The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-09-23
GOV. GROWERS INAUGURAL
ADDRESS.

ties of Chief Executive, it is becoming
IN me to acknowledge the ample favore
which an allwise Providence has law
ished upon us people. Abundant
harsests have been gathered health
prevails and peace reigns throughout
our borders. We arc now entering
upon an important period of our de.
velopments as State. Our infancy
as territorial government has passed
into history. Our early struggle as n
young State of the Union has already
turned the point of success, until we
stand in tho threshold of coming
strength and power, with u territory
ranking among the largest OF. the sister
hood, with soil equal to the best,
and climate of salubrity and health
fuliness enjoyed by none other
With resources for the employment of
industry of great variety and extent,
it would seem difficult to predict for
Oregon anything short of most sue
cesstul career. In fact, with IL credit
able management of public affairs,
nothing stands in the way of our pros
perity.
INMIGRArIoS.
AZ this juncture OF our advancement
u vital question presents itself for dc =
termination. Our State, is sparsely
peopled. 1t is capable of supporting u
dense population. We are about to
reach out and take by the hand thou
sands who Will come and make their
homes among us. Shall We look east
ward to the older States and to Eu-
rope, or shall We look westward to
Asia? Shall the Caucasion or shall
the Monaghan be invited to be CO.
laborers with us III building mp the
State Labor has been and Will con-
tinue to be tine capital OF the immi-
grants. To European Immigration,
America has heretofore offered higher
wages and more abundant means OF
support than the home country labor.
both skilled and unskilled
have flown to us from Europe, CON
s;antly swelling oar ranks and enrich
ing the country with its industry and
genius. TO this source our nation
has owed the wonderful impetus Of
our progress in wealth and members.
In securing this population we have
1ot cared 10 be II homogeneous peo-
Die, for they have been of the steel,
whence were derived the first Amcri-
an colonies. They have been bone
If our bone and flesh of our flesh .-
heir labor has been represented in
ands and houses, herds aud focks,
richards and vineyards, mills and
all with us and Of us
Their property has borne its equal
burden nf ia~atinti md :hat- ha.a
shared our pe,lls and bardsi4ips in
var and our responsibilities III peace.
They speak our language. and, re-
;pecting and cherishing the principles
u our Government, they Ininsle with
Is con renially in all our institutions.
The;r chii. !ren are educated with ours,
nd both are reared together to be
me people. We IAN therefore, hail
he coming of this class ot imniISra-
ion in common with that from our
,lder States, and welcome them :7mns
Is with favor and satisfaction rs broth
.rs.
THE EoEGoLilSs.
But what of the Mongo!iaa An
of twenty years with the
Chinese upon the Pacific coast enables
US to define his traits aud qualiiica-
tions with sufficient certainty. He is
unequal, unacquainted with our Ian
guage, or with any language having
elements common with our mode of
Thought, either in social or religious
point of view. He is incapable OF as
sinlilating himself to our habits Of
life, and even his education is dis
the reverse of our forms of
reason and action, both public and
private. He is influenced by cur ex-
ann les and observances. Our courts
even can administer no oath which
will bind his conscience. He is n
Pangan in religion, and an absolutisl
in his habits of government. He
comes with 10 family, but his associa-
ton is with harlots of his own race.
While living here he.is subject to
laws unsuitable to his life, and when
he daed his body is returned to the
land from whence he came. He re-
spects neither our Government nor
our soil. There is not a single tie of
common brotherhood between us and
him although we admit a common
humanity, he denies even this.
These features of his character are
ingrained in his being and are estab-
lished as unchangable by Il history of
four thousand years. His coming
among us is not from love or even
respect for our institutions. 1t is
solely for gain but his gains are not
that thrift which attaches itself to the
country, becoming visible and taxable
property, bearing its proportion of the
burdens of government, but they arc
the results of delying in mines or
serving for wages, all OF which are
boarded and sent away to China
The ruined village and the deserted
plain are places where he has wrought
the most. The money he has earned
is represented nowhere in the fixed
property OF the country. China has
been made richer 9nd America poorer
by his presence, Can we build up oul
State upon the immigration Qf tbs
Asiatic? The common answer j!
that we cannot for American and
European labor will meyer consent tt
contest the field with Chinese labor
and as soon as it understood that tht
tMongolian is to be encouraged here
the European will cease to come.
Which will we have-the wealth, th'
Intelligent. the virtuous accumulation
and the associations of our kinsman O