St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-18
AS TO CHINESE FARM LABOR.

We publish below an eQlIOfldl IIolll Iile
Louisiana Planter of May H. The Picayune
has asserted, not once, but many times, its
belief that ultimately Chinese labor will be
used upon the farms of the country, and
that it would be done with the consent OF
labor organizations and because of the i'm
possibility Of securing other labor. Consld-
ering the difficulty we have had in our po-
litical and social relations with the colored
race, notwithstanding it's comparative nu-
merical smallness, how much greater would
become the problem with our doors opened
to swarming millions of Chinese? To US it
seems that it would be much better to be rid
of all our possessions of mongrel blood and
to work out our destiny as nation with
people whose superiority has made them the
dominant power in the nations OF the world
Change conditions on the farm so that life
there will be worth living and the employ
ment as remunerative as employment in the
cities, and the cry Of back to the farm will
be needed:
SCARCITY OF FARM LABOR.
Under the above caption leading article in the
New Orleans Picayune complacenty considers the in
PRODUCTION into the United States OF ten millions OF
Chinese laborers to furnish the agricultural labor
needed in the United States to supply the vacancies
the young white farmers of the country and the gen
eral abandonment of the plantations OF the southern
States by the negroes, who are Hooking to the cities
We have been for some years insisting IN the COL
of this journal upon the fact that our American
republic could not continue in its wonderful career IN
the acquisition of wealth and culture and accomplish
ment of great things without continuing supply of
white labor such as built in the country in its earliest
history. If the of population has disappeared
from Ireland from the overcrowdcd sections OF Eng
land and from Germany and the Scandinavian States,
then our white labor must come from some other
portion of Europe, else there must be great
change in our civilization which our successors Will
depore and which in the end Will destroy our great re-
public.
The whole proposition involves number of serious
problems One of the first is as to whether or not
republic can be maintained by nation recognizing
certain sections of its people as an inferior race and
not having the rights of citizenship? Three or four
decades ago our people refused to accept control of
Santo Domingo, although the scheme was favored by
General Grant Within single generation we have
brought into Federal union at least by annexa-
ton that peculiar congomerate population now &C.
cupying Hawaii. We have taken In the Island of
Porto Rico with its two million of people, white or
near white, and the Philippines with their ten mil
lions of people of all shades. The remoteness OF
these nsuar acquisitions has facilitated the change
in the political conscience OF our people that has
hitherto rovoted at the consideration OF any equality
among any human race other than that among the
white men This principle bids fair to maintain its
status but it is certainly imperlled when such Jour
nails as our distinguished contemporary, the P1ca-
WINE complacently contemplates the introduction of
ten millions of Chinese into our country as agrlcul-
tural laborers. ~,
Our people seem to forget that Eastern Europe.
the very cradle of the great Teutonic that in
cldes Slay and Saxon has millions of spare popula
ton to which we have easy access and from racial
nont of view these people of Eastern Europe consti
te our most available labor supply and are essential
to our existence if our republic is to continue along
in its marvelousy prosperous career as 1t has Done
during the last century. Because from along the
shnres of the Mediterranean, where there has been
an intermixture of the white, the Semitic and the
Hannitc races during, thousands of years, we have
Ia sorne thousands Of immigrants. people seem
70 forget that within few hundred miles of the
coast line we get into the very heart Of the country
where live millions of white people as are pro-
dncad IN earth thousands of whom would come to
th Tinted States as immigrants if they knew of the
adyantages presented to them IN this country and
We're convinced of it by correspondence with an adj
Vance ouard of their own people, whom we ought to
;nduca 10 come over and examine the country for
.haosalves The mountains of ancient Greece pro-
soa inst as good men now they did two thousand
49, ago and one of Greeces northern provinces,
o under the control of Turkey, Macedonia, cries
ut even now to the rest of the world to MAINTAIN 1t
os AGAINST the exactons OF the turkish gov
az Eastern Europe is III Its entirety, from
az Mediterranean Sea to the Arctic ocean, could
rive ms supply of labor for many decades to come
~ Ralcan States east of the Rack Sea, otter US an
Immediate supply, and we should avail OF that sup
III ~, ali nossible proper means.
Ply ~ araipst this we feel now, as always, that