The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-20
RUIN FOR ALL LABOR
SHOULD YELLOW PERIL ENTER
 THE AMERICAN NATION.
Exclusion is Imperative-sofety and Welfare of the American Work ingman Demend It, Says
 John R. Mclean.

John R. Mclean of The Cincinnati En- ouirer. has written the following article for The Philadelphia North American:
 have always been opposed to the ad- mission of Chinese to the United States. I am now and can see no possible reason for a change of opinion in the future.
 The Chinese exclusion act should be kept on the statute books, and the an- nouncement that a certain class or cap italists are already making extensive preparations to bring in shiploads Of the Mongolians after the first of May next should be a warning to Congress not to permit a moments lapse of this whole some law.
 We have as great right to protect ourselves from a population which IS morally degrading and economically des- tructive as we have to enact tartns to save our working people from the com petition of the cheap labor of foreign countries.
 The presence of the Chinese would be ruinous to both skilled and unskilled labor and would add nothing to our | citizenship, On the contrary it would be a means of undermining the Republic which depends so much for its success | on the intelligence and patriotism or the | people.
 .Thirty-five years after the civil war we still have a most harassing race problem, frequently resulting in bloodshed, and continually menacing bushes and social affairs The colored people are In the | United States to stay, and 1t must pc the constant effort through generations to fit them by education for the full duties of citizenship: and this Is enough for us and those who come a1ter us to undertake, without opening our arms to thousands and possibly even millions Of yellow men, who are positively non-as- simIlative with our people and our insti- tutions.
 Men who come here without a thought of becoming citizens of the United States and without a single qualification Tor citizenship, but who would come down upon us in armies from land where men are cheaper than horses as 'beasts of burden for the purposes or working for less than our own people and making up for the pecuniary difference by hVlns in degrading squalor and immortality. The rule of generous welcome whicf has prevailed In this republic toward the | oppressed and contemplating of other coun | tries who come here to better their owr | condition, and to join in the spirit O material effort for the development o a our country, does not apply to the yellow s hordes whom China is glad to spare. anC whose whole purpose in emigration Il merely sordid, and thousands or whom come as the practical slaves of the shiI companies.
 It would be an outrage of incaicu.abl' dimensions to intite by law speculation Il Chinese and make the country the dump ing ground for a population that has n' pride of country. native or adopt ed. Le China take care of her own, and tn H republic her own. We have plenty t # do in that line. The fact that tte peopl # of the Pacific coast who have surely hal sufficient opportunity to observe end ar rive at intelligent conclusions .are agatns Chinese immigration, Is an unmistIkaDl index to Congress of the proper course
 Let our gates be hinged so os 10 sWln
 outward, so that we may overrun Tn
 earth within the limits of our constitu
 tional forms If we desire to, and not 1T
 ward, so that there may be no enecttV
 barricade to the entrance to non-reput
 lican immigrants, non-republican inst
 tutions.
 The Chinese type of civilization trans
 ferred to this continent would certainl
 bring no happiness. peace or advance
 ment; certainly no promotion of Ebert
 and independence. On the contrary,
 would degrade labor and education
 which are prime among our bulwarks
 To allow the Chinese exclusion act
 lapse would be to deprive the actiV
 people of the next generation of tn
 benefits which have accrued to the pe'
 pie in the last twenty years from wis
 legislation. Indeed, the people of tf
 present would be struggling in less tha
 a year under a condition which woul
 be as undesirable as the slavery systel
 which this country spent so much bloc
 and money to abolish.