The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-04-24
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SLAVERY NOT ABOLISHED.

SLAVERY NOT ABOLISHED.
We have often wondered whether it ever oc-
Cured to the minds of any of our leading men
that slavery still exists among US; that men and
women are still bought and sold in our boasted
land of freedom. And when reading. the
speeches and lectures of our great thinkers
upon this subject, we have often stopped tonsk
ourself: Did the slavery phase of the Chinese
question never present itself TO their minds for
consideration Arethey actually unaware ofthe
humiliating truth that slavery still holds its
helsh orgies around us-.-still nnunts the blood,
stained banners of its oppression in our faces as
de6antly as before the. WARE Do they not
know that forty nine -fftieths of theI Chinese
population of our country are slaves held in q,
more hopeless, abject and cruel bondage than
was ever slave in the South! Is the fact con-
cealed from them that the labor Of free white
men and women is again brought into direct
and open conflict and competition with the la
Dor of slaves, to the grievous wrong and injury
of free labor and of free laborersl Have
our statesmen and politicians no knowledge Of
the degrading truth that an alien and barbarian
race, domici!ed in our country. are turning it
into slave ,nart--trailicking daily in human
beings, in ilagran, violation of our laws in de-
rision of our humanity, and in spite OF the enor.
nous expenditure of blood aud treasure we are
constantly told about TO abolish slavery And
the guardians of the public morality.who erst
inveighed SO vehemen;y against the debauch.
ing influences of the slave code, and the ifnmor-
nj practices of the slave owners--haye they, or
any Of them, ever gone out upon the streets OF
any OF our cities or towns atnight aud, looking
along those streets beheld a hundred lights,
cleansing family from as many dingy-looking
windows-eyery ligh. lure 10 brothel--and
reflected as they gazed that every woman with
which those abominable dens are tenanted is q
slave sold into compulsory prostitution Tor the
enrichment OF her Chinese owner and master!
But why question further! We cannot permit
ourseil Ia be so angenerous and uncharitable rs
10 believe that the supcratiyely humane and
phianthsopic gentlemen who. IN the years not
long past were wont to ponr out from pulpit,
rossr,i.n aud stump such torrents Of righteous
indignation. and TO write and sow broadcast over
the land SO many volumes of virtuoas scorn in
dcnuneiaiion of the peculiar and peculiarly
devilsh institution Of slavery. know Of these
things and yet find not tongues to speak. No;
were these things known 10 them the whlrl-
winds Of wrath which they would turn loose
agains. them would not only purge our country
of tho polluting curse OF slavery, but would
send the Shareholder, bowling for very shame,
back into the cesspoolsof fAsiatic depravity, filth
and barbarism whence be came: set free his
slayes; close forever his brothels, aud remove
nj once their hateful stains from the garments
Of our society and civilization. It's, however,
fact that the very state Of things we have tried
to indicate above exists all around us; and as
we know by constantly mixing with the laboring
classes. fheir existence ia rapidly giving rise to
serious questions of public policy which Will
ere long have to be met aud answered.
The capitalists of course are satisfied. As long
as they can procure the labor of slave who
gets but bare living, whether his earnings are
much or little, for dollar day, they will not
paw two or three dollars day for the labor Of
free man. But the laborers are not satisfied
They know that they are wronged, and that
their families are wronged; and they know
the slaves who perform the labor which should
be given them to do are held in violation Of
law; and sooner or later there will be reck.
oning, if something is not done to mitigate the
evils growing out Of this competition OF free
with slave labor. Have wo no abolitionists
amongst us now who will see to 1t that slavery
is abolished?
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Commission, consisting of experts, has just
made report, reviewing all the methods EN-.
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