Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-05-24
AMERICANS Us. CHINESE.
A POWERFUL PAPER WHICH IN.
TERESTS US ALL.
Wherein the Heathens are q Standing
Menace to Americans and their Insti.
tutiOns-The Anti.Chi nese Memorial
to Congress.
Continued

Continued.
Whether the Pacific States are 10
be the home of 100000 free citi-
zens or of 3O,0OO,OOO Mongolians
from Eastern Asia, or, perhaps even
worse, of 30,OOO,OOO of mixed and
mongrel half-breeds, possessing none
of the virtues of either and all the
wees OF both, is to be settled finally.
In the life and death struggle now
going on for the possession of the
western shores of the American con-
tlnent, the Chinese have advantages
that must secure to them, if not a
complete victory, at least drawn bat
tie in division of occupancy with US.
They have hive of four hundred
and fifty millions to draw from, with
only one ocean to cross, which divid-
ing water modern science and Cauca-
sian ingenuity have reduced to the
dimensions of the merest ferry, and
they have behind them an impulsive
force of hunger unknown to any
European people.
They have an important ally in the
cupidity of our own people, who too
often think that cheap labor and the
money profit to be gained by it is of
more value than the happiness and
permanence of their own country and
kindred.
The people Of the Pacific make no
pretense to an exceptionally high
standard of public virtue; but they
are not willing to admit that the &C
emulation of wealth, public or pri-
vate, is the chief end and purpose of
organized society.
We hold ourselves to be the trust
ees of posterity. We are keeping
the soil of this fair land for the thirty
million of Americans of our own race
and kindred who are to come after US.
To barter away their places, while
they are yet unborn, is gross viola
ton of duty.
Our common ancestors came to the
American continent to found State
The greatness OF a nation does not
lie in its money or in its material
prosperity, but in its men and women;
and not in their number, but in their
quality, in their virtue, honor, integri,
ty, truth, and, above all things, ir
their courage and manhood.
TO a nation that is to remain free
the capacity to fight is indispensable
1t is not enough that it be able tc
trade and barter, or to work and pro
duce; it must be able to fight anC
defend what it has.
The strong nations of the earth ar,
now, as they always have been, thu
most thoroughly homogeneous nations
that is to say, the most nearly of on
race, language and manners.
And when they are of one race, i
, is not so material what race, as tina
they be of pure race. The purest
| blooded man of any race is the strong
est man of that race.
t The largest body Of men of sin
gle pure race on the earth to-day is i
China. There are four hundred an
,, fifty million of them as like as on
I barley corn is like another. All tn
7 white men on the globe, whenever S
3 carefully counted, scarcely amount t
I SO much, and they are divided into
score or more of independent sovel
{. eighties, ten times as many language
and as for religious sects the bodies
statistician has not the courage I
= attempt their enumeration.
S While we of the European race al
: divided into fifty hostile camps, an
S fight each other like SO many savae
Apaches, China is one and indivisibl
t And though the Chinese are I
timid as flock of sheep, know notl
l. ing of physical science and Its r
l. sources, and have none of the arts
" attack and defense, yet the very inc
tia of that huge mass of crystalline
If homogeneity has thus far withstoo
! the plundering instincts of the ives
d ern powers, and China remains VI
= conquered.
There they stand, one full third
l. the human race, a great, invincibl
D. concrete, chronological fact, comman
3. ing respect and requiring mankil
to pause and consider whether Il