The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-06-25
COoLIE VS.. AMERICAN LABOR.
THE ISSUE FORCED AND X


THE ISSUE FORCED AND HOW TO MEET II.
The recent importation Of seventy-fve
Chinese workmen to the little town
of North Adams, Massachusetts,, to su-
percede an equal number of American
mechanics-is an event Of more than
ordinary Importance, presaging as
il does-the fate of our native and Eu-
ropean wOrkmen-prOvided the exper-
iment of Mr.. Sampson, the New Eng
land philanthropist should prove a cue.
cess. If it, however, proves to be the
means Of arousing our citizens to a
sense Of their duties and their dangers,
as we pray it may, we shall have reason
to hallow his memory, and point to his
action as an evidence, that while man
proposes, God disposes. The fact that
this scalawag has been hourly the re-
sipient Of letters encouraging the dam
ndble plot from men who mean 10 fol-
low in his footsteps, may be accepted
as prima futte evidence that the social
Cd moral sentiment Of the country, is
in favor Of project that seeks to de-
grade the labor Of the American work
man to that Of the serC
Friends, workingmen, let us look at
this question, as it presents itself to
every intelligent notwithstanding all
buncomb or special pleading. BY the
use Of steam the ocean has been bridg-
cd. "A passage from Liverpool to New
York is deemed of less consequence in
1870 than passage from London to
Edinburg, or from New York to Bos-
ION was, fifty years ago. The floating
palaces which now plough the ocean
have reduced the Atlantic to a pond.
The same results can be accomplished
on the Pacific. By the list Of August
next Great Britain alone can furnish a
score Of first class steamers for the
importation of the Coolie element. The
empire Of China can furnish % 900, 900
Of her population, which can be trans
ported before 1900, without any appre-
ciable diminution Of her population.
Of course the character, the moral
and social status Of these creatures are
Al, known TO every reader of the ADvO-
These, friends, are the facts, which
like Banquo's ghost,w not ''down" al
your bidding. The question which con
Germs us most is, "What as the remedy ?
We insist there IS no safety outside of pro
hibitOn. The Coolie never has and
never will seek our shores as an emf
gIdH lie has but one object in view
that OF makiL5 money. In the hour
Of danger he would prove an incum.
brance; while in the hour Of prosperity
he robs the American mechanic of his
labor There are none 80 blind as
those who won't see, and the man
who fails to comprehend the situation,
who fails to see that the hopeless de-
graduation Of our race is involved in
the success Of this importation scheme,
is either knave or fool. There is
no necessity for so vast country be-
coming developed at railroad speed !;
IN fact we are opposed en- toto to the hot.
house, forcing principle.
"But says some wise-acre, 'Iet our
mechanics settle on our western lands.
and thus become their own masters, I"
torgetful or ignorant of the important
fact that not one in three has the means
to support himself for a year in a
sparsely settled country, and that the
national government il lavishing what
remains Of our public domain on rail
road and other corporations, at rate
which in less than twenty-five years
will place every acre of the public do
main in the possession Of these gigan-
tic monopolics.
The plan BY which We propose 70
mp the evil i'll the bud, is both simple
and effective Let the Cincinnati Con
gress prepare and adopt measures
which shall exclude the race forever
from the United States. Let a dav
be set apart upon which the united
voices Of the American workmen NAV
be heard. Let a committee from each
State be appointed toproceed to Wash
ington and demand Of our Legislators
their enactment into law. Should these
measures fail Of success, as there il
little danger, we can then act intelli-
gently and fall back, as a dernier resort.
to sterner measures, which Tie foun-
ders Of the republic resorted to when
argument and appeal had failed to con
vince, and when the wrongs inflicted
were too grievoas to be borne.
THE NEW FUNDING BILL
we have carefully couSidnrnd tJo