Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-05-28
AMERICANS vs.. CHINESE.
A POWERFUL PAPER WHICH IN.
TERESTS US ALL.
wherein the Heathens are q Standing
Menace to Americans aud their Insti.
tutions-The Anti. Chinese Memorial

For eight hundred years the Moors
carried on struggle for possession of
the Spanish peninsula.
1t was eight centuries of perpetual
warfare, in which the soil was
drenched with human gore. AT last
Ferdinand and Isabella, of CASTLE
and Aragon, gained decisive victory,
and, without waiting for the enemy to
recuperate and renew the struggle,
deported the entire mass of the Moor.
ish people.
1t was for a time money out of
pocket, for the Moors were skillful
artisans and very industrious.
The cheap labor and material pros.
peri.y advocates think it was mistake
and books have been written to show
the unwisdom of it.
| But that was a mistake which made
Spain homogeneous; which gave her
that which she had not had for eight
hundred years-peace at home and
security abroad.
And in support of this theory, with
In century of the expulsion Of the
Moors, there rose up the Spanish EN-
pire of Charles V and Phillip II, the
first powers of the globe and which
dominated both hemispheres..
They may have lost with the Moors
the art of making Cordovan leather,
but they retained that of making good
steel. Within fifty years after the
Moors had gone the Toledo sword had
carried the name and power of Spain
from Seville to Sacramento, where we
now stand.
But for the expulsion of the Moors,
it Is possible that Cortez, instead of
carrying the Spanish banner to the
Gulf of California, might have spent
his valor and his life fighting that peo-
pie for his own home in Andalusia, as
his ancestors had been doing for eight
centuries.
Toward the end Of the seventeenth
century there occurred what has been
called the expulsion of the Hug uenots
from France by Louis XIV.
That people, from religious persecu-
ton, or what goes in our histories by
that name, took refuge in England.
But it should not be forgotten that
| where church and State are one, and
especially in a religious age, politics
and religion are so merged as to be
practically identical.
AS to the injustice of forcing the
consciences of men in matters of faith.
it will not, in this day and age, be
questioned. But as to the supposed
folly of France losing the Huguenots,
there are plainly two sides to the ques-
ton.
The Huguenots, while in many re.
spects excellent people, and in all
respects as good as the rest of the
people of their time, were religious
fanatics of the most exasperating
type, in an age of extreme religious
fanaticism. They we're always ready
to prosecute OF be prosecuted, to suffer
or inAict martyrdom, as the wheel OF
fortune should give to or take from
them the power.
They were disaffected and seditious
to degree that made them always an
element of danger to the general
peace and safety. They were con,
stantly corresponding and intriguing
and plotting with every public enemy,
and especially with England, the most
dangerous OF them all.
The position of France, then as now
surrounded by powerful and aggres-
slve States, was one of great peril;
and the Huguenots contributed at all
times to materially increase this dan
ger by their disafection and disloyal
Vaccinations. In this respect their
departure was a distinct benefit to
France.
| No doubt they were considerable
advantage to England, aud that she
was the gamer in every respect by
their coming.
i But France was not the loser, mol
in the long run were the Huguenots
They found country where the oeo
pie agreed with them, while France
obtained homogeneity and. peace
which she surely needed; and as fol
the arts, she has ever since held anc