Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-15

national existence" This may be warded
off without the shedding of human blood,
destruction of property, the depletion OF
the Treasury, tho creation of national
strife. the arraying of brother against
brother, or any Of the dire consequences
resulting from our late civil war, for sup
pressing a conflict that pales into insig-
niicance, when compared with the ire
pressible conflict that must follow in the
footsteps Of Chinese immigration. Where
and what is the power behind the throne"
that can prevent statesmen, men Of ability
and learning, from giving their aid in
support of a just and peaceful measure to
avert such q national calamity? Let each and
every Senator and the Executive answer
for himself,
The people Of the Pacific States have
already answered, and the people Of the
Atlantic seaboard will give q like answer
when they, like us, have felt the depressing
and demoraliZing influence OF Chinese i'm
migration. In Gods name, friend CASH
dy, do something for us and for the coun-
try. Rally around your standard such
men as the Hon. M. Vest, the Hon. Oscar
Turner, and all who are the friends Of the
people, and who wish to perpetuate the
government as it is, and earn, not only the
everlasting gratitude of your constituency,
but Of the nation. If three millions, out
Of fifty millions, are sore distressed and
need relief, their cries should be heard,
not indifferently passed by, especially as
the relief asked intiicts neither injury nor
inconvenience to the majority. This right
OF petition is one Of the corner-stones of
our government for the people and Of the
people, a disregard of which will cause
those not strictly ~antagonistic to seek re-
lief in the doctrine Of State rights. Omi-
nous words, that all true Americans, and
lovers OF our country as it is, are 10th to
hear. The Republican party has evident
ly outlived its usefulness.
Twenty years of political prosperity has
blunted the sensibility Of its leaders, once
the friends of the people, now oppressors
and enemies.
We first ask Of our national council re-
lief, next beg for it, then pray for it, and
finally we will, if necessary, demand it.
A word as to the speech of the Hon. Chas.
d. Joyce, the gentleman SO misguided and
ignorant as to the true political sense and
moral status of the average Chinaman.
Can 1t be possible that any sane man, with
the history of the world before his eyes,
will, as a desirable addition to American
societies Il use the word societies in its
political sense), advocate the adoption Of
the Chinese element on the ground that
they are and should be under our Consti-
tuition equally as we'll qualified in every
respect to become American citizens as
"~Englishmen, Irishmen, Germans, or any
other man Caucasian, he means, l.
suppose. If this be true, then in Gods
name let us amend the Constitution.
He would even have Cinnamon in the
iurv-h0y Man vbn uooff % fba ,,o~v, ;doo ~
worshiping our God men whose oaths
under the teachings of the Holy Writ are
not binding, and who, when sworn, must
do 30 in the august and worshipful pres
ence of the head Of a cock, which must be
decapitated on the spot for that purpose.
But / have not the patience to dwell on
the gentleman's speech, As a highfaluting,
fowery, Observation-Disclosures
sophistry, sit takes the cake" But, as a
sound, far-seeing, logical. reasonable de-
bate, grasping the real situation, it is a
miserable failure. 1t reminds me of a
celebrated, highly-cultivated and educated
Chinese doctor in Eureka, who was
called upon to prescribe for a "white bar
barian" suffering from an attack OF belly
ache. After having prescribed as an inter-
nal remedy q solution made from an ex-
tract OF c%aterpillars, spiders, bugs, and of
other similar nastiness, he prescribed an
external remedy in the shape of a dou-
ble-barreled shotgun, which must be fred
off outside, in order to brighten away the
devil, as he, (the DOCTOR, said the devil
was at the bottom of the trouble. Surely
no statesman could utter such sentiments
and advocate such diabolical propositions
under other than diabolical inspirations.
Hence, l conclude, like the Chinese doc
tor, the devil was at the Senator's elbow
when he arose to make his speech.
Joyce says: 81 am not ready to con-
cede that free educational American labor |
must crouch down and abandon the field
brought in competition with the
labor Of Asia" If he ID not ready, |
then l say to him, get ready; for 1t does
+" crouch down." as it we're, and Is de-
root and branch. I refer the mis-. |
gentleman to San Francisco; I re-
fer him to the slip l inolose from the Eu- |
RERA SENTINEL; / refer him to that un
law that has from time immemo-
governed and shaped the destinies Of
aggregated societies and nations. That law
under the operations of which old civil |
have been swept away and new
civilizations built upon the ruins. / refer
him more particularly to the fall OF the
Roman Empire, next to the invasion Of
But further argument is In vain; and, |
in conclusion, ! refer the Hon. |
Charles Joyce to the Popular Science
Monthly for March. 1882, Page 1875. There
he will find that after all his rhetoric, az
ter all his iowery ~eloquence, he has but
skinned the surface Of the Chinese immi-
question.
But, "theie are none so deaf as those
who will not hear; none so blind as those
who will not see;' and we, in our sore dis
tress, residents of the Pacific States, look
to you, Mr.. Cassidy, to advocate our cause
to you and the honorable Senators who
can and will grasp the situation and arrest
a threatening national calamity.
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