The daily gazette., 1882-04-06
SECOND EDITION
THE PREsIDENT,s VETO.
THE COMMENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA
NEWSPAPERS.

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.-Tbe
Alta California comments bitterly
on the action of the President in
vetoiDg the Chinese bill, and says
The veto appals every Republican id
the Sta'e, and proves that the Presi.
dent is The slave and not the master of
the Eastern bigots and scared New
York merchants He reminds US of
our insigniticance at the East and that
the wants of California are nothing to
Massachusetts, and New England. The
veto meaOs the loss to the Republican
party OF Cslifonia, Nevada, Oregon,
Dskota, Arizona, Utah and Wyoming,
and the dem0ralizatiOn Of the party
west Of the Rocky Mountains. We
acknowledge the bitterness of the de-
feat, buL ~e do not give up the fight.
The CAL says: "The veto is per-
haps the most arbitrary act an Ameri-
can President ever performed. The
veto OF the 'Fifteen-Passenger Bill by
President Hayes was a stretch of
power, but not so wantOn an exercise
OF executive prerogatiVe as the veto
under consideration. The President
is in peculiar sense the guardian of
treaties, and it was on the n ound of
the violation Of treaty agreement that
the Hayes veto was based, but
President Arthur has no such refuge
for escape. The message of the Presi.
dent is conclusive that any bill he
would sign would have no effect in
restricting the Chinese from coming
to this county. He objects to the
passport system as undemocratic, but
without such means of enforcing the
provisions of the treaty they would
never be carried out. On the point as
to whether Chinese labor is needed on
this coast, the opinions of the people
living here might be expected to have
some weight, but the President under
takes to decide this question for us.
The message is verse for the President
and for his party than if he had based
it on the excessive term OF the Erohibi-
ton. 1t is fat contradiction of the
platform on which he was elected,
and raises the question whether the
anti-Chinese plank in that platform
was not deliberate deceit practIced
on the people Of this coast"
The E1onllneT (Democrat,c) says -
"The ne as VI tho veto of the autf-CLi.
nese bill, though not altogether unex,
peoted came 70 The CONN uuitv as
shock OF painful character, which 1t |.
difficult to hud language TO describe
Our people had huiit much confidence
on the Chicago form, and We weTI
unwilling to believe that 1t would b,
shamefully ignore by the President
elected espe cially upon it, as both Hous
es OF Congress had given it effect b,
| substantial msjOrItits. On al sides thl
sentiment expressed is that no such ca
lamity had ever before betallen th,
Pacific CoaSF. Republicans aud Demo
Gratis for tho time being forget their pa
tlsau difference, and all alike feel iha
they are confronted with q common
peril. We arc face to face with the ap
palling fact that no apparent remed!
re man for as Ter ble curse as eve
afflicted people. The Chinese bligh
comes home TO the heart of every man
If our people ars to descend to the leve
| of Mongolia cl lizatlon, it fellowI
| that they must liee as the Chinese do
They must abandon the building up oi
homes, elchew ths marrying of wive,
and the raising or children, and live or
rice, sleep tiitT IN a room on shelves anC
wear Dankeen cl9t1. The only alterna
| tive, as matters staud to-day, is obvious
| ly between thnt condition of things anC
| an abandonment of the State until re
lief comes. 1t is hardly possible tina
there can 6e two political parties ON thi
coast. We are one people on this quee.
| tion, and as { overshadows all others
| we canunt ford to present u divided
front until il is \ titled. IL any Demo
crat feel that because it may bring hin
party advantage and he liz glad of the
Presidents vetn, he is not a good Dem
ocrat, and what is more, he is anything
but good itzen."