Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-23
The Yankees and tho Co olies.

Inc IoiiowinS letter from an intelligent
source, will be read with interest. The
Yankee laborer who has 80 long been
driven BY the capitalist to do his bidding
has at last been awakened from his
hallucination by the practical test Of coolie
competitor. The puui,hment may be 8 .
we're, bit who, in view of the repeated
warnings, will say it was not justified?
BALTIMORE, Md, July 4, 1870.
EDITOR STANDARD: This is the great
glorious FOURTH oFJULY, but for my
part do not see anything to rejoice over.
1t may be coDsolatory to know that VIC
are independent Of the perogatives of the
British crown, free from any of the exac.
tons Of the British parliament, and
amenable to no foreign potentate save the
blessed man aud brother and the pros.
pective celestial coolie. The day
here is &c nerally observed as legal hol-
iday," by enactment of our Legislature
and is grand occas on Of national enthusi-
asm on the part of the trooli loil" Such
parts of the garbled Declaration of Inde-
pendence as suited the advocates of the
higher law" will be taken as texts by
the "silver tongued" political orators,
eulogies on the " late lamentcd," and apos-
trophe on the .iouized living who contrib.
uted to that criminal elimination, will
form the staple Of the day, instead of the
patriotic oratory Of former period, for as
| grand occasion for national enthusiasm it
has ceased to be since the pith and SUBJ
stance which rendered it memorable were
lost in the ravagcs of revolution. For
this revolution, the portion of the COM
munity usually denominatcd rebels by the
"trooli loil, are not responsible, but the
fanatical descendants of the Puritanic cle-
ment, some of the first settlers of the coun-
try, urged on and encouraged by the
"lords Of the loom and the spinning
jenny" for they have continually urged
on the ignorant masses Of the North to
protect nome industry, "abolish slavery"
&c. But the first instalment of retributive
justice follows closely the heels of popular
crime. Radicalism, alias Puritanism, has
not yet ceased its professional plaudits,
nor gotten over its inaugural celebrations
Of the "grandest achievement of modern
times, before wall goes up from the cen.
ire of " Yankee Doodlcdum" itself. the
sure precursor of a much deeper lamcnta-
ton to follow. The evil which provokcs
this outburst has been allurcd by their
own folly, and superinduced by their own
madness. They have been i'm plored time
and time again, and continually, by the
Democratic party and the whole Southern
people to pause and consider in their rash
ness, but they preferred rather to be ruined
by rogues than rescued by reason, and the
result is upon them.
"John" Chinaman, and not il" Sambo,"
the negro, is the coming "man and bro
ther," coming by the ship load, coming in
shoals, coming from where they can be
easily spared, to degrade our labor, enrich
Yankee monopolists, rob our families, de-
prive US of employment, and share and
participate in all the benefits conferred by
the "Greatest Government on earth" All
this has been brought on by these Yankee
operatives, who now begin to squirm.
Their high professional tariff has concen-
tratcd capital in the hands of the few,
rendering labor mere dependence, and
the Radical tinkering on the Constitution
has degraded the white man to the politi-
cal level of the most degraded races on the
earth. The national consequences of
these political crimes are coming with
prompt and disastcrous effect. Blind as
even Yankee cupidity ever has persistent
ly been, their eyes are opening to the ia
tai reality. Coolie labor is cheap. Yam
kee capitalists are grasping. High tariff
has enriched them, while they compel la
Dor to live at starvation prices. The GER
tainty that they will attain civil and politi-
cal rights, will allow the servilc pauper of
pagan lands to come where he can better
his condition physically, and have equal
political rights with white men. Earnest
appeals from the honest and patriotic have
been uuheeded while the sophistries of
the Summers, Buffers, Wilson's and other
villains and charlatans Of that ilk, have
been enthusiastically applauded and blind
ly and unreasonably followed. Experience
,OiN be heard, and that in way not to be
misunderstood. copy the following from
the proceedings Of meeting held in
North Adams, Mass, where the first in
stalment of coolie labor has been imported:
AfSOtCe0, uat We nASe Votcu Ioi EEO'
lection to American industry at the sug-
gestion of the rich manufacturer, but we
find that under the scheme Of protection,
capital is to get the protection Of Ameri-
can labor, which is to be reduced to the
Chinese standard Of rice and rats, and we
cut loose now aud forever from the lying
knaves who have beguiled U.S."
A humiliating confession, but we of the
the Democratic faith have always contend
ed that protection meant nothing else, in
fact, but profits to the man or men who
owned the mills, in other words the capt.
talists; that the duty is always paid by the
consumer, and that the operative received
a very Insignificant moity of the profits on
his labor. We fear the confession of the
mistake they have made has come too late.
The ahackloa were too FIRMLY rivitnd m