The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-08-10
RADICAL NEW DEPARTURE.

riques recently applied to the u. S. Distric
Court in San Francisco, for admission to citi
zenship, and Judge Hoffman, Notwithstanding
the naturalization law contains the word "white'
admitted him as a citizen. The next step ia
ken by Radicals viii, undoubtedly, be the ad
mission of Cinnamon to the ballot. The "new
departure" of the Radical party of the Pacific
Coast and of Montana, is q "catch" and 0
cheat. The platform of that party in Califor
mia and Montana opposes the introduction Of
Chinese either under the Buringame treaty oil
otherwise, having appropriated Democratic
thunder for the purpose of catching the votes
of moderate and liberal Republicans. Cor.
hams theory of the Universal brotherhood Of
man." was endorsed by nine-tenths of the Rad
ical party of California, and the opposition Of
the people of that State to Chinese immigration
Chinese labor and Chinese Citizenship, as evi
denced by the election returns in California
four years ago, necesstated a" new departure
on the part of the leaders of tho "loyal" party
in that State No one believes that they are
sincere in their new declaration of hostility to
their Asiatic brethren. A party that has be-
slowed the right of suffrage on the ignorant
negroes of the South, will. sooner or later, il
continued in power, confer the same privileges
on the Chinese and all other races that may
flock to our shores.
Radical papers now deny that the dominant
party fayors, or has even encouraged, the in.
PRODUCTION of Chinese labor; or that the legis-
lation of the party has afforded any encour.
agement to that race to settle and become per-
manent residents of this country The record
does not sustain them. The infamous Bur-
lingame treaty guarantees to Chinamen the
same rights and privileges in America as are
accorded by this country to citizens of the
most favored nation. That treaty was nego-
tiated by Massachusetts, Radical under a
Radical Administration, and was ratified by
the Senate of which more than two.thrds OF
the members belonged to that party. The
ratification was hailed by the press of the
dominant party as another step in the cause
of freedom; as additional evidence of the
progressive spirit of Radicalism. and as the
intiatory measure which would be followed
by that political millennium when equal rights,
civil, political and social, would be enjoyed
by every inhabitant of our common country.
The people of California, Nevada, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana refuse to endorse any such
disgusting theories, and the Radicals, finding
themselves in o hopeless minority, concluded
that their only hope of success was in pander-
ing to the popular prejudice. as they regard it.,
by inserting an anti-Chinese plank in their
platforms. They claim TO have taken the wind
out of Democratic sails by so doing, and yet
have the brazen impudence and effrontery to
claim that their "new departure" is perfectly
consistent with their past course and the teach
ings of Radicalism. The ratification of the
Burlingame treaty was endorsed by the Radi-
cal party everywhere. and yet. on the Pacific
coast and where Chinese are becoming a little
too numerous to suit the people, they propose
to make retrograde movement, or ut least q
political strategic movement, in the nature of
q pretended or quasi declaration of ostracism
against this alien race of rat-eating vermin.
The same party on this coast endorsed and ap-
plauded the action Of Congress IN prohibiting
the levying and collection of license taxes from
Chinese who were engaged in mining which
was direct bid and invitation to that race to
swarm in increased numbers upon the coast
Their pretended abandonment of their "uni-
versal brotherhood" theory is only for the
purpose of hoodwinking the people to regain
power and place in the States and Territories
of the Pacific coast Radicals never keep any
pledges they make to the people. Members of
the Legislatures of Kansas, Missouri, Indiana
and, we believe, Ohio, who were elected upon
the issue of opposition to negro suffrage, no
sooner got into their seats than they hastened
to override and set at defiance the expressed
will of their constituents by rat;fying the
Fifteenth Amendment. The success of the
Radical party on the Pacific coast, and the re-
election of Grant, with Radical majority in
Congress, would undoubtedly be followed by
the admission of Chinese and every other In
ferior race to the rights and privileges of
American citizenship
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JUDGE ERsKINE, of the United States Dis.
trict Court of Savannah has decided that cnn.