Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-03-19
NOT WITHOUT TROUBLE.

The Enterprise, in discussing the
question of the Chinese exodus,
echoes long note of discomfort
which comes waited down to US
from the Oregonlan, paper pub
lished in Portland and now under
boycott. The burden Of the argu-
ment is that the Kidding of the
country of the Chinese has brought
great Inconvenience upon it, and
that there is distress everywhere.
1t argues that the presence OF the
Chinese is indispensable and that
innumerable hardsnips result from
their absense.
Ifall this is true, then let US admit
at once that the sturdy, hardy, in
dependent people Of this Coast,
whose ancestors fought Indians
and grizzlies, and faced the storms
and bardships of 40 have left be-
hind them a weak and degenerate
race of people, who at the pres
ent day, with the superior advan-
tages of more advanced civlllza-
ton, are as helpless as children
without the assistance OF slaves
from Tartery. This is a humiliat-
ing admission for any paper to
make, and we do not wonder that
the gorge Of the people Of Oregon
rose at it.
We deny that the Chinese are an
essential to the people of the Pa
cific Coast and anyone who claims
them as such, charges the Coast
with etfeminancy and decay.
Now let us admit the fact that a
sudden change from Chinese labor
to something else will work hard
ship. Any sudden change OF con-
dition and surroundings Is apt TO
be attended with discomfort. There
are discomforts attending the Chi
nese exodus, but these discomforts
need cast down no man nor woman
who has any independence of char
acter or determination of will.
None of these obstacles in the way
are insurmountaDle, and should
cease to be regarded as such except
by the hating and timid.
We are now brought face to face
with a great problem; question
full of seriousness and frelghted
with great responsibilities. Any
man with an observing eye and a
thinking mind, who is willing to
look beyond the present, can read
lily realize that the failure Of this
effort to deliver the country from
the grip of the Mongol upon its
throat, means legacy of poverty
and disgrace to posterity. The
man who is not willing for the sake
Of his children, to endure some
hardships, is neither true to his
country nor himself
Why should any one refuse to
eat poorly cooked food for few
months? Why should he decline
an alliance with poorly laundried
shirts? And why should we shirk
from manual labor, when we realize
that these sacrifices mean a deliv-
erence for those who come after US?
We heard lady say a few days
ago: How can l get my food prop
erly cooked?'
Many say this who do not seem
to realize that through the presence
of the Chinese here there are hum
dreds who do not ask how they
shall cook their food, but how they
shall get their food at all.
IF you plant a tree the task is at
tended with some trouble, and ten
to one you will not live to see it a
majestic shade, but people will
come after you who will enjoy it
years after you are dead.
If you imagine that you will not
reap all immediate benefit from
your action, do not imagine that
the benefit will not come to some
body, just as the good work done
by our forefathers in the Revolu-
ton resulted In glorious Repub-
lie. It would have been sad
thing for those men to have known
that they rescued us from the
British to be delivered over to the
Chinese. :.