The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-08
CHINESE EXCLUSION.
MIR. burns Gives His Views Against this
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the nraat ratprnI rasnnrcas whara man
onu dfffr raa,v aMnia his lnhnr withnut nav;ma
tr;hnta tn nnothhar. paonla have come hare
frnm avarv n,artar ~ Aha glnha aach
hr;nninn w;th Kim anmathinn nav "a .idin
;ndnatrv an and sciannc. MAKING that
which was impossible Yesterday easy to-
Sav' Take an ilInstration: 4 stranre
amonost no Stands CONFERENCE.-THE tha
wnrkinr Of a machine. and he thinks Of
tba crnia machine naad tn do the wnrk in
tbs country be left. While Thinking about
Ana two machines ia thinka soma mart of
the crude one, if added to the one he ID
comtamnlatinp will make h more nerfect.
Tanpnare has been developed in the same
wav4 Take the lnno,1nre If nnv o~ivilizsd
country and Won will find that IL contains
words taken from the lanpuace Of every
| other ciyilizad cDnntrv. Peonle travelling
and doing business in foreign countries
have found words in the anruape Of those
countries not contained in their own. I
might give many similar Illustrations but
s,,ace will not permit: but I will saw that
the yery people YOU propose to exclude are
themselves a living proof of what the OK
! c)nsion nolicv will do for the country that
adonts II. Thev are entirely lacking il
inventive renius. and their language only
contains 70O words.
And Though their civilization ia probably
the Oldest in existence. thew have rema ined
stationary for centuries. This comes from
shutting themselves out from the world,
Thev have remained staenant without any
thing to excite or stimulate thought. Do
Won want TO stand still. or. worse vet.
retrograde? If 50 follow out your exclusion
poliov and do the same, as the Quanp,
powderlies of China did thousands Of
the world. Some will say that we have
nothing to learn from the Chinese. No one
knows how much We NAV learn from
them. The dropping Of an apple il Of it.
self yerv unimEortant. hut il caused a
Thought TO flash across The mind of Newton,
That caused him to discover the law of
arayitation, and this led to thousands of
other discoveries, AS long as the world
stands there will be room for improve
ment.
But the one industry of all others in this
country that stands in need of a departure
from the old methods ia Agriculture. The
American farmer needs an object lesson in
economy in filling the soil. and there is
none 80 we'll qualified to give that lesson as
the Chinese, The industrial classes Of this
country have good reasons for complaining.
Nearly every article thew consume is taxed
to enrich tic protected manufactures, and
the medium of exchange has been monop-
olized in the interest Of those producing
certain metnle. For the last thirty years
the legislators have been busy heaping up
laws which have enriched the few at the
expense Of the many, but those questions
will not be settled BY the working people.
So far as they have taken any part in poll
tics they have only clamored for more re-
striction. If they should get their way they
would clog all the wheels of industry by
putting everything under tho control Of
bunpline politicians.
1t is time for intelligent people to ask
themselves whether they are ready for this
slavery. Slavery is no more acceptable
when it comes from an Ignorant majority
or a scheminp minority than if it were i'm
posed by a king, Here let me give a word
of advice to the wealthy: Take a vacation
from bribinp legislators and Judges and
tion that IA poino IN TT Won rafnaa to do