The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-01-15
THE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY JANUARY rs. Is7o.
Hero wards Of the Natiou"-stsvarss chirsss
Civil RiRhts hin.

oenator oteWart mas imposed upon himself
the championship Of the Chinese. What the
negro is to Sumner. the Chinaman is to Stew
art; and now as the interests of the blacks
have been guarded by the Civil Rights Bill,
the Chinese must be encouraged by similar
provisions. Hence the introduction of the fol-
lowing bin by the Nevada Senator:
An Act to secure to All Persons the Eoual
Protection Of the Laws.
Be It enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
lea, in Congress assembled, That all persons
within the jurisdiction of the United States,
Indians not taxed excepted, shall have the
same right in every State and Territory n the
United States to mako and enforce contracts.
to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the
full and equal benefit of all laws and proceed
ings for the security of person or property as
Is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be sub
ject to like punishments, pains, penalties,
taxes, licenses and eIactions of every kind.
and none other; any law, statute, ordinance,
regulation or custom TO the contrary notwith-
standing. And no tax or charge shall be i'm
posed or enforced by any State upon any per-
son emigrating thereto, which is not equally
imposed and enforced upon every person emf
grating to said State from any foreign country;
and any law of any State in conflict with this
provision is hereby declared null and void.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, that any
person who, under color of any law, statute,
ordinance, regulation or custom, shall sub
ject or cause to be subjected any inhabitant of
any State or Territory to the deprivation of
any right secured or protected by this Act, or
to different punishment, pains or penalties,
on account Of such person being an alien. or
by reason of his color or race, than is pre-
scribed for the punishment of white persons.
shall be punished by fine not exceeding 81 900
or Imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
both, in the discretion of the Court.
SEC. 8. And be il further enacted, that the
Act to protect all persons in the United
States in their civil rights, and furnish the
means of their vindication," passed April 0,
1866, Is hereby re-enacted, and said Act, ex-
cept the first and second sections thereof. is
hereby referred to and made a part OF this
Act.
Mr.. Stewart has taxed his ingenuity to de-
wise method to circumvent those who. ap-
preciating the magnitude of this Chinese evil,
wonld discourage rather than encourage their
continuous emigration to this country. II
strange spectacle-this State of Nevada, 80
thoroughly interested in the development of its
resources and the expansion of industrial pur-
suits, inhabited mainly by hard working white
men directly interested in the maintenance of
the value and dignity of free labor, should be
represented by the leading attorney and adyo-
cate of the slavish hordes of Tartary. II is
not pleasant to see Senator warning passion
ately against his own people, virtually taking
the bread out of the mouths of the constitu
ents OF his own race, to enrich those copper
colored Mongolians, who care nothing for the
country but to strip it of its coin, that they
may revel in the luxury of its expenditure
in their own land, and laugh at their leisure ut
the idiots who allow them to do it,
This Chinese importation has been the
most affecting curse that has ever befallen our
people. The Pacific coast would still have
been the pride and glory of the country, had no
Cinnamon ever been seen on these shores.
They commenced with The destruction of the
placer mines, and they have followed it up
with the patience of the slow-crawling snail,
and the innocence of a double-refined duplici-
ty, until they have become the vermin of So
ciety, honey-combing all the fields Of indus
try and eating out the sustenance of the land.
The heather carcasses of these convict slaves
and vagabonds have blocked up every avenue
to labor, leaving the whites to fight with star
walton and want on the outside.
We are sometimes told that it is a worthless
civilization that cannot compete with China
men. Is tho weakness or innocence of any
guarantee against the perpetration of acts of
far-eItending calamity AS we'll say that these
weak and harmless-appearing Cinnamon could
not spread disease by their filth, or fire q
city by their carelessness. Their presence
here has been as fatal to the laboring men, and
through them to all classes of the community,
rs the breath Of the plague or the ravages of
confagration.
This Monaghan crusade has inflicted dam
age enough upon this country, without tho ex-
penditure of wit, and Dissertation of place, in
devising additional inducements to entice
them here or to make their stay permanent.
Our Senators ought to have better business on
hand than to BIO bribing every Chinaman who
returns to his home TO send back all his rein
tons. We ought to have representatives who
nre something more than attorneys for coolies
and corporations. II one-half the labor which
Dir. Stewart expends in protecting Cinnamon
were devoted to protecting white men, this
State would be prouder of its representatives.
AS for this particular bill, it is clearly I'M
constitutional, and will be 30 held by the
courts when we shall have judges who dare
express an opinion which Is not dictated to
them by the Radical party. The bill violates
rights clearly reserved 10 tho respective