Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-06-21
AN UNcERTAuN SOUND.

The Virginia Enterprise says that The
Cincinnati platform is a ringing one.
Leaving the general issue. as lawyers
say. for future discussion. We will now
remark that on the Chinese aues.
tion the said ring Is cracked indecisive
affair. Its uncertain sound will not DO
for the men on this coast. Merely stat
ing that it is the duty Of Congress to in
quire into the subject without any e.
preston Of opinion on the part of the
convention is mere evasion OF the
paltriest character. In another part OF
the platform We find q resolution stating
that the principal revenue should be
raised from custom dues, that OF course
means what is called protection for
American manufacturers. Now, if il is
right to protect the rich employer by the
imposition Ct duties on goods of the
character Of which he produces. 10 1t
not equally tight that the American
laborer should also be protected? What
is sauce for the goose should be equally
applicable to the gander. Again We And
that the platform is especially solicitous
for the safety and privileges Of the
blacks. Are not tie white laborers
equally deserving Of the consideration OF
the convention9 By the accounts from
Warrington We find that Judge Taft, the
Attorney General Of the United States,
and legal luminary which scintillated
amid the slaughter-houses and rendering
kettles Of Pcrkopolis. does not think
that anything can be done in the matter.
In other words. the opulent manufao-
turer and powerful corporation. and
those who boast cutiole that bears the
livery Of the FURNISHED sun, can be pro-
tectsd and their cause asserted by the
Cincinnati Convention and its platform.
but the white American worker Is told
that bis wrongs shall be inquired into.
The Convention can not occupy its val
liable time 10 considering his case, which
that wiss.acre, the Attorney General.
thinks is perfectly hopeless. Well. We
shall see. as the Convention and the At
torney General can do nothing, whether
the American white laborsrs can do
something for themselves. They can
vote. that is one comfort. Therefore,
whom they cast those votes. they must
support thUss candidates who do not
share the Attorney Generals opinion
that nothing can be done to protect the
laborsr from worse than Egyptian plague.
The evil has reached such huge proper.
tons and inaicts such disastrous calam.
ity. that 1t must be stopped. There
must be no "ifs and ands" about it. By
the baneful competition Of the Chinese,
employment has become scarce and
wages reduced to q starvation point.
By this intrusion Of Chinese into the
more easily learned and lighter trades,
thousands Of women, girls and boys are
relsgated to enforced idleness, which is
the prolific nursery OF hoodlumism. It
is true. 1t Is only the working white
population which ia affected and there
fore scarcely worthy the serious attention
Of platform builders and learned At
torney Generals. For all that the time
is approaching when they can make their
power felt. II they are true to them
selves they will do it. They can and
should elect men to Congress, who are
willing to protect their while fellow
citizens, as we'll as the goods Of the
wealthy manufacturer and nearly as we'll
as negroes and Indians.