The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-03-13
M1NERs, sTa1KE IN oWYHEE.

Wa learn from the .4ralaache that the strik
r lin Owyhee is ended, the Cinnamon having bee
discharged, and the miners resumlng wofh
The Aralanche censures the Miners Union
and advocates the right of mine owners to EN-
ploy Cinnamon as against white laborerslt the.
, prefer SO to do. No one will deny the legal RICH
of the owners of mines to employ any KIND
labor they please, whether they choose CHI
npse, Negroes or Indians, but as an act OF JUS
tice 10 our own race, should not white mel
have the preference Should not men OF ou'
own race and blood, who have discovered ant
developed the mines be- given employment II
preference to an alien race OF rat-eatltg yer
min that are nuisance anywhere! China
men are not desirable acquisition to the pop
ulaton anywhere. They are an ulcer in any
community. A non producing GLASS; they I'LL
up all avenues of labor to the exclusion OF
white men and women; and owning little, II
any, property liable to taxation, they escape
bearing their just proportion OF the burdens
of government in the nature OF taxation, and
render no equivalent for the protection they
enjoy under the laws of the country. Mere
birds, or rather beasts, of passage, they spend
none Of their earnings, except for the neces-
saries of lie, and boarding up their gains
they depart hence, taking with them accumu-
lated wealth that otherwise would be added
to the circulation of our country, had the
wages paid to them been distributed among
white laborsrs instead Of 10 a horde of filthy
outside barbarans Where white labor cannot
be obtained there is then some excuse and
justification for the employment of an inferior
and alien race bnt where the supply of white
labor is equal 10 the demand. 1, is nothing
more nor less than an outrage upon our own
people for capitalists to employ Chinese 10 the
exclusion OF aboring men OF our own race and
kindred. White laboring men must have em-
ployment in order to provide the necessarics oil
life for themselves and families and the en-
most eiectual method Of placing them OF the
road 10 starvation; and We are ofthose who would |
rather See every internal Chinaman starved or
irlven out Of the country than that one white
nan. or his wife, or his little cues, should suffer
or the accessories OF life. or tina; he should.
y the hardest labor. live in pinchiug poverty
III the days of his life. We know oil no bcne-
it. Whatever, that the Chinese are 10 this
ountry. They, OF course, not being burdcncd
With family ties. and from their nature. If.
nd habits, can live on less and work for lower
wages than can white men, and therefore by I
Employing them instead OF white men. CAPT |
alists can realize larger profits; but is it la
ne interests OF the country that the white
sborlng classes, constituting over nine ten.hs
the American people. should struggle through
f., with starvation staring them in the face. |!
nc slaves Of capitalists, in order that the other 4
nth should realize larger aud unconsc:onable e
rciits from their money Investments: We I
re no advocate of cheap labor rs defined BIZ {
le believers in the doctrine Of the "unisersal b
rotherhood of man" We believe that men a
our own race and blood. who cxpcnd their II
uscle and strength in developing the resources (,
our country. should be m,rs literally re o
arded than the purse-proud capitalist, Who Il
res IN luxury and ease and invests only his il
lrplus funds in the same undertaking Let
r. Moneybags, who believes in employing u
hlnese to the exclusion Of white men, change :
aces with hard working miner, who eats .,
5 bread in the sweat Of bis brow, and see Al
hether or not bis opinions OF the Justice of u
e laooring mans claims do not UNDERGO n :"
ost decided change; and then let him re-. n
ember the injunction edo We even so unto II
hers as ye would they should do unto you." u
We do not blame the white laboring classes
seeking to protect themselves agains. abiec.
verify. If not starvation, through the intro. -
ction OF Chinese labor; and if they should q
netines 90 further in their desperation than -
law permits, we believe tina. they are ex -
sable upon the doctrine that "self preserva. or
n is the first law of nature" en-
so
A CONVERSION About the best Joke oe tho On
lson IS IN Secretary Curtis signing letter ho
dressed BY members OF the Congregational DO
urch to Rev Mr.. Eels. of Boise City, asking 90
TO reconsider his decision of leaving that tiy
zee tor another Geld of labor in the Lords ali
'eyard. We have heard Med" accused Of fro
great many things. but never heard him tai
led "Christian Etatea,n,,n W. -
aware that it was within the knowledo. of I'M