, 1881-02-09
$ T. Q u o 7 * A v 7 Sc

and SOW, and reap. Europeans ioyfully accep.
ted the Invitation from the moment the Union
was established. A few years ago a similar
messags, was sent to China. The vast cramp-
ed population OF that extraordinary empire has
ever since been contributing large masses of
its surplus citizens. Their manner of taking
advantage of the sphere afforded them was
the most modest and unobirusive. Other
nations claim a share in the source and princi-
pal of American riches. They settled down upon
the most promising spots they could select,
and appropriated them for themselves and their
descendants. Subjects Of the Chinese Empire
pretended to no title in United States territory
The United States wanted labour in the inter
val before their own people could multiply to
the level of their opportunities. China sup
piled the want. In return it asked no part
In the American inheritance ; only daily wages
and liberty to accomplish cheaply what, with.
out its aid, could not have been accomplished
at all. Chinese immigration has for the Uni
ted States been precisely tbs same as q new
labour-saving machine. Into every employ
ment in which wo,kmen were need d, except
tiIlsge, ChiEemen made their way. In all
they sexecuial the tasks set them with laudable
fidelity and With exemplary moderation OF
price. When The work was done they went
off With their hire, as the machine goes OF
with IFS fuel. AS soon as the population of
the Republic should have reached a roiot at
which there would have been native labourers
sufficient for the humble work not disdained by
these Asiatics, they might have been expeciedlo
dlsapT ear like water power before or any other
0ld-fashioned apparatus before steam.
1t suited Cinnamon to come to California
and Nevada and the neishbouring territories.
1t suited those regions to receive and pay
them. Yet a storm has for years past beeu
blowing up against the arrangement, AID now
1t is to be- swept peremptoriiy away. Masters
and capitalists have profted by the systen;but
it has been as Injurious TO the white working
class as a new engine for the spating Of lsbour
is commonly injurious at first tO the men who
have been doing the work it now a~b:idges. EN-
ployers in the United States insist upon protec.
ton for their manufactur s against the influx of
European goods WROUGHT mOrecheaply through
cheaper Iabour. Wor6men in the United States
have now availed themselves of the same Wea-
pon. They have leagued themselves to obtain le'
g~islative defence against the compei1 lVn OF o
lower standard of wages, PenhSylVaulan
makers of hardware and pottery shudder at
the arrival ofBelgiOn OrBri'ish goods produced
at less cost. and of which the proft is absorb
I'd by foreigners. The I;ishman or Idle native
born American is i,upeIled by the same hatred
Of the other kid Of ware called labour raised
abroad. Periodically hs druounces IFS pecu-
liar characteristic, that when Is own and its
employers use for it is answered it returns
with its gains whence it came. The essen
tiat principle is in both cases very much the
same, and equally discrrdltable to American
good sense. But undGrbid American labuur
would scarcely have bern able to triumph by
means of its audacious outrages upon prscea'
bic Asiatics had it II t found an auxiliary i'll
sentiments and prsjudices outside. That th y
artpr.ju1ices and Gl'tog"her unJustihahle
in thtir manifestation may ne admitted,
while it 10 only fair to the sovereign
authority In the Union which has acted open
them 10 recognize their force. From the point
cf view Of equality aud right it does not make
muoh difference that Chinese immigrants
,e,sain a constant alien element In a country
they labour IN. On the rooted and magnani-
nous American theory of open ports for all
visitors. affirmed as it is by positive interna-
tional compact, Cinnamon are no mere bound
than. Msuuoniies to assimilate themselves
with American lhought. 1t lie no adequate
ground for excluding them that il il notorious
thew have no intention to set le, and that when
thew have secured u recuniary competence
they mean to enjoy it at Canton or Shanghai
At The sans time, n foreigner who will tor the
nurnose nut himself in imagination into the
~nosition Of an American can understand how
Americans who are neither employers Of
Chinese labour nor competitors with il may
DarHorn their Government for acting IN the
sni,;t much more of Pekia than of Washing ton.
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