The Arizona sentinel., 1877-11-10
ARIZONA SENTINEL.
The Old Thing over Again.

agothe Atlantic coast was agitated
 by the same speeches, editorials and arguments that are to-day shaking us up on the Pacific. It
 was claimed that hordes of cheap lsborers were being brought from
 Europe to take the bread out of American mouths. The poverty and strange habits of these immi- grants were pointed to as reasons for expelIing or expressing them. The religion of many of them was derided as a heathenish worship of pictures and images. The de- moralizing influence of these "pa-
 gan hordes'' was set forth from stump and pulpit. Capitalists were denounced and threatened for employing them. Oppressed and driven from manyof the fields of labor, the poor foreigners work ed for such wages as they could get. For economy they huddled together in such tenementS as they were suffered to occupy. III fed, ill clothed and ill lodg ed, ,ihear- ing few words of encouragement, homesickfor the native land where the finger of SCOTT at times forgot to mark them, wretched and de- spondent they fell an easy prey to sickness. Ship fever, small pox and all the ills incident to immi- grafton, were ever rife among them. Then the g ib-tongued ora tors of "working-men" harangued large audiences on the themes of loathesome diseases" Euro pean vices, ignorance and super stition." Yielding to their de- mands, legislators passed "cubic- air ordinances" Excited mobs attacked tenement houses, tore them down and turned their wretched inmates over to the scant mercy of eastern winters.
 New England set the example, which is now being feebly follow ed on this coast. The Knpw Mo- thing movement of twenty years ago was a fitting parent to the Anti-Coolie organizations of to- day. Perhaps some of the very children, who were turned out roofess into the snows of Bangor, Maine. and other christian cities of New England, are among the men who are to-day burning doWii wash-houses. Dennis, Patrick and Michael are common names among them. The budest mouth ed Know Nothings were of foreign extraction - how many gene rations of American blood can be boasted of by the Anti-Coolies? The former took the same promi- hence in local politics, that io now demanded by the latter. To every assertion or argument, however reckless, used by these, can be found an exact parallel in the Know Nothing publications of that period.
 California bragged for years of her immense resources lying un- developed owing to the cost of la- Dor. At last she got cheap labor. Arizona boasts (and with good reasen) of her immense resources to be developed when we get cheap transportation, cheap SUD- plies and, the source of all these, cheap labor. When we get it, shall we follow the example of Know Nothings ani Anti-Coolies? Probably. Whether we call them Micks, Coolies or GreaSers, we shaN show that our boasted tole- rance and enlightenm' mt are but skin deep, when our pockets are touched. When we fellows, who are rubbing along on what wages we now get, find that foreigners ii. e. men born outside of Arizo- na) are being brought in 10 work for less, we shall probably orga- nize and strike.
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