The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-19
LATEST TFLEGRAMS
CHINEEsE BILL.
The Debate In the HonSa
COnGi0ued.


ing for debate only ON the Chinese
bill. Spear. of Georgia, was the
t1rst speaker in the contest. He
said between the United Staes and
China the former had no equal adj
versary. The little brown man.
eulogized by Joaquin Miller, was
born a diplomat, and the United
States was dealing with a renowned
empire. This bill was a measure of
se'f-defense, and no other question
which could be presented to the pres
ent CongSeSs was of more import
ance. Peace had its victories,
and the passage of this bill would
be one of the victories of peace
which would be hailed with the ac-
clamation of an almost unanimous
people. When the unanimous ver-
dict OF the people who had known
the Chinese since 1860 was weighed
IN the scale with the elOquence of
the gentleman from Massachusetts.
Rice, or the metaphysical subtleties
of the gentleman from Ohio, TAYLOR,
there was no doubt as to what waV
the scale would turn. He urged
that the bill was right and in literal
accordance with the treaty, but even
were that not so, there were reasons
which would induce him to vote
for it, and they were con
tanned in the old maxim,
"SalaLs popuLi SupremG est lee."
the safety of people is supreme law,
what was the strength of the num-
bers of the American people as
compared with the strength of the
Chinese, whom the opponents of the
bill would permit to come to this
country without let or hindrance.
Statistics showed that if every man.
woman and child in the world were
formed IN procession, every third
man, woman and child would be a
subject Of China. He took I'D. in
detail, and replied to the arguments
presented by Taylor, of Ohio, stating
that he would oppose the eloquent
theories of that gentleman with the
sworn testimony taken by the Nor
ton investigating committee, from
which he made several quotations
to show that the effect of Chinese
immigration was to cheaper labor
and drive American labOrers from
the Pacific Coast. He would con-
trast the statements of the gentle.
man from Ohio that the Chinese
were not, as class, more vicious
than the rest of people of the world,
with the declaration Of that Other
Taylor (Bayard) that morally they
were the most debased people OH the
face of the earth, and with his ex-
pressions of disgust at the
filth of Chinese cities. He
(Speer) asserted that the American
laborer who had built up our coun-
try's prosperity in the time of peace
and in the time of war on the fiery
crest of battle, everywhere had
fought 0ur country's battles and |
achieved it's victories, was no more |
like the miserable Chinaman than | |
to Hercules or Hyperion to a satyr.
He compared the characteristics of
The Chinese and colored race much
% the disadvantage of the former.
and asserted that the entire
south would never rise I'D
lg,tinSt the negro as class
IS the west had risen up against the
Ihinaman. In conclusion he said:
maintain that it is the duty of the
Congress to protect the
lome life OF the laboring men of
ur country; they are the founda-
ion of our society. What matters !
us if we gather large stores of
and become as wealthy a
ir9Sus, if the mass of the people {
re miserable and unhappy, and {
round down by competition with {
hinese labor. In the language of
liver Goldsmith: II
l fares tine land, 70 Fastening ills
prey,
Ehere wealth accumulates snd men I
decay; G
rinees aud lords may fou -isb or may t
fade, a
: bresth may make than as a breath t
hath msde); 9
1t bold peasautry, their country's Y
hen once destroyed, can never be sup =
piled. u
lpplause) y
Deuster, of Wisconsin, said he /;
ould vote for the bill, after h
loroughly considering its merits Il
ON the peculiar standpoint of one b
imself) a foreign born citizen, the C
n of an adopted citizen. This c,
'untry's marvellous growth, its Fl
development, its pre- en- "
ence among the nations of modern
mes, induced largely to the influx G
immigration from the old world. "
immigration totally different D
ON that which found its Wav to
g Pacific Coast. European emf n
alton, akin to the population h
American colonies, become an in 81
'tlngulshable part of our popula- IL
IN. He adopted American customs. d
nerican ideas and American love tt
personal liberty. He assimilated o.
tn ana disappeared entirely among b,
native born. making all that was I'll
'rtn preserving OF American life 10
q thonght, the sacred heritage of W
children. Not so with the Chi tt
Sc immigration. The past, pres W
{ or future Chinaman aid 20. in SO
Ire into our liberal IDEAS as IN Ter d.
ng the American system or gov to
lment; he did not desire 10 be- II
ne a contr butoc 10 the support of in
r public schools; he had no wish to