The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-12-18
THE COMING STRUGGLE.-We are indebted

THURSDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1873
THE COMING STRUGGLE.-We are indebted
to Hon r. H. Robb, of Horseshoe Bend, FOL
a copy of pamphlet entitled as above. TIL,
pamphlet treats of the Chinese question il
America, and is timely and well written lit
tie work. An agent, Mr.. Frank Starr, vii
soon canvass the Basin for the sale of the
pamphlet, and we advise everybody who is
able, to buy q copy and read it, as the subject
upon which it treats is one of the most mo-
mentous Importance to every laborer, especial
iy. The Chinese cannot, under the law. be-
come citizens, and certainly no sane man but a
monopost would have the law so changed as
to make citizens OF them Their presence
here is, in moral point of view, debasing and
demoralizing in the last degree, and if their
immigration and importation hther be not
checked, if they are permitted to congregate
upon our shores, the blighting effects upon the
public morals cannot but be fearful to contem-
plate. Another evil to be feared from their
presence amongst us is the continual cheap
eniag of labor. This subject is treated of in
tho pamphlet before US. at some length, but
less fully than we wish it was Cheap labor
means underpaid labor. and underpaid labor
means-it is useless to try to palate or disguise
facts by using soft words-poverty. wretched-
ness. want. and consequently the debasenent
of the laborer; for how can men or women
kha,o ~ ,haph p nd ousp
It is impossible; yet this must be the condition
of the honest laborer, whose earnings are less
than the necessary cost of his living We at
tach no Importance whatever to the idolatry of
the Chinese; we are all idolatrous. But the
lChinaman differs from us in other and very i'm.
Iportant particulars. He has no moral stand
ard-his customs, habits, education, and his
ideas of government are all directly antago-
MYSTICAL to ours; personal honor and honesty,
and even the chastity of women are to him
idle fancies. and vain and foolish superstitions
In everything that we call civilization he is es-
sentially heather; and unless We would have
the generations who are to come after us on
this continent become as he is, We must devise
some means-and the means should be rational
and humane--to stay his rapid influx into this
country. But having permitted Chinese to
come here, they are entitled to, and should re.
ceive the fullest protection of the law, both in
their persons and property. and should also be
made to obey the law. Their notorious disre-
gard and contempt of our laws aud moral code
is not more disgracefu than our refusal to
grant them the laws protection. Everybody
knows that il the Chinese had been kept out of !,
this country, California, Oregon, Washington :
and Idaho would now be employing hundred
thousand white men and their wives, at good
wages, who have remained away from this Il
cupatiOn and avocation were and are monopo- a
Lied by Chinese, and at wages upon which no Ia
American or European can live. And who has p
been profted by this outrage! The monopo- a
list and the money-king and not one beside 81
Another and equally valid objection to the en- is
of Chinese immigration to this ii
country, is the danger Of their outnumbering pl
Is. According to the best information we have W
been able to obtain on the subject, the first IN
'essel bringing Chinese immigrants to this m
country landed ia 1852, having 90 board $50 81
Asiatics. These have increased to more than a.
100000, the ninth census fraud to the con- al
;rary notwithstanding. Should the same per Ia
'ent. Of increase continue for thirty years tn
onger, we should have in the neghbordood of N
J hundred millions of these people in America NJ
And when we take into consideration the ex- m
'austless source from which the mighty stream hi
8 fed, this is not an exaggerated view nor is ad
impossible that it may, if not controlled 70
inundate and destroy our civiliza-
ion Certainly no subject is more worthy the 81
arrest thought of the American people. in
CONFERENCE.-THE organization of the Cal VI
ornia Legislature is now completed, and in 81
lanner highly favorable to the election OF Gov 9.
rnor Booth to the United States Senate. Mr.. Vi
0Ofh'a election would be a victory for the 'a'