The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-22

NO HtubtDlo utut ho"o'@
may be opposed, on principle, to the I'M
restricted importation Of thralled Ash
atics into this Country, can for q mo-
ment approve of the violent and insane
measures of expulsion advanced by
Mooney and VIM, the soi-disant leaders
In the new anti Coolie crusade. Neither
one Of the men named is fit to lead pub
lie opinion on an issue of this great i'm
portance. They are both demagogues
and are both devoid of enlarged ideas
on any subject. Mooney is n of those
soldiers of fortune, who, like George
Francis Train, is determined to be con-
spicuous, no matter what part OF his
person he exposes to public view. VIM
is a man of a soured disposition, OF
great energy and p~ertinacity, but with
out ampliied intelligence or liberal views
on this or any other question. He is
rash enough to precipitate an emeute,
but is without the mental cahbre to
direct any public movement in a legiti-
mate or proper course. Such men are
potent for mischief; but impotent to
move sound public opinion. They
would use the Chinese antipathy of the
masses to lead their weak followers to de-
struction; but they are incapable of organ
izing and directing that element in the
peaceful and legitimate channel of re-
form which can alone deal with Ameri-
can questions successfully.
The leading minds of the Country are
we'll aware of the importance Of the Chi
nese question, and are fully impressed
with all the great difficulties it presents.
They know that the unrestricted impor-
tation Of coolies, under contract for labor,
is only an evasion of the law prohibiting
slavery. They know that this Country
can not afford to have its intelligent la
Dor supplanted by seryile semi-barba-
rians, sufficient in numbers at home to
overrun the whole Country. They see
in it the 'irrepressible conflict between
the rapacity of capital on one side and
the struggle of intelligent industry for
existence on the other; and the question
arises with them, shall We seize and
grapple with this issue before it has so
ingrafted itself on the moneyed interests
of the Country that its dislodgment will
cost another and a greater war than we
have just emerged from, or shall we let
it wend its course, unchallenged, to a
dark, and perhaps a bloody future? The
Moneys and the Wins are not the ones
to solve this great problem. 1t must be
undertaken by the statesmen of the
Country.
The republican institutions of the
United States are laid on the broad basis
of Free Labor. Any system, which
comes in conflict with the well-being Of
industrial producing classes, is de-
structive of the very object of our free
Government. Principles and doctrines,
as long as they lead to the greatest good
of our whole people, ought to be followed
and carried out: but when they de-
teriorate into distractions. and their
practical logic must necessarily eventu-
ate in the oppression and suffering of
the great mass of our laboring citizen
population, they are to be discarded.
Then, the real statesman will make prin-
ciple yield to the tendency of facts, and
ward off an inevitable national calamity
by obeying the behests of policy. If We
can ~foresee that the late impetus given
to coolie importation, by the asserted
cheap-labor wants of Southern planters
and Eastern manufacturers, will logically
lead to a radical alteration of the charac-
ter, the homogeneousness and the politi-
cal intelligence of the great mass of our
working people, it would be an act of
national suicide not to restrain it. If
even the danger is only remote, but
surely possible, that we shall, by present
inaction, hand down an unmixed evil to
our posterity, we have no right to shirk
the issue now. Our clear dnty is to
grapple with it when it is in the germ.
The great Republican party has not
been demonstrative on this subject; but
it has watched its rising importance with
profound interest. That party, as the
friend and the advocate of free American
labor, will not coldly permit any seryile
system whatever to spring up again on
this soil. But whilst il will meet the
great question in q legitimate and con-
stitutional manner, it will also place its
seal of condemnation on all movements,
come from what source soeyer, predicated
on violence and extra legal expulsion
from the Country Of any people or of any
race now here. Restriction is within our
power. Expulsion and extirpation be-
long to an inhuman and barbarous age.