The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-04-08

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| We publish On the 1lst page At th1o
mornjug's Issue AZ the MlNsR, the tul
text Of the President's message on BIZ
veto Of the Chinese bill. It will be no
tioed that his Excellency gives several
reasons why the bill should not become
q law and that those reasons antagonise
every vital feature Of the measure. In
deed, go broad and sweeping are his Oh
jections that 1t will be found impossible
to draft . bin which will meet the
wishes Of Congress and Of the people Of
the Pacific Slope and which 1t the same
time will gain his approval. He objects
to the bill because it ''viOlates the faith
Of the Nation a. pledged to China" be
cause It shuts out Chinese shoe-makers,
cigar manufacturers, merchants Of Chi
nese goods, merchant t. ilors and laun-
drymen; because it provides for an OBJ
jectionable and irritating system OF
registration and passports; because 1t
will tend to prejudice the intelligent
class of Cinnamon against the United
States government, and because '':here
is no provision in the bill for
transit across the United States Of
Chinese subjects now residing
in foreign countries" With the
exception of the last objection, which
could be met by supplemental legisla-
ton. the President enumerates a series
Of objections which, If eliminated from
the bill would completely emascu]ate it
and render it worthless AZ an antf-Cht-
nese immigration measure. Contrary
to expectations the President does not
counsel Congress to modify the twenty
years. suspension clause to ten years,
nor does he intimate he would sign the
bill If a shorter period Of limitation were
substituted, His veto is great disap-
pointn,ent to the people Of the West.
and his reasons for it will he considered
trivial if not contemplate. His asser-
tions, that: 4" No one can shy that this
country has not profited by their work."
and that, BY the opening of China
to commerce the whole world has been
benefited, no section of 1t more than
the States on our own Pacific SLOPE"
will not Ike Endorsed by those who
have studied the Chinese problem from
the standpoint surrounded by all the
evils which have fallowed in the train
Of that commerce. The assertion gives
the lie to every declaration of the peo-
pie of Oregon, California aud Nevada
that the presence of the Chinese in their
midst has wrought ruin to thousands of
homes, has brought suffering to thous-
ands of families and corrupted the
youth Of those States. Viewing them
in the light of the veto the peoI le Of the
Pacific States and Territories are made |
to appear as idiotic chatterboxes or out |
right fools who for years have been
lighting phantom and do not know
what is or il not for their own interests.
Let us for moment see who is right
md who is wrong. The States of CAL
fornia, Colorado, Oregon and Nevada,
md the Territories of Washington, Ida
10, *ontana, New Mexico, Arizona and
contain in the aggregate an
lrca Of 4 ,O5O, $40 square miles or about
'ne-third of the area of the whole
United States, leaving Alaska out of the
These States and Terri
cries are almost unanimous in favor of
suspension of Chinese in,migra-
ion. In 1879 the people of CAL
fornia and Nevada voted upon the
question Of Chinese immigration. In
he former State out of total vote of
IL ,As3 only SS3 votes were polled in ia
or of 1t. Nevada was equally emphatic
u her disapproval. In the other States
nd In the Territories named the oppo-
ltten to Chinese immigration is over
Here then is one-thirtl of q
he total AREA Of the country almost SOL
lily opposed to the further importation j
Chinese coolies. 1t will not affect the u
use to urge that the white population j
these States and Territories is in,iy- "
ificant compared with that of the rest :.
the Union. 1t is true that it is at I:
resent, but the time is not far distant I
hen, even with the Chinese incubus u !"
'aring them down, they will cut u t,
UGH more important figure il, the CEN ii
- rolls. But unless this bill ora similar q
'c shall l'e.rnlc a law the Chimes. =:
'l'ul:lti"n will increase in the STATES g. -,
III Territories named in much II
eater ratio to the vh.lo tl,.,, IL