Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-23

i,"euio uoi we organic laws OF
the land contemplated they should
but repeat itself, and be only a too
true reflex of the past. The lessons Of
history are, however, lost sight of en-.
tirely and soon forgotten in the per.
s0nal desire to accumulate wealth.
The interests of race and country.
apparently, had but few charms for
the late Arson b. Burlingame, TO
whose untiring efforts we owe the
evils resulting from Chinese immigra-
ton. The collosal fortune he realized
from his successful negotiation of the
present treaty with China, was more
coveted by him than the posthumous
honors which a grateful country
would pay to his memory. So it IS
with the world. The philanthropy
that is upheld by sophistry is some
times most priced because it paid best.
SO, too, the unnatural radical tenden-
cies and -prejudices of such men as
the Rev. DIR. Stone, of San Francisco,
will. in time. have due effect. He,
not satisfied with the abolition of one
species Of slavery, must try by his
sophistrv to help inaugurate another
and far worse kind in our midst.
How singularly cool and refreshing
are his arguments in favor of the
meek and lowly Cinnamon, recently
uttered in San Francisco.
Man lives not alone for himself or
the present, but for those who come
after him. Nature never intended
he should entirely forget what is
due to pOsterity. 1t is that feeling
that incites in us the laudable desire
to possess and accumulate wealth and
honOrs. It is that which also ca Uses
us to emulate the deeds of the great
ones of the earth, who have in their
time strutted their brief hour upon its
surface; and it was this desire to live
in the future that led the good and
great founders of this noble republic
to the performance of the glorious
acts of patriotism and heroism which
entities them to inches in the inperish-
able temples of fame. For the preser-
vation of the cherished principles
they wished to transmit to future gen.
eratiens unblemished, they hesitated
not IT, defend with their lives and
liberties. This they did, and shall we
of this day become less ambitious,
less honorable, less emulous, and less
alive to the requirements Of those
who, in the order of nature will fol-
low in our wake, than they were? No,
we cannot so falsify our own natural
instincts. We owe the Asiatic race
nothing, because we know that their
presence has ever been dangerous to
liberty and progress. Is not the con-
dition of China to-day retrOgres-
sive instead of progressive? Does
not its petritied civilization attest that?
In looking about our cities, where do
we find the good they have done?
Where are the substantial improve
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characterize the efforts of our Euro
pean population? Do we find them
excel in any of the arts and sciences?
What real success has been achieved
in those industrial pursuits in which
the Chinese were and are the exclu-
sive employees? Have they yet
learned in the factories of the Pacific
where textile fabrics are produced,
anything beyond the manufacture of
the cOarsest kind of goods? And do
we not find this to be the invariable
result wherever cheap and servile
labor is brought into competition with
skilled European and American
workmanship? Besides. the China
man, as is now known, is only an
initiative animal after all, and scarce
ly ever makes an effort to excel the
pattern given him. Not so with the
European or American workmen,
who are inventive and progressive,
ever aiming to improve upon what
they have done. This is well-known
to every unprejudiced person who
has taken the trouble to examine.
The writer of this article speaks not
from hearsay, but has frequently
sought for practical evidence OF their
skill in this country and Australia, as
we'll as in their own Flowery King
dom, where he resided during the
wear 1859. The latter of the former
countries early adopted measures to
prevent their influx, by placing pro-
hibitory restrictions upon all future
immigration from the latter kingdom.
What have our lawmakers done Ill
that respect ? Absolutely nothing;
and while the supineness OF our peo-
pie and Government continues, the
evil is spreading. Their boldness
will increase, too, in proportion TO the
amount Of freedom given them, TIL
unlike the occurrence of few days
ago on Ruby Hill, they will not 80
after such paltry game as a "pusson."
of color, though he was game enough
for them, but will next try their
knives upon the bodies of our free
born citizens. =,
Ii the earnest spirit shown by all
classes of our people just now be con-
tinued, may we not indulge the hope
that the further increase of this vie
and destructive immigration Will be
stopped; and once checked, the lnse-
curity and disquietude parading So
ciety will vanish, and the Chinese
now here, not receiving fresh acces-
sions, will in the course OF time, dls-
appear, though many years must
necessarily go by ere the corruption
and immortality following in their
train will also have disappeared. No
people of Caucasian origin can, with
out danger to themselves, mix with
an Asiatic population; because, III
mixing they become weak ana cor
rupt, fit instruments in the hands OF
tyranny and despotism. The readers
Of history need not be told that these
are the invariable results howlng
from a mixture of intermarriage OF
the two races. The freeborn, adven-
turous Greeks planted colonies IN
various quarters Of Asia, which rose
to power, wealth and grandeur, ana
became in time places of learning, re-
fineme3t and commerce, yet we see
how easily they fled before the FER
s;.n invaders and scarcely struck