The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-05

The Pagans are still swarming to our
shores. They come over in the British
line of steamers, and reach Brit
ish Columbia via of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad; then they swarm over
the border into the Pacific states and
territories. They are now stringlng
themselves all along oven the northern
border from Victoria to Halifax.
From the very outset the statesmen
of the Republican party have favored
Chinese immigration, and voted against
any restrictive laws. The present
nominee for President, General Ben.
Harrison, is on record as favoring
Chinese Immigration. 1t is for this
reason, perhaps, that the Chinese ques'
ton is now So prominently at the front.
The labor organizations of the country,
are almost to a man, East, West and
South, against the Chinese.
We are not disposed to discuss this
question as a political argument. Ii
has aspects that elevate it above the
plane of partisan warfare. 1t has
phases that touch American civil
cation in a vital point.
There are four hundred and fifty mil.
lions of these inbred Pagans packed in
to China, with more density to the
square mile than in any other country
on the globe. Life there, to a vast ma,
jOrity, is simply a struggle for life.
America seems to them a paradise. They
can spare sixty millions of people out
of China, or an equal population to all
our States and territories, and not miss
them.
These Chinese are a wonderful race.
1t is questionable whether there exists
anywhere a stronger race upon the face
of the earth. Over five CENTRES ago
the Chinese legions, led by the great
Monaghan leader Timoor, overwhelmed
the pr~incipalities along the Tigris, the
EupErates, the VOlga, the Ganges and
the Nile, and left a track of desolation
through Russia. They left scars upon
Russia, Turkey and India which five
centuries have not yet fully effaced.
The presentCzar of Russia recently said,
that the greatest danger to the
Western world existed in the Chinese
Empire.
The Chinese question presents a
study of very deeD interest to every
thoughtful American citizen. 1t is
more vital and pressing than at first
blush we are aptto believe. Inspeaking
of this question, quite recently, in a
speech in the United States Senate,
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, said:
"0n the Pacific coast. wherever the
Chinaman goes, there our civilization
stops. There can be no such thing as
churches or school houses in their pres
ence. All that you see that is beauti-
full in your New England homes vanish
es before the Chinese. 1t is impossible
for our race to live upon the same al
lowance that they live on. We never
can be reduced to the standard of food
upon which they subsist."
The above was uttered by Senator
Stewart quite recently. Heis a Repub-
lican, and voices the sentiment of his
own party, wherever that party has
been brought into immediate conflict
with this intense race. AS to the dog
ged spirit of this, race, it is a historical
fact that the races of Western Europe
have never been able to wrest an arce
of ground from the Asiatics, while, on
the other hand, with the
march of centuries, the Asiatics have
constantly been advancing upon
Europe. There are still ten million of
Turks, who occupy lands captured
in war, from the Christians. Great
Britain, the most aggressive nation
across the Atlantic, has over-run two
hundred millions of Asiatics, but has
as yet, not acquired a single farm in
Asia, and there are said to be less than
100000 Englishmen in all the Asiatic
possessions, or 100000 less than we have
Chinese in the United States.
This raises another question of deep
and abiding interest to every patriotic
American, as well as every American
laborer. Are we not getting too many
immigrants from the o~ver-crowded
countries of Central and Southern
Europe. The Hay Market massacre in
Chicago was not an American product.
The savage blood that produced it was
not born under our suns and skies.
The pauper Italians are coming here
with too much force and persistency;
but this invasion has none of the
alarming elements of the Pagan inva-
sion from China.
The nominee of the Republican
party for President is unquestionably
IN the wrong side of this question. He
is against the best morality of the age
on this now vital question. He is
against the best interests of the
American laborer.
The question of population is a vital
question now, in American politics, and
it does not stop with the Chinese. 1t is
in order to discuss now, whether a too
rapid growth of our towns and cities
by pauper immigration is for the best.
This question is full of interest, and
we shall refer to it again.