Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-05-26
AMERICANS VS.. CHINESE.
POWERFUL PAPER WHICH IN.
TERESTS US ALL.
wherein the Heathens are q Standing
Menace to Americans aud their Insti.
tntions-The Chinese Memorial
to Congress.
Continued

Wv "SSSis tiot ehc Immigration,
whether voluntary or forced into a
country, of -assimilative races is
always public calamity.
The same spirit of greed and ava
rice which is at the bottom of the
coolie immigration of this age lay at
the bottom and was the impelling mo.
tive for the forced immigration of
African slaves into the country.
No doubt the slave traders and slave
purchasers of that day tried to make
the world believe that they were do
ing good, and that their motives were
noble and patriotic. Men are fond Of
giving themselves credit for lofty mo-
tives in all they do.
No doubt they talked loudly about
developing the resources of the coun-
try, and about Outstanding the poor
African, but at the bottom was the
old mammon of cheap labor, and the
money to be got out of it. The world
has not changed much.
The selishness of those men has
already borne much bitter fruit;
through it the curse of race hetero-
geneity has taken deep root in the soil
OF our common country. Out of that
evil we have had one bloody war for
which the nation has not yet thrown
off its mourning. But the war was
nothing to what it left behind. 1t is
true that it settled the slave question.
But the negro question, the question
of the relations between the white
man and the black man, and the reIa-
tons of each to the State has only
just begun. Twenty generations of
men will not see it ended.
And our fellow -countrymen who
are compelled to carry on govern
ment under such conditions, to pre-
serve order and maintain law and civ
llized society, are entitled to the sym
pathy of all thoughtful people; they
have task the difficulties of which
are not appreciated.
But for the effort to get cheap labor
hundred years ago all the States of
the Union, from the Lakes to the
Gulf, would to-day have the same peo-
pie, the same prosperity, and the same
political system, same schools and
academies, that now exist in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Illinois.
The only difference, if any, would
be that the territory south of the
Ohio, having the mildest climate aud
the richest soil, would now have the
densest population and most rapid
progress and development, and the
greatest accumulation of wealth and
enlightenment.
Is there any man East or West,
North or South, white or colored, who,
after reflection, will not admit that it
would be better if the colored man
had been leftin Africa, and the South,
ern States were without race friction
and race antagonism!
But for the mixed population of the
South those States would never have
gone to war; there would have been
no rebellion. And had they gone to
war, having 100000 white men
united in sentiment as the white men
were, instead of 100000 white and
100000 colored, and fighting as they
did defensive war on interior lines,
they could not have been conquered
Their weakness, which, like blind
Sampson, they saw not, lay in the four
million men of another race planted
there in the heart of their country,
carrying information, aid, and comfor,
to the enemy, always requiring to be
watched, and whom they did not dare
to trust with arms.
If ever this country is invaded by q
foreign foe, it is in South Carolina and
in Louisiana and in Florida the enemy
will attempt Judgment. Not because
of the disloyalty of the white popula
ton, but the indifference, the discon
tent, the disaffection of the colored
We doubt If a genuine republican
government, as we Americans under
stand the term, meaning government
in which all the people govern, par
ticipate equally, under the condition
existing in the South, namely, witt
one-third of the population of on
race and two-thirds of another, is