The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-06
A. McGREGOR, Editor.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
The Chinese Question.

The Radical leaders hold to the mon
strous doctrine of equal political and So
eial rights of all races and colors in our
country. With this view they enacted, or
claim they enacted, the XVIII amendment
to the Constitution Of the United States.
By this they claim to have given political
power TO the entire negro race in this
country: and under it, on the same pre-
tence, the Chinese are full-fedgcd citizens,
entitled also to all political and social
privileges.
No wonder that undor this ruling
American employers are beginning to in
troduce Chinese laborers to take the place
Of the white men and women heretofore
employed. This movement has suddenly
awakened the working men Of the land to
the danger of their situation, and i'm
mense meetings are being held all over
the land. In New York city, on the eve
ming of the 30th ult, an immense gather
ing assembled in Tompkins square
Speeches were made from three stands,
Mayor Hall being one of the speakers.
He said the question was, roast rat against
roast beef He pronounced it kind Of
slave labor. These Chinese coolies are, in
fact, slaves, not free agents. They are de-
based in race and in religion, and in a con-
dition similar to the poems of Mexico, and
to what the negroes Of the South used to
be.
The meeting passed anti-importation
resolutions, and in favor of sending the
coolies home again. They pronounced it
a scheme to make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer. A leading writer, in the
Cincinnati Commercial says of this i'm
portant matter:
But what will the hundreds Of thou
sands of factory operatives of both sexes
do with themselves when they find they
have been supplanted by cheap Cinnamon?
why" says the Chinese advocate, Let
them 60 to the Western States and be-
come farmers p This may seem very fine,
but is there any likelihood of their doing
anything of the kind2 Not IN the least.
They will take issue with the capital
lists on the Chinese question. And very
quickly and sternly will they take issue.
So, then, the matter seems one of life and
death, and a life and death matter will
they make it. 1t is already taking the
shape of a political or party question
question of class against class, of labor
against capital, of the working man
against his employer. The working peo-
pie of every pursuit have been aroused,
as by thunder-clap on the Chinese bust
ness. 1t is the question of the hour in
every workshop, in every mandatory, at
every poor mans table. 1t is agitated in
worlingmen's societies. The mechanics
and laborers have already begun to hold
meetings about it. On all hands, the
alarm signal of North Adams is awaken
ing them to their danger If the China
man can be got to work as an operative
in a factory for sixty cents day, then
SIXTY cents day viii soon be established
as the wages of all factory operatives
But this involves half starvation and mis-
cry for the American worfingman, which
they assuredly won't tolerate, if they can
help it. Feed or fight" said Red Cloud
when in Washington, and this will soon
be the cry Of the workingmen TO the cap
italists who employ Cinnamon.