Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-07
Yus Sugeles Aerald.
4 eRsAr QUESTION ABLY HANDLED.

One night last week Senator
Jones delivered, IN Virginia City, a
fpeech In which he discussed all
lhe leading public questions
In q most able and perspicuous
In the course of his
nddress he took up the Chinese
problem, and his views on that alb
sorbIng subject are expressed in so
and statesmanlike
4 manner that we cannot forbepr
them. He said:
The question of the Chinese inn
has been painfully fa-
miliar to many of you for long |
period. Fortunately, through |
the wisdom of the Miners Union of
Nevada and the just acquiescence |
IN their demands by the mine own
ers, the barbarous, cruel and de-
competition of the Chi
nese in our great leading industry
has been avoided. The blight is
not upon us as it is upon our sister
State, California, vet we have not
escaped the evil effects of the COM
petition there. Each avenue of
Industry occupied by the Chinese
In California lessons the avenues |
for white labor and tends to over
crowd the labor market here. Chi
neee immigration is question of
worldwide Significance. 1t is a
cosmical movement-the danger to
flow from it cannot be over-esti-
mated. have always held the
opinion that the importation or
Immigration of Asiatic laborers to
this country should not be restrict
ed, but absolutely and entirely pro-
hibited. A distinction is sought to
be made between the voluntary
immigration of Chinese laborers
and the importation Of coolies, but
It is q distinction without a differ
ence. The whole population of
China has been subject for thous-
Ands of years to the most cruel des-
potism. During this gloomy pc
riod not one single brave declara
tiOn for liberty has been made, not
one blew for freedom struck. The
Chinese race has solved the prob
Ter. Of achieving the maximum of
production with the minimum
Of consumption. The question
Is often f1ippantly asked is
not this superior race of ours
able to Withstand the competition
of the barbarous, despised Chinese
In any uf the avanues of industry
and trade? Are we not able to
hold our own with them in the
race of life? I answer, yes, but
upon the condition that we banish
hope, surrender ambition, forget
the Christian virtues, give up wife,
children, family ties, stifle all the
spiritual yearnings OF the soul and
content ourselves with the mini
mum that will support animal life.
Our race will never permit itselfto
be reduced to this degraded condi-
tion-to this appalling extremity.
1t is the first time in the history of
The word That the highest and
lowest civilization have confronted
each other Oh the. same field and
striven for the possession of the
soil with industrial weapons. The
contest is a much more dangerous
one to the higher race than if the
weapons were wsrike. The abili-
" and willingness to live on
the most miserable and seam
ty subsistence which enables
the Coolie to drive the American
artisan and laborer from the field
and workshop will enable the Chi
nese employer, Injured to the same
habits, to compel the employer to
tns Il Il fc It,ct N nd ha Ia, L
ert to surrender his counter. When
ever superior race with the culti-
waited wants and tastes are threat
ened with the invasion Of an infe.
rior race of unlimited numbers,
whose wants are few and whose
powers of endurance and produc-
tion are great-one of three things
must happen: The immigration
must be checked before it becomes
too great to be dealt with; or the in-
ferior race must be reduced to slav-
cry and made to minister to the
wants of the superior race; or the
superior race must become as de-
graded as the inferior, or be driven
out by it.
The enslavement of the inferior
faces is not for moment to be
thought of. 1t would be prolific OF
untold evils and horrors, and is re-
pugnant 10 the progressive tenden-
cies of the age. For the superior
race to permit itself TO be driven |
out by the inferior would be repug-
nant to the instincts of self.preser-
vation. The third proposition, then.
is the only sensible and feasible |
one. rhe persistent efforts of the
people of this Coast and their rep.
resentatives in Congress have at
tracted general attention to this evil
of AsiatIc immigration. The people
Of the East are beginning to appre.
ciate the magnitude of the threat
ened danger to the industries OF
this coast, and eventually of the
whole country, and have no doubt
that little more agitation of the
question will secure proper and
peaceful remedies for it. The right
to quarantine physical diseases has
never been questioned; can the
right be denied to quarantine the
leprosy of morals with which their
presence here would attaint our
pure atmosphere? The people of
the East are beginning to see, as
we have long seen, that their pres
ence among us contaminates and
detauches our youth with their de-
grading vices, and drives our man.
hood from their fields of industry
by their slavish industry.
Secretary of State Beck has
made plan of the Assembly
Chamber, and arranged therein the
seats and desks for the use of the
nuurubers OF the Constitutional
Convention. There is a main
aisle up the center direct from the