Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-04-30
A Rare Old Travesty.

rem on the Pacific Coast on the Chinese
question. While we believe that the
eight hundred odd votes which We're cast
in favor of Chinese immigration, as
against total, made up of both par
ties, or nearly one 'hundred and fifty
five thousand, were, to man, Republi-
can, nevertheless we dosnot propose to
hold that party responsible locally, be-
cause it contributed much of the intel
lectual energy and honest good work
which has made the voice of the Pacific
Coast potential ON this issue in Washing
ton. We pity this loyal and square ele-
ment of the Republican party the more
because the best informed of the lot
don't know what Arthur will now do
with the revised Chinese bill The Stu
pidest Republican knows that, if the
amended bill is met with the veto of
Arthur, there is not constable, not
county official, not a member of the
Legislature, except in phenomenally
Republican districts, that will not be
elected by the Democracy in California,
to say nothing of the State ticket from
Governor down, and at least five of the
six Congressman accorded to California
under the new apportionment this year.
The great agony of California Republi-
cans inst now lies in the fact that,
the best informed of them all
has a shrewd suspicion that the
Six Chinese Companies are "solid with
Arthur and that any bill which would
not be an insulting mockery, would be
vetoed by the winner of the prize in
the lottery of assassination. Should Ar
thur. however, sign the partially emas-
culated bill, our people should prepare
themselves for an exultant Republican
shout The numerous presses, which
the great wealth of the members of that
organization enables them to maintain,
here and elsewhere will raise din like
unto that of Babel, claiming that their
party is really antagonistic to Chinese
immigration. They will conveniently
ignore the fact that the Chinese tif-
teen passenger bill, which was intro
duced into the Congress of the United
States by the Democratic representative
Willis, of Kentucky, was vetoed by the
fraud Hayes, and that the later legisla-
tive situation on this question, like the
first, has been compromised by Repub-
lican obstruction, and nothing else.
Two Presidential beneficiaries of acct
dent, the one of the accident of fraud
and the other of the accident of assassi
nation, have hitherto stood in the way
of the realization of the aspirations of
the people of the Pacific Coast. But
these Presidential academies have been
Republicans, and there is small doubt
but that the people, at the polls, will re-
member this leading fact in the sweet
Presidential by and by.
But, assuming that President Arthur
will sign Miller's Chinese bill, with the
exclusion clause reduced from twenty
years to ten, Democrats, never
theless, are entitled to the party
advantage which their honest and
continuous advocacy of Chinese ex-
clusion has merited At every stage of
attempted Federal legislation on this
subject the hearty unanimity of the
Democratic party has been marked in
cident of the thus far abortive pro-
gramme. To make a record of anything
like Democratic opposition to the bill it
has been necessary to quote such Demo-
Gratis as Brown, of Georgia, in the Sen
ate, and Ellis, of Louisiana, in the
House, both of whom have antagonized
the Democratic party, and the latter of
whom has announced it to be his pur-
pose to Mahonize it in Louisiana, if he
can. In the House of Representa-
tives, when the Miller bill came up,
prior to its passage and veto by Arthur,
of the sMtyfve votes against it but
four were Democrats or pseudo Demo
Gratis.
The country is now confronted by the
fact that Eastern courts are granting the
privilege of naturalization to the Chi
nese. This malign business was started
in Philadelphia abouta year ago. When
the question Of prohibiting the making
the Mongolian citizen came up in
the q. S. Senate, on Farley's amend
ment, there was not single Democratic
vote opposed to it. On the other hand,
Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Anthony,
Blair, Conger, Davis of Illinois, Davis,
Fry, Hale, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar,
Ingalls,, Kellogg, Lapham, McDill, Nc
MILAN, Miller of New York, Merrill
Platt, Plume, Rollins, Saunders, Saw
yer, Van Wyck and Windom-all Re-
publicans- voted in q sense which would
make the Chinaman citizen ultimately
The solid Democratic phalanx of the
Senate voted in consonance with the
wishes of the people of the Pacific coast.
1t is only right to add that five Repub-
lican Senators, Cameron, Chilcott, Hill
Jones and Miller, placed themselves on
record as in opposition to this latest de-
parture of the God and Morality party.
1t will not take the people of the Pa
cifc Coast, veto or no veto, long to re-
alize which of the great national parties
is in unison with their aspirations, with
these great, capital facts, to guide them.
The Chinese question, from having been
q local, has now become national one