Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-09-21
THE IRISH AND CHIMES.
A London Journals Comparison of 81
Two Glasses In the United States, to tl

mt Oulcse, uS 10 luOTe lllan prODdDl'
oh I there is speedy reversal of the polio
'in which, in utter defiance of the sanctit
~ OF treaty obligations, the state of Cal
~. fornia has recently forced the Washing
W ton government to adopt, it will here
~, after be found that the 4th of August
m 1882, was day ''tO be much observed
w. by the dwellers upon the Pacific coas
40 40 of the United States. On and aftertha
os o date the Chinese emigrants, who ha,
of ~ begun to flock into the great republic
" ', as air rushes into an exhausted receiver
~ were forbidden TO disembark upon tn,
. shores of the epromised land; nor woult
-, it be easy to adduce more cogent in
ii stance of shortsighted legislation thar
!, ~ that typiiied by the passage of law
10 analogous in effect to the action of q
y, ~ man who cuts off his nose to spite hi,
~ face It's notorious that labor is the great
u u desideratum of California and Oregon
i" and adjacent states, so that, whilo the
= :, soil is layishly generous, il is impossible
y to buy an article produced by labor
! without paying three, four, or. in some
cases, dozen prices for it. No city in
the union can, for instance, be found
v where coats, boots, hats, gloves, UNI
: brellas, and all other manufactured ar
y ticles are so dear as at San Francisco:
u and, simultaneously, grain of all kinds,
fruit, game, fish, and native wine can
: be bought cheaper and better than any
where else in the United States. With
!; country so bountifully endowed, pos
: = sesSed of an amount of natural but un-
developed wealth with which few lands
can compare, what can be more obvi-
GUS than that industrious immigrants
are wanted in large numbers, and that
for the state to exclude and ostracise
them must be in the highest degree
suicidal? Under these circumstances
1t will with difficulty be believed that
the Irish inhabitants of San Francisco,
always the curse of the city, have bull
lied their American fellow-ctizens in
to shutting out the best, the most pa
tient. and the soberest laborers in the
world, from land which eagerly de-
mands theirpresence. - :.
That the unsparing use of the revolver
and dagger-tho latter being the chosen
weapon of the California "hoodlum" |
would soon be resortcd to, we enter
tain no sort of doubt, were itnot that San
Francisco has more than once shown
a remarkable alacrity in establishing
vigilance committees" which are in
the habit of giving short shrift to
murderers, of whom the vast majority
are as cowardly as they are cruel. The
condition of affairs, however, at this
moment on the Pacific slope of North
America, and in many other parts of
the union, leads naturally to the ques-
tion, 'Why is the American nation so
tolerant of asection of their population
which contributes more candidates for
admission to jails, penitentiaries, luna
tic asylumns, and poor houses, than all
the rest OF their inhabitants combined?n
The answer is, of course, forthcoming
in the fact that manhood suffrage pre-
walls in the United States; that the Irish
are numerous, and in some of the wards
of big American cities overpowering in
numbers; that PADDY from Cork" and
his congeners are born orators, or, at {
any rate, ready stump-spcakers, and !
that political agitation is their natural I
element. 1t ought not to be forgotten
that even among cultivated and re-
fined American citizens who know !
England thoroughly, and have been !,
Hospitality entertained here by English !
men of the highest rank and standing,
there is not unfrcquently an ineradi- =
cable tendency to gird at the "old coun- :,
try" when they get back to their own :,
homes upon the other side of the At T.
lantic. The result is that articles are
daily published in American journals
about England and Ireland which are L
strangely at variance with the compli- p
mcntary and culOgistic comments pub Il
lishcd in the English journals about the e
United States. For this we have to u
thank the troubled and storm-tossed 81
island which lies beyond ST. Georges e
channel and which, so far as its II
American sons and daughters can &
shape the future, would like nothing p
better than to stir up war of the most
violent and embittered kind between d
the United States and~thc mother coun- W
try. Every triumph gained by the Irish a
Americans over their fellow citizens a
such, for instance, as the Chinese eX- W
clusion bills blow aimed at Eng II
land, although in this case we believe tC
that it will rebound to the advantage al
of the Dominion of Canada, which the ri
Irish Americans hate as much as they Fl
dd England. a.
Against the determination of the
United States to bar their boundless II
dominions against 'yellow labour," n,
we have no desire or inclination to re- II
but it is impossible for us to 6
shut our eyes to the hollowness of the a,
disguises by which the Irish endeavor NJ
to hide their national hatred of their N
Oriental rivals. 1t is pretended, for NJ
instance, that the Irish were too relig- II
ious to tolerate the presence of Budd- n,
hists upon American soil, and, second r
ly, that the Chinese must necessarily 6,
be immoral because they bring no wives fr
with them to their new homes. Fur
thermore, it is alleged that the filthy a
habits of the newcomers, no less than +.
the diseases which they introduce with g. g.
them make them very undesirable adj ~
ditions to so moral and cleanly city 4.
as "the Queen of the Pacific" Against II.
lHCoO iilhoI SnulScS IL is urputu IHtJ ~
the Chinese are neither so immoral nor r,
so dirty as Paddy from Cork" that y, a.
they drink no whisky, and are singular ~ ~
ly free from larcenous and thieving W "
propensities; that they have no polti- u y,
cal ambition, and no desire to wire-pull III III
and to interfere in American elections. II, II,
The last of all the objections advanced Vi
against the ''yellow strangers" is that -,
hey never take root in their new coun- VI
Try, but return to their native land, ca
when, by superhuman thrift and self qu
lenial, they have earned sufficient M
for their old age. In other OF
words. the Chinaman keeps laundry, an
,cts as a cook and household servant, pa
yrows vegetables, delves as miner, ha
ays down railway tracks, and fulfills a SUI
core of menial services to which no ma
rishman will stoop, and, having con- q
erred incalculable benefits upon his a.
California employers for twenty or pl
hirty years, is branded as nuisance sic
because he carries his hardly-earned an
avings-at best an insignificant sum tn
o the land of his birth. at
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