The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-09-29
PendletOn Oh the COOlie Question.

cusseu this matter, IN connection Win
the so.callcd Fifteenth Amendment.
He said:
81 object to its adoption, because it
is part and parcel Of Il scheme to food
the country with forced importation
of an immense Number or Chinese--of
coolcs-and thus for q second time to
bring into our midst an alien race, and
to repeat in more difficult form the
social and governmental questions
which have SO unhappily divided our
people.
The opening of the Pacific Railroad,
the demand for labor ct the South, the
desire for nimbcv hands and less vora-
cious appe.ites in the factories, have
turned the attention Of spectators to
the tccming populations of the East
They find these warm and fertile coun-
tries densely crowded with 4 patient,
degraded and heather race. "Their
skilled laborers get three or four dol
lars per month, and with this they seem
content. They work from daylight to
sunset, and have but "a single holiday in
the year. Their food con, ists Of rice
salt, few vegetables, and sometimes
fish, The plan proposed is to bring
immense numbers OF these people here
to supply the demand for labor in the
fields and the factories and the shops.
We in Ohio have not appreciated the
Importance Of this movement.
Iprotest against it now, in time, be.
fore they come among us--bcrore we
are confronted with duties, and obliga-
tons and interests growing out Of thel
presence. They are an alien, an inie.
rior and idolatrous race. They have
not our tastes, our habits, or manners,
or developments, or religion. They
are not fit to become citizens, or to en-
Joy the right OF suffrage. Amalgama-
ton would injurG both their race and
ours Isolation will give rise to great
or troubles. England, Ireland, Ger
many, Norway, and France have an
OVERLOOKING population Of our own
race, similar to US in manners, habits,
AMI in religious raith---an industrious,
sturdy, scli-reiant, se!frespccting PEG
pie. They are fit to become citizens.
They will mix with us, and our com
ming'ed blood is purer for the associa,
ton. Let US invite them with open
arms to come to us. Let us people oul
country with the best races Of men.
But the Chinese vii! give us cheap
labor. Weop haman labor. despisc
the word. 1t signifies crime and Il
shame. 1t signifies sQualor degrade
ton, ignorance and vice Are not Ia
borers mcn--our fellow men? They
have bodies to clo,he, and stomachs to
feed, and minds to educate, and spirits
to elevate, and old age to provide for.
They have homes which they love and
wives whom they cherish, and children
: whom they hope to make worthy citi.
zens-thc honest fathers and the virtu
Gus mothers of q succeeding genera
ton. And Tan you remember these
duties, and see these aspirations; ca!
YOU contemplate the patient hopeful
= ness of cheerful and contcntcd, because
fairly compensated industry, and tall
of cheap labor? Labor is too chcal
now. Labor does not receive its jus
reward. This country needs skilled la
Lorers, and honest, intelligent, unhag
ging industry; it needs that such labo
shall not be cheap, but that it shall b'
most bountifully rewarded. The rcla
ton Of capital AMI Labor is now badl,
adjusted Idle money--moncy which
has no human wants or affections, o
sympathcs- learns more than labor
4 with all its sweat and toll and suffer
ing. Money combines with money
and seeks increase and immunity un
der acts of incorporation. When la
borers combine for their protection
they are in some Of our States dcnoun
> ced by the law, and everywhere looke'
u upon with suspicion. They should no
Z antaoonizc. They should cooperate
u Tley should be in harmony. | do no
: know that the full solution ofthis erea
t problem has been discovered, but be
II licvc great pro9lcss las been made i
late wears TO establish better and just
+ or relation. That progress will con
I tinue. Thrust command the efforts O
u an advancing civilization, and the iavo
: of a just God, until at last the human
: intellect, and hand and blood, as the
's constitute the nobler, shall also be til
better paid membership in the grea
IL partnership of labor and capital"
What Mr.. Pendleton foresaw an
warned against last September is rapit
, ~ becoming an alarming fact.
Is Atlanta, like most all ofthe cities
or the United States, will be disappointe
IN o,srs returns thOuph at Dre