Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-19

others, far better than themselves from whom
they have caught their catch words and gath
cred their phrases Now we will be honest
and frank and plain of speech. So many
honest. thinking men are heard above the
din of the rabble, echoing this Anti Chinese
cry that we are disposed to listen to 1t with
more serious attention than we are natlvely
inclined to give it. There Is deal OF Just
and Unsuitable sentiment in what we have e1-
pressed about the oppressed railroad men OF
the East. ''Blood is thicker than water.
But the Chinese question, of all questions with
which we have to deal, should be dealt with
independent of all passion and all mere SAN
timentalitv. 1t is a cold blooded question OF
expediency. John Chinaman must be treated
as an element in the philosophy of motion,
force and wear-and- tear 1t is as emotional
and illogical to discuss him from moral, re
hgious or esthetical stand point as it would
be so to discuss the Keely Motor or the
Spots on the Sun The question is, then, SO
far as we of Nevada are concerned, Would we
be better off without any Cinnamon within
our borders than we are with them! That is
all there is about the question so far as our
home interests are concerned. The MORN
ING APPEAL is in doubt. We look abroad, and
save within the limits of our little oasis of
city, we see nothing but far stretching hills,
as bare and barren as ages OF drOuth and
famine and treelessness can make them. We
see on every hand the needs and necessities
of population. We see bleak, cold Minnesota
whose age as State is less than twice our
own, whose winter is BOreal in its ri or and
whose climate is the most febrile of any on
the map of the United States, with popu-
lation exceeding that of California. We see
Kansas and Nebraska-the latter our younger
sister-flling up year by year by thousands
of "Caucasian" settlers. And in the vast
wastes of Nevada with her hundred and ten
square miles we see less than one
half of one person-white, black, copper color
ed old, young and all, less than half of an
individual OF any degree to the square mile.
1t is almost our belief that if there were a
million of the busy Asian ants upon our barren
hills and sterile valleys, patiently picking and
and saving of our extravaganza,
the problem of our own taxation might be sim
plified without recourse to the subtitle arith
matte of the Bradlerian algebra or the fanciful
and inverted cyphering of Mr. Treasurer
1t is not light thing to deal with, this
+ha 1,o,
Of industry whatever its color or whenceso- |
ever its Derivation When the steam loom
md the spinning jenny were first introduced
nto England, the alarmed workingmen rose
II their ,atnic and madness and smote and
burned u..rr the right hand the left. Per
laps the, IRE led by wise instinct. The
other da., II China, the Imperial government
quietly purchased the only railway ever laid
here NAen they had bought it they des-
royed it. There are too many hands in
china to make it safe to have any labor saw
NO machinery introduced there. That is the
philosophy of the action of that government.
Ne have sometimes thought that our labor
anime was due to a surplus of labor saving
machines. So, we say, we are puzzled by
his great Chinese question. We look at the
chinese Wall, the most marvellous piece of
and work i'll the world; we look at the pyra-
nids; we look at the Incompatible mystery of
Id Thebes and Memphis and exclaim, even
18th the wild joaquin Miller in his poem
In Africa.
Who shall say:
My father reared pyramid;
My brother clipped the dragons wings,
Nv mother Semerti!}iS2
Yea, harps strike wildly out Of place
Men sing O savage Saxon kIngs
Sew born and known but yesterday.