Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-23
KENNEDY AND THE CHINESE CUES
TON.

1t is very evident that in retaining Mr..
Kennedy as of their COUNSEL the Chinese
companies have secured man of no mean
ability. He is Of that character of man OF
whom it is said that che is a hard horse to
curry" In the running debat with Luttrell
he seems to have had very much the better of
the skirmish. His repartee is sharp, incisive
and immediate. From his alluson to Hollis
ter, Reale and others we have no doubt that
he is the Attorney for the great landowners
of California, whose interests are antagOnized
by the Anti Chinese clubs. The presence of
these monopolists in the field is the most sig
nifcant feature of the pro-Chinese side of the
question. 1t is the nearest to an open decar
alton upon the part of the Mexican grant
holders of California of a deliberate purpose to
make struggle for "Chinese cheap labor
that has yet come under our notice. The
great landowners are evidently on the war
path 1t is to be said that man who owns
five leagues If land owns no less than % 200
acres,-and there are more Mexican grants
that cover a greater amount than there are of
those that carry less number of acres than
that In respect of its lands being subject to
this monopoly of ownership by few holders
of these nonstrouS ''grants, California is like
to the Cotton and sugar growing states The
great plantations Of Georgia and Louisiana
make slave-labor, or labor equally available
and cheap, prime necessity. Under the
system of farming in that section of the Re
public great bodies of laborers whose services
can always be depended on and whose igno-
rance and sense of inferiority of caste render
them plant and tractable, are indispensib BILE
factors in the successful prosecution Of great
agricultural enterprises Of course this does
not Justify human slavery; but it does neces
state Just such contrast in condition as is to
be found existing between the planter and his
feld-hands, whether they be bond or free,
black or white Now the question presents
itself, Is it.admissible that the agricultural
interests of California, surprising as they do
BY all odds, the manufacturing and even the
mining interests of that State, shall dominate
this question so far as to make it possible to
stock the great ranches there with the cheap
laborers of Northern Asia! This is a very
grave question. There is no room for doubt
that the great capitalists of California, regard
less of party lines, favor the incoming, in
Hmitless numbers, of the Chinese HOLSTER,
Throgmorton, Pratt, Chapman, Bidwell and
thc rest are represented by II no less pro
nouced and representative Democrat than Sol
II :; hal L,
yer has already declared an unqualified
opinion in favor of John Chinaman against
his Prosecutors The fact of the matter is,
che two sides to this question are represented
Page and their associates on the other, but by |
Kennedy, acting as an attorney for the land
owners of California on the one side and |
Kearney, leading the commune of San Fran
cisco on the other. There is no middle ground. |
Kearney has not stolen the thunder of the |
California Congressman; he has simply mo-
and given voice to all the thunder
there is on the anti Chinese side. All anti
which falls short of kearneyism is
the mere half heartedness which would make
l would, walt upon L cOulu. AT Harper
Ferry in 1859 it was John Brown of Ossawat-
tonne representing the radical truth of the
abolition movement on one side, and Henry.
A. Wise representing slavery on the other
These two typihed the irrepressible conflict
Ii seems to us that Kennedy and Kearney are
the representative men of the conflicting ele-
ments in this Chinese question in California
On one side stands the mob of the only city
in the United States where the foreign born
element dominates religion, politics and
schoo!s-the most infammable and dangerous
mob IN the Republic On the other side is ar
rayed the landed aristocracy and capital of the
city and the State The conflict cannot long
be ayerted. 1t seems to us that the situation
Is full of peril. Men must take sides. They
will be compelled TO stand either with Ken
nedy or Kearney. And in this view of the
case all lesser questions sink into insigniicance
all such considerations as the religion, attri-
butos and instincts of assimilation and So
,ial habits, these become mere imperiinences.
Unless we greatly mistake the signs of the
lines, Kennedy and Kearney are to be the
means of bringing this vexcd question Ito
head
Madame Naegly of Marsoilles, very rich
ridow, resolved few weeks since to give