The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26

for the South, he does not come up 10
the height Of the argument as he Is ae-
custOmed to do in dealing with great
questions Of public policy labor Is
not the only, nor the most important
consideration Of the subject Of immi-
grafton. Admit for argument sake,
that the Chinaman viii perform salts
factoriiy the mere routine of labor re
quired in the household, the farm and
the factory, still we insist, if his pres
ence is 4 social and political evil, and Is
to disturb our country with another
race problem, better ten thousand times
that he should never put foot on our
shores. Emigrants from Europe pos
sezs assimulating elements. They viii
not come to destroy the peace Of the
country with another question Of race ;
with another problem of vexatious ar
tagonism and uncertain probabilities.
Emigrants from Europe, as another
contemporary has well observed, are
come from the countries that We all
came from, and there are none that can
not in time be assimilated to the great
American people, in color, tongue, man
ners, industry, political ideas, and re-
ligion. II it be said that the Jews are
a dissimilar race, we answer that theirs
is an exceptional and peculiar case.
They are here, aud have been from the
beginning, aud are here to stay. They
have remarkable traits, and are m
elevating, progressing, not a debasing.
tagging race. They have lived in al
ages and nations, and have CONFIRMED
in general things. They have a geniu;
for adaptability and universal nation
/ ality; and with their wonderful indus
+ try, and enterprise are an acquisition tC
D any country. As to the Chinese, i
e their labor is to bring with it tn,
curse Of social leprosy, God forbiC
that it should ever come. In gov
eminent, the ideas Of the Asiati
t race are as wide apart from the Amer
can, as the poles. In religion, the dill
r ference if possible, is greater. In nor
t ais, they may not be utterly degraded
i but they have sounded all the depths O
! ~depravity. To show what depths c
degradation they have reached, we wi
o quote from Bayard Taylor's Travels i
e India, China, and Japan. 1t was wri
y ten in 1854, before the troubles rose o
T. our Pacific slope, and is an impartia
opinion expressed by an eminent autho
p and ob-eryant traveller:
g It is my deliberate opinion that the Oh
q aese urt, morally, the most dc5aset Peep
on the j1ce Of the earth. Forms ot vice WING
ln other countries are barely named are
ChIna 30 common that they excite no con
4 mrut among the natives. Iney coHsIitu.
the surface level, and below them there al
>" JecDs 0a degps Of deprdruy so shocking and 10
Il ribie that their character ca1HOt crea be hlate
There are some DARK shadows in human ii
ture which We naturally shrink from pen
trIting. and | made no attempt to collet
1t Information of this Kind but there wi
enough in the things which | could n,
avoid seeing and hesring-which al
brought almost daily 20 the notice OF ever
, foreign rtsIdent-tO inspire me with q pos
erlul aversion to the Chinese race. The
touch IS pollution, and, harsh as the opinic
may seem, justice to our own race demanC
il that they should rot be ailoped to settle on o.
is soil
1t Our necessity for ''labor" is not u
le gent enough to supply it from such
i. polluted source and there is no NOR
ct or political obligation on our COVER
at ment to make this country an abidir
r place for the ~oflscourings of 4 race
W deep down in hideous depravity th'
lr words can hot depict it. Again we wi
ID adopt the ideas of a contemporary wi
he has a clear apprehension Of the que
ton:
er No du rests upon US to give asylul
mp to any people who are not desirable
members Of the body polite. We are not ava
that any maintain that the Chinese are desiI
to bic members. Nei her the capitals, employ,
nor hoodlum side Of the labor question reach
all Of the matter. The aim of our republic
e. political economy is not to get cheap labor, b
to improve the laborer's condition. To impC
cheap laborers is quite the reverse Of the asylr
We business. To import people because their
10 graded mode of living enables them to wo
rs more cheaply than our own people, is to i
,a port a force to degrade our own. OSthe 9th
.. hand, the character of the cause OF our labor,
Id in this matter has been dishonored by the b
lis tally Of a class who want to live without lal
or visible means.
Ks Eager for labor" deluded by the L
or ton that the kingdom of China with
in four hundred millions of populati,
lg would supply it, and possessed with tt
ir sentiment that this country should
n an asylum for all corners of every rae
so grade, class, and PECULIARLY, yea
al ago California threw wide open her pc
O. tails and invited immigration from tn
es country. 1t came. Her people ha'
to tried it, and their experience is that
IL is an unmitigated curse, from which tn,
are praying the general government
the exercise of It's full control over t
Mt matter, to deliver them. The expe
,el ence of California is lesson enough
all. 1t was in response to the preva
ing sentiment of the country. that t
N National Convention of the Republic
~ party, held at Chicago, in 1880, una.
he mously adopted a platform eontaini
Is 3 the following plank
lot Since the authority to regulate inning
Ily ton and intercourse between the Unit
IN States and foreign nations rest with
: Congress Of the United States and
IRE t~reaiy-making power, the R publican par
70 regardi ing the unrestricted immigration
pit the Chinese as a matter of grave conce
rs meut, under the exercise of both th,
it. powers, would limit and restrict thai inn
grafton by the enactment of such ju
humane, and reasonable Jaws and treaties
,e- will produce that result.
10. Upon the Chinese plank in the abo
he platform Gen. Garfield in his letter
m. acceptance said
ior The material interests of this country,
tradition Of its settlement, and the sen
ment Of our people have led the Cove