The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-08-13
This brings us to the question Of
importing Chinese laborers.

This brings us to the question Of
importing Chinese laborers.
| The Chinese are says Mr. Phillips a. pains
taking, ind rious thrifty, inventive selfTesr
and law abiding race They have prete Dtions
democratic Institutions, 50 have all the crowned heads
Of Europe aud the labor robhing laws and customs
have adopted from them but these projections work
badly the e sui esewherei and moral culture,
little to- much machines. But We snail soon shake
thAt servity out Of them. Theii coming will be vel
come aud valuable addition 10 the mosaic Of nation
atty but in order to do that they must come spon
aneIusy Of their Tree Will and motives the Irish
Germans snd EngIish have done. II the capt.l the
couEry sets TO work BY system ami vide cooperation
TO import theu In masses, TO disgcrRe them upon
with unnatural rapldi;y, then their ng will b.
peril political system and disastrous check to
our social pr gres. We lay Il down as fundamental
principle never 70 be lost light Of that every emg
every be ADMITTED 10 cit zen-hp q he AXIS
it, The right TO be n4turaiiLed and be admitted
citiEenshp must OF b. limited b. creed birth
place Secondly every adult here native or nAturAiE
ed In spite Of this give time, with only
natural amount Of inning ration, and trust
education ami numbers 81 our native voters to safely
absorb and make over the foreign element irish and
German immigration has en- only ripple on our
oceans b. eAdth. Generally speaking IL has teen only
healthy stir But it Is easily possible tor Ocist.d
capital hurry the coming Oi the Chinese 10 such
will enable those money lords TO control the
] ballot box, by these b nds servants. An Ntendei
North Adams can DO more then Lessen shoemsFers'
wages. Que thousand such samsons OF the associated
capital Massachusetts can amp and overWheim the
| ballot OF that stlte. We hOll il % be clearly
within the duty OF legislation to avert this dsnger
Capita T. too strong Tue PuDiC NeliAre
Lat its political power be crlPp,d Universal sun age
Is admissible onJ On condition OF an educated people
We cannot undertake 10 educate i;hs whole vol at
O1ce In drtacaments millions W millions, We can d.
gest tue whole human race.
Upon what foundation. then, does
Mr.. Philips build his -hoT<es for-the
beneficial results Of such an American,
gormandizing, Observation-Disclosures
cess What are the facts out Of
which dis delightful air castle is to be
built. Mr.. Philips very we'll knows
that by the undermining Of cumulative
corporate capital, and without the
combinations Of Massachusetts Sam
sons, TO control the vote of servile la
Dor, that the government is and las
been, so completely beyond the control
Of the demands and interests Of the
masses of voters, that voting is a
farce, and that under the controlling
power Of this corporate capital, not a
single " cOohe" has come to this coun-
try as voluntary emigrant. Nay,
more, Mr.. Philips also knows that
without an entire change of the great
fundamental, corporate, financial laws
in this country. and the laws and con
dition of China. such an emigration Of
the coolie" as he recommends
is impossible. What difference do es
it make whether We make laws pur-
porting to receive or excludl him, so
long as the laws and customs and the
conditions of the two countries named
remain as at present. No matter what
the labor classes of this country desire
nor what effect this system may have
in degrading labor, the +" coolie, as
was the African, will continue to be
imported His home condition and
the despotism which drives and draws
him here, may be despotism at his
end Of the route, not differing in sub
stance from the despotism which
makes il convenient for the Irishman,
German and Englishman to come here,
varying only, perhaps, as barbarism
and paganism differ from semi-civllized
semi Christian nations But there is
and will continue to be this difference
in his coming. The Irishman and other
European emigrants now come yolun-
tarily, and the "coolie's" Is as much
compulsory as was the Africans. And
the condition of this country, and the
causes which imperatively demand his
importation, and raises this horse
leech cry of cheap labor and cheap pro-
ducts, is a remnant Of the old leaven of
Buddhism, or brute slavery, transformed
into a soulless corporate power, and is
as pure a despotism as that ofa Cesar,
Bismark or a Napoleon, and its de.
mands are, if possible, more inexora-
bic. And the labor voter, 50 far, is
Just as incapable of satisfying, or in
any manner modifying the demands Of
this new despotism, as are the labor
masses of the old world. The despot-
ism there is the depotism Of hereditary
dynasties Of an elective aristoc-
racy OF corporate dollars. The en-
pire is peace, but the sceptre of power
is corporate capital. And the native
American and the naturalized foreigner
with all their voting power, have not,
as yet, interposed single obstacle
not SO much as a ripple on the surface,
in the way 10 stop the steady advance,
or to jar IN the least the imperial rule
of this soulless, corporate almighty
Dollar.