Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-25
MORE GALL.
OF THE LAST ARGONAUT.

the People.
The weekly articles by Frank Pixley in
the San Francisco Argonaut on the Chi
nese question are without a parallel in the
journalism of the present age. The pow
erful English in which they are written
recall the eloquent letters of Junius and
the stirring pamphlets Of Tom Paine just
before and during the dark times Of the
Revolutionary War. Every word in our
quotation this morning is a living power,
and every sentence a complete thought.
Pixley is a radical Republican. We COM
mend what he says, not only to Republic
cans, but to Democrats, because Of the
thrilling style in which he presents plain
truths
THEY STILL COME.
This is our condition to-day, and last
month there came to us 4,0S0. This
month will increase that number. At
Hongkong are II ships loading for this
coast. Fifty thousand are booked for i'm
migration. They do not go East. They
stay here. Are we to be tainted with the
fact that in a country of so, 000, 900 inhabi-
tants there are less than half a million
Chinese? Are we to be denounced with
cowardice because we fear this invasion,
when it is known that all the States
and Territories now afflicted with the pres
ence Of Chinese contain something
like 1900, 900 of people? The Chinese
will not seek competition with the large
population east of the Rocky Mountains so
long as they can find room upon this side
and before they become an Inconvenience
to New England and the East, they will
have destroyed us and driven us from the
coast. Are we to be tainted with employ
ing Chinese because a few families use
them as domestic servants, when it is q
recognized fact that they are employed by
corporations and manufactures, driven to
the necessity of employing them after they
have driven white labor from the country,
and prevented white immigration from
coming to it when they are being i'm
ported to our shores by English and Chi
nese ships, and an American steamship
line owned in New York? All this has
been i~ntelligently presented to the Ameri-
can people, and to repeat the argument is
useless. Now we look our condition in
the face, and ask ourselves. "What shall
we do about it ?"
UNPARALLELED REPUBLICAN ~TREACHERY.
Republican Senators, by a series of
treacherous acts unparalleled for their
baseness, have so far refused to extend to
us any relief. The Republican Presidents
have interposed the executive veto between
the deliberate legislation of Congress and
the people of this coast. Both political
parties in national convention have re-
solved that Chinese immigration should
be arrested. Party resolutions and Con-
gressional legislation have demonstrated
who our enemies are. We know from what
source the opposition comes. All the Sen
ators, save one, from six New England
States are against us. The merchants and
moneved men of New York are against us.
The Eastern clergy are for the most part
against US. Every railroad millionaire in
the East is against us. Every Republican
in the Senate of the United States who
represents corporate wealth is in opposi-
tion to us. Under this continuing opposi-
ton, and in the absence of restrictive
legislation, tho city of San Francisco is
going to the dogs. Property values de-
cline, and business interests are being
destroyed. Governor Stanford told the
writer of this article five years ago, that
in ten years from that day he would see a
network of railways centering at San
Francisco, and bringing here the wealth
and business of the East; that we should
see steam lines pouring out upon our
shores q great and profitable commerce.
and that in that time San Francisco wonld
have one million OF inhabitants. Half the
time has passed. The railroads have been
built, the steam lines are established, and
San Francisco has fewer white inhabitants
than on the day OF the prophecy. The
steam lines bring their Asiatio slaves; ell
kinds Of business ~lenguish; the death
rattle is In II throat.
VIOLATION OF LAW o BREAD.
In the south Of England, across the
Channel from Belgium, there was, some
ten years ago, a colliery worked by some
1900 coal miners. These miners struck
for higher wages. Their demand not being
conceded by the propriotors, they left their
work, went to their village OF cabins at
the pits mouth, and smoked their pipes
for increased pay. The proprietors sent to
Belgium, and filled their places with cheap
labor. The Belgian miners arrived, where
upon the English eolliers pitched into
them, killing four, wounding forty, and
driving them away. The next morning
the London Times, in an able editorial,
applauded the act, justified the English
miners in their breach of the law, and said
that the English workingman was justified
in the defense Of his rights, his family
and his home, in driving these invading
hirelings from the English shore. In
England there is an unwritten law OF hu-
man rights, and it is that the laborer
shall not be invaded in his field of labor
so long as he is willing to work, and that
he is entitled to such wages as will enable
him to support those whom God has made
dependent on him for bread. Let Presi-
dent Arthur, Republican Senators, the
Legislature of Connecticut, the tea mer-
chants and bankers of New York City, the
millionaire railroad builders, the 1900
aristocratic members Of the Union League
Club of New York City, the Presbyterian
Synod of Illinois, the sniveling sentiment
alists of New England, and the Chinese
ambassador, consider how far they are
justified in imposing Chinese barbarians
upon an unwilling people in defiance Of a
national treaty, the expressed will OF Con-
gress, and a united local protestation.
THE PARTY OF GREAT MORAL IDEAS.
The peace which brought great prosperi-
ty brought great wealth to individuals,
nearly all of whom gravitated to the Re-
publican party as q party of respectability
and intelligence. Twenty years of power
begat abuses. Men in Office about the
Treasury grew wealthy. Members OF the
Senate and House of Representatives be-
came rich. Lawyers in public life accepted
the retainers of great corporations. There
grew up a lobby at Washington moro pow
full upon business legislation than either
political party. And it is becoming appar-
ent-at least we fear it is-that the Repub-
lican party has ceased to be the friend Of
labor and the working class, and has be-
come, or is becoming, the party Of wealth,
of corporations and of aristocracy; that our
President is more the representative of the
millionaires than Of the people. Somehow
we have a suspicion that a majority of the
Republican political leaders in Congress
draw more money from the payroll OF
corporations than from the Government
Treasury on account of salaries.
REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS.