Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-09-14
Senator Jones OF Nevada Makes q Speech
on the Chinese Question.

on the Chinese Question.
WASHINGTON, September 13th.-After some
a1nimportant business in the Senate this morn
ing the Chinese exclusion bill was taken up,
and Jones of Nevada addressed the Senate. He
said the discussion now was reduced to that
point whether immediate action should be
taken to prevent the influx of that vile stream
of Monaghan barbarians into the pEre waters of
American civilization. or whether the people
would have to wait until the chinese Govern
ment should conclude 70 afford relief He ought
to say that when the Democratic party
after 1865, took off its gray uniform and put
on the g1rb Of the working citizen, it
was at a loss for g platform. The Democrats
had been Aoundering around for some position
on which 20 stand, and they in 1872 Lit upon q
curious platform with the hgh priest O. protec-
ton in command of the troops, and il it they
put aR anti-Chinese plank. Jones alluded to
the advance of the Chinese in California and the
evil consequences flo wing from Their presence
| there, and SAID the Democrats had not shown
muca zeal in respect to-Chfnese exc luSIon. The
| positions Of the two parties after rthe war had
| becl eutiraly different. The Republican party
| believed that the declaration of Independence
/ was intended for all men WITH out regard to
color. Afer the-HaT, III which the shackles
( lad been struck from the limbs of four million
people. they were III no humor to listen to q
! proposition to exclude any race. The Demo
Gratis, on the other hand, Believed that the de-
claration of independence meant that all white
men were equal They had had long
and had no use for it" when they could
not enslave IT, and were therefore ready to vote
to exclude il. So listless shas the Democrats
\ been in support OF their anti-Chinese PROPOSE
| tions, that the Ieople oftne Pacific coast did
! not believe much in their sincerity. The peo-
pile of hePacific coast knew that if they rcould
once get the majority Of Republicans On their
side they would see that justice was done TO
chem.
4 Vest ssid he had never been able to under
whether there was difference of Opinion be-
4 tween the Republican party at large and the
4 Republicans of the Pacific slope as to the mean
/ ing of the Declaration OF Independence. Did
the Senator from Nevada mean to say that that
| difference existed or did the Senator agree
with the Democratic party that this was a
white mans government?
| Jones replied that as boy he had heard on
| every patriotic occasion speeches declaring the
United States to be the home of the oppressed
| OF al nations, but when he went TO the Pacific
Coast and saw how impossible ii was Tor the
| Chinese to assimilate with Americans he be-
eaizae convinced that it was impossible for two
distinct and dfssimiIar races to prosper side by
side in the same country. The barbarous econ
envy of the Chinese would take possession of
| every avenue of industry TO the exclusion of
Americans and he Uones) was in favor of de-
| Tending his own people, and defending them
quickly. The evils of Chinese immigration, he
| said. was increasing daily. Hundreds and
| thousands of Cinnamon were coming annu-
| ally into the country aIr6 driving Aneri-
cans out OF employment. Were the peo-
pie, he asked, TO wait upon gilt-edged
diplomacy until the barbazic Government OF
China should say that it was willing the Govern
| ment should exclude that horde of immigration
| which everyone Dellefed TO be an lrreparable
| injury to the country? The people of The Pa
eIfic coast demanded that there should be no
more delay. They said the subject was one
over which the Government was sovereign, and
that 1t was derogatory to the dignity of the
American people that they should ask the hi
| nese Government to join with them before they
could decide who should be domiciled in this
country. Those Senators VINO would vote for fur
| Their delay might find great reward in the fact
| that they had maintained the gilt-edged diplo-
| matte conditions undisturbed, but those who
would vote for the immediate passage of the
not only by the present population of the Pacific
coast; butby the many millions who are to ill.,
habit il in the future.