Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-03-23

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protected rs against the European ca
italist, and who is to sell everything
he has to sell in the American market
one in whch other capitalists can moi
compete with him, while he buys that
which he has to buy, the labor of men,
in the open market. He demands fol
the latter free trade in lis brOadest
sense, and would have, not only free
tres trade in bringing in hHorer3 of
our own race, bnt Chinese, the most
sKILLFUL AND CUNNING LABORERS
of the world. The laborer, however,
is to buy Of his capitalist master in a
protective market, but that which he
himself has to sell-his labor-and
which he must sell every day, for he
can not wait, like the capitalist, for
better times or travel here and there
TO dispose Of it. lie must sell in the
openest market of the world. When
the artisans Of this country shall he
made to understand that the market
in which they sell the only thing they
have to sell is an open one. They
will demand, as one of the conditions
of their existence, that they shall have
an open market in which to buy what
they want. As the senator from Mas
sachusetts (Mr. DLwes) said he wanted
people to know that the bill was a
blow struck at labor, Mr. Jones said
he reiterated the assertion with the
qualification that it was not a blow at
our own, but underpaid pauper labor
That cheap labor produces national
wealth is Il fallacv as shown by the
home condition of 3j0,0O000O China.
men. Was the bringing of the little
brown man sort Of cOUnterbalanCc
to the trades unions of this country?
If he may be brought here, why may
not the producer of his toll come in?
Now when the lahOrcr is allowed to
get that share from his labor that civ
ilzltiOn has decided he shall have, The
little brown man is introduced. He
(Mr jones' believed in protection, and
had no prejudice against the ca italist,
but lie would have capital and labor
equally protected.
Ealarging upon the consideration
that the intelligence or creative genius
of the country in overcoming ohsta.
cles, not its material resources, cOnsti-
tu!es its wealth, and that the low
wages Of the Chinese, while henehting
individual employers, would ultimately
impoverish the country by removing
the stimulant to create labor saving
machinery and like inventions, Mr..
Jones spoke Of what he called
DEAETH OF INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY
IN THE SOUTH
in every department hut One-that of
poitic'. This was because of the pres.
ence Of servle race there. The alb
scnce 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 inpediment. The relations Of the
white and cUlOred races Of the south
were now no nearer adjustment than
they were years ag3. lie would
prOphesy that the African race would
never he pernitted to dominate any
state in the south. The experiment of
that Kind had been a dismal failure,
and a 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-
nOrmt class might prepOnderate, but
intellect, not numbers, is the superior
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
thing to aspire to be free and another
thing to have intelligence and sterling
qualities of character that can maintain
a free government.
Subtle and adept in manipulation.
the Chinaman can be put into almost
any kind of factory. His race is as
to us, and as impossible for
us to assimilate with as was the negro
race. His race has oUtlived every
other because it is homogeneous, and,
for that reason alone, it has imposed its
religion and pecularities upon its con-
querors and still lived. If immigra-
ton is not checked now, when it is
within manageable limits, il will be too
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