The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-03-14
TEE VETO MESSAGE ia THE HEART OF
THE VALLEY.
ConyALLls. March 4. 1879.

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II feeling Of Indignation and contempt
without any regard to party. 1t has
but two points in iti-6rst, reflection
on the intelligence and patriotism Of
the people Of the Pacific coast, and sec
ond, feeble effort to apologize for the
violations Of treaty stipulations on the
part Of China He makes no effort to
meet the facts stated that China had
violated the Burlipgame treaty from the
time Of its foundation, and admits that
ntreaty violated by one party ceases to be
Of binding effect on the other, and re-
fers to the action Of Congress aborgat
ing the treaty with France in 1898,
thus conclusiveiy showing that Congress
has the pswer to either annul treaty or
pass laws in conflict with portion Of
it, which would have the effect to an.
nul that portion, and he says in his
veto message that such Legislation has
by its conflict with the same treaty
obligations Of the government toward
a foreign power taken effect al an in
fraction of the treaty and been judi
cially declared TO be operation to that
result"
Oregon spoke through her last Legis-
lature upon this subject OF Chinese i'm
migration and declared "That the Bur
lingame treaty bad never been main
tanned on the part Of China in accord
nnce with its intent and meaning"
The right OF free migration and immi-
grafton which it recognizes was to be
entirely voluntary and to be exercised
in view of expatriation.
The Chinese have no right TO be ad-
mitted under the circumstances in which
they come here. They are usually
brought in hordes in condition Of
scmi-slavery and obliged to perform
term Of ssryitude. The privilege ac-
corded to the contracting parties was
upon condition that the immigration to
either country by the citizens or sub.
jccts Of the other, should be yolun-
tary individual act China has wholly
failed 10 have this condition observed
aud the United States ought to revoke
the privilege. These facts were alleged
and urged III the United States Senate
by such men as Thurman, Blaine and
other champions of the bill and their
denial challenged, but the opponents OF
of the measure slunk away from these
facts they could not deny and dared
not meet, and the President In his
veto message has done the same thing
and tries TO shield himself under a
multitude of words about the ''treaty
committing TO China action necessary
TO suppress this coolie trade and lot
Of sentimental twaddle that would dis.
, grace the writer of fourth rate dime
novels. The President seems to lay
great stress on the preamble TO the act
of Congress abrogating the treaty with
, France in l79S (Which is no part of the
law Now suppose that Congress had
! adopted preamble to the act vetoed
: as follows, That the treaty concluded
between the United States and China
! known as the Burlingame treaty, has
been deliberately Y and wiilfully violated
from its very inception by China il
% letter and spirit; that they have taken
advantage of it To send into this coun
try thousands of slaves and prostitute:
who were bound to their masters L
worl, for starvation prices; that the,
4 degraded labor in every form and drov'
D hundreds of honest men and womeI
out of honest labor and fol eed them t,
the dire ALTERNATIVES of starvation, o
crime; that they had polluted TIL
l atmosphere of our cities and town
: with their dens of slave prostitu
. ton. and had dragged down to misera
bic graves by filthy disease hundreds Q
: the young men in this country. Tha
; by their miserable traffic in the flesl
and blood of their own people in thi
. . country they are destroying the yer
u foundations of our social fabric, an
with 1t the very government itself.
This wonld ba far short of the fact.
N and yet it is an indictment n thousan
. times stronger than the one presente
y against France in 1898. If China ha
sent her war vessels TO this coast
violation of that treaty and overrun u
with thousands of mongolian soldier,
e and burned to ashes Sas Francisc
/ Portland and every city on the Pacif
n coast, she would not done us half Il
p injury thathas beeninflicted on the bod
ID polite by their present violations, fC
Is we could have driven out their soldier
ie rebuilt our cities, gathered up our pro
lie erty and replenished our business, bl
" you destroy the social fabric, the fir,
y homes of the American laborer, Il
"a joys of the hearthstone around whiC
At gather the family of the poor man, su
70 tanned, supported and made happy
Is daily toll and your government is gon
4e its certain destruction is only questit
le of time.
"What constitutes Statel
Not high raised battlements nor labor
mound,
~ Thick walls nor moated gate,
u Nor cities proud with spires and turre
ue crowned,
~ Nor starred and spangled courts,
=: he Where low born baseness watts perfur
- - to pride,
ilS m But men, high minded men, who til,
loo duties know,
m 'lS But know their rights, and knowi
i09 dare maintain them"
eu JOHN BURNETT.
WHEN such statesman as Earl d
mo by publicly recommends to the labori
w. class of England to emigrate to Anne