Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
A POWERFUL PLEA.
Speech Delivered by Hon. Geo. G. HazeIton in
Favor OF the Suspension OF Coolie En-
migration.

EUROPEAN EMIGRATION A SOURCE OF
/ STRENGTH.
i Mr.. SPEAKER: The landing of the
cavaliers in Virginia and of the Pilgrim
fathers at Plymouth Rock was the begin
ming of cur distinctive nationality.
Among the European races we had our
origin and down through all the vicissi-
tudes of our history and development as
a free people, from them we have drawn
| an almost constant emigration, which
has contributed always to our advance
ment in civil and religious liberty, be-
cause of type of civilization kindred
to our own. We have invited and wei
coined its coming to our shores; and,
whether voluntary or sought, ithas come
to us, transferring its allegiance from
fatherland, from empire and throne, to
the better government of liberty in the
New World. 1t has come to adopt our
language, TO build and maintain homes
like our own, and to share in the burdens
as well as the privileges and immunities
OF free government. 1t has come as an
ally of our civilization, as n compatriot
in the sacred cause of liberty, as cola
material process. 1t has come TO help
make our battle-fields illustrious and
our victories secure, until, under natu-
raj blending of the old into the new life,
the national domain extends from ocean
to ocean, and the population of the Re-
public has increased from three to fifty
millions of people, prosperous, united,
| homogeneous, and free.
And in all this outpouring of the hui
mainly of the Old World into our own
| Europe has lost and we have gained the
best material she has produced for the
| formation and maintenance of free and
enlightened government. From this
source we have never anticipated or in
Cured danger TO our free institutions
EMIGRATION MUST BE HOMOGENEOUS.
The victories of the Mexican war car
ried our emPfre and national jurisdie-
ton to the shores of the Pacific Ocean,
into new fields for enterprise, and there
TO confront the dscoming of a race en-
tirely different frcsD all those who have
come to us through the eastern gates Of
the Republic.
| cannot understand how we as ma
ton can have any interest in the encour-
agement of emmigratioa to our shores
from any direction whatsoever only as
it can be made to coFrGribute to our
strength as a people enga,xedin working
out the great problem of kaman liberty
under q republican form of government.
And in the prosecution of skis mighty
enterprise can we assume ths5 all the
antagonisms of all the races upon the
Ill, I,
Gus whole under our Government?
That the Republic can draw into its
| bosom all the poisons that have been
generated by mankind since history be-
gan and not imperil its existence?
THE CHINESE CoOLIE SYSTEM A FORM OF
SERVILE LABOR.
The great law of self-defense applies
as much to the cause of liberty, as to
the individual, and an appeal to history
will verify the assertion.
1t is from this point of view that we
are compelled to consider prudently and
well how and to what extent our exist
.nce as a free nation is to be affected rs
- sunstant influx of Chinese coolies upon
tie Pacific shores. This class of labor
ers bad been transported in large num-
bers 20 California before the Burlingame
treaty Of 1868 was negotiated and rati-
fled. They were not brought there for
the purpose OF becoming citizens of the
Republic, nor did they themselves in
/ tend SO become citizens of the Republic
nor did the Chinese Government intend
| that thew should. for it demanded and
obtained guarantee that nothing in the
treaty should be held to confer natural
izatio@ Bpon the subjects of China in
the Uniged States. Their coming was
not voluntary, nor was it immigration
in any sense of the word. 1t was, on
the contrary q deportation of the lowest
class of ChiUsse servile laborers in herds
from an overcfSwded district, transport
ed to our coast Hnder contract for the
benefit of srecuiasvFs as base as the pro-
noters of the African slave trade, to
whom they were bound to pay tribute
during their entire existence in this
country.
! AMERICAN LABOR DENOUSCES THE cody
| SYSTEM
And now let me read one short para
graph from the Annual Cyelopedia for
| 1878. to show the estimate which the
State of Massachusetts put Oh this
Chinese immigration in their great labor
conventions and in a platform supported
! by so great pbilanthropist as Wsndell
Phillips. They made this declaration
and protest aga;nt this very class of I'M
migration:
.'Viewing the contract-importation of
coolies as only another form of the slave
traeie, we demand that contracts made
relative thereto be void in this country,
aud thas no public ship and no steam
| ship which receives public subsidy shall
aid in such swportation.
THE BURLINGswE TREATY DID NOT IN
CLuDE Co0Sg ISIMIGRATToS.
/ This inhuman traffic was the source
of great anxiety to Mr.. Burlingame, the
/ devoted friend of both countries, and he
made Il MANLY effort To correct it in the
| treaty which bears his name.
! The treaty says: ."fhe high contract
/ ing parties. therefore, join in reprobat-
lng any other than an entirely voluntary
! immigration, and they joined rs Well in
a solemn stipulation for the passage OF
the laws to punish the taking of Chinese
( citizens 10 this or any other country
without their free and voluntary con-
/ sent
/ That treaty was negotiated as far
back a. 1868 and Burlingame has gone
down to ms grave, but the great evil
condemned by the treaty and by him
still remains uuabated. The volun-
tary emigration" s'jIl fingers in the Ce-
lestial Kingdom All labor still comes
from the ports Of China as it came before
the Burlingame treaty, and wears the
SafBe degrading chain clanking upon its
! limbs, The base importer still fattens
upon his coolie traffic, while free citizen
labor in the fair States of the Pacific
languishes and j. fDenaced with degrad
alton or destructfOn,
! CHINA HAS NOT FULFILLED HEX TREATY
sTIPULATIOEs.
/ We have a right to demand what is
denominated in the treaty bond with
! China We have kept faith upon all its
/ provisions: she has not kept hers. Every
cOolie importation from China to our
shores is an open and fragrant violation
( of the Burlingame treaty. Not a
( Chinese laborer has come through the
golden gate to the Pacific shore of the
: class and character contemplated by
! She treaty The great evil she repro
fsfsed in treaty she has fostered in prac-
tiee. We Summon her now TO the exc
cutiou If her joint covenants with the
United States in the passage of laws
which shall end this great crime against