Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-04-06

mind gentlemen on this floor that IL is
il which has made us great. Labor has
developed the resources of our country
and lies at the foundation OF our
wealth, our prosperity, and our power.
II is from the exactions taken from the
toll of the man who works day for an
honest days pay, which is but the die.
tate of common honesty, that all the
wealth and prosperity OF this country
comes.
am selfish enough to believe that it is
time that this great country should say,
il il is our pleasure, To all the world who
may come here and who shall not come,
and on that serious question the Ameri.
Gun people will judge wisely and Justly
whose coming may not interfere with
the prosperity of American citizens by
birth or adoption. and it is surely the
duty as it is in the province OF our Gov.
eTnment to interfere when that ques
ton is presented, "a in the present
measure and whatever there may be in
the future, we are only called To deal
with living facts and actual condition
and demands. II the people OF Cal,ior.
MIA are oppressed or wronged, il their
rights and interests are affected by the
introduction OF Chinese labor tn the ex.
clusion OF American labor, this Congress
will perform SITS duty by answering
their appeal to the magnanImity and
power of their central Government.
1t is said on this hoor and it is sen.
timent which can bear repetition, that
we opened the portals OF our Govern.
ment and invited the oppressed people
oil all the world to come here in peace
ful approach and enjoy our true civil
and religious liberty and the dead.leyel
OF American social organization and
yet who would for a moment believe in
that liberal declaration which is claim.
ed in it's behalf in this discussion.
We would not suffer paupers or crimi
mails or diseased people TO come here to
spread coutaeion or disturb Us by crime
in order to make this continent a great
reformatory asylum, which II would be
come If the declarations of gentlemen
on this floor were carried TO their full
and logical conclusions. We might
reform such people and cure their dis
eases, but they might infuse their virus
into the health aud morality OF the
American people.
There will come time when the
great nation will Oe Understood by all
the family of the nations OF the world ;
and the governments of the nations Of
Western Europe cannot regard us and
our free system with the satisfaction and
the affection OF which we are accustom
ed to hear so much. and which, must
be permitted to say, is the sub!imity of
sentimentalism.
Our great ideas of human liberty and
the rights OF the citizen have under.
mined the legitimate govern ments of
Europe silently. constantly, progressive
ly, and surely 10 final contamination,
until centralized power has been heroic.
ally claimed, demanded by, and given
to the masses, and the emperor aud the
king remain but the nominal heads Of
our governments where public opinion
has asserted iis power IN the rcgula
tion of all authority, and is rapidly set.
Ting their destiny for the future, when
their governments will be more and
more a--imIlsted TO ours. We take the
German, the English, the French. the
Irish. the ScandinavIan. people from all
nationAlIties OF Western Europe. They
or their children learn our language,
Accommodate themselves to our social
organization, swear allegiance TO our
Government, become part OF our people
our equals. They deserve our protec
iion. as they contribute to our wealth.
The Chinaman, in his instincts, in his
birth, and his feeling remains ChinAman
after twenty five years te.idence upon
the western slope. lie is without the
influence and happiness of home, wife,
aud children. and bis rigid, selfish ma
ture u not chastened by the influences
OF social enjoyments. The Chinaman
has not broken his allegiance 10 his ma.
tive country. lie IL incrusted in aud
controlled by superstition aud caste.
which has bound him in It's fetters aud
hi. country for more than fifty ccntu.
ries, and no matter to the Cninamau
how long he remains IN this country,
those VINO know him best and have
studied his nature and habits tell us the
desire to return once acain TO the Flow.
cry Kingdom Is ever present with him
and ia the article OF death his last wish
"a that his bones shall be sent back and
buried there.
The representatives from the Western
coast tell Us that he only seeks TO get
money esough to return to China and
provide for has scanty living there. lie
never has assimilatcd with our people.
and he never will. Surely It he ever
intended to, the experiment of twenty.
five years has failed to accomplish what
gentlemen on the other side say may be
accomplished in the future. IL is per.
iectly proper that we should feel for op
pressed humanity, that We will give to
all the people of the earth our Christian
faith. aud teach them to demand a.
their natural right the large liberty and
individuality which we enjoy aud cult.
vate under our system OF Government; I;
tut 1t Is carrying sentiment to the ex
treme when we will not relieve the peo
pie OF any part or section of this coun.
try from the presence Of men who they
allege do not contribute to their pros.
periiy, but degrade the labor of the
American, and who fail 10 become citi.
zens of the United States, yield sllegi.