The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-06
yrro or rnn ANTI.oniSEsn nILL.

yrTO or TuE ANTI-CuISEsE BILL'
The President has vetoed the antrChi'
nese bill rs will be seen by our dispatches
this morning. There eau hardly be queS'
ton in the mind of any unbiased thinker
aud citizen that many member OIL Oon-
uress cast his vote for the measure not 'hn'
his reason approved it, not that natioha'
necessity required ii, but that deina
,gopical policy decreed il. The really
representative men OF California cou'"
scarcely have wished that the chinese
should 20, for themselves were there en-
,lovers the landholders, the growers OF
wheat and the grape, the fruit producer,
the railway builder must all have desired
tha cbeap labor Merchants, pub
fishers. housekeepers, and indeed all
tho industries would seriously miss
them. The Pacific states need
nonnlation, labor, development, and
how they could have been induced to drive
all from them for the time being, 1t is all
impossble to conceive. 1t is true the vote
sh avs extensive and intense antagonism,
since out of $4,000 voters of the Golden
State only some 900 urged their protest
against the propositions contained IN the
bill. So too in Nevada, out of vote OF
1900, only 200 persons opposed 1t. Ger
tainly the vote was emphatic. so, the
hostile feeling against almond,qyeu John
was evident. But now sound lawyers and
honest statesmen IN congress from other
sections Of the country could have so fully
endorsed the measure, we never have
understood For the NJ changed essen
sally our, condition as nation
before the world. Ii opened'up the gate
way fog a flood of all such exclusive leglsla-
tior( il was the FIST break in the levee by
which the waters of race prejudice threat
ened TO inuudate by crevasse in all direc'
hons Ii was the old cry OF nearly
so years ago that shouted pu,
none but Americans on guard,
s;stdtnt set good housewives on the anxious
%seatlest Catholic hired girls should poison
n the wells and the sausages." Again; oui
Chinese treaty stipulated that 1.-THE llmlta
tion or suspension should be reasonable
and yet the bill proposes prohibition loi
twenty years. Twenty years is indeed
long period in human life, and Is
an outrageous construction OF the
term reasonable" 1t virtually sci
up a Chinese wall against any lmml
grafton from the land OF the SUM-
1t was an extraordinary departure from al
precedent, from the long,fxed policy o
this democratic government, sudden aho
radical change, without the shadow OF ne
cessity for it, that required that no stat'
or court of the United States shall adml
Chinese to citizenship" 1t permitted Can
fornia and Nevada to determine the price
. of labor in Texas, New York ana th'
balance of the country, as well as placed
them on record as members of a union thai
stultified its doctrines and that lnirlhg'o
upon humanitarian rights 1t allowed
the caprcious and violent inclinations
the Pacific slope citizens with their mead
long humor to read the riot act to the AT
lantic, the gulf and the interior states
and thus compel permanent concession
to the fractions feeling of factious element
This bill passed, and who knows when, 10
temporary convenience, disaffection, or pc
aitical expediency, similar one shall o'
preferred as against the Germans, or tn
Irish, or any other nationality. PnEsIDEN
,RTIxa< has risen equal to TN
en;ergency as statesman,
a humanitarian, and he knows that in les
than the twenty years" yea, in less thai
five years, the people of this country am
the world will look upon the "abominatio
OF bill" as the equal in the craze and tn
wrong that came nigh sweeping the coun
try in 1854, and would have been a bio
upon our national record had not tn
gallant HENRY A. WISE scotched and killed
the serpent of "knownothingism." He ha
thus stayed the tidal wave from the nov
turbulent Pacific, and there will thus b'
time and opportunity and excus
to reflect that while the inlquity pro
hibited Chinese immigration it wa
in itself worse invasion of our institu
tions and promises and proclamations thar
ever came from the Mongolian's shores t.
this boosted Gland of the free" Let thu
wave Of common sense and common hon
esty now hold its sway and cut its pathway
from east to west until the last and best re
suit of wisdom shall be recognized in the
presidents position.