Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-07-23
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R0pmcos t0g eho East.
( There Is no doubt of the fact that
the serious embarr sssment the
Chinese question is to the people
of the Pacific Coast Is beginning to
be sensIbly felt In the Eastern
9tates. The callous inattention of
our trans-M Mississippi brethren is
owing very slightly 10 any theory
- to ignorance Of the subject. The
Ch1naman has never confronted
the Easterner, whether Democrat
0r Republican, as a dread and In
eacapable Nemesis. Slowly, step
BY step, the Celestial has ground
the life blood out of the Caucasian
laborsr on this coast. 1t is true
that. In occupations requiring bull
dog pluck and "stay," such as
mining, John Chinaman Is not SO.
rleusly felt. But, in all the patient
and slavish roles Of labor, the
Mongolian has asserted his pa
tience and dsbasement, born in
centuries Of repression and trifling-
" rsmunsratsd labor. It is q ter
rible thing to ask frse-born Ameri-
cans to submit to an ignomipy and
deprivation which is really ease to
the smoon-eye ell leper."
The sentiment OF Congress, stim.
ulated by the representation Of the
Powerful Senators and Congress
men of the Pacific Coast-largely
powerful through the exceptional
ability Of q number of these gen.
tlemen-at last verges towards q
disposition to relieve us Of our
heavy load. The true relations
between China and the United
States should be strictly those of
commerce and travel for pleasure.
The desire OF the people OF Eng
land, enforced by British cannon,
to sell opium to the Chinese peo.
pie, was the impellirg cause which
induced tile hitherto exclusive ma
tlon OF Mongolians to throw down
the rigid barriers which 1t had
erected for centuries against the
s'outsido Barbarians." The peo.
pie of the United States,
especially the people of Califor-
mia, should desire TO see these re-
erected to at least the extent
Of keeping all lsboring and tramp
Ing Cinnamon at home. There can
be no reasonable objection TO The
visits TO the United States of Chi
namen of distinction and leisure,
or to the presence Of the factors of
the mercantile houses, just as there
ought to be no objection to the
travel in China Of inquisitive and
intellectual Americans. Asa mat
ter OF fact Americans cannot now
travel unimpeded In China. II the
Burlingame treaty could he so re-.
adjusted as to admit of travelling
and commercial Intercourse solely
between China and the United
States, the happy mean between
the old Chinese exclusiveness and
the right new era would he exactly
reached.
6chouva.of,in protesting against
furnishing the modern arms of
precision to the numerous Asiatic
races, acquitted himself Of very
happy stroke of statesmanship.
But the fact is that people who
lack the resources to invent the
modern arms CT precision are not
to be dreaded by modern and ener-
getic peoples of Caucasian blood.
The time for Genghis Khans and
Tamerlanes desolating Europe has
passed, just as the day for incur
siOns OF Turks into Spain and
Europe has passed. But there is
an irruption of these peoples which
threatens to degrade labor, an ir-
ruption which is even more disas-
trous than one of fire and sword
would be. That irruption threat
ems the western coast of the United
States, and the American people
will exhibit an objectionable stu
pidity If they do not strike states
manlike attitude, protective Of
their own people, on this new and
strange issue. Let us hope that
the thing needed to be done will be
done promptly, and with a reson-
aucs which will not admit of mis-
apprehension either at home or
abroad.
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