Smyrna times., 1889-09-18

The DelGCarean refers to the recent
race conflict in New Castle which
ended in murder, that it was the le-
gitimate result of race hatred which is
developed wherever the half-civilized
Hungarian comes in contact with
Americanized labor. and says:
ut ought to be a statutory offence
to bring these people to this country,
punishable with fine and imprison-
ment, and if this would not stop their
importation into this country, then it
ought to be made punishable offence
to employ one of them in any capac-
ity. Congress has passed laws to pro-
hibit the Chinese to come into the
country to suck the life-bloOd from the
American citizen, and it would be the
proper thing for the next Congress to
pass laws to stop the mi-barbarous
Huns from coming to our country"
The thoughts of the editor run in a
line somewhat parallel to those of a
prominent writer, E. A. Hartshorn, in
Frank LesLie's Illustrated Newspaper on
the "Perils of Enlightened Labor"
He quotes a San Francisco manufac-
turer when asked why he did not
employ Chinese labor, as saying !:
"They are too smart for me. Once
having learned my business they
would take it from me at pleasure.
I Having caught on Chinaman can
pIQqn nv nfh
except Chinaman." Mr.. Hartshorn
goes on to say that to the Chinese as a
deadly foe of enlightened labor the
teeming masses of India and Japan
may be added, and when the combined
forces are marshaled for the great in
dustrial contest, they number 100000
900, or 100000, 900, or more than half
the population of the earth.
If we turn to the pages of industrial
history says this writer, we find that
the sAsiatics were far in advance oi
the Europeans before the invention oi
labor saving machinery. 1t was only
when the introduction of machinery
multiplied the producing power of the
European that the European con-
quered Asia in the great industrial
battle. The Asiatics are only wanting
the opportunity, to be readily availed
and no gift of prophecy is necessary t.
foretell that Asiatic labor will soon bt
operating the very best labor-saving
machinery on an extensive scale, and
that under even conditions, AsiatiC
labor will again triumph. Asiatics will
labor for one-tenth what American
laborers demand. The people O
America are able to produce every
thing that is needed'for business, health
and comfort, and hence are not in need
of them nor their products. The
writer agrees with the editor of tn,
DeiaVarean that to keep ourselves
from being degraded in morals, labor
&C., is to keep from contact with then
as a peril to enlightened labor.
That our people are better fed
clothed and housed, than the peopl
of other countries and it is a duty t.
ourselves to keep so. The writer say
we must drive their cheap wares ava,
by taxing them until they cannot com
pete with our home products and ia.
must be put on their goods until it
high enough to accomplish this result
if it takes 40, 100, or 400 per cent
They eschew the comforts of civilize
life, are satisfied with what to a
American would be a degrading wa
Of living, and the writer says, "H
who is not deaf to reason can hear th
trampling of their feet as the legion
are forming ranks for the onwar
movement against enlightened labor.