Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-06
A working Man On the Coolie CUES.
wAsHIHeroN, July 4, 1870.

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To the Editor of tAe Star: = t}fTnTA
Dear Sir: Allow me to tender my sincere
th anks for the editorial article which appeared
in THE STAR Of the LIST instant, ON Chinese
labor. 1t is the true spirit, In which every
American journalist should treat that question.
The selfish Satisfaction evinced at the prospect
Of cheap labor, which has charaeterized tho
articles treating that question, Of nearly every
journal threu eh0ut the country, clearly demon
strates the tact that syaricA s9perssd1s wisdom
It REQUIRES no Proleand a.dy p csnsince any
country, the extensive introduction Of coolie
labor into this country would prove curse to t.
IL is fact well established that the great de-
%and and high price. paid 70, labor |. TINS
prosperity. and happiness and We all know
that this demand 10 the result Of our large
and sparsely-sst domain. Those who pirate
derived from q repleee population, forget that
the Chinese empire, with an area Of territory
twice as large as ours, owes nearly all lbs misery
ana SSegradstion to its im.ense Pop1lstion,
race. And how long, with our present ratio OF
increase, Will it be when We stand in the same
The baneful results OF the introduction of
Chinese labor on this continent hnss been par
tally illustrated on the Pacific ooaSt. The wide
spread alarm of our laboring population at the
Of human machines, each of which performs
the labor OF q man for q pittance that would
barely sustain the life Of person born on this
soil, is not unfounded, and q indica6ave that ali
other questions in our political future win nele
before this. 1t remains to be seen which of the
two political parties in this country viii take
advantage Of q stroke of policy which will insure
unparalleled success.
This Chinese question presents phase entirely
different from any other ever agitated i'm this
country. Like all the Asiatic races, these people
are intensely heathenish i'm their ideas, habits
and morals. They come into this country not
as any other class of foreigners, to strengthen
Que population and wealth, but to absorb and
carry away its capital. They spend nothing aud
horde everything. The experience Of the British
and other European nations with the Asiatics il
sufficient to convince the most sceptical that
four or five millions Of these beings In this coun-
try would absorb all its coin i'm as many years,
no matter how small their earnings and, once
In their possession, that vast division of the
earth from whence they come would receive il,
never more to be disgorged.
Men who have accumulated immense wealth
(the product of the sweated brows of their fell
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT who live in paiatial residences
and enjoy all the Injuries that money can pur-
chase, and whose insatiate lust is still unap-
peased, deserve the cOndem nation of all honOr4-
bic men for seeking to degrade and starve those
VINO have placed them in their present positions
The present administrators of our government
are the representatives of men of true republic.
can principles. They have been placed in posi-
ten by the bone and sinew of the cOuntry-the
element that represents its true wealth. Let
them garner and protect that wealth. for IL has
proved the great source of our existence, indie
Pendence and greatness rs . nation!