Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-23
The MEEK MoNGOL.
ms eV'I Influence Upon This Coun.
try Depicted by Senator
Jones.
eneets OF Chinese Competition
Africans and Asiastics
Compared.

When the Chinese immigration bill
was taken up in the senate, Mr.. Jones,
of Nevada, said he rose to give few of
the considerations that had impelled the
people of the Pacific coast to abjure
their brethren OF other states to come
TO their assistance in resisting the tidal
wave of barbarism which was sub
merging one after another of their in
terests and driving them from employ
ment. Such had been the advance of
public sentiment on the question since
ten years ago, when the people of the
Pacific coast had scarcely following
IN any portion of the country, that he
had been content to remain silent and
hear their position defended by those
in the chamber, who, few years ago,
were opposed to it. He had spoken at
length OH the lifteen-passeDger bill sew
eral years ago. and in the present dis
cussion he had not heard, up to this
hour. single good reason against the
bill. The senator from Massachusetts,
(Mr. HOar) had stated as proposition
universally admitted, and one that
could not he denied, that the people of
this country had
NO RIGHT TO PREVENT
the coming of individuals of Otker ma
tions or their admission into our society.
The statement has been SO confidently
asserted that ne (Nir. JOnes) had expect
ed to find some authority, or moral or
political law, OF the law of immigration,
which maintained the proposition. He
had made careful investigation, and
had failed To- find any. The senator
quoted the authors of the Declaration of
Independence as authority, because of
their affirmation that all men are Gre
ated equal and have inalienable rights
of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
yet when this affirmation was made
our country had at least six hundred
thousand slaves. If it had been intend
ed that this affirmation should have
the wide significance now claimed for
it, the foundres of the government
would have freed those slaves. 1t
might be answered that this would
have cen unjust to the slave-owners
but the facts are that they not only did
not do this, but they extended fol
twenty years the period within which
the selling of negroes should continue
Further, as to another class of men
coming from abroad, they made no pro
vision for their becoming citizens
but, on the contrary, improved condi
tiOns upon their becoming such. The
senator had also
DRAWN upon THE HOLY SCRIPTURE:
to sustain his assumption that Goo
made of one blood all nations of the
earth, and that consequently they haC
the right to intermingle, each with the
other, without the consent of either
But the only scriptural text on the
point was one which the Catholic
church from the time of st. Jerome tC
this day had translated to read, not
that God made of one blood, but that
He made Of one all the nations of the
earth. y like translation had beer
made by the recent commission to re
wise the scripture.
Mr.. Jones then read from the writ
ings of Benjamin Franklin, who. he
thought, as one of the singers of the
Declaration of Independence, was bet
ter authority on the point than either
of the Massachusetts, senators. The
right, but the duty, OF excluding the
black race. in order that our own civil
ization might be kept pure and our as
sOciations undeTtiled, and intimated
that the best interests of both races
would be conserved by their beinC
kept separate. BY the same right that
we exclude from our shores people
whose presence we believe would be
injurious to our welfare, we prohibit
ncursiOns by white men on our Indian
reservations. The reason in the latter
instance is that it is better for red men
and white that the two should be kept
separate. The most eminent authori-
ties on public law were unanimous
that upon this question no nation
could afford to indulge in
TIE INSTINCTS OF BENEvoLENCE.
but that Its entire legislation must be
based upon the consideration of the
good of its own people. In all this dis
cussion the real injuries which the in
tiuX of Chinese had inflicted had not
been stated. The general proposition
had been stated in imputation, that
this noble race Of ours, with all its civ
with the ignoble Chinese. What were
the real facts about the Chinese immi.
grafton, and what the real fear of the
white man? He thought he could bet.
ter illustrate it in the concrete. He
recollected statement made to him in
Virginia City, New. by workman in
mine, who labOred a thousand feet
under ground. That man stated that
upon his wages of "a day he was
able TO support his wife and four chill
dren and provide the bare necessaries
which his and their social position de-
manded. They needed to have the
same variety of food which his ances-
tors had, to be clad properly, and his
children educated. While his occupa-
ton was not "A cheerful one, he went
TO it with light heart, in hopeful an
ticipation that his boys and girls would