National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-02-22

and silk, and we export California flour and
some cotton cloth China may impose n dis.
oriminating duty on American -four aud cot
ton, thereby punishing her own consumers,
and may impose an export duty on tea and silk
sent to the United States. In this case we
would simply have TO purchase Chinese silk
and tea from Hong Kong, or we would build
uD trade in silk and tea with Japan-the
japanese tea and silk already coming largely
to the United States, and are found to he better
articles. There is no commercial retaliation or
discrimination to which China may resort
which would not I've far more injurious TO China
than to the United States, and there Is not
particle of likelihood that the Celeslials will
bite off their own noses to spite us.
Tho allegation that this discrimination
| against Chinese immigration is a denial of
national hospitality aud asylum" which has
always marked our history, is not we'll found
| ed. When the treaty with the Chinese was
negotiated the Mongolian as a part of our
population was unknown. American welcome
| and hospitality to persons of other nations are
founded ON the expected absorption and assim-
iatiOn of all immigrants with our people;
that they will become part of our people, aud
their alien character be lost in their identih-
cation with the American people. The Chinese
have proven to be incapable of this consoida-
ton with the citizens of this country. They
do not come to stay: they come as practical
bondsmen; they bring no wives or children
| thc lew women VINO are brought mere come rs
a pestilence and avowedly for criminal pur-
| poses.
| Every China Coolie proposes to be returned,
alive or dead. to -is native land, and the class
| of Chinese who alone come to this country arc
| of the lowest and most degraded casS--out-
casts at home, aud whose departure Is n relief
to the home authorities. No country will toll
crate within its country vast body of chronic
aliens, without family ties, without any po-
| litical or economical ties, and who propose to
remain aliens in language, habits, customs, re-
| ligion, and all other particulars. These peo-
| pie have come hithcr, and are now coming
hither, by ship.loads, TO become rivals and
competitors with the citizen population, TO
work 1t cut-umdcr wages, to herd and vcgetate
together, to grasp ut all employment, hoard
their wages, and, when their pile is made, then
depart for the Celestial Empire.
How long would China permit or tolerate
the invasion of 10000 American mechanics,
with their means of labor, to pour into Chi
nese cities, underbd the native workmcn, and
cleaning the country over, send back to the
| United States the wages they had taken from
| those of the Chinese who had been thrown out
| OF employment? No other Government would
tolerate the presence Of such II population as
| the Coolies under any other condition than
as slaves or serfs, aud in getting rid of Afri-
can slavery we do not wish to adopt even a
more degraded system of MOngoian serfdom.
On the whole, the legislation Is justiGablc,
IS demanded by public sentiment is free OF
all moral, political, aud commercial objections,
and we cannot believe that the President will
intcrpose his executive power to negative a
law so proper and right, and at the same time
so desirable.