The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-25

by the people Of all sections. IL has just
begun TO be a source of agitation, and, after
the warning we have had from slavery, it is
of the highest importance that it should be
grappled with resolutely at once, and decided,
so far es it can be decided, before it assumes
overwhelming proportions.
Judge Kelley takes exactly the same view
of the case that we do, and the gist of his
argument is identical with the opinions that
have been advanced several times of late in
these columns. 1t is not proper, desirable,
nor possible for us to prohibit Chinese i'm
migration. To do 80 we would be obliged to
ignore some of our most vaunted principles,
and we would prevent the country from re-
ceiving what in very many respects promises
to be valuable addition to it's population.
1t is, however, proper and right, and in full
accordance with the most advanced ideas of
the age, that we should offer decided re-
sistance to the importation of coolie laborers
under contracts to serve for terms of years.
This is only another form of slavery, and the
men who abolished slavery should say at the
very commencement that it must not and
shall not be permitted. This is the stand
that Judge Kelley takes, and as succinct
statement of his views we invite particular
attention to the concluding paragraph of his
letter, which is as foliows:-
''In conclusion, permit me to say again that / am
not opposed to the voluntary emigration OF thepeople
OF China to this country. II left to their own i'm
pulses pay the cost of the voyage those only
will come who OF the better Glass; and have by
energy and thrift been able to accumulate sum
sufheient to bring them here and start them in
their new home but nnder system by which each
mans passage Is paid and his subsistence while
hara vuq will ret he tn0 H.
ject and possibly only the most degraded deni-
zens OF the populous cities OF China. Those
will take an interest in their adopted country
and its institutions, acquire our language aud
like that from other countries, stimulate our gene
raj industries while increas ng our productive
! now lie waste and unproductive, enhance the de-
mand for labor by increasing our home market and
the carrying trade in which so much OF our capital
and many Of our people are engaged. But 1t may
do more than this. Ii s in the power of the Chinese
to establish among us many new and profitable in
| dustres, Let me mention two the Introduction
| of which would injure none and benefit all of
us. allude to tea and silk. For tea we send
abroad about 10000. 600 annually and for silk about
! $40, ,000 600. We produce no tea and are but ex
perimentiDg in the production of raw SILK, OF which
our infant silk manufactures Paterson, Hartford
and Philadelphia in some OF which, may remark,
m eOw used e MAJ Snfe & hy
mense natural fields for the cultivation OF both tea
and silk besides those Of California and Arkansas
| and the Chinese, the earliest and most success
| ful oultivators of both would benefit as i'm
| mensey by transferring their experience and
patient industry to our country would not, there
| fore, exclude them by any general denuncation.
But to protect the right even of foreigners to fair
wages for work done in this country, and to avert
the dangers threatened to American mechanics by
the importation Of hordes OF coolies, would pro-
vide by statute that any contract made in foreign
country by which person proposing to emigrate to
any State or Territory within the United States
shall bind himself to labor for any term OF years or
months, at rate OF wages specified therein, shall
| be null and void"