Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20

OF the racine. we are convinced mat
we cannot safely make these subjects
of yours citizens of the Republic, and
we deprecate their presence and in
crease as serfs.
Now, if we mean what we said to the
Chinese Emperor, period of twenty
years suspension can hardly be regarded
as an extravagant measure of the new
policy inaugurated by the treaty. VIII
period less than this quiet agitation
on this great leading question of the
cauntry, inspire hope aud faith in the
heart of American labor, and afford to
ourselves and the world just and fair
test of the wisdom Of this new policy?
AMERICANS HIVE DECIDED CONVICTIONS.
Standing, as / believe a majority of
the American Congress does, upon the
provisians of this bill substantially as
they are, we are not, in my humble
judgment, in advance of the sentiment
of the American people. The President
recognized this fact in his message to
Congress. The two great political or
CARNATIONS which compass the political
power of this country have recognized
it in the platforms of their political faith.
remember well, sir, the occasion and
the hour when. in the face of this senti-
ment cherished by the American people
as an abiding conviction, our noble can
didate for the Presidency trembled, like
Belshazzar at the writing on the wall,
as infamour forgery attempted to betray
his sentiments and pledges on this great
question.
r Ite
question within the walls of the Chinese
Empire. | am not studying Confucius
for light on this subject.
CHEESE CIVILIZATION Is NOT OUR CIV
ILIZATION,
| am not inquiring how many differ
ent kinds of gads the inventive genius
of Chinese idolatry has created. Ikrow
this, however, that Chinese civilization
has drawn more from the darkness of
the medieval ages than from the light
of the nineteenth century; and | know
that if the segment of her population
now upon the the Pacific shores is the
standard and measure of her home civ
ilization, it is of the lowest order Go
to California and study it as it appears
there in all its phases consider this
question as it confronts you at home,
not in China.
THE MoNSTROSITY OF THE COOLIE LABOR
SYSTEM.
The system of labor that now darkens
the fair lands of the Pacific coast en-
brace $50, 900 coolies. 1t embraces an
adult male population equal to more
than One-third of the entire voting power
of that State 1t lives in herds and
sleeps like packs of dogs in kennels. 1t
subsists on loathsome food, and all the
methods of its living are revolving to
human nature. 1t is monstrosity
whose touch blasts our civic virtues and
paralyzes our system of labor. 1t has
been there thirty years and more, and
Christianity has not yet pierced the
walls of its heather superstitions or re-
moved a pagan god from its affairs. A
hundred and fifty thousand of them
swarm the Pacific coast, equal in num-
Der to the population of Dakota, that
now asks admission as State in the
American Union; and yet in all this num-
Der and in all these years they have not
yet established one family home of a
~ pO hhVNH W Jul CihillHdtltn.
THE CHINESE cody DOES NOT KNOW
OUR HOME.
The grandest institution we have in
all our civilization is totally disregarded
and unknown to them. The corner
stone upon which our fathers bulded
and upon which our whole fabric of free
government rests they reject. Who can
measure the influence of the homes of
New England in the last hundred years
upon the civilization of our country and
the world? Where does liberty find the
sources of her strength but in the homes
of America? We want no element of
humanity added to our own that does
not recognize its Importance and that
will not maintain and defend it to the
last. The sweetest picture that Tenny-
son hung upon the walls of his Palace
of Art was of an English home:
An English home-gray twilight poured
On dewv pastures, dewy trees
Softer than sleep-all things in order stored
a haunt OF ancient peace.
WE WILL LOOSE NOTHING BY SUSPEND
ING cody IMPORTATION.
And now, sir viewing this question in
all its relations TO ourselves as a nation
and to the world, | believe that this is
to the advantage of all concerned that