Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-11
ON THE
sherman's opinion ON h Chinese
Question.


The SENTISEL's readers were informed
by telegraph that the Presidential part,
took in the Comstock. The speeches o.
the leading members, however, were no
reported. The Footlight has the follow
ing:
The President appeared upon the bal.
cony Of the hotel and made q few remarks.
He was followed by Ramsey, and Ramsey
in turn was followed by Sherman. And
what q mess Sherman did make of it? The
gentleman spoke q few moments on com
m%on-plsce subjects when he told the crowd
that he was not a speaker. but thai if they,
the crowd, would suggest q subject upon
which they desired his opinion. to speak
out. Immediately the crowd with one
voice, almost. exclaimed "The Chinese
Question ! The Chinese Question I" This
cry staggered the General for a few Sec
onds, but, when he got his second wind, he
answered about as follows : "What do I
care about the Chinese? If you have the
Chinese to work for you, you should pay
them for it. The population Of China is
terribly over-estimated. There are but
about one hundred and sixty million Of
people in China instead Of four hundred
million as is generally supposed. Why,
China can't spare more than two million of
her inhabitants, and I'm sure thai number
can't hurt this Yankee Nation, can it ?"
Here insued a scene which General Tecum-
sch Sherman will not soon forget. The
angry, emphatic and decisive, 50 Yes Yes !
Yes |" rolled from the lips Of the people
and went up, up, up to him, in answer to
his question, and then he knew what he
had dnna Tn that pasna re fha nooya1a ~
our city, he heard the voice of the people
Of the entire Pacific Coast. In the voice
Of the people who answered him he could
distinguish that this Coast was still in
earnest when it asked for the abatement OF
this terrible Chinese curse-a curse that
means the degradation of labor, the ruin
of household and farm, the workhouse,
the street, the life Of vagrancy for thous-
ands upon thousands of Americas citi-
zens. Virginia should be proud of her
answer that she made General Sherman
last night. 1t will show the men who have
trampled upon us that they must not, can
not do so any longer. When Sherman
heard all this it was natural that he should
say to the people, What you want is for
some Of your local speakers to address you.
We, of the Presidents party can say moth
ing that would interest you" and then ex-
cused himself, and went back to his dinner.
1t is not to be wondered at that the re-
marks Of Sherman effected such a dampen-
ing influence upon the crowd that it
served to send them home almost imme-
diately with ideas decidedly at variance
with the impression that the representa-
tive men of the Republican party COM
prised in Hayes visiting party, intended
to make here.
We are sincerely glad for the sake of the
party which our Republican friends repre-
sent, that Mr.. Hayes opinion was not
asked upon the Chinese question. No
doubt his ideas would have been fully
as interesting as those Of Sherman. but it
was better to let that matter rest, for who
could tell but what our people might go so
far as to fatty contradict the views of even
the President of the United States.