Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-09

CmINEsE CHEAP LABOR.
President Angel, Of the Michigan Uni
versity, has carried his point He in
sisted upon making bis own terms When
Secretary Evarts asked him to act as the
President of the Commission which is to
negotiate the new treaty between China
and the United States, he declined with
thanks because he thought that the au-
thority attached to the position was not
great enough to permit him to do the
necessary work with satisfaction to him
self and benefit to the country. Then
Mr.. Evarts proposed to endow him with
the full power of an Envoy Extraordi-
nary. This was better, but Mr.. Angel
was not yet satisfied. 1t is the business
Of an Envoy to be guided in all his official
work by the opinions and policy of the
Administration from which he has re-
ceived his appointment He is told be-
fore he enters upon his mission how far
he can go, and he is expected to make the
best bargain he a for his government,
without regard to the interests of the
other side. The gentleman from Michi-
gan would not consent to be that kind of
an Envoy. He told Mr. Evarts plainly
that he would not go upon the GRAND to
which he had been invited unless he was
left free to follow his own judgment,
without being in any way hampered by
official e~xigencies or preconcerted preju-
dices. Even this demand has now been
granted, and Mr.. Angel viii enter upon
his difficult and important mission en-
tirely unembarrassei by conditions and
limitations.
No one could ask for more than this,
and that so much should nave been grant
ed is a striking proof Of the confidence
placed by the Government In the new
ENJOYS capacity and worth. Mr.. Angel
has = high reputation for intellectual abiI-
ity and judicial cumen He has now an
opportunity such as is given to few men
of making himself a name and doing the
country a service. If he is able to solve
the Chinese problem, and to lay a stable
foundation for a treaty between this ma
ton and the Celestial Empire, by which
the interests Of both people shall be pro-
tected and international friendship be
maintained, he will do the public a ser
vice the importance of which can hardly
be over-estimated. There can be ne ques-
ton that our relations with China need
to be r~eadjusted- The wild, unreasoning
violence of such demagogues as Kcarney
has alienated from the working classes Of
the Pacific slope a sympathy which they
can justly claim. At the bottom Of their
angry rawlings there is a genuine grew
ms The question of Chinese cheap
labor is much more serious and pressing
than the people in she East are able to
realize or disposed to admit
1t Is easy enough to say that she Chi
has an inalienable right to sell us
labor at mis- W price, and to reason that
we cannot, without st~uitifying our insti-
tutions and betraying the principles upon
which this Republic is established, bar
the door against his entrance or expel him
when once admitted. Neither we can,
but it is not always possible to make
practice square with theory. Self-preser-
vation is the first Law of nature. Ours is
. Caucasian civilization, and it must be
maintained as such, even if we should be
obliged to impose . protective tariff
against an alien race. We decline to
place ourselves in u~nguarded competition
with the pauper-paid labor of Europe,
and il it becomes necessary in self-de-
Tense to exclude the labor itself. we could
do so by an extension of the same prin-
ciple. It will be Mr.. Angels business
to collect the facts and reason the subject
from all sides, and as great privileges
have been given him, great results viii
be expected from him.