Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-14
ITALIANS AND CHINAMEN.

The universal brotherhood party,
in it's extreme ambition to embrace the
world and divide our government with
all mankind, has reviled the Pacific
Coast for what it has been pleased to
call our persecution of the Chinese, and
it has not hesitated to compare the Mongo-
lians with, and put them above European
immigrants to America in the scale OF
civilization and citizenship. OF course it
will deny and wigale itself out of this
serious charge, when the time comes for
it to measure weapons with the avowed
opponents Of Chinese labor, and, in all
likelihood, will put another national
anti Monaghan plank in its plat
form, making, for political purposes,
an exception to the rule of its universal
love for the human race. The Salt Lake
Tribune takes issue with the utopians Of its
party, and makes a very neat comparison
between the Italians, who are Of a high
type Of the Caucasian race, and came to
America to make homes, and the nom
assimilative heathens, who came here to
make hordes for shipment home, to the
distress and generalization OF our labor
and industries. Says the Tribune
A gentleman who desires to Christianize
the whole earth, was Yesterday declaiming
against the Chinese bill, declaring that the
Chinese were better than the scum Of
Tk,i.- n,L,al - ,,at Nw bntr1 ] 0n1nI IN
the shipload in New York, to become beg
CARS, thieves and organ-grinders. The
first answer to all this is, if the Govern
ment of the United States is permitting
any foreign Government to unload its
a~lms-houses, asylums and prisons upon
the shores Of this country, it is altogether
recreant to duty. We think the gentle
man is mistaken in his statement, because
Eastern papers assert that the Italians
who are now coming to the country are
coming on a contract with a rich man, or
ompany in New York; that their fare is
advanced and they %stipulate, before leav-
ing home, to return the amount advanced
with their first earnings. Those papers
further state that situations are secured
on this side, where they can at once go to
work. The man. or the company, on this
side is Italian, and it would be the most
IdtuThl tuluH III LAO 1Oi ttlOnC tdh-
ing the risk to secure only such as were
known in their own country to be honest
and industrious. 1t is, too. only fair to
say that the great MAS Of Italians in the
United States are frugal and patient work
ers. About Eureka, Nevada. they took
the coal-burning business out of the hands
Of the Mormons by their superior thrift
and industry. But as between receiving
the poor Italian and the poor Chinaman
there ia a difference in principle which is
as wide as the difference between eating
bread and eating opium. 1t has been the
dream OF the italian since childhood to
sometime reach that land in the West,
where it is possible for a poor man to earn
a little home Of his own. to have his W
land, his own pigs, his W garden, to
raise his own garlic, if you please, and
where his children will grow up with full
opportunities to become as great as the
greatest name in italian history, if they
have the capacity. They come with the
dream Of making this their home. II they
earn but half a dollar per day. that half
dollar enters into and becomes q part OF
the wealth Of the Great Republic, aud IL
In this or the next generation the United
requires soldiers. II can safely
count on the men who hold that Cesar
and scipio and Napoleon were their an
cestora.