The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07

IN IT'S contention that our doors Sn0ulQ
be locked to Asiatic coolies. He as
serts that the principle is un-American
and that our gates should be opened to
the hordes Of Chinese, Japanese and
Koreans that are now knocking for
admission. And this man, who knows
his logic as we'll as an Aristotle or
Mill, argumentatively cites the immi-
grafton in the past from England,
Ireland, Scotland and Germany. When
he finishes the Harvard chief thinks
there is no more to be said-the case
is closed. He is judge, jury, prosecut-
ing attorney, public opinion and cos
mopolitan sentiment.
"Omnlscience Is not trait for NOR
tai mind. President Eliot does not
know every thing. AS a pugilcist he is
lightweight. AS statesman he
would prove a pitiable failure. The
true statesman is or should be too
broad minded a man to push an alb
stract theory or individual view, how
ever honestly held, to an impracticable
and injurious extreme. Eliot should
remember that statesmen deal with
conditions as they are and not as they
should have been. This university
mentor would repeal the Chinese ex-
clusion law forthwith. He would ring
the changes with sophomore fervor;
Come on Chinaman, and do our wash
ee! Come ON Jap, and teach US jitsu!
Come ON Korean, and We'll scrub the
clay off you.'
There are the macrocosm and the
microcosm. There is the big word.
There is the little word. The little
q
the ancients said the stomach was
chief. Intact the antique philosophers
went so far as to affirm that the
stomach was the beginning, middle and
end, the body. spirit. essence and
quintessence of all things. And they
may have been right. If you ever
! worked on the Pacific slope and a
Chinaman 'scabbed' your job you
would conclude that the primeval the
orists were more than right.
president Elliot knows all about
dilects. He can cite you an argument
! and hominem with every breath. But
the Chronicle can tell this man of
many tongues one thing which he
! probably does not know-the argu-
| mentum ad stomacum is the greatest.
! the most powerful argument OF all.
"On this argument the ranks of on
! ganized labor will fight to the last
! ditch any attempt to appeal the pres
ent exclusion law. They will ask more
stringent laws. They will ask that
Japanese and Korean coolies be ex-
| cluded.
| president Eliot to the contrary not
withstanding, self preservation is the
I Ia Of no oju
workman is a natural man. There is
nothing abnormal in his makeup.
ITO admit coolies means starvation
to the American workman.
The yellow race can subsist and
thrive on one-flfth the wage now re'
| ceived by American men and women.
This has been demonstrated thousands
and thousands of times. No academic
babble about this.
| 1T is a question of bread and meat
1t is the microcism, the stomach-to
| eat or not to eat. There is nothing
common between the immigration from
| the isles of Britain ana tl.s land OF
Goethe and Monaghan irrup-ion. The
former is health giving, blood produc
ing; the latter is lepr0sy, restitution,
death-industrial and physical death.
'Ther are 100000 coolies who want
to come to this country, and each
and every one is an industrial Alaric,
an economic Attila. Let these nuns
| cry hordes enter and the nation is
ruined. Man is dlfre1snt from ,ae
animal. The. white man is different
from the yellow man.
IF the Eliots of the country will
not recognize this difference then en-
| forced recognition must come-oA1me
from the organized efforts Of organ
! lied labor