The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-09
try took the same wages and spent ~ little

/ try took the same wages and spent ~ little
| money as the Chinese laborer our Govern.
| 1nent would DO BANKRUPT and business
would shrink up. Well-paid labor spends
| freely with the business man, and fills the
national treasury by the imposts and duties
| It pays upon what it uses. This is the
whole source Of our financial strength as
compared with other people. IL labor Is
| brought down to the Chinese standard there
will ut once be difference in the condition
Of classes which will in the end overthrow
our Governmcnt. We pay higher taxes and
interest than any other people, and if the
price Of labor is put down to Asiatic rates
capital will swallow up the earnings Of toll
more rapidly than was ever yet done in the
history Of nations. If this is to be our
future we have lost in vain nearly million
Of lives in the late civil war. 1t is not the
object of Government to underscil others
10 pinch ourselves that we may pinch others.
The great end Of craftsmanship is to give
comfort and plenty to each home, and to
take care that labor is well paid. We
should seek to give happiness to each fire
side circle, and not to fill the Golfers Of capi-
taliNs.
cit is said by some il we shut out Chi
ncse immigration we do 50 i'll the face Of all
our former professions. This is not so. We
invite European immigration because it
adds 10 our power ana happiness. Euro
Means do not overthrow our customs, reli-
zion or civilization. They do not bring
| hrrn any strange blood. 1t has always been
orr nractirc to shut out any immigration
| th,t i h,utfui. We send back to Europe
| criminals or paupcrS Ivy virtue OF state ana
national laws. Every city and town guards
acoinst incomcrS who cndangcr social order
| or safety. We are in no way bound TO take
| into orr public system any mlschlcVnuS
| elements or to destroy it by persona! INIT
cnccs. If we believe III our rcilSlous
crccds, in the form and principles oil our
| Government. then we must believe tnat
| hSiatic crcctls and customs arc balcful. To-
dny we are dividing the lands OF the naIiFe
Indians into STATES, coltntlcs, and town
! ships. We are driyin" or from their pro-
pcrtv the game upon which they 1--we by
railroads. We tell them plainly they must
give up their homes and property ana i've
upon corners of their own territories ne
cause they are in the way Of Our civilization.
If we can do this then we can keep away
lanothcr form Of barbaIiSm winch mas 10
fright here.
AZ have no doubt the Chinese have Use
ful qualities. They are said to be good ser
wants. ready to do the work of mon or WO.
men. but they have not the traits which
Twill build up on this continent Il great and
hi~h-toned Power. We must not judge Of
those who come here by those who stay III
home We get only the dregs. There is
hut one way of dealing with this matter
The policy Of exclusion must be Us SHARP
land aS vigorous as that Of Massachusetts OF
New York against the coming pauperlSm
It must be borne in mind that, under tho
late amendments to our National Constit,
ton, you can give them no qualified condi
ton YOU put upon them no political re-
straint. made necessarily their peculiar
tiles. They can grasp the rights of voting
and law-makin- despite all State legislation
IL is to be hoped that this subject Will b'
taken up and discussed in q fair and tempe
rate way 10y al classes. We must not let y
drift and settle itself. Unless we are read,
10 rive M the consequences Of this ne"
dancer to the public peace and home hap
pincSs of our people we must confront th'
problem At the outset.
"TTulv yours, lIoRAT!o SEYMOUR.