The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-18
A BOLD REPUBL1cAH.

A BOLD REPUBLIcAu.
Senator Jones, Of Nevada, Fsvors .
White Mans Gevernnent.
WARRINGTON, March 9.-In the
course of his speech in the Senate to-
day In favor OF the Chiuese bill, MI.
Jones, of Nevada, enlarged upon the
consideration that the intelligence or
creative genius of . country In over
coming obstacles, not Its material re-
sources, constitutes Its wealth.
He said that the low wages of the
Chinese, while benedting individual
employers, would ultimately impover-
ish that country by removing the slim
ulant to create labor-saving machinery
aud like inventions. Mr.. Jones spoke
of what he called the dearth of intel
lect,aal activity in the South In every
department but one-that Of politics.
This was because of the presence Of the
servile race there.
The absence of Southern names In
the patent ONCE is an illustration. We
would not welcome Africans here.
Their presence was not q blessing to US,
but an impeachment In our way. The
relations of the white and colored
races of the South were now no nearer
adjustment than they were years ago.
He would prophecy that the African
race would never be permitted to DOM
mate any State in the South. The ex-
pertinent to that end had been a dis.
NAL failure-a failure, not because We
have not tried to make 1t success, but
because laws away above human laws
have placed one race superior to and
far above the other.
The votes of the ignorant class might
predominant but intellect, not num-
bers, is the superior force In this world.
We clothed the African in Union
blue, ana the belief that he was one
day to be free was the candle light In
his soul. But 1t is one thing to aspire
Intelligence aud sterling qualities of
character that can maintain free gov
eminent.
| Mr.. Jones here expressed his belief
that, If left alone to maintain govern
ment the negro would gradually retro
grade and 60 back to the methods OF
his ancestors. This, he added, may be
heresy, but believe it to be true.
| II, when the first shipload of African
slaves came to this country the belief
had spread that they would be the
cause of political agitation and civil
war, and the future had been foreseen,
would they have been allowed to land?
How much of this country would now
be worth preserving if the North had
been covered by the Africans, as is
South Carolina to-day? In view of
their non-assimilative character the
wisest policy would have been to ex-
clude them at the outset. So we say of
the Chinese to-day, and for the greater
reason because their skill makes them
more formidable competitors than
negroes.
SUPPLE and adept in manipulation, the
! Chinaman can be put into almost any
kind of factory. His race is as obnox-
ious to us and as impossible for us to
assimilate with as the negro race. His
race has outlived every other, because
1t is homogeneous, and for that reason
alone it has imposed Its religion and
peculiarities upon its conquerors and
still lived.
! If immigration is not checked now,
when it is within manageable limits,
it will be too late to check 1t. What
do we find in the condition of the In
dams or Africans to induce US to admit
another race In our mldst3 It is be-
cause the Pacific coast favors our civil
ization, not that of another race, that
they discourage the coming OF these
people.
They believe in the homogeneity of
our race, and that upon this depends
the progress of our Institutions and ev
erything ON which we build our hopes.
Upon the conclusion of his remarks,
which were extemperaneous and heard
with unusual interest on both sides OF
the chamber, Mr.. Jones was warmly
congratulated by senators upon his
effective presentation of the question.
shreveport Standard, l4th.l
The work of grading the road bed for
the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific
railway was commenced yesterday
morning about twenty-five hundred
river, by the penitentiary convicts
under charge of Captain Sanchez, and
it was remarkable to see with what
| rapidity the dirt was thrown up, AS