Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-27

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saw no great danger of their cor
rupting the morals of other people
AS to the harlots, no one sought
them except those who were al
ready as corrupt as they could be
Infinitely greater danger to oul
nation, our Christianity, ou
schools, loomed up from Germany
Ireland-from Christian Europe
than from China.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Mr.. Fisk was followed by Profess
or H. b. Norton. OF course Pro
fessor Norton knew nothing of Mr.
Fisk's paper or Mr.. Fisk. In sin
cere and happy way the Professor
accepted as Goods truthn some o
the strong points in Mr.. Fisk's pa
per. AS he announced his theme
"Forces Hostile to Our Cause,n he
indicated his purpose also, which
was to set the Christian people o
this State, so far as may be, righ
before their brethren in the East
The picture of atrocities visited
by lawless men upon a compare
lively inoffensive people had beer
vividly portrayed. Looking at these
only, our brethren from the East
have often wondered at the atti-
tude taken by large number o.
the Christian people of this Coast.
Many of our best and purest shook
their heads sadly when the tele-
graph brought us the news of the
veto of the Restrictive bill. 1t is
important that this question and
others affecting the work of the
Christian people Of this Coast is
more accurately stated.
The lecturer took comprehen-
sive survey, and spoke at length of
the social and political questions
now prominently before the world,
the rise of Nihilism and Commun-
ism, and the dangers to civiliza.
ton which inhere in these evil
| forces.
The Cloths who destroyed Rome,
| the MOslems who overthrow the
Eastern Empire were less danger
Gus to the fabric of civilization than
the barbarians growing up in our
midst. Civilizations are pulsatory
and Intermittent in their growth
We must remember that even the
assumption Of tn, Christian name
is no protection against the inevi-
table march of law. 1t was Chfis-
tian Rome and Christian ByZaD-
tium which went down before the
tide of Pagan conquest.
The lecturer described the two
religious systems which had met
on this coast, one dying just as the
other came in contact with it
that of the Pilgrims of Plymouth
and that of the Franciscan. Que
great advantage of the former was
in the fact that all were educated
and practically equal. There was
no taint upon labor. John Alden
aud Miles Siaudish were as mighty
with spade and AK as one was with
the pen and the other with the
W ,rd.
For almost two cen.ure4 there
was no caste Of iaboreIs. The
"helpn in the house ar on the farm
sat at his employers family table,
and had n place by the family
hearth and in the family
pew. There WAS no social
disability connected with ser
vice. AS result, or as
sociated fact, crime, pauperisun,
vsgrancy and lliteracy were prac.
tically unknown. The social sys-
tenn OF those days was almost IDEAL
ly perfect.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION AND IT'S
CONSEQUENCES.
Foreign immigration brought
new conditions. The broom and hoe
became socially eviled. 1t no
longer happened that the kitchen
"helpu married her employ
eldest son, or had a seat in the par
lor or ct the family table. Then the
Independent American girl fled to
Lowell or Lawrence. The factory
was for fifty years the abode of re-
finement and culture. But at last,
owing to the progressive working
of the same causes, the power-loom
was, in its turn, surrendered, and
in the schoOlroom, the store, the
telegraph office and printing house,
the worker found a socially accept
able sphere. MEANWHILE crime, va
grancy, illiteracy are enormously
on the increase. The hour in
which useful service became taint-
ed with social disabilities heard the
knell of American democracy and
| Of Gali!ean Christianity. Voices
of alarm sound on every side. We
look with apprehension upon u
society whose conditions are con-
stantly growing more and more un-
equal. Wealth accumulates, but
great throngs of laborers, socially
counted inferior, are herding to-
gether in beer gardens and on sand
lots, and growing every year more
and more revolutionary, desperate
and dangerous. The tramp is q
new phenomenon. Such man as
A. Il. Stewart and a hundred thous-
and tramps and bankrupts, are the
inevitable mutual compliments OF
each other, each creating the other.
CHINESE AND WHITE LABOR.
The labor question is everywhere
paramount, but it is peculiarly
complicated in this State by the
presence of the Chinese. This SUBJ
ject Is one causing the gravest anx'
iety to thoughtful people. The
Chinese have gained complete con.
troll of some of our most important
Industries. The boot and shoe bus
iness, the manufacture of cigars
and Undertaking, have passed al
most wholly into their hands. We
have not the means for large va
riety of manufactures; no good
coal. little reliable water mower
and NO large amount OF workable
woods or metals. The thousands
Of white men formerly employed in
our few possible forms of manufac.
turing have been driven from the
State or forced to seek subsis-
tence in other departments of labor