Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-15
eureka Dailp Sentinel.
aENAToR nAYARD On THE Chr
NEsE QUESTION:

Senator Bayard, Of Delaware a o. me
leading Democratic statesmen Of the day,
IL ~eminentiy sound and earnest on the
Chinese question. Ia an Interview the
ozber day he said. Il Inn opposed to the
ih~tfoddetioA M Chinese labor to compete
with American laborers. just as he was OPP
6osed 10 the introduction OF the Oriental
eyssenn Of government in this country.
yhe Orientals, he said. had no conception
of the nature Of Republican institutions,
and moreover it has been effectually de-
monstrated by British experience in India
that the Orientals had a dangerous ca
pacity for secret combinations which would
make IL especially dangerous in this coun-
try 10 admit Chinese to citizenship. The
British in India made the. experiment
of appointing native judges, but 1t was
soon discovered that through their secret
combinations offenders and judges we're
acting in concert, and no crimes could be
punished. The experiment was perforce
abandoned, but aside from the political
ASPECT of the Chinese question Senator
Bayard said that he felt we owed some
thing TO our own race. For his part he be-
lieyed in q white mans government in the
broadcast sense Of the term. He thought
there was something more in this world
worth living for than getting rich. He
would rather take some Of the discomforts
of poverty and see all about him OF his
kind enjoying life free from competition
with degraded labor, than to have all the
iuxuries Of life while others were suffering.
A greater calamity, in his judgment, could
not befall his country than to have oil in
undation Of Orientals. He thought it was
the duty Of Congress to take some mmedi-
date and efficient steps to arrest Chinese
immigration. He does not believe in the
Burlingame Treaty, and in his Judgment
II was Of very much less importance to the
country than had been generally supposed"
HAS HEARD ABOUT NEVADA.
Senator Thurman has heard how the late
election was carried in Nevada. He got
this information from the SENTINEL. The
Senator admires the SENTINEL, and in turn
the SENTINEL admires the Senator. Hence
IL requires no great stretch Of the imagina-
ton to divine why the Senator frem Ohio
should be q regular paying subscriber of
thu HENrINEL. In replying to Blaine tho
other day, he just singled out Nevada,
basing his remarks On reliable data cleaned
from these columns, and showed how our
Republican friends are in the habit of
doing things when they have a close cleo
ton upon their hands. We are glad the
Senator had the information and used it.
There is more intimidation, bulldosing and
eorrupticn in Nevada than in any South
arm State in the Union. This is the forcibse
manner in which the distinguished sub
Of the SENTINEL drove the nail
squsrely ON the head:
Tbs most pdisheartening thing to an
American who loves free institutions is to
zee that year BY year the corrupt use.af
money in elections is making it's way, lun- !
til the time may come, n that within the
observation Of ever the Oldest man here,
when elections in the United States will be
q debauched Is ever they were in the
worst days Of Parliamentary elections in
che mother land. There is great danger.
The question is whether this country shall
be governed with . view to the rights OF
every man, the poor man as well as the
rich man, or whether the largest purse
shall carry the elections, aud the country
thus be transformed into a mereplutocracy
Of . democratic republic.