The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-05

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that we protect American industry By
high tariffs on foreign manufactures
This is done to protect American labor
from 1.-THE pauper labor of Europe" but
| in California the cheapest labor in the
pete with American labor. The Euro
pesn labOrer conforms to the American
| ideal. He becomes Americanized and
soon surrounds himself with the COM
forts and Inquiries Of civilized life. The
| Chinaman is Chinaman wherever he
goes. He does not become sssimilAted
He lives in the street and subsists up 4
the refuse Of the land. He cannot be-
come an Americanized citizen, being de-
barred by the provisions of the older
treaties, and having apparently no con-
Germ whatever in that dir ction. For the
first time since the agitation Of the Chi
nese question began, 1T has been discussed
in the United States Senate dispsssion-
ately, with dignity and with statesman.
like ability. So far as We can DOW re-
call any speech made upon this eues-
tion, The address OF Miller is the very
first that eYinces pstiert study, perfect
candor and great breadth Of view. Hap
ply for the Senate, this admirable OPEN
ing of the debate had i.s influence upon
succeeding speakers, although none
showed so great fam liarity with the cub
ject as Miller. Hoar, who is credited
with being one OF two Senators who OPP
posed the ratification of the treaty, made
the best possible use of the old cry,
''Rscs prejudice" but his reference to
Hayes veto of the snti-ccolie bill was,
to cay the least, unfortunate. as
the state of facts has wholly
changed since the treaty has been con-
cluded with China. nor is there any pos
sible parallel to be drawn betwixt the
condition Of the negro 10 the United
States and the Chinaman in the United
States. We might almost suppose the
Massachusetts, senator to be in q joke
when he Iauded the Chinese as the in
ventors of guGpowder, the compass and
printing press. Even If we concede these
very doubtful claims in behalf OF China,
they can have DO appreciable effect in
determining the present question. which
wholly relates TO the importation OF con-
tract lsborers. Several democratic sena-
tors, Bsysra, Salisbury, Grover, Farley,
Garland and Maxey, have spoken in
favor Of the bill. Bsysrd's speech was
in an elevated and dignifed zone, and he
warned the senators that this question
cannot be postponed with safety. To-
gals took the sensible view that the
people of the Pacific states best know the
magnitude of the ills that Cypress them,
and that they were entitled to the only
remedy now apparent. His is the deli
berate judgment, probably. Of the msjo-
rity of our fellow citizens, and there is
but little doubt that the bill will pass,
and that the long vexed question will
bus be settled by the only authority
competent to give it final adjustment.
Worlds editorial: No doubt there is q
great deal of demagogism in the Califor-
MAN treatment of the Chinese question,
and it is in California, or at least on the
Pacific Coast alone, that there can be
said to be Chinese question. 1t hes
been sGowu over and over again that the
Chinese question il less aud less burn
ing question, and that immigration from
the Chinese empire, is steadily diminish
ing, but none the less has the possibility
of q great immigration been shown.
Two or three bad seasons In the crowded
empire would set in motion toward our
shores q stream Of emmiRrstion for which
the channel already exists, and which
might very probably attain . proportion
that would make it very hard - deal
win. There cannot be a better time
than this when it is only in thu Pacific
s;sjts that any passion or prejudice
pre- vents u reAsonab!e discussioI of
this subject for establishing prin-
cip.es upon which we should daa
with such immigration. B4yard
yesterday, took solid and tea Bile
grounds upon which the whole u1try
will, we think. agree with him
whenever tie country is convinced that
the honest question demands s)lu.ion
By federal legislation. Economically. OF
course, all immigration Is benefit.
Peopla go from where They are not
needed to where they are needed, and
to where they are most nesded. Moth
| ing il more childish tAsn the complaint
that the Chinese take m oney out of the
country" while they are customers Of T..
country" for board and lodging and
clothing and supplies. But politically
snd socially the question is very differ
ent. Nobody proposes that this country
shall be allowed to become convict sta
ton or aims house for all the world
The national faith which makes Us loob
with pleasure on the great movement
from Europe to this country is the fail
that the 'genius Of our institutions" l.
, able to convert this heterogeneous mate
rial into q homogeneous and valuab MI
population. In spite Of local and tenn
porary reverses which this theory ha
met, notably in the city of New York
it is still the faith Of all Americans, bu
every body will admit that the raw ma
terisl of citizenship which thus comes il
dnty free must not be too alien from a
10 the frat place, ard must not come il
too large quantities. We all hail, foI
instance, the arrival Of the i'll
used Russian Jews, to whom th,
United States is an asylum
Now, if we apply this principle to iht
CHINESE question, not in It's actual prop
ositions, for there can scarcely be said
to be Chinese question in the co0ntrI
at large, but in its possible proportions
it will be seen that an emergency nigh
very readily arise in which it would no
only be proper but would be q patriotic
duty TO restrict Chinese immigration
The task OF making American person
out of men whose differences from Us ar
ingrAined by the heredi,y of hundreds o
generations, who sre so different from u
that as John stuart Mill said, "the stud.
of lifetime is required in order to 10
dsrstand lhem," is one that might apps
q man less or more wise than Senate
Hcar. In the third generation, al furth
est, an ITishmsn, or German, or SWede
or even member Of one Of the Lstil