Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-14

menace with mt III .tuing when we
recall u,un thrt CIina Is stronger
on The Piclli,: CpI<t in MN capabse
of h,trinJ ag.nI than pIc-rlreS, and
ttIt she cIn rftn>pnrf ten wirrl"rS
from the millie ri the kin, lnm TO
San Francisco at less Expense tnln
the Cnlrel : attS ctn c)nvev / SIN lie
= ,ilIcr IN NJ knlpsl ck from chi
ci.O to the CDISt; that she couti
send vessels Win StroI5 or arm "
and heavier Iu0- to bre ,ch the walls
OF Alcatraz thln we could provid. for
defence, and could send them in
shorter time Fear thsu, an its
coroilary futile exoe. lIencv, not less
thar pressure from the classes that
p.ofit from Chinese cheap labor, may
lie at the basis OF our temporrizlng
policy with China, a p 'licy that lra5
and dwadieS and sentlmentalise,
that sends vain enbas sizes abroad To
talk, while at home it operates to
destroy the control of orr own p.p-
pie over our own country, our own
institutions, and the direction OF
our own future.
Whatever the causes of this policy
il has lasted far too long. Tue con-
iirt Is upon Us. 1t cannot be evlI.
Ell or repressei. Each year of delay
renders It's labor more arduonI and
its DANCE more great. II has been
approaching through unconscious
ages, for it is the latest result of the
advance in opposite directions of two
great peoples, because OF a destiny
forced upon them by the conf ,ur.-
ton OF the earth. Tbs frui full alluvial
of China lay within boundaries that
isolated her from the rest of the
world and here, separate from other
races, her people increased and
fourlshed and grew strong. Mean
while the hardy populations of North
ern Asia out9rew the food supply OF
their comparatively s,erile regions,
and precipitated themselves with
futile valor upon the laborious, pa
tent. brave and end Turing denizens
of the Central Kingdom. Driven
back from fertile plains at the south
ward, hindered by the seato the east,
repulsed ut the north by the barren
ness of arctic solltudes, their only
outlet lay westward over the COM
parative.y low lying regions where,
at later times, were traced the path
WAYS of the caravans that carried to
the countries Of the Caspian the
slender traffic OF the remotest east.
Displacing Goth and Alan and Van
DIAL, they urged these onward to new
nigratlons which, in their turn, iln-
PEELED the German toward the At
lantic. This, the secondary result
of Chinese power, gave IL westward
movement to strong and hardy peo-
plies whose successive invasions
changed the face of civilization from
the borders of Persia to the shores
of Spain. The first waves of con-
quest were displaced by those that
succeeded or were dissipated by fu-
sion with the native populations,
but through all the advance was to.
ward the west; in the nature OF
things there Was nc receding. And
so in the vicissitudes of ages oui
progenitors framed the new struc.
ture of Europe and. developing from
the rudest to the highest form Of
society, created the nations from
which our own people dierctly
sprang.
But the progress did not end with
this. The conditions under which
the Caucasian developed in Europe
after the fall of the Roman Empire
were parallel with none of those
known to anterior peoples. The,
favored a growth of civic liberty
of earnest intellectual effort, and
deep and intense emotional feeling
from which grew the complex rela
tons and delicate adjustments o.
government, of law, of religion, o.
science, of arts and industries which
have elevated man to higher sem
blance of the image of his Creator
than Was possible under the grossei
forms of antecedent civilizations
Yet throughout all this fingered the
tendency to reach still futher toward
the west And after the ven urous
ships of lceiandic voyagers had
crossed the sea, and the records OF
Icleand had told the tale to the Gen
oese, the way Of the Caucasian Wa:
opened to the continent beyond
Then, not yet four centuries ago
our immediate ancestors, the descen-
dants of the notwithstanding hosts
came and possessed the land anc
left it. an inheritance, to us, theil
children.
And we, from the hamlets scatter
ed along our Eastern coasts, have
followed the instinct inherited
through centuries and have pressed
westward still, ardent, earnest, toll.
ing; and victorious, until beyond
prairie and buffalo plain. beyond
alkaline desert and Nevadan forest,
we have planted our civilization and
builded our cities upon the edge OF
the utmost ocean whose farther
waves wash the shores of that China
whose prowess gave its first impulse
to the westward journey of our race
That journey is ended. We have
completed our share of the circuit
of the globe. And on our latest ter.
ritory we are met by those same
Chinese, driven toward the east,
their only outlet, as we for ages
have been toward the west. The
two races have met, and one or the
other must give way. The Chinese
must recoil to his own land, or we
must recede from ours. The two
races, distant as if drawn from diff.
ferent planets, compelled by geogra
phical conditions to advance il
opposite directions arould the world
are brought face to face. They viii
not mingle, they cannot fuse. The