Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-27
Harrison,s Mongo,tan Pets.

there has been nothing to equal the inn
pudence of some OF the supporters OF
General Harrison when it comes to treat
ing of the Chinese question. Even on
the Pacific Coast we find journalists un-
scrupulous enough to try and draw the
wool over the eyes of the voter. Mr..
Michael H. De Young himself has no
hesitation in giving the lie to his own
utterances. The probability is extreme
that Mr.. De Young knows perfectly we'll
that he can only hope to deceive a scat
tered voter here and there, but he is
willing to take the chance, however
small. Every one who is at all acquaint-
ed with Indiana politics knows the init
mate relations which exist between Gen
eral Harrison and Mr.. John G. New, the
editor and one of the proprietors of the
Indianapolis Journal. Harrison is him
self one of the stockholders OF that paper.
In its issue of March 80, 1882, this special
organ of the Republican Chinese loving
candidate for President said:
They who shout, 1.-THE Chinese must
CO." are as mistaken as the dIeller on
the Yazoo who stands upon the banks
and curses the Father OF Waters. Re
pulsed from our shores, the Chinese food
will pour into Peru, into the South Sea
Islands, into Spain, into Cuba, into Mex.
ico-to even lower levels. But finally he
will overspread districts whose inhabi
tants have miscalculated the extent and
insight of the flood. His virtues are So
briefly, modesty, patience and economy
and he is teacher to the labor OF al
lands. Whatever his faults, his lessor
grumblers everywhere, for none othel
has so successfully met and triumphet
over the hardest conditions OF life. He is
wonder and marvel, an astonishmen
and surprise, but warning and an ad
monition as we'll.
The New York Star, commenting OF
the foregoing utterances of Harrison
organ, says very happily that these sen
timents were expressed at that time by
men of Harrison's stripe everywhere
and were echoed in their newspapers
1t was favorite doctrine of such per
sons to play off the Chinese against the
members of white labor organizations
and to rush in "gangs" OF coolies tc
work wherever American laborers OBJ
jected to a reduction of their wages.
Indeed, wages were fast tending down
ward toward the Chinese standard when
Thurman arose to uphold the cause Of
American labor.
The article above quoted, was printed
in the very week during which Harrison
voted for unrestricted Chinese immigra
ton. 1t was then the fashion among
Chinese advocates to set up the China
man as sort of idol, "a wonder and {
marveP' to them, and "a warning anC
an adinonition" to American workme1
disposed to stand up for their rights.
Mr.. John G. New, who was then, an(
still is, the proprietor of the indianapolis
Journal, is to conduct the canvass fol
General Harrison for the Presidency O
the United States Both Harrison anC
he still believe in the Chinaman as one
whose virtues, sobriety, modesty, pa
tience and economy" command admira
ton, and look to him as "a teacher te
the labor of all lands"
Let those who are willing to have
American labor taught by Chinese Labor
and brought down to its level, and wht
regard Chinese immigration as a pro
vidential aid to the corporations in the
conflicts with American workingmen
vote for the Chinese candidate ant
Chinese principles. American work
men who respect the civilization of thei
own race and the sanctity of their owl
homes, and who believe in living wage
sufficient to support workmen and thei
families in civilized life, will vote will
unanimity against the Chinese doctrin,
and its advocates.
OF course General Harrison finds i
very convenient just now to modify hi
position on the Chinese question. Prob
ably few people were silly enough to sup
pose that he would not. But at heart ht
is just as Indifferent to the sentiments o
the people of the Pacific Coast and t.
the interests of the Caucasian laborer al
ever he was, and he cannot be trustee
by those who really look upon the ques
ton as an overshadowing one, anc
fraught with the veal or woe of the wage
Garner. For any workingman to trust
half hearted and temporizing man, lik,
Harrison, is to deserve "the betrayal ht
would certainly encounter if the oppor
tunity were offered. In the Republican
candidate for President he would b,
treated to another Hayes and woult
hear no end of the Fatherhood of Coz
and Brotherhood of Man fustian, wei
spiced with twaddle about the comit,
which is due to a friendly power lik,
China, after Hayes's most approved
manner. The opening to rebuke by
pocrisy has been offered to the work
ingman and he ought to avail himself o
it. He ought to and he will.