Evening star., 1902-04-05

humanizing and ennobling influences. The
American home is indeed the nriit of the re-
public. In the final analysis great issues
which engage our attention from time to
time, In fact the destiny of the republic,
are determined at the American f1reside.
Abolish the American home and the days Of
the republic are numbered. 1mmigra ton
which ignores this great potential fact is a
serious menace, and Is not to be desired.
The immigrants who have so materially
added to our national strength have come
mainly from those countries where the
home and family relations are sacred, and
they have built among US frugal and vr-
tuous homes, whence wholesome influences
home is indeed, the nations supreme de-
fense. Can you conceive thatethe Chinese
who are excluded by the terms Of the bill
before the Senate would erect homes
throughout the country, as has been done
by the immigrants from the nnited king
dom, France, Germany. Scandinavia and
other European countries?
Competition With Chinese Labor.
"Competition between American labor and
Chinese labor is unequal. The two start in
the contest upon an entirely different plane.
The American laborer must have better
clothes, better houses, better food. His
wants are more-thank God for that-and
they must be supplied. He is to live and
labor, educate his children, and his ashes
q.
What he earns is to be spent here among
his own countrymen and not in some for
eign land The Chinese laborers are not
without points of merit They are docile,
pa tlent and have remarkable power of en-
durance, but their necessities are few and
easily satisfied They are but human ma
chimes of the lowest order. They may, If
need be, subsist upon what the American
laborer throws aWay-upon what We would
be ashamed to see him obliged to live upon
The republican party adheres to the
wholesome doctrine Of protection against
| unfair competition with allen cheap labor,
and the country itself Is the amplest tes-
timony as to the wisdom of this policy
| The admission of Chinese laborers whose
| condition is so far below ours is in fragrant
violation of the very principle and purpose
or protection. If the Chinese would speedi-
| ly rise to our standard the case would be
| d1fferent. But experience unfortunately
demonstrates that they continue upon
lower plane, and the inevitable tendency is
| to bring American labor to their undesira-
bic level.
Americans and Chinese.
Can 1t be possible that American labor
and Chinese labor can work side by side,
the one receiving less than the other in
wages and subsisting upon much less than
the other? 1t follows as night the day that
the lower paid and lower fed will cause his
higher paid and better fed competitor to
come down to his unfortunate condition
Against this we enter our protest. We do 1t
from no ungenerous motive toward the Chi
nese empire; we do 1t out Of national self
respect and in our national self-interest and
no one can justly challenge the wisdom of
our policy.
Mr.. President" concluded Senator Fair
banks. that the Congress has the most
plenary power to enact into law the bill
before US there can be no doubt, for the
power to exclude undesirable aliens is an
inherent attribute of national sovereignty.
Our laws with respect to the exclusion Of
Chinese laborers should be stringent, and
they should be so administered that they
will be effective. This Is in the mutual in
terest of the United States and the Chinese
empire, for 1t will avoid Inevitable friction
and discomfort and the disturbance of those
friendly relations which always have sub
sisted and which now happily exist between
the two great powers"