The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-07-31
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1901.

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CHINESE LABOR IN THE SOUTH.
One of the important questions con-
gress will be called on to consider
next year will be that of renewing the
Chinese exclusion act, and new and
interesting element in the matter
Judging by remarks in some of the
southern newspapers will be the stand
likely to be taken by representatives
owning territory. The Mobile Regis
ter has been stirring things up by
taking stand in opposition to the re-
newal of the exclusion legislation, ex-
pressing it's sentiments in the follow
ing decided language:
What we need is million active
Cinnamon in the south to wake the
negro population into activity. There
is work enough for them and for the
negroes, too. We ought to have them;
yet here is this un-American exclusion
act in the way, barring from us the la
Dor we most need and condemning us
to put up with incompetents who know
we canont get along without them, and
take advantage of their knowledge"
Perhaps from the standpoint of
southern plantation owners there may
be some ground for wishing to wake
up the negroes and if possible to over
come the naturally slothful industrial
temperament of the black race, which
temperament is particularly notice
able in tropical ATTITUDES, but that the
Register should expect that the desir-
ed stirring up would be accomplished
through the importation of hordes of
Cinnamon seems difficult of compre-
hension when the views of men who
have studied the negro question in all
it's phases are considered. And even
if it be temporarily accepted that the
result wished for would be attained,
what is to be the effect on the intelli-
gent and energetic white labor of
other sections of the country if the ex-
clusiOn act is not renewed. The
plain fact is that the south is reaping
as it sowed, and while there is now
no disposition to bark back to ancient
issues, the Register should be broad
enough to reflect that it would be un
just to white labor to open the coun
try to yellow men to aid in the attempt
of the employers of the south to over
come conditions that they themselve.
are undoubtedly responsible for. TIL,
negro question will have to be worked
out ON a basis more equitable to thu
whole country.
Happily more reasonable view O
the situation is taken by other promi
nent southern newspapers. The New
Orleans Times-Democrat says that i
freely admits that the negro labor il
the southern states has not been who
ly satisfactory since emancipation
But supposing that we were to hav
million Celestials come into tn
south and do the work satisfactorily
which the negroes are now doine
what assurance have we that after
few years We should not have an ado
ed race problem on our hands owe
and above the present one? If we ad
mitted one million, two or three othe
millions would be sure to follow; an
between Celestials and negroes tn
last state of the south would be wors
than the first" And If these evils ma
be reasonably expected to follow q
influx of Celestials to the souther
states, how much worse would be it
effect on other parts of the countr
where the laboring classes are tn
best paid, smartest and most energet
ic to be found anywhere in the world