Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-06-30
The Coolies IN A New FleoA.

s'AssS~~SsssSSSSO os~fts~S S'sS OOS's~
problem IN another spirit than that
OF California or the South, and we be.
lierc tamc will prove hers the wiser
resolve. There are singular contrasts
~ tbs circtinistances which force this
question into prominence, and in the
methods by which its solution is At
tempted. California. which needed
laborers, accepted her Coolies under
protest, and now. IN obedience to
another laboring element which 10 al.
80 political power, seeks to restrict
their further immigration. Tho
South, in still stranger mood and
more glaring folly, rejects the labor
herself established and educated for
the sole reason that it has attained
political power, and seeks, in her
spiteful temper, to introduce un-
skilled creatures in whom she has no
confidence. Massachusetts,, ~on the
contrary, not wanting labor, but
forced by combinations Of more than
$4,000 OF her skilled workmen pro.
ducing annually single article TO the
amount OF 900, ,000. 900, imports Cool.
les to her workshops and hopefully
and heartily welcomes them. In
California they get blows that fright.
en- them away; in tho South they are
received with doubts that discourage;
in Massachusetts with full work and
fair wages that inspire them. There
is for them taxation in the West; con.
tempt IN the South; fair play in the
East. Tested thus differently, the
problem, Of course, reeults different.
ly. California farmers pronounce the
Cinnamon lazy, dirty, and destruct.
i've, and want no more OF him; South.
crn planters, having hardly begun the
experiment. already think John q
poor substitute tor Sa,pbo; . Massa.
chusetts manufacturer finds him in.
dustrious, Intelligent, clean, and econ.
on:ical, anl all the other manufactu.
GERS cry for Inn to como.
But the Knights OF St. Crispin in
Massachusetts demand that he shall
not come to that State, and by vic.
lent threats against the little colony
IN the Berkshire Mountains and BY
inflammatory appeals to Congress
seek At once 10 stop this immigration,
and to make the issue between them.
selves. or rather their organization,
anil the manufacturers Of .Massachu.
setts . political question. It is all in
vain. The immigration cannot be
stopped, and the duty Of Congress is
to regulate il. The present issue in
Massachusetts is not worthy and Is
not destined to assume any grave po.
litical Importance. Massachusetts,
which has prospered under immigra-
ton, and doubled her manufactures
each decade for thirty years, is not TO
suffer under the influx OF the Coolies.
The Knights OF St. Crispin may suf.
fer, however, il they blindly persist
in their effort to maintain wages at
rates which the state OF trade, the con-
dition OF finance aud tho cost Of liv-
ing do not justify. By organizing to
regulate their wages and maintain
them at the war standard they have
forced one manufacturer to resort TO
the experiment Of introducing new
and cheaper class OF laborers. II they
continue to support it, their organi-
xat,on will compel tho Introduction
of innnmerable others by manutac.
turers IN all parts Of the State. II is
organization against organization. aud
when it comes to that the result can
he easily torctold. The w;sest course
tor the Crispins is to recognize that
their organization IN the present, as
in tho past, is cumbersome, expen-
siye and useless ono, which unnsccs.
sarily makes war only to succumb.
When it forces, by too persistent ag-
grcssions, tho adoption Of such do.
fensive measures as the North Adams
manufacturer has inaugurated, it will
endangcr its existence and effect tho
ruin OF its thoughtless suppottcrs.-(
N. Y. Tribune.