Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-14
THE CHINESE CUES rION.
Position of the Republican Party
and of the Nevada Senator.

SENATOR JONES has from the beginnin!
E of his active life been an open antagonis
of the unrestricted immigration of tn,
Chinese to the Pacific Coast. He has al
opinions on this subject. In his frs
Senatorial canvass he took occasion tt
place himself on record before the people
! and especially was that the case in the
closing speeches of that campaign. Since
he has been in the United States Senate,
his votes have been recorded in favor of
the propositions submitted by Senator
Sargent and other representatives of the
Pacific Coast States. When the question
entered the arena of national politics, the
Nevada Senator was its foremost cham
pion. He was a delegate from this State
to the National Republican Convention,
held in Cincinnati June IA, Is and 1G,
| 1876, at which President Hayes and Vice
President Wheeler were put in nomina-
ton. In that Convention the Senator
was assigned to the Committee
on Platform, of which General Joseph R.
/ Hawley of Connecticut was Chairman.
In that committee Senator Jones intro
duced and strenuously advocated a resolu-
ton which declared that Chinese immi-
grafton and competition rs virtually SER
vile in its character, and is, morally,
socially, economically and politically, an
unmitigated evil. which should be posi-
lively and peremptorily prohibited. He
also demanded that Congress legislate on
this question, claiming what Mr.. Sargent
of California has since so ably demon
stated on the floor of the Senate, that no
treaty could bar the sovereign right to
enact laws for the benefit of the whole
people. Mr.. Jones urged that the Repub-
lican platform demand the abrogation at
the earliest possible day of those clauses
of the Burlingame Treaty which give sup
port and protection to Chinese immigra-
ton. He was met in committee, not
so much by direct opposition to
his arraignment of the evils pro- |
duced by the presence of the /!
Chinese, as by fears of the pro-
posed measures being regarded as an in |
reference with the principles maintained |
by this Countrywide right of every indi-
vidual to choose voluntarily his own ale
glance, and its corrollary, the free right |
of naturalization. Senator Jones COM
batted the fallacy that the prohibition Of
the Chinese was in any sense such an in
reference or denial, taking the ground
rather that their presence was contest
two forms of civilization-one
high and aspiring, but not yet chrystal-
ICED; the other embodying q low and
'ordid utilitarianism, trained by centuries
If shaping and use, having no aspirations,
oaded with vices, and animated only by
The ambition of the parasite-feeding on
,ther and more stalwart lives, until they
we're destroyed or consumed. 1t was then
objected that the people in general did
lot apprehend the character of the ques-
ountry at large, and tina: the true policy
'as to demand careful inquiry into s
hem. The following, being the eleventh ,
lank of the National Republican plat
orm, was framed and reported by the :
ommittee, and adopted sitter an animated 7
ebate, by the convention
II. 1t is the Immediate duty of Con- d
reSS to .fu'ly Investigate the effect OF !.
Re immigration and importation Of !
on the nso1oS and material n
'tereets Of the country.
This resolution was acted upon, and a
epublican Senate carried through the !,
,pointment of joint committee, under Ii
10 Craftsmanship of the late Senator o. !.
Morton, to make the investigation de- "
anded. The report of that committee a,
Is had great deal to do with the enor- fe
GUS increase of general knowledge of h
Q subject and the active advance of pub p
sentiment in support of the position pl
cupied in this and the other Pacific II
ates on the Chinese question. Imme- III
ately on the reading of the platform, o.
r. E. L. Pierce of Massachusetts made W
speech against the eleventh resolution, ~ ~
claring that it was in spirit a violation in
the Declaration of Independence and S w
being contrary to tho doctrine of ar
tristan equality among all men and W
,es. Mr.. Axtell briefly replied, and was in
lowed by SENATOR JONES, who said: tb
fr. President and Gentlemen Of the Convention tit
o not propose, after so long and tedious a FIR
sIop as you have had to-day, and in view of m
va i amount of business you have to per- sh
N, ito occupy the attention of this Conven- of
o, ore than q very few minutes ON this ques- gr