The Placer herald., 1873-06-21
Official Paper of Placer County

CHINESE QUESTION. -.An election Is ap-
preaching, and as usual, politicians are try.
ing to make stock by denouncing the Chi
nese and showing up the evils which the
presence of nearly 100000 of these moon
eyed. third-rate heather mongoians bring
upon us. That their presence is damaging
to the country none will deny, and that they
are an enemy to the interests Of the poor
people has been proved BY dear experience
Int we would rather see this subject dis
cussed with different spirit. The evil is
real, the sentiments Of the peopis-as opposed
to the further immigration Of these heathens
are real, but the motives which induce politi
clans and some journals to denounce the
presence of this dam ging element of our
population is not real, and that is where the
greatest evil lies. The Democrats, as a
party. were the first to speak out against
the evils emina,ing from the presence of
Chinese. and oppose their further immgra-
tion. At the same time the Republicans
were doing all they could to encourage thei'
immigration and to put in their hands the
right Of franchise. The sentiments of the
people nearly to a man condemned the ac
tions of the Republican party on this ques-
ton. They saw that persistence would he
suicidal, and at once wheeled the van
changed their tactics, .silenced their loud
mouthed Chinese advocates and came oul
in their platforms denouncing the Chinese
in tera,s, if possible, 'anore emphatic than
the Democrats had ever done. Since then
Republicans have made a hobby of heather
John on which to ride intoofiice But as soo,
as they are safely landed, they turn thei,
hobby out to grass. and that is the last W.
hear from that source condemnatory Ct handy
John until another election comes around.
We might here draw a parallel case of mo-
nopolies. The Democrats have always op-
? posed them, while Republicans have created
them. fos.ered them and catered to thei,
wants; until now, when they see the eyes OF
the people can be blinded by sophistry nc
longer, they begin TO crawl out from thei
dangerous position at every little rat hole
and with impudent presumption proclaim t'
intelligent people that zoe, too, are opposed
to monopolies. The people are wide awake
on this subject, and can see through these
tricky maneuverngs, and are beginning to
appreciate the fact that if they ever get re-
dress for their long sufferings. it must be
through the party whose sentiments lie
deeper seated than the mouth, and whose
opposition springs from tho ro"l sentiment o
tie heart rather than through trickery fol
the purpose of gaining political power.
FUNNY.-lhere! we have headed this
article funny" but ridiculous" is what
we should have said; for, really, the Argus
does make some of the most ridiculous at
temp,s at trying to assume little anti
monopoly, with view, We presume. of blind
ing its readears as to, what it really doe
think on this all absorbing topic (of course
they must aesune it's meaning for it neve
asserts it). For instance, in sleuking o
the Sacramento County Republican Con
veniion it says
'They nominated full ticket, which is heart
lily endorsed by the Record, and by thit paper
pronounced to be the very best ticket that coult
have been put up, which is equivalent to say
ing that the Railroad company succeeded il
procuring the nomination of just such candi
dates as suited their purposes.
Now why did it not say, and i. suits III
to 1T, and we heartily congratulate then
on their sweeping victory. Or, if tina
would not express its sentiments, there wa,
but one other thing to cay, viz:
This fact being so plain that fool cal
see ut, the people of Sacramento here
after deserve no sympathy in the wors
suffering The monopoly can impose,if they
do not rise in macs and crush these nomi
nees, and strangle that disgraceful elemen
Of the party that brought them out. Blu
no, not word, either for or against. |
must have felt itself eiltr eSa'ted or dis
graced when that grand, good, old Repub
licau party (D, of which it professes to be
long, put upa ticket that just suited one Of
the most 'yrapuical monopoies the world eve
saw; but, we repeat, not word. Therefore
judging from preceden,s. the only inference
to be drawn is, that the ticket suits th'
monopoly; that it suits the Record, th'
mouopoly's special organ, and that al
,chiekadee monopoly papers such as itsel
must be suited, hut dare not own it.
The present disturbed condition of 'h
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