The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-02-20
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The Prelude-The Chinese in America.

San Francisco, brave city, hardly
dares utter her mind on the Chinese ques-
tion. when her sandlot orators threaten
confagration, riot, and murder. Loafers
and roughs, led by gang of shallow and
foul mouthed cheap jacks, mostly of for
eign birth, fill the ears of Californians
daily with threats of fire, blood and de-
vastation. / am friend of the working
man, but not of rioters. tramps, thieves,
sneaks, and thugs. Anti-Chinese clubs
crack the defiant whip of lawlessness
over the heads of CALIFORNIA; Mayors,
Governors, and Senators. This business
may succeed for day and an hour in a
city famed once for its deadly vigilance
committee, but it will not succeed in the
long course of evente. 1t may succeed
with one State, under a corrupt Legisla-
ture but it will not succeed with the
nation. San Francisco is afraid of her
sand-lots. Massachusetts is not Jap
plause7 She has seen their chief ora
tor. The leader of sandlot oratory by
his odious advocacy sunk an astute pop
ular leader beneath the sea of Massa-
chusetts politics. No political party can
swim in Eastern waters with Kearneyism
hung around its neck. The supporters
in Congress of an unconstitutional bill
against Chinese emigration should re-
member that their action may some day
hang about their necks milestone, and
that they may wish, as the Massachus-
etts politician did on the day of his de-
feat, that his principal supporter were
| not on the sandlots but under them
Laughter.
The three despised races on this con-
| tinent are the negroes, the Indians and
the Chinese. That part of the nation
i b oF
ces will ultimately do justice to the 9th
ers. The crack of the hoodlum's lash in
national politics is too much like that OF
the slave drivers whip to be popular, and
it is near enough like it to be its echo
I doubt whether the crack of the whip OF
the hoodlum is much more agreeable to
the Supreme Powers above us than the
sound of the slave drivers lash was. A
craven and apologetic attitude before the
latter has not been justified by history
and as little will similar crouching atti
tude before the former be an object oi
admiration to posterity. The sound OF
the slave drivers whip has passed out oi
hearing, and so will that of the hood
lum's sibilant thongs. The chief danger
from each is in the tendency of coward
ice and ease under threats to depart from
raightforward justice, and fall into
fright and compromise.
Only three men of national reputation
for craftsmanship have thus far express
ed an opinion on the Chinese question
When Secretary Seward was in California
on his trip around the world, he was ask
ed to visit the Chinese quarter, in order
to convince himself that Chinese immi
grafton was fast poisoning California
He was invited by the Chinese them
| al 10 uicit the quarter n order
to see how industrious and harmless anC
profitable that colonization is in thi
country. He refused to accept eithe,
invitation, but took pains to put Oh
record his firm protest against the exclu
: sive policy SO loudly insisted on by small
partisans, and his conviction that immi
grafton and expansion are the main anC
inseparable elements Of civilization OF
the American continent, and nowher
more so than on the Pacific Coast An,
attempt to stihe or suppress these invie
Grating forces, he thought. must certainl
fail We need good police regulations
no doubt, for Cinnamon and hoodlums
We need better enforcement of existin
laws, but Seward was of opinion tha
there is no change needed in the Const
tuition of the United States on accoun
of the desire of the sandlot workingme
for a monopoly of cheap labor in Califol
MA Senator Morton, the Chairman, an
the only strong man of the Congressious
committee sent to California in 1876 t
investigate the Chinese question, is tn
second statesman who has taken thi
position The greatest orator of Ne
England, with all the emphasis of h
glorious, lifelong career, has put himse
on the side of the oppressed in California
y He regards the anti Chinese crusade 6
+ one of the most heartless and contempt
s BILE attacks that one class of low paid /
2 borers has ever made on another. Onl
OConnell himself, he thinks, could pro
erly ridicule the Irish and the Germa