Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-06-03

Chilian or the Americans are masters
of California, or would burn much
gunpowder to prevent a change of
rulers? Is that condition for true
American to be proud of?
The growth and development of the
sham sentimehtality about the right of
free emf grafton to this country has al
ready had mammon as its chief under
lying motive. The money-seeking
sentimentalist has recognized the OBJ
vious fact that the increase of popula-
ton has increased the value of prop
erty, and made business lively, and
there he has seen his profit.
If it were once demonstrated that
the coming hlther of any number of
the best people of the world Eng
fish, Irish, Scotch, or German-re
duced the market value of property
10 per cent, or regularly made bust
ness dull, that very day the last whis
per about the inherent right and ina
lienable right of emigration, about this
country being the home of liberty and
the refuge of the oppressed of all
nations would be hushed forever, and
in week the country would be in
arms to keep the lntruders out.
Mammon, masqurrading in the dis
guise of humanity, patriotism, and ma
tional generosity, worked its way into
our diplomatic service and gave us
the Burlingame treaty.
We charge that Arson Bnrlingame
deliberately sold his oountrys birth
right for Chinese money.
And we state the facts. Burlin-
game was American minister at Pc
kin. While there he found out what
is known to everybody familiar with
China, that the Chinese have always
been angry and dissatisfied with the
concessions extorted from them by
England, and particularly by the
ropium traffic and the raterritoria
rights, by which foreigners are exemp
from the jurisdiction of the Chinese
courts, and other concessions, all obi
Gus and rasping almost beyond endur
ance to the Chinese.
Burlingame saw here a chance, by
throwing off his American nationalit,
: and turning Chinaman, to make som'
money, and he seized it.
All that the early colonists hat
earned by their toll and suffering, al
; our revolutionary heroes had pur
chased with their blood, the land tina
has been wrested from savage natur
and savage men by the courage of GU
race, was thrown open to 450,OO0,0O'
Chinese to run over it, to take it, t
enjoy it, as freely as we, in order tina
q Mr.. Burlingame could earn hundre
|. thousand taels in Chinese silver.
l. He did not even reserve the rigl
II for the cheated Americans, whe
squeezed out Of. their own country,
"a seek refuge in China, for our res
m dence there remains strictly limited
some Is or 20 seaports, named Ion
y, before in older treaties. In the hi
d. tory of the world no such fraud wi
id ever perpetrated upon free and So
or ereign people.
d, The Burllngame treaty was col
OF ceived in fraud and chicane. 1t wi
tie negotiated at time when no treat
in was wanted by either country, III
in not for the purpose named in Il
of treaty. 1t lays that down to be
off public and natural law, which new
*, was, and never in the nature of thin
to can be such.
1t is an internationa! patent on
re face. 1t never ought to have be-
G. entered into. 1t has been delibt
he ately and solemnly abrogated in
IRE spirit. if not in the letter, by the CT
nut nese, in giving away to the Fren
'g. the railroad privileges guaranteed
ys us. For these reasons it ought to
On. abrogated and got out of the way
he our own government.
to The people of this Coast are will
ed to accept cheap labor when it con
yht naturally by excessive population,
aid in the growth and development it y
be- come in time. We object to nothi
the that is natural and Inevitable. Lal
of will be cheap when the country is t
ca of people, and the conditions of