Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-29
FRIDAY, JUNE 90, 1888.
rhe Assemp. to Make Binck white.

~ IN iuipofthut thhbs ~ thC oueoop VI eho
present campaign, the precise attitude Of
Gen. Harrison on the Chinese and Labor
questions should be thoroughly known.
OF course, II we establish that he has
been the friend OF the Coolie that fact
alone demonstrates his hostility to Cau-
casian labor, on the geometrical prin ciple
that the greater contains the less. We
are told in the scripture that you cannot
serve God and Mammon. Christ an
nounced that he who was not for him
was against him, and the parable Of the
house divided against itself is familiar to
every one Gen. Harrison will not be
permitted, in the coming campaign, to
carry water on both shoulders. Ii he has
been the dsmonstrative friend of
the Chinese, as Mr.. Michael H.
De Young, Of the Chronicle, and
Gen. Dimond, assert him to have been,
and as facts officially presented will
prove, no after-thought will avail to
protect him with the voters Of this Coast.
Our esteemed contemporary, the San
Francisco Call has the following chunks
of wisdom, "sold chunks, " in connection
with Gen. Harrison's painful record in
this matter:
1t is hardly worth while to 60 back to
1860 to ascertain the views OF a public
man on question 80 little understood as
that of Chinese immigration. 1t is OF
vastly more importance to know what he
thinks now and what his record has been
since the question became a national one.
When anti Chinese legislation was first
proposed it did not commend itself to
General Harrison's judgment. In those
years he entertained the views which the
Cleveland Administration still enter
tains.
This is short paragraph and it con-
tains three lies. Lie No. is as to
Gen. Harrison's position on the Chinese
question. That gentleman does not oc-
cupy the position on the Chinese ques-
ton occupied by Mr.. Cleveland's admin
istration. Lie No. 2, and the grosser
and more damnabe lie of the two, is
that Mr.. Cleveland's administration
shares the views held by Gen. Harrison,
for Cleveland's administration is and
alwaysh has been thoroughly anti Chinese.
These two propositions seem to be
identical, but close examination Of
them will show an intelligent man that
they are not, and that two separate lies
are involved in this stupidity constructed
falsehood. Lie No. 3 is that the Demo-
cratic party seek to go back to 1850 in its
examination of Gen. Harrison's record.
That gentleman simply had no record at
that time excep. that of plodding and
unusually dull Hoosier lawyer.
The Democratic party, as respects Gen.
Harrison's Chinese record, only proposes
to go back to 1882, when that
gentleman sat in the Senate of
the United States, having been elected
TO that body in 1881. At that
time the Chinese question had been ex-
haustively discussed. Mr.. James G.
Blaine, amongst others, had made a
number of luminous speeches denounc.
ing the infamy of Coolie labor, and this
was the source OF his quite exceptional
popularity on this Coast. For three
years preceding Mr.. Harrison's advent / n
the Senate OF the United States there
had been great atcommotion and intermin-
able debates on every phase of this mat
ter on the Pacific Coast, and the kilograms
detailing this sensational episode of our
social and political history had been vol
uninousy telegraphed to the Eastern
press by the Associated Press and every
other news agency. 1t was under these
circumstances that the Republican nom
inee accumulated the record which is
conpsndiously presented below in the
proceedings Of the 47th Congress
1t should be borne in mind
that a California Republican Senator
the late General Miller, was making a
noble effort, supported by all the Demo
Gratis OF the Senate, to stem the tide of
NIongolian immigration to this Coast, and
that the bill under consideration was one
intro iuced by that gentleman restricting
for twenty years the immigration OF Chi
nese to this country. The following is a
resume Of General Harrison's action in
the premises:
The bill under consideration was that
Dy senator Muler restricting Ior twenty
years the immigration OF Chinese labor
ers TO this country.
On the amendment offered by Senator
Hoar, proposing to admit 'skilled" Chi
nese laborers, the vote stood II in favor
and 27 against, Senator Harrison voting
aye. (See Congressional Record, Vol. |,
Part !, page l7l6)
On Senator Hoar's amendment, pro-
viding 10Y the admission of Chinese Ear
tisans," the vote stood 10 ayes and "a
noes, Harrison voting aye. (lbid., page
l7i7.)
0a Senator Ingalls, motion to change
the proposed period Of restriction from
twenty to ten years, the vote stood
Ayes, 20; noes, 81. Senator Harrison
was absent, but Senator Maxey, with
whom he was paired, announced that i
present he would have voted may
(Ibid., page l752)
When the bill was finally passed,
which it did by vote of 20 ayes to IL
noes, Harrison was again absent, and
Senator Maxey, again his "pair," an