St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-21

pIONeHenV is Il Den DuCler over any OF
them. Denis Kearney's greatness is due
to an unscrupulous metropolitan press
that caters to the sensational appetite
of the people; yet we rejoice that
Gotham has not presented us with the
New York Herald. We have COM
munistic element; but our state has
not yet been disgraced by a Pennsylva-
MIA R. r. mob. Kearney and his ilk
have passed the meridian of their power
in this state. We learn that he is go
ing East. If Massachusetts needs him
to antagonize Butler-well, compari-
sons are odious.
Our state is young and the people
cosmopolitan. We are subjected not
only to all the evils attendant upon
such conditions, but also to disturbing
element that pertains to none of the
states east of the Rocky mountains.
Had the laboring classes of Massachu-
sets, New York, and Pennsylvania, to
contend against "Chinese cheap labor
to the extent that the same class does
in California, l doubt if the troubles in
Fall River and the coal mines of Penn
sylvania would end with mere strikes
The fault in Eastern criticism of the
California sentiment upon the Chinese
question lies in the fact that such criti-
cism is based upon abstract principles,
and not upon the actual condition of
society, and the necessity of abiding by
just such conditions as the average in
telligence of the community may es-
tablish. Disease is contemplated with
great equanimity when it is remote and
in the families of those who are as all
the world. But we will wait till this
canker moves toward the rising sun.
doubt if the average working man in
Massachusetts or New York, so far ex-
GELS, in moral excellence, the working
man of California or Australia, that he
would rise superior to a bitter hatred
of an alien class that should come in to
prey upon his subsistence aud carry the
spOils back to their native land.
When the masses become so intelli-
gent that they can out-do the China
man, or so moral that they will suffer
the pangs of hunger or even deny
themselves the minor luXuries of life on
the principle of the "Universal brother
hood of man. and their duty to help
those less favored than themselves to ii
better mode of existence, then, perhaps,
we may welcome the heather from all
quarters of the globe but not till then.
We must regard the ills of the masses ;
and we must also acknowledge that
they have most enticing method of
producing conviction, when they have
rendered verdict, however unenlight-
ened it may be. Thus it is in Califor-
mia. The vote of the last election shows
that the people of this state are almost
unanimously opposed to Chinese immi
grafton. This negative vote represents
various phases of Opposition-trom that
which simply considers the necessities
for animal existence, to that which re-
CARDS the best interests of the state and
nation. We are hoping for moditica-
tion of treaty stipulatiOns. The better
part of our community approves of
President Hayes's course in vetOing the
"Chinese bill" 1t was poorly drawn
and premature and more than that, it
was political trick.
If the tide of Chinese immigration
continues to flow as it is now doing,
toward the eastern cities, it will not be
many years ere those, who are now
criticising California so harshly, will be
clamoring loudest against All evil which
tends TO keep the labOring element in
constant turmoil.
In this state, nothing but actual ex-
perience could demonstrate to manu-
facturers that they were pursuing a
suicidal policy in employing workmen
who consumed none of their products.
What is true of manufacturers is also
true of every class of business men.
Guide books and axle grease will here
after be furnished the celestial to help
them across the Rocky Mountains that
will be better labor commission than
Congress has provided in the last three
years; and will, at the same time, save
the country the annual expense of send
ing Congressional pleasure party to
this coast to pass pleasant vacation.
We have INDUCED in elections in this
state for the past year or two. We first
elected to have a constitutional con-
vention then we elected our constitu-
ton makers after which we elected to
take the new constitution and, finally,
we have elected officers under the new
constitution. The last election has
demonstrated one point that we wish
our friends in the east to note; and
that is that the opposition to Chinese
immigration is not confined to Kearney
and his sand-lot followers. Geo. C.
Perkins, the Republican candidate, was
elected by over twenty thousand plu-
rality: while Kearney's man came out
third in the race. Yet, the voice of the
people was two hundred to one against
Chinese immigration.
When we shall have become settled
! under our new constitution when Kear-
ney shall have found a sphere of use
fulness in Massachusetts when Kalloch
and the De YOunDS shall have s,,I