Year: 1869

still doubtful. They did not sustain it then.
Now, when nearly everybody is for it, they
should not come in and claim any great
credit for themselves. IAppianse.I They
were not for ii when ii Decided friends and
was struggling for its life l know 1t Is the
fashion 70 exslt the ChinamSn above the
white working men of this country: ibelleve
the Chinaman is considered 10 be not only
better Christian than the white working-msn
but much more enlightened, much more
moral, and much more industrious.
should not be ST all surprised if after
little some of his friends among us should
become so enthusiastic as to discover that III
face and form he is model OF manly beauty,
SIS compared with the white workinS-man.
OF course, we can have no dispute on that
point because good or Ill looks are sup
posed to be entirely matter of taste. Great
laughter. was surprised that during the
visit of we'll known RSdical ex-senator of the
United States-emnent in his party, and
by reason of his place while holding 1t IN the
[. S. Senate should so far have forgotten what
was due, if not 10 himself at lesst 10 large
and respectable class of his fellow citizens,
allied either by lineage or birth to the rSce
which he sought 10 condemn, as 10 speak of
Irishmen as being no better than Cinnamon.
will not return railing for railing. will
not even say that when the ex-senator so ex-
pressed himself, he simply fixed his own
standard of moral being. Applause and
cheers. l shall not retort in that spirit.
This much will say: That from what have
ever read or heard Of that land whose sons
are SO little loved by him, and whose crown
of sorrows bears entwined with 1t laurels IS
bright as any ever won in the fields of
human intellect worth and yalor-if i'll that
land he should be traveller, and ii should
be known there that he had been an aged
Senator of the United States, the Vice Presi-
dent and almost the President of the United
States, he would be received as no prince
of the blood, no king or queen could
be; would be received with more cordial well
come and admiration by the people every
where. Cheers. l am sure that if he
should at any time travel in China, all his
former dignity and his venerable age would
notsuthce to save him from insult, from being
pelted with stones by his favorite race as
foreign devil, as they pelted a company of
ladies at picnic the other day. He would
be fortunate if he saved his ears, and if his
friends were very violent his life might be
in danger. l do not believe he would know
enough of the Chinese language to explain to
| them how much their friend he was and how
Well disposed he had been to set a whole race
of foreign devils" under their feet APP
plause and laughter.l


l have much more would gladly say on
this great subject of labor which so greatly
appeals to heart and head. But, cannot con-
sent to occupy time which belongs to other
gentlemen who are stll to address you,
Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, and your
excellent Representative, Mr.. Axtell One
word more, however. do not agree to the
dogma so mnch in favor with our opponents,
that the capital of the country has a right to
get labor in any market where it is cheapest,
at home or abroad. This might be true were
| labor bale of goods to be bought or sold
a mere money element. But it is much
more. The laborer is human being, in so
ciety, and in this country he is voter.
Labor, therefore, is moral, social and poll
teal element, to be dealt with accordingly.
The differences from this view are obvious
enough in this discussion.


l would not say word to stir up strife.
1t Is already too plain that the two great
classes of society-those who have the labor
and those who have to employ it--are drawing
away from each other. Let not this breach
be widened, let it be closed up. The inte.
rests of all of us in California demand this.
For one, / am ready to do what can for
that peace and concord, for that cordial unity
of feeling, purpose and action between all
interests, classes, callings and occupations
which, in this free land of ours, are, more
than elsewhere, essential to the true welfare
of the State. am not afraid of the mass OF





that they will consider it, free from preju-
dices, and out of the false glare of Wis
ion of universal prosperity that rests
upon nothing-that they will consider
it as question that deeply affects the politi-
cal and social elements of the Republic.
Earnestly, but hopefully, l appeal to the
clear head and sound heart of the great body
of the opposite party. Iappeal even to those
who are most vehement for flooding this fair
Californian land with Asiatic labor, who would
vainly reconstruct our State ON quick-sand.
l ask kthem-particularly them-to look with
me on the two central figures of the great
drama that is nowlunfolding; on the working
man of China and the workingman of the
American State of California. To all such
say, now and here Friends, you are against
me and my cause but hear me. First let me
show you the coming man who is heralded
with such hosannas, in the cause of material
progress, of ''cheap labor" i'll the much
abused name of humanity" and in all the
other names and catch words under which a
monstrous social evil is brought into the land.


His narrow brow, yellow vacant face, squat
figure and dull eye show him the hereditary
Asiatic laborer of twenty centuries. As such
he has plodding industry, certain patient
intelligence and marked faculty of imita-
ton. He is frugal withal, for his daily wants
are few and rude as they were thousand
years ago. When this much is said for him,
all is said. He is the product of civiliza-
ton Asiatic and Pagan. which, though the
oldest in the world, has added nothing to the
world-has stood still, as if spell bound, with
out onward movement, for two thousand
years. A true son of the unchanging East,
he strides through your streets to-day, sin
gletile, Indian fashion, just as his forefathers
strobe over the plains of Asia thirty centu-
rieS ago. He is initiative, but not progress
i've. He may be among us, but he is not OF
us. His ideas are not ours, nor his manners,
nor his customs. They are the reverse of ours,
as lule. If he puts on ours for time, it
is to throw them off again as he would an
irhsome garment. Thoroughly Asiatic, all
new institutions are foreign to him. He
does not care for them. He will, in his
fashion, conform to them, but he never iden-
titles himself with them. California will be-
come Chinese before he becomes Californian.
He adds little to our wealth, and he leaves
nothing that man can take away, not even
his bones after he is dead. He has a written
code of morals, which, if it ever had any
life, has long ago evaporated into unmeaning
phrases and empty forms. A Pagan and an
Asiatic of the centuries half way back to the
flood, he is made up of the errors and
the vices, moral, social and political, which,
IN all ages, have made Asia a vast central
lied despotism; have left her the easy prey
of the Western races; have kept her shut up
from civilization and Christianity, and have
tainted her children with leprosy of sin
not tit to be named among men. His wo-
men, as We see them here, are the most
degraded of their sex. He arSl they add
nothing to the sound social elements of the
country. They are certain to take much
away from them. He furnishes no materials
out of which to build or maintain the State
In peace or war: he can only impair, if he
does not destroy, the moral forces which are
the sole life of the nation.


Now, friends and advocates Of Chinese la
| Dor. look on the other figure in this contest.
1t is the working man of America In moth
ing SO clearly as in him is the benign and
elevating influence of American institutions
made manifest Clergymen, lawyers, doc
Christendom are very much the same. But
l would show to thoughtful philosophic
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