Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-05-15

law that man should labor, and no schemes
that man can devise can frustrate the full
filllnent of that law. But men some
times SO adjust human laws that the
heavy burdens must be borne continually
by certain classes, while others are ex-
empt from them. For example, the South
imposed all of her physical labor on the
colored people, while Russia imposed it
on a class of white people called serts.
In other European countries laws have
been so adjusted that those who are rich
can remain rich by the entailment of prop
erty owned by their families from gener-
alton to generation, regardless of debts
that may have been contracted. The
result is the rich remain rich, and the
poor remain poor, no matter how much
or how little merit there is among the
respective parties and this is the system
that fosters the aristocracy of Europe.
This country is the laboring mans
country. This government is his gov
ernment, and whatever changes are re-
quired to secure better state of society
for all, the rights to produce them exists
in the fundamental law of the country.
With free religion, free schools, free
press. speech, and free ballot, every evil
in society can be corrected, All that is
needed is the temperlng process of a thor
ough discussion and honest consideration.
This country is the laboring mans
home. Here all the avenues are open to
him; the highest prizes of citizenship
are not beyond his reach. Presidents,
Senators, Congressman, and every posi-
ton ip the country, whether of State or
Church, are filled from the ranks of labor.
The road to distinction and wealth need
only the qualities of good health, labor,
perseverance and economy. The road
from wealth and distinction to poverty
need only the qualities of idleness and
extravaganza.
The strongest and best governmental
friend that labor ever had, has been the
Republican party. 1t crushed the efforts
of the STAKEHOLDER to degrade and hu
initiate labor. 1t placed labor in the
highest position it ever occupied 1t is a
tried and true friend. 1t is a substance
and not a shadow
On the Chinese or Cody question.
some months ago we wrote as follows:
John Chinaman has been introduced
into the workshops of Massachusetts /;
he has been put into the fields of the
South and has rendered, as far as the
work is concerned, complete satisfaction !;
and the news nov is that contracts for
large numbers have been made for New
York city and other places throughout
the country, hence the interest in the
question. This contract system savors
too strongly of slavery to allow the
American people, who have just passed
through an ocean of human blood, to rid
themselves of the system of slavery,
which was eating the vitals of the Re-
public. We are yet mourning for our
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struggle against it, and are still deep in the
slough of debt of billions, created to rid
ourselves of one of the last "relics of bar
barism." The country is in no mood
to foster slavery, even in its mildest form.
If the Chinaman comes to our land, he
must not come through the agency of
middle-men, who traffic in him as do
horse and cattle Dealers traffic in
horses and cattle. He mnst not, through
their agencies, be bought up in China
at $500 per head, per month. and bound
out to citizens Of the United States at
$40 to $50 and s23 per month for a
series of years. This is slavery modi-
fed. Instead of being for life, it is for a
series of years, generally five. This is
the Cody trade as now practiced. and a
most infamous trade it is Out on it. 1t
is species of slavery, and has ten
dency to detract from the worth and dig
nifty of labor almost as much as slavery
in the South detracted from the worth
and dignity of labor there. 1t is the
boast of the Northern States that labor
with us is honorable. This is the senti.
ment of the Northern people, and no
system that will ally in any way with a
system of slavery will be borne by the
country. The verdict of the country on
that question has been given unmista-
kably
If the Chinaman desires to come to
our land untrammeled by contract, as a
free man, of Lis own free will, just as
the Irishman and the German, and as all
the other people of Europe come, then
let the door be open. Strip the Chinese
question of the Cody phrase, in which
it is now involved, and it becomes sim.
ply question of emigration, to be treat
ed like the emisrant question between
our government and Europe.
During the month of April the Sol
dier's Orphans Department issued so
orders of admission. discharged on age