Year: 1870



 certain that not many years will eapse until the United States becomes more closely con nected with the above-named heathenish countries and their strange people The commercial and manufacturing classes are loud Tn their demands for more steamers to run between San Francisco and ports in China and Japan; and, knowing that the trade between us and our antipodes is not, at present, sufficient to give profitable employ ment 10 the extra steamers called for, they | ask that Government assist in the matter by giving some great steamship company a large money subsidy, to enable them to bring over more tails, with things called Chinamen attached to them. The laboring people, those who earn living for themselves and families by the labor of their hands, object to all this, and why should they not Exper- fence has taught them that they cannot com pete with Coolie laborers. That Is, they cannot work and live for so little as the Coo lies The rich among us know this; but their hearts being callous-care not. In the eyes of many of them, an American or Euro pean who has to toll in the field, the mine or the shop, for a living, is no better than a Chinaman; in fact, not so good, for them, since they have to pay him more for his labor, and cannot, dare not, boot him around as they would Chinese slave. This class of men, look to the present and its profits only They care not what is to become of their laboring brothers, or the country. They have money, influence, pride and avaricious- ness. They wish to revel in greater riches and luxury than they do now; they gener- ally manage to control legisation-both State and National - and in managing it., their principal aim has been to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. They are the real Bourbons of our country, and will have to be humbled, in some way.

 These Bourbon nabobs are eternally growl- ing about the so-called high wages demanded by tradesmen and laborers, but where i: there one of them who, if compelled to work for living, would not demand higher wage: than are now paid? :? They and their families imagine that the earth, its wealth, and tkt poor thereof were made especially to minis ter to their wants and pleasures, and, if tho poor of their own race don't dance atten dance upon them for barely enough filth! lucre to keep soul and body together, the straightway fill their places with cheap John from China, and have the brass to ask Gov ernment to donate portion of the people money to be expended in bringing new John across the ocean. It is yet in the power ( the laboring men of America to put stop { the further importation of Asatic slaves, an we hope that they will do it. Were ther not enough white laborers in the country, do the work of the country, employers migt be excused for wishing to flood it with Oh nese; but, when thousands of men an women of our own race are idle, and beggin for bread, it would be an unpardonable erin on the part of the Government to add { their misery by assisting their oppressors

 speculation, the carrying out of whiC would add more to the misery and want the white laboring people. No, if Cover ment has money to give away, it should u it at home, on public works, or in transpor ing laborers from sections of the count where their labor is not in demand, to oth sections, where they can either work f themselves or other people. Whatever mo ey is made by the white laborers and m chanics, over and above the cost of living, invested in the country and becomes a pa of the country's wealth. But, all that made by Chinese is boarded up, and at l' finds its way to China Besides, the wh iaboring men of the country, are it's defer against foreign foes, and the time may not far distant when the nabobs will split tn throats encouraging yea, begging them

 strike for their "altars and their fireside To sum up, our tradesmen and laborers do go to China to compete with Chinamen, a they don't want any more Johns broup here to compete with them.

 While saying this much. in favor of [ toilers of our own country, we do not wi to be understood as counselling them

 carry their point by force, neither do

 wish to see them cripple industry by mandlng too much for their labor. Tn must cut their cloth according to the me ure of the times, or, in other words, work

 iair rates; but, they cannot work for less tl will support themselves and families.

 

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