The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-20
Cheap Labor not Desirable.
From Speech OF Hon: Jno. F. Miller iu
CALIFORNIA; Constitutional Convention.

the economies of labor, but what is the
effect of this immigration upon the in
crease and distribution of the human
race in this countryl Our civilization
has bred our people to certain style of
life, which to give up is next to death.
The American could not, if he would, in
centuries become such man as the Chi
naman, and heaven forbid that he should.
If the Chinaman comes and occupies the
fields of labor now open 70 the white
man, it operates in restraint of marriage
among the whites, and stops white i'm
migration. Increase of white population
is thereby stopped, for the prudent, in
telligent, systematic white man will not
bring innocent beings into the world to
see them suffer and starve before his
ewes. He would rather die without the
hope of posterity than do that. He will
not marry unless he can see a reasona-
BILE chance of maintaining wife as we'll
as children. l repeat, therefore, that to
permit unlimited Chinese immigration is
to substitute Cinnamon for white popu-
lation. 1t must result so far as it goes
1t has so resulted as far as it has gone.
Is this wisel Is there any good sense
in such course We have driven one
nation, regal race, from this land.
Naught remains of that race but weak,
bounded and troubled remnant standing
on the shore of the Pacific pensively,
sadly looking out upon the broad ex-
panse toward the setting sun. We have
left the Indian nothing, and nothing of
him scarcely remains but his sad, doleful
history, history of outrage and wrong.
No mark is written upon the grave of
his race but that awful, cruel word,
Gate" He is gone down under this
same relentless law, the survival of the
fittest, and now there are those who
would supinely yield to the bland, cum
ming, selfish Chinaman all tina. we have
from the Indian, and write over
the buried hopes of our nation; over the
tomb of the Anglo-Saxoh civilization;
over the sepulchure of republican liberty,
that same fearful word, Fate And all
this for the sake of Christianizing the
heathen; all this because of the brother
hood of man. They would Mongolize
this land in vain missionary effort to
bring the Chinaman to knowledge of
the true God. He has his gods, whom
he will not destroy. He cares for neither
the missionary nor the missionary's
God. They tell us that that the earth is
the inheritance of all men; for all men
are brothers, and each man has right
to any part of the inheritance he may
choose. They make Mongonist of st.
Paul, and quote his authority for the
fact that of one blood all the nations of
the earth were made. What did st.
Paul say He said that "God hath
made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before
appointed and the bounds of their
habitation." God made men into
nations, and determined the bounds
of their habitations. We take the
world of men as we find it.
They are divided into varieties and
highly differentiated types, each with the
bounds of his habitation hxed. 1t is
right that it should be so, or it
would be otherwise. 1t is in the econ
omy of providence that men shall exist
in nationalities, and that they shall be
divided by the antipathies Of race.
Why this should be so it is not for us
to inquire that it is SO, is enough for
us to know, and the history of man
shows that in whatever age, whatever
time or cline an attempt has been made
to amalgamate two or more distinct
races or types Of men, the result has
been calamitous to both, but more par
ticularly disastrous to the superior race.
l need not dwell upon this theme-all
know the great fact.
In this country there car no exist
with safety to the republic ii lin the
jurisdiction of the government any con-
siderable population who are not citi-
zens. They become, for one cause or
another, disturbing element, and
sooner or later must be incorporated into
the nation to prevent collisions or a total
deprivation to such people Of all human
rights The Chinese must, if they re-
main, become citizens or slaves. 1t is
result inevitable If we must have i'm
migration, let us choose it from the An.
glo-Saxon race, or kindred varieties of
men who will build homes, and love lib
erty; who appreciate republican institu-