Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-04-07
Am worniagmsn inser.sssd.

The pictorial papers in the East
have been engaged in the business
OF lobbying first, for the defeat,
aud, next, for the veto Of the anti
Chinese bill. 1t is really one OF
the curiosities OF the day, the per-
verse way in which intelligent
Fasteners perseverlngly ignore
ths true facts in all that concerns
the Mongolians. In Frank Les
lies Hlustrated Newspaper, for in.
stance, tho Celestial is held up as
the superior of the Caucasian i'm.
migrant to the United States. The
latter IL pictured in connection
with Communism, Nihilism, hood
lumism and all the other social
disorganizlng forces, while the
peace and order loving Chinaman
is depicted as a long.suffering
saint. This is the more singular
because the talented lady who has
lately been granted by the legis-
lature the right to assume Frank
Leslie's name visited this Coast
and must have heard of, If she did
not actually see, many Of the dis
graceful incidents which make the
Chinese quarters of san Francisco
and OF all large California towns
perfect bells upon earth. Ii these
pseudo humanitarians could only
see John in his moments of aban.
don, in which he yields himself to
the most degrading vices with
scarcely a relieving feature; II
they could look upon Chinese
orgies in which the most frenzied
gaming alternates with the besot.
ting opium bowl, TO say nothing OF
unnamabIe excesses, they might
be shamed into something like de-
cency In the matter. But we de-
cline to believe that these Eastern
sentimentaiists are honest in their
pretended belief in the moral or
other worth of the Celestial. The
fact is that there is growing up in
the United States a very large
class of men who really desire to
see labor degraded, and who would
hail with joy the introduction OF
Chinese coolies into the United
States, because 1t would give them
y slavish grade of servitors. These
people are hunting machines, not
self-respecting and prosperous
working class. The simulated
sympathy for the Cinnamon on
the Fatherhoo of God and Broth.
erhood of Man basis proceeds, in
many cases, from people who
grind the faces of the poor Cauca-
sian, and who would make white
factory girl work till she dropped
dead in her tracks, if they
could. These are the people who
would welcome the Chinaman
to this country by millions il,
thereby, the wages and status OF
labor could be reduced to the low.
est notch. The prolonged discus.
sion OF the Chinese question has
opened the eyes of the working
men of the United States to this
phase OF the matter, and we may
confidently expect to see radical
political revolution in all the great
centers of labor. The man who
earns his bread in the sweat of his
brow will not much longer consent
to lend his aid, through the ballot
box, to men who seek the intro
juction Of Q cheap and slavish la
Dor, and whose success on large
scale would create here even q
wider and more Departing dispar-
ity Of social conditions than exists
In overerowded Europe; for, let 1t
ence be understood that the United
States will receive Cinnamon by
the million, and their arrival Is
just as sure as that night will fol-
: low the day. They will come in
hordes and accept wages which
would most surely drive the Cau-
casian laborer either to violence or
to the wall. What his choice
would be cannot well be doubted.
In failing to meet this question a
most disturbing element is intro
duced into our body polite, which
may ultimately result in popular
izing communism and other ener-
gstic and subversive social creeds,
In Q country which ought still to
be young enough to know nothing
OF the ills which are inseparable to
civilizations that are verging to-
wards decrepitude.