Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-05-25
A POWERFUL PAPER WHICH IN.
TERESTS Us ALL.
wherein the Heathens are q Standing
Menace to Americans and their Insti.
tutions-The Ants~CAInese Memorial
to Congress.
Continued

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soil produces three good crops year.
They possess everything to make
happy people, if soil and climate
would do it. Every prospect pleases
and only man is vile" They are
cursed with the evil of heterogeneity
in everything.
In the Indian village the inhabi-
tants are often of several different
races or subdivisions of three or four
races, differing both in color and phy-
steal type, while their antagonism is
so intense that, though born in the
same village, they can not sleep in
the same camp or eat of the same
food or drink at the same fountain lest
they be de6led and cast out as unclean
by their own people.
AS a consequence of these facts,
and as direct and natural result of
them, this fair land of India, with its
266,OOO,000 of mixed and mingled
races, its mongrels and half.breeds, is
a great slave-pen to Great Britain.
One hundred thousand blue-eved,
pnre-blooded Anglo-Saxons tells this
mighty throng of particolored hu-
mainly to go and they, 60, to come
and they come. The English take
advantage of Indian heterogeneity to
subjugate the land.
This could not be done with any
homogeneous nation. China would
be richer prize to England than two
lndias. And what England wants
she takes, If force will take it. But
the Cinnamon are all of one kind, one
family, one race, one language and
literature, and one religion, and can
no more be set to kill each other than
could the same number of white sheen.
The Englishman may kill the China
man, but he can not give him a gun
and make him kill his brother, nor his
neighbor, nor his countryman, and so
China remains free.
The Chinese, weak and timid as
they are, are still the strong people of
ASIA. No intelligent man can visit
the far East without being impressed
strongly with respect for that nation,
both in its collective character as a
State, and its individual people, when
compared with the other Asiatics.
1t is one of the great strong powers
of the earth, and it is on the earth to
stay. "God hath made of one blood
all. nations of men," but ale hath
fixed the bounds of their habitations. -"
The Chinaman has his habitation
let him stay in it, as God has fixed it.
But our Eastern fellow citizens ask
us, What are we going to do with our
grand American principles of the sa-
cred rights of expatriation and of free
immigration? Has not a man in the
pursuit of happiness the right to go
anywhere he may choose to go? Is
not expatriation a natural and inalien-
able human right9 We say no.
There is no such thing as an absolute
right either of expatriation or emf.
grafton. - t....' d.
| A man has the right to enter and
inhabit any county that will consent
to it; in a word, that will allow HIN
to come, and there his right as a right
ceases and passes into the domain Of
necessity and force.
In one sense, any man or body Of
| men, driven from their own country
by necessity, have the right as a mat
ter of self-preservation to enter an
other country by force, but it il
justified as the struggle for existence
is justified, and comes to be the righ
of the strongest, like the struggle
over plank in shipwreck.
The children of Israel emigratec
from Egypt because they were badly
situated. When they came to tn
land OF promise, after having satisfied
themselves that it was a land to thei
minds and flowing with milk ano
honey, they drew their swords, en-
tered, and took it. 1t is true tn
Lord had given it to them, but it wa
their swords and spears that availe'
to put them in possession.
| We do not hear that either part
talked about the sacred right of emf
grafton or expatriation.