The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-02

fully compelled Greece to capture and execute
the numbering banditti Of Marathon, will prove
recreant to the comfy of nations and their own
| sworn guarantees if they do not, once for all,
dash to the earth and trample out the 6rebrand
OF persecution now defantly waved aloft by
the rowdies Of Roumana.
The Workingmeu's Meetins-Whnt Are They
lSN Driving Ate
On Thursday night demonstration was made
in one of the city parks, intended to declare and
show the bitter opposition of the workngmen
of this city to the further importation OF
Chinese labor IF the mechanics of this
country are opposed to the coming of the
| Chinese, the Chinese will come all the same,
and the worhngmen will by and by discover
| that they were mistaken in oppcsin,. There
fore If the worknen are against the new
| conner that is no reason why he should be
| kept out but VS. do not soc that the opposi-
| ton of the workingman IL shown. This
| meeting of Thursday night did not show it.
In the first place the workmea were not there,
save in numbers utterly inadequate for an
| expression of general opinion from them on
an exciting topic. From this one fact that the
workingman stays away his Indifference is
clear. lie does not care about the Chinaman's
coming. He leaves the subject to men who
make trade of agitation, and these men who
desire to make a political issue with the
workingman's vote behind them merely
assume to speak on his behalf. The
speeches at the meeting and the reso-
lutions give US the opinions of two
or three individuals against move
ment that is direct result and out
come of the logic of events and Of our posi-
ton in the world. These individuals want our
representatives in Congress to make laws to
protect workmeu ''whose more advanced in
telligence and improved tastes" have general
ed wants that render it impossible for them to
live as cheaply as the Chinese can, sand the
law they propose is that Congress shall shut
out the cheap labor. Congress, cannot do it.
Congress cannot even take exception to the
fact that these laborers come to us on a con-
tract system for it is simply silly ignorance to
argue that this constitutes slavery.
In fact, this opposition to the Chinese is on
very small basis Of reason, and we are of
opinion that they who make it will by and by
be able to shake hands with the silly people
who once supposed that the coming of the
Irish and Germans was to reduce wages, or
that the making of shoes in State prisons was
to degrade the noble art and mystery of
boring holes with an awl and driving
pegs with Aat-headed hammer. The
Germans and the Irish came, and
are coming by the hundred thousand, and
wages have been going up all the time, and
are double and treble in all trades what
they were then. Shoes are made in State
prisons, and all the shoemakers have
not followed their craft to those safe re-
treats whence we infer that no de-
graduation OF labor or the laborer has taken
place. 1t will be with the Chinaman as it has
been with the others. He will tread on no
mans toes. He will only stand on ground
that was unoccupied before. He will simply
help us to cover more acres. He will con-
tribute to the growth of the country. He
makes shoes to-day at price at which white
men refuse to make them. He will take at
first to what white men refuse but when he
gets foothold he will develop the industries
that he learned at home. All our emigrants
al first earned their bread at the trades they
found in existence here; bat when they have
looked about them little they have discovered
that the trade that employed their hands at
home was not introduced here, though there
was an excellent market for the product Of that
industry, which perhaps was bought and sold
at high importers price. Upon this hint the
Italian, the German, the Switzer, the French
man have gone quietly to work, and
presently it has dawned upon the pub
| lie that new industry was tOurishing
in our midst. BY this very means the variety
Of occupation has been greatly enlarged
among us. and in this way, more than in any
other has emigration enriched the country.
| Chinese emigration will operate in similar
manner. only that the new occupations that
will thus come in will greatly slrpass in mum
Der, variety and originality all those that have
| come from all other countries for China is
richer than all the world toget her in the indus
| tries that relate to the comforts, conveniences
and economies Of life. We, and not the
Chinese, are the parties who will profit most
| by the Asiatic advance.
| THE PRESIDENTS LATEST APPOINTMENTS. -
President Grant, among other nominations,
sent to the Senate yesterday the following -