One having the least recollection of past
history musl see that it is inevitable, the de-
mand is here, the supply is in China, and our
capitalists will surely buy in the cheapest
market.
The fact that the Chinese do not come to
stay will always keep them at the foot of the
ladder, and as they soon leave, ,never to return,
their places are filled with others equally as
unskiled. MIR. Kimball may incorporate his
doctrine in the Democratic PLATFORM the
party is usually about a hundred years be-
hind the times; but the old ideas that caused
the destruction of the looms of Arkwright,
will hardly do duty IN these times.
The old kings arm" cannot compete with
the needle gun, nor will the demand for cheap
labor, and for freedom of the extortionale
demands OF trade unions, be crushed, by shut
ting our ports against any emigration, ,oi what
ever nationality. MECHANIC.