Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-27

!. The white laborer is driven

BILE. The white laborer is driven
from the field. Race hatred grows
more intense. Labor becomes a
degradation far deeper than it is
elsewhere. The better class Of
white laborers leave in discourage
ment. Our young men are looking
toward some other than an indus
trial life. immigration is discour-
aged. Remembering the San
| Francisco riots of q year
ago, and those at Pittsburg and
elsewhere, the Christian people Of
the State are looking forward with
heavy hearts toward some new car
nival of incendiarism and slaugh-
ter. the great curse Of the South
to-day is the fact that its work is
performed by a separate race, a
caste Of servile laborers. This fact
attaches to productive work spe.
cially intense social faint. The
same thing is coming to be true
here. We must deal with men as
they are; not with some ideal race.
The fact Is that the better class of
our young men and women will not
accept the social position aud low
cred wages of o Chinaman or
negro
Our peculiar style of husba ndry
makes the demand for work ex.
ceedingly Intermittent. The white
laborer, when his days work is
done, lies down in his soiled and
tattered blankets on the earth, and
when the harvest is over, goes
tramping through space, every
year becoming more demOralized
and hopeless. The immense mon-
opolies of lands, often acquired un-
justly, intensity these evils. 1t is
not strange that some of our polit-
ical axioms concerning universal
sufferage and a universal invita-
tion to men of all races are begin
ming To be again tested in the scales
of justice and the crucible of i'm
partial analysis. 1t is we'll for
cities to have sewers, but is it duty
or religion to stand by quietly and
see our country made the eesspool
of the sewerage of the world?
Brethren Of the East whose COM
ing has made us glad, whose pres
ence we have learned to love, read
us this riddle. Place duty and
right above all local aud Temporal
ry issues. Read it wisely and
thoughtfully for us, remembering
that you may soon be compelled to
read it for yourselves, should the
Mongolian hive begin to pour forth
its swarms into the far East as it
has into the West: "What would
you do to-day, if you knew that,
without legislative or diplomatic
restriction, in five years all white
labor would be driven out of the
factories of Lowell. Waltham,
Lynn and all New England as it
has been driven out of those of Cal
ifornia?n
Has man any "natural right" to
do things which are opposed to his
own welfare and the glory of God?
The big fish devOur the little ones,
as the hoodlum maltreats the Mon
gol; is it any infraction of the liber-
ty of the little fish to be kept out
of the reservoir when the large
ones are lying in wait?
Hhe Professor closed with a grand
ana thrilling peroration, which was
followed by storm of applause. A
motion was made by DR.. Wiley
that the thanks of the assembly he
rendered to Prof. Norton for the
very able, just and comprehensive
presentation of this important
question to our brethren from the
East. The great audience voted
"aye," by standing on their feet.
Some witnessed with great salts.
faction an attentive listener in Jos.
Cook. "What of it?" some asked;
twill it make the least differ.
ence"
In his prelude Wednesday night
Joseph Cook endorsed Professor
Norton without reservation.