The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-03-07
HAYES VETO.

try. While this was naturally to be
expected from that Great Fraud, his
action does not lesson the fact that il
is truly n lamentable calamity to our
country, especially to the white people
of the Pacific coost, who are now left
for an indefinite period without any
redress or any hope of an early release
from the evils which the presence OF
this accursed race is entailing upon
u.s.
Hayes veto message-for which we
have not space this week--is long.
winded, but puerile apology for his nc.
ton in the matter, aud is based mainly
on the ridiculous argument that power
to modify treaty belongs exclusively
to the President-with the advice and
consent of the Senate-and not to Con.
gress. True, he presents variety Of
other considerations, mostly of hi
falutin, sentimental natuTe, such as one
would expect to emenate from a Bos.
ton Methodist Conference or blind
New England bigOt. AS an instance
of Hayes ramby-pamby sentimental
ism and overflowing "gush" for the
Chinese, we quote the following from
his message, which shows how he re-
CARDS China and her subjects:
Tins ANCIENT GOVERNMENT. RULING
A POLITE AND SENSITIVE PEOPLE, Dis
TINCUISHED BY A HIGH SENSE OF MA
TIoNAL PRIDE, may properly desire an
advancement Of their relations with
the United States, which would in all
things confirm and in no degree endan-
ger permanent peace and amity and the
growing commerce and prosperity
which it has been the object ahd effect
of our existing treaties to cherish and
perpetuate."
(The small capitals are ours.)
Holy Moses Who but Hayes
would have ever thought of styling
these pig-tailed, rat-eating, leprous.
srr .ading, idol-worshipping We min "a
poIite aHi sensitire people p
If Hayes had been writing of the
murderous redskins in this truly poetic
measure and cadancc," we would have
readily supposed he had drawn his in
spiration from Cooper's ''yaller kiyers;"
but where he conceived this exalted
idea of John Chinaman is beyond our
ken. Let Rutherford come to the
Pacific coast and view these "polite and
sensitive people in the light our
citizens are forced TO view them daily;
let him see them huldled together in
their filthy dens as close as sardines
packed in the BOX, smoking the deadly
opium and eating the ofial from slaugh-
ter-peDs and vermin from the sewers,
hiring their diseased and polluted wo-
men out for purposes of prostitution,
thus spreading disease and death
throughout our cities, and then let him
dare to call them "a proud and sensi-
tive people,
Bah! The very thought of this ex-
preston Of his is siekening.
But what are our white American
citizensl Perforce, in the eyes of Ruth
erfragd they are the very reverse Of
the Chjnese-they are not "a proud
and sensitive people" and consequent
y have not the rights that a usurp-
ing President should respect No;
they are dull, stupid, ignorant asses,
of selfgovernment, and con-
need the presence of these
god-like Celestials to afford them sub
lime examples Of exalted purity and
ineliable pride, in order that they may
be advanced to higher state of civiliza-
-ion
Let the poor white American think |
If this. Hayes message contains no
word of sympathy, no sentence Of cheer
IT encouragement for the tens Of thou
ands Of poor white laborers who are
'eing elbowed out OF employment by
he subterannean tricks of these Chi.
lese lePers, thus leaving themelves
MI families to starye or resort to some
rimc to secure livlihood! Not
inc Of comfort has Hayes for their
bat, on the contrary, all his
and all his tears are reserved
or the ''Proud and sensitive" Monso-
ian /!
But as Senator Sargent says, we will
ide cur time, and if the poor, despised,
nubbed and absolutely forgotten white
nan doesn't show Rutherford and his
arty in the next election who are the
proud and sensitive people" they
hould most fear, then we ought to en-
ure uncomplaiHingIy all the ills with
,hich the presence of these Chinese
ordes afilict us.
PROGRESSING.
Corvallis is waking up to its coming