Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-23
UTILIZING OF THE LABOR OF THE CHI


IN draining swamps and constructing
tunnels would be benefit 10 the Gull
munity, he said the fallacy here was
i'm overlooking the fact that II they uiu
this work they would in time own Tue
swamps and tunnels and assume con-
troll of industrial pursuits eeneralIy.
Then who would constitute the COM
munity there would be only employ
ers on one side and the most degraded
class of employees on the other. amour
er fallacv in the same connection Is
that the Cinnamon would remain as
under-laborers for Our own workmen
and form sort of
I SUB STRATUM OF LABOR.
On the contrary, a Chinaman will
not confne himself TO that labor Tor
which we say he IS most fitted, but he
will drive our laborers from every vo-
cation to which he can apply himself
Our wOrkmen must then come down
to degradation of Chinese servltude.
You cannot introduce Chinese wages
without bringing in Chinese commune
ties. socially and politically.
Mr.. Jones said that he had noticed
that most of those favoring Chinese
immigration were advocates of high
tariff to protect American labor; but,
judging from the indications, it is not
the American laborer. but the lOrdly
manufacturing capitalist, who is to be
J protected as against the European cap
, italist, and who is to sell everything
he has to sell in the American market,
one in which other capitalists can not
compete with him. while he buys that
: which he has to buy, the labor of men,
} in the open market He demands for
the latter free trade in lis broadcast
= sense, and would have, not only free
: tree trade in bringing in laborers of
f our own race, but Chinese, the most
c SKILLFUL AND CUNNING LABORERS
: of the world. The laborer, however,
: is to buy of his capitalist master in a
n protective market, but that which he
: himself has to sell-his labor-and
/ which he must sell every day, for he
t can not wait, like the capitalist, for
e better times or travel here and there
n to dispose of it. He must sell in the
d openest market of the world. When
8 the artisans of this country shall be
), made to understand that the market
n in which they sell the only thing they
a have to sell is an open one. They
e will demand, as one of the conditions
y of their existence, that they shall have
l, an open market in which to buy what
Al they want AS the senator from Mas.
d sachusetts (Mr. Dawes) said he wanted
d people to know that the bill was g
l. blow struck at labor, Mr.. Jones said
t, he reiterated the assertion with the
j. qualification that it was not blow al
re our own, but underpaid pauper labor
N That cheap labor produces natiOna
h wealth is fallacy as shown by the
lie home condition of 350,000,000 China
L. men. Was the bringing Of the little
r brown man Sort of counterbalanc,
g to the trades unions of this country
y If he may be brought here, why may
T. not the producer of his toll come in
1T Now when the lahorer is allowed tt
y get that share from his labor that civ
* iliZation has decided he shall have, tn
s little brown man is introduced. H,
ID (Mr. Jones) believed in protection, anC
had no prejudice against the cauitalist
but he would have capital and labo
-. equally protected.
g Enlargipg upon the considerable,
that the intelligence or creative geniu:
- OF the country in overcoming obsta
!, Giles, not its material resources, consti
e tutes its wealth, and that the low
70 wages of the Chinese, while beneftine
!, individual employers, would ultimately
: lmpoverish the country by removing
- the stimulant to create labor-savine
a machinery and like inventions. Mr.
Jones spoke of what he called
:, DEARTH OF INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY
. IN THE SOUTH
:. IN every department but one-that OF
= politics. This was because of the pres
:. ence of servile race there. The alb
' sence of southern names in the patent
:, offices Is an illustration. We would
. . not welcome Africans here. Their
:. presence was not a blessing to us. but
= an impeachment. The relations of the
= white and colOred races of the south
), were now no nearer adjustment than
they were years agc. He would
. propheSy that the African race would
: never be perDSitted to dominate any
. state In the south. The experiment of
!, that kind had been a dismal failure.
and failure not because we have not
tried to make it succeed, but because
laws away above human laws have
: placed one race superior to and far
above the other. The votes of the ig-
norant class might preponderate, but
intellect, not numbers. is the superior
I force in this world. We clothed the
African in union blue, and the belief
;. that he was one day to he free was a
: candle light in his soul; but it is one
5 thing to aspire to be free and another
r thing to have intelligence and sterling
qualities of character that can maintain
t free government
Subtle and adept in manipulation,
the Chinaman can be pnt into almost
any kind of factory. His race is as
g obnoxious TO us. and as impossible for
m onoTW lot ww~.N