, 1881-02-09

not for the fathers. were they SUNK
beneath the level Of humanity, without
opinions of their own, and without self-as-
~sertion, they might be let serve as laun-
drymen and household drudges and buck
sters, with as small care for their eccentrI.
cities as the customer has for the DISPOSE.
tons of the horses which drag his coal
wagon. We're they slaves, as once were
Southern negroes, a Californian would
mind little whe'her they adored Mumbo
Jumbo or Confucius. 1t would be nothing
to him that they had IN equal absence OF
affection for Republican and for Democrat.
Had they been content to be shlpped 10
the rice and cotton plantations, and to
do what the independent American citizen,
particularly if of Celtic extraction, Will not
soil his hands with undertaking, they
might have continued a peculiar people as
long as thew liked. Moving in the midst
of a nation especially proud OF it's power to
absorb and incorporate, outdoing Amerl-
can witsin shrewdness, charging themselves
with the ends and corners OF work to
which American loafers condescend, not
so much disobeying American laws as
obeying their own, ~inscrutable, civilized
after their own fashion of civilization, con.
temptuous of an American birthright,
treating the American Republic Il the
American people as q milch COW, to be
used. and then, so far as they are concern
ed, to be sent to the shambles, they are
for their reluctant hosts an lntOleraDie
puzzle, irritation, and stumbling blocK.
If Englishmen cannot understand inc
feeling, anti Semitic Germans may be
more sympathetic.
There are excuses for President Hayess
Government, and there will be excuses for
the Senate in yielding to the violence OF
popular r%epugnance to guests who refuse
to be more. Americans, however, Will 1eel
thatto the world they must plead eXtenu'
ating circumstances rather than innocence.
The treaty they have without excessive a.
ficultv obtained from the powers at PeklnI
which have never desired to smooth the
wav for emigrants, is a humiliating conces-
sion to prejudice. It is q confession,
| almost equally humiliating, ofthe inability
of American nationally to neutraIlZe
every foreign element Americans ought
to have reposed more trust in their attrac-
tive force. Already a settled ChlneSe nu-
cleus exists in the South Western States.
That would gradually have gathered geat
ar mass. The more solid 1t became IL
would in same proportion nave grown
more American. The jealousy ChlneSe
competition has aroused proves that thero
is a genuine field for it. Eager as IS the
Chinaman to resort wherever the hlre Is
LARGE. only a little generosity and manage
ment were required to draw him to the
districts where white men cannot laoour
and rhe negro will not. To any who know
the conditions under which the Chlnaman
tolls and earns a livelihood n IN
dependence in his own country, 1t Is III
comnrehensible that he should not nave
been induced to develop the exuDerant
fertility of the Southern States OF the
Union. Southern planters who expect to
hire his service at The rate OF those OF q
slave or a coolie will not get tnem' he
prefers easy work at an equal pront III
the dens and alleys OF the lie
does not mind how hard IS the Work,
or how unwholesome, If the remuneF
alton rise in proportion But he is con-
scious that he is a free agent, and can
appraise very exactly the worth o. his
ca.oneration, However, we are rot 1nchn-
cd to sneak of the possibilities OF Chinese
lahour in the United States as OF what
,n;oht have been. The treaty signed at
PeRin last November, and now iylng
before the Senate, restores to the United
States their liberty to limit or suspend
Chinese immigration. For the right TO De
acted upon legislation is required, wnlcn
will have to he communicated to Pekln,
and for which it may not be easy to WIN
the Consent, of Congress or OF President
Garield. Legislation of the kind, when
Presidents and Congresses are not on tne
eve of election, moves as tardy az WASH
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