Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-13
by about fifteen hundred coal-miners

1882.
l. 0y about fifteen hundred coal-miners
l. these miners struck for higher wages
Their demand not being conceded b,
: the proprietors, they left their work
c went to their village of cabins at th
O plt5 mouth. and smoked their pipe
: for Increased pay. The proprict or
sent to Belgium.I and filled thei
g places with cheap labor. The Belgia,
miners arrived, whereupon the Eng
]. lish colliers pitched into them, amt
WIN 'helr lists, clubs, and stones
whipped them, killing four. wound
/. ing torty, and driving them away
ihe next morning the London Times
IN all able editorial applauded thu
act. justified the English miners j,
their breach of the law, and said tha
the English working man was justi
ned III the defense of his rights, hi.
family. and his home, in driving
these invading hirelings from the
English shore. In England there is
an unwritten law of human rights
ana 1T is that the laborer shall not b.
invaded III his field OF labor SO long
as he Is willing to work, and that he
ls entitled to such wages as will
enable him to live and support those
whom God has made dependent on
J him for bread. Let President Arthur,
republican senators, the Legislature
OF Connecticut, the tea merchants and
bankers of New York city, the mil
lionaire railway-builders, the fifteen
hundred aristocratic members of the
Union League Club of New York
city, the Presbyterian synod OF
Illinois, the suiveliug seutimentalists
of New England, and the Chinese
embassador, consider how far they
are justified in imposing Chinese bar.
barians upon al unwilling people in
defiance of a national treaty, the ex.
pressed will of congress, aud united
local protestation.
There is every presumption that
We shall not be compelled to res ,rl
to violence, or resistance to legal
authority. The recent vote in the
house Representatives gives assur-
ance OF legal remedy, and it is not
improbable that before the next issue
of the Argonaut the ten.years restric-
tion bill will have passed the senate
by sufficiently decisive vote to adj.
Inonish the acting accideucy of the
executive chair that his opinion will
not be permitted 10 override the leg
islative wisdom of the nation. We
shall owe him no thanks. His weak
and contemptible message was not
based upon the length of time in the
| Miller bill, but was as clear and em.
phatic vindlcation of Chinese i'm.
migration as his narrow mind could
| frame. We shaIl be under no obIjga-
ton TO the cabinet which advised him
to set popular opinion at defiance.
We shall not feel especially grateful
to such men as Jehn Sherman, Logan.
Harrison, Cameron, Window, Ed
munds, Plum, aud the other seua.
torial leaders whose first impulse and
hrst act was one Of treachery to party
pledges, and Indifference to results on
the Pacific coast. Our contempt will
not be abated toward uoar and his
sentimental followers, nor the inc
brlate Lapham, who represents the
greed OF New York bankers anu
traders, and the swell flunkies of the
Union League Club. That this
Chinese invasion is to be resisted we
nave never doubted. That it IS TO be
limited by law we no longer doubt.
Ii congress had failed Us after the
emphatic pledges of both national
party conventions, aud left us here at
the Golden Gate to have resisted the
chinese Invasion, our advice would
have been, "forcible resistance" We
would have advised, and been one TO
nave re-enacted upOn our waterfront
the scenes of Simons Bay. The last
month has been to us a period of
anxiety. The patience of loyal men
has been tried. 1t has demanded the
dellberatlom of cool and level.hecded
men. 1t was good time tor Calitor-
mans to express their determined /
opinions upon this question, and the
elect has not been without it's in.
huence upon eastern opinion, We
think the danger has passed. The
overwhelming vote of the lower
mousse OF congress give us assurance
OF legal aud peaceful solution of this
question. Whatever the senate NAV
do. or the president may do, we can
now rely upon the legislation Of the
country.
When tho Chinese question began
arst to attract attention. and was ii irst
presented los national consideration.
The republicans on the Pacific coast
presented IL as practical labor aucs-
lion affecting the labor interests of
ne locality, and threatening the
abor of the whole country. In tie
heanti'ne the republican party had
Undergone u change. Its long con-
,lnuance III power had drawn to it
me more important of tho national G
interests of the country. Under il c
ne great railways had been subsi- =
ilzed aud built. Upon the bonded .
leot OF the war national banks had '
'een established. Out OF the patron. 4
'ge OF the government men had be. a
'ome abnormally rich. The peace e
vhlch brought prosperity brought :
'reat wealth to individu.ls, nearly t
III OF whom gravitated to the republi o
AN party as the party of respecta. y
'llity and Intelligence. Twenty b
ears OF power bcgat abuses. Men in a
NICE about the treasury grew
Wealthy. Members Of the senate and q
ouse OF representatives became rich. b
lawyers in public life accepted the
atainers Of great corporations.
here grew up lobby at Washing Al
on more powerful upon business =
's'slation than either political party. g
And it is becoming apparent-at least 81
10 fear it is-ihat the republican CT
arty has ceased to be the friend Of al
'bor and the working class, and has CT
rc"lne, or is becoming. the party of ~
ea1th, or coporations, aud of aris- NJ
'cracy; that our president is more be
~ representative of the millionaires tW
IAN OF the people. Somehow we ie
ave suspicion that majority OF
10 republican political leaders in Or
'hsress draw more money from the Ia
'y-roll OF corporations than from he wi
'Vernihenl treasury Oh account of ch
laries. trt
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