Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-04-05

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absurd demagogisn. The Chinese that
are here are here under the invitation of
of an American treaty, and while it is
well and desirable to prevent any more
Chinese from coming, there is no more
right, nor sense, nor justice, nor human
ity in driving ChinesE away than there
would be in driving Germans or Irish
men. You know this, and you know
that the threat is contemptible and
cowsrdly one. You do not intend to
carry it out, and, what is more, you dare
not attempt it.
You claim to want labor. The sand
lot is not the place to find it. You have
the sense to know, and ifnot the sense,
you hove had the experience to demon
strate, that your present mode Of angry
agitation is making labor less, and is re-
ducing wages. Capital and labor are
mutually dependent upon each other. If
you intimidate capital, it is timi6 ard
hides itself. While it is in hiding you
are starving. II never comes forth ct
threats. 1t never circulates in times OF
violence and danger. Before this agta>
ton commenced you were prosperous.
The Real Estate Associates built hund-
reds of houses in year. Since this agi-
tation times have been hard. Real estate
values have deprecated, enterprise is
arrested, and you are the first to feel the
! blow. If there are no bricks laid, there
is no money 70: carrying the hod. As
soon as you cease agitating, confidence
will be restored. Money was never
more abundant. New enterprise will be
inaugurated, new industries stimulated
Money will again circulate freely, and
you will get some.
1t is your own fault that this period of
stagHaton has come. Ton years ago this
was the happiest, most hopeful, and
most independent community in the
world. Everybody was elastic and buoy
ant; everybody was Industrious and
economical and nearly all had their own
homes. lou gambled in stocks, went in
to politics, lost your grip, gave way to
the Chinese, began to drink whisky and
beer, and to play pitch and "seven up''
at the corner groceries. Your bad ex-
ample made hoodlums fyour children,
and now you meet on the sand-lot, bias
pheme God, and denounce the laws OF
the American Republic because you
| hu hoap thn nnpfr;,ors Nf
ruin.
Now, take the advice of the sober
minded mule-one who came early to
the country, worked hard, and ate this
ties. Abandon the leadership OF the
good fornothing, long -eared, leather
lunged, asinine prayers who have un>
dertaken to set themselves up as teach
ers of political economy. Abandon poll
tics and go back to honest labor. Stop
drinking beer and whisky. Give the
corner grocery, "pitch" and "seven.
up, "cinch, ,""blue Peter" old sledge'
and stocks wide berth. Give ear again
to the sermons OF your priests, the advice
of your wives, and the prayers OF your
children. Leave "lecherous bond hold.
ers" and "hell-born and hell bound
rich men alone till you can change places
with them. Do not attempt. through
the organization of a workingmans par
ty, to secure for yourselves the places o.
thieving, dishonest, devilish politicians
lest you should be tempted, and. like
them, fall. Let Americans, as sisted by
foreigners Of intelligence, wealth, and
common sense, govern the country o.
your adoption; and, for Gods sake. de-
sist from bowling about the Chinese
whom many honest people, who are moi
asses, think more desirable class o
citizens than the ignorant, idle political
discontented, ever agitating, insolent Sc
of foreign born brutes they think you t
be.