Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-08
DAILY POST INTELLIeENcER


horrible and inaccessible, bss Is y
hasty Judgment that condemns only TIE
noting piners- Illegal and wrong ~
their actions are, the blame u nos sosirs
slone. II must be shared By others
BY others living and stters dead. IL
mast be shared By the ssortsashtec
statesmen ard more shOrtsaehted PEG
pie who failed 70 crush the evil Of chi
psss immigration in It's infancy, ere Il
vas strong snoash 20 defy both people
and Laws: il asss be shared By the
company vhJch imported the Aonso-
lians into Wyoming AID provided them
With work .. the srpenss Of the Amer
can miners, zbo we're thereby forced 10
ooutenFlats the probability Of Iona
idlspess and The possibility Of siarva
tiop; Ia mus, be shared by the corrupt
and orspstens officials vha have al
loved the stream 81 Asistia iGmigra-
ton 70 60x on In spite Of laws and
rseuIations; il must be shared BY The
mistaken philaDthropisss add IDLE thee
rists, East and West, Who IN their /
saRerness 70 extend the hand OF fei-
lovship 10 people Of ali races and ma |
tlonasifies, allowed Themselves 10 forget |
the principle that self preservation IL
the hrst lag Of nsiare--a pfibeiple |
which gill assert iiself and IL asserting
itself continually, asserting itself 10
spits Of religions and cresds, In spite Of
laws and prscepta, in spite Of humanity
itself. Often, a. 10 the present case,
men break forth 10 desperate lssiess
ness, in wild passion. The uB;binkinR |
condemn them numerically. Iboss |
who think still condemn. bat With their |
condemnation u mingled sympathy !
that is founded ON reason and not on
sentiment.
The greatness Of guilt cannot be
measured until the strength Of the
.smptati0n 10 known. Often a mob Will
commit this most Outrageous excesses;
u will burn, wound and kill. The men
who compose 1t seen % have Invested
themselves Of the cloak OF humanity
and 10 have barred 10 the world the de
mon that turks somewhere In each one
OF us. Yet, when all the facts Of the
case are calmly and fairly con
sidsred, when motives are known
and understood, when incsntives TO pas
sion and causes Of desperation are no
,onger hidden, the candid observer
acknowledges that the mad rioters are
a. much sinned against a. sinning; that
they are often forced 10 then execsses
by circumstances which they could not
control and hurried on In their eareer
by events Of which they had not the
ordering. 10 the Chinese question there
h third race problem for the Ameri
can people 10 work out TO Q solution.
Over the other two the Nation has long
pendered, and a. II pondersd there have
been shroes and upheavsls in which our
best and bravesi we're lost fsrsysr. Il
may be that the third problem, like the
other tvo, must be worked out in blsod.
He would be rash prophet indeed. who
would say that il will not be %.
Ia the meantime one must not with
hold condemnation from tbs guilty nor
sympathy from the suffering. The guilt
Of the Wyoming miner should not rest
Ices heavily upon him tecaase IL rests
upon thousands Of otbers-apon thou
sands Of whon be knows. and other
thousands OF whom be knows NOT and
whoa be would never dream of connect
Ing With bis troubles. The Boston phi
lanfhropist Who weleones this alien
race and calls It's people his brothers
forgetting that their coming means the
ruin and death Of Others whose white
faces and Saxon speech give them
right 10 DO called his brethren that Is
far stronger and for more enduring
thab the hlmy and elusive right arising
from tbs natural brotherhood Of man.
probably feels no twings Of conscience
when he reads Of the massacre 10 wyo-
ming. He ecrdems those Who ain. but
no spirit whispers 10 him that he. too, 10
u the sinnersL
Psshsps The people Who suffer most
10 an uprising socs % that at Rock
springs. are shsse vbs are least TO
blawe. We have no reason to believe
that the murdered Cinnamon did any.
thing 10 invite the death which came
upon them 90 saddealy. 10 IL as alb |
sard 70 blame the individual ChinanaaH |
for The difficulties and dangers Of the |
Oainese question ~ u would be 10 blame |
The individual negro fog the rebellion
and ltx ealauitiea. Nations and PEG
pies sin 1 individuals safer all alone.
Slavery vas the sin 81 . whole people,
bat each colder uho died on Sea,hera
battle Geld paid the penalty AZ II be
aiens had bean the sinner. Others suf.
fered With hin. bot they did not share
hia scferinga Each ucafning woman.
whether she wept for the dead soldier
In blue or The dead ssldier in gray, saf
fered ~ u for sin that Vas all her
cwn- Others mo1rrcd. bat they did
not mourn for her los, one; Others vep,. |
but their tears were not for her sorrow.
SO the individual Chinsman ssfIen
for q sin or a mistake that IL not his
own. What motives rrempsed him 10
come 10 Asssfis& Il % not easy to tell
Ths OhinanaAn dose not naAs . eoaa.
dana ~ the vhias naAa. and one cannot |
kscv vAas Ne really thinks and hy |
what considerations be is moved. But
seasraily u may be said that each Chi |
namsn Who hss crssssd the Pacific did |
- 10 the hope Of making his condition
better did % in the search for greater
hsppanesL He found NE doors open |
and be cane 10. The wrong. thea. cas-
not his; n vas r~shss that Of The peo-
pie who we're behind the doors and
who should have keps them closed 80 |
thai strangers voald pass BY and rot |
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