Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-27
FEBRUARY %, 1879.
HOW TIE TWO PARTIES STAND.

The Chinese question a0sorbs public at
tention at present. II Hayes should
veto the restriction bill, there will
be an outbreak IN California. This
question Is likely to be an important one
IN the next Presidential election. Ths Roch-
ester N. " Union enables Us to give
the former positions Of the two parties on
this question The Republican attitude, as
originally assumed, Is set forth IN the Bur
hngame treaty, negotiated 10y a Republican
adm nistration through q Republican diplo-
mat and confirmed by Republican senate.
IL is described in these words of the treaty:
"Tne United States Of America and the en-
peror Of China cordially recognize the inner
eut and inalienable right OF man to change
his home and allegiance, and also the mutual
advantage of the free migration and emigra-
ton of their citizens and sui jscts, respective
ly, from the one country to the other, for the
purposes Of curiosity, for trade, or as perma-
nent residents" The effect Of the applica-
ton of the principle here affirmed upon the
interests of our people on the Pacific coast,
worked through the immigration, or more
properly speaking importation, of horde OF
the worst class OF Chinese, was such that IN
1876 the Republican leaders began to feel
that they had made mistake; and so, in
their national platform laid down at Cincin
mali, upon which President Hayes was nOmi-
mated, they thus reopened the question and
threw the anchor to wlndward which held
their party together and saved them the SIX
electoral votes Of California by the bare ma
iority of twenty eight hundred, and conse-
quently the Presidential election:
IL. 1t is the immediate duty Of congress to fully
tatiOn OF MOngolians upon the moral and material
interests Of he county,
TINS plank of the Republican national plat
form was at once an admission that the i'm
migration and importation were having a
pernicious effect upon the moral and material
interests CT the country, and a pledge to
fully investigate that effect with the implied
promise Of taking such steps as might be
deemed necessary and proper to countcract
it. Il Is hardly necessary to say that the
pledge was never kept-that although the
Republican party won the vote Of California
and the Presidential election on the hope
plank eleven of its national platform inspired
10 the California Republican breast, nc
movement was made by the Republican lead
ers in congress, one house OF which they con-
trolled, TO perform the immediate duty
declared, to the end clearly indicated. The
Democratic attitude on the question of Chi
nese immigration stands out in bold relief
and poises the party upon no equivocal
ground. The following is a plank of the
Democratic platform adopted in national
convention at st. Louis, in June, 1876, and
reafirmed by the Democratic convention of
all the States in the Union:
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of |
Republican cOngress and the errors OF cur treaties
and our diplomacy, which have stripped our fellow.
citizens OF foreign birth and kindred recross
Ing the Atlantic OF the shield OF American citizen
snip, ana have exposed our brethren Of the Pacific
coast 10 the iuCuTslUnS OF a race not sprung from
the same great parent stock, and In fact by law
denied citizenship through naturalization as being
neither accustomed TO the ira itiOns OF progressive
cyllZttl Il nor exercised Ia liberty under equal |
laws: We denOurcs the iOicy which thus discdfds |
tue liberty loving German ana tOleTdtes the revival
OF the CoOle trade In MOngl ian women, imported |
Tor immoral suruO5es, and MOngOli+n men, hired TO
modification OF the treaty with the Chinese empire,
or sucl legislation by congress within constitutional
Limitations, shall prevent the further importation
or Immigration OF the Monaghan race.
Upon this declaration of opposition to fur
Their immigration of Chinese, the Democratic
party stood in the last Presidential campaign,
and polled a majority Of the popular vote.
Upon this declaration the Democratic party
stands to-day, and will continue to stand
until its duly chosen representatives in
national convention shall change its uositiou.