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Wednesday, March 7, 1906.
WOULD ADMIT COOLIES.
Washington, Feb. 19.—On Thursday the
house of representatives will tuke up for
action a 1 ill which will, in its effect, accord
ing to the best judgment of the labor lead
ers, practically let down the bars for the
ad mission of Chinese coolies. Labor has
been aware of this purpose, and for a long
time has been on the alert. President Gom
pers of the American Federation of I.abor
has long been wurning labor leaders all over
the country of what was in the w ind, and as
a result there is arrayed against the bill a
tremendous weight of opposition from out
side of congress, and coining from all the
country over.
On the other hand, there is an immense
.weight of influence for the bill. It is urged
as being the only means of saving to America
her great trade w ith China, now threatened
with complete destruction. It is believed
that the question of pence or w ar is even in
the balance. The advocates of the measure
say that while there was no menace to Amer
ican trade they were heartily in favor of
exclusion as it is being enforced, but that as
between the admission of coolies und the
loss of trade it has taken years to build up,
China’s claim to be placed on a footing w ith
ether nations should be assented to. lathe
light of present conditions many are found
to have had their convictions on the exclu
sion question entirely changed.
The outlook is for the biggest kind of u
battle for ami against exclusion. Telegram
in the Fairbanks News.
The foregoing announcement is by no
mean* aurprising. It merely depict* a
convulsive stage in a lingering disease.
Tiie whole resource* of (lie I'nited States
have been taxed to build up great man
ufacturing establishments which have
no excuse for existence unless they can
sell their product*. They assumed the
stature of giunts lacausc, through a
protective tariff, the |ieople always re
s|s>iided to their cry for more. It was
inevitable that a time would come when
a home market could not keep them
employed; and it is certain they can
not force foreign countries to buy their
wares at prices tixed bv the sellers, as
they have force*I |ssip|e in the I’nited
Stales l*i *|o.
An unnatural condition is here. The
tariff built industries will have t*> slay
at home and st|uce*e the lemon that is
not yet tptile snck*si dry, of go abroad
for the cheap lal»*r necessary t*> enable
them t<> supply cheap markets Ameri
can laborers can n**t he brought to a
condition to fulfill the nspureinenl
If the cis,ties are admitted much suf ■
feeing will Mb>w ami civilisation will
receive a staggering blow. Some of the
best American manhood will go else
where and begin tbe struggle over again.
Australia and New Zealand will claim
many and perhaps the vast riches and
extent of Canada will furnish livelihood
and homes for more.
But we do not believe the coolies will
ho admitted. The movement may be
but a feint, made to frighten the people
who have showed such market! restive
uess of late under the harshness of the
conditions the “great captains of indus
try” have imposed.
The Negro Problem.
There is an analogy between the negro
problem, as it actually exists in the
south, anti the conditions that would '
naturally be expected to follow the ad
mission of coolies into the United States, j
Governor Vardanian of Mississippi, in
his late annual message to the legisla
ture, said:
As a race, the negro j„ deteriorating mor
ally every day. Time liaa demonstrated that
he is more a criminal as a free man than as
a slave; that he is increasing in criminality
with fearful rapidity, there being one third
more criminals in 1890 than there were in
1880. In southern Mississippi particularly I
know lie is growing worse every year. You
cun scarcely pick up a iiewspnjier whose
pages are not blackened with an account of
an unmentionable crime committed by a
negro brute, and this crime, I want to im
press upon you, is but the manifestation of
[he negro’s uspiration for social equality,
pncoEiraged largely by the character of free
education in vogue, which the stute is levy
ing tribute tiiMin the w bite people to main
tain.
As far as it goes, this is a true state
ment of deplorable facts. Had Governor
Vardanian lieen wise enough and frank
enough, he might with equal truth have
said the white people of his state are also
leteriorating morally—not from amalga
mation, hut from industrial contact with
the negroes. If the governor will but
look around him, he will see that the
|ssir white people of his state—different
from his own class only through long
continued unnatural conditions — are
crowded from the productive lands and
forced to eke out a miserable existence
in the nan-responsive hills, under con
litions, so a man said who had seen
poverty at its worst in many jiarts of
the world, the hardest and most hope
less he has ever witnessed. Then if
Governor Vardanian will bring his
thoughts to bear on his nearer neigli
Isirs he can doubtless name many fami
lies with promising sons—the very flower
uf his state—who have gone elsewhere
to seek a field for their talents and their
energies.
The blight that is ujmui Mississippi is
upon the whole south, and is Is'ginning
to settle n|sin |»»rts of the northern
states as well. It is inseparable from a
jumbling of races which nature has said
must remain distinct.
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spasmodic attempts to solve it by whole
sale emigration. The same spirit that
would now admit the coolies thwarted
the negro's plans. White men wanted
his cheap, degrading latsir and resorted
to effective means tf> retain it. One or
two shiploads of poor, miserable crea
tures embarked for Africa, probably to
die of neglect; and stringent measures
were then adopted to stifle the move
ment. Some time the white people may
he brought to a realization of their great
wrong—those white people who so vehe
mently, but inconsistently, declare
“This is a white man’s country.”
As showing the feeling of one of the
“l>etter class” of negroes, the following
will serve:
Macon, Gn.t Feb. 16.—Bishop Turner, col
ored, made an addresH liefore a convention
of his church Iwing held in this city last
eveninir which has made him notorious in a
day. In an impassioned speech treating of
the lynching of negroes in the south and the
persecution of the race generally by the
w hites, the bishop, carried away by his own
eloquence, declared the American flag to he
"a dirty oUl rag,” and that “hell w ould be an
improvement over the United States, so far
us the negro is concerned.” He placed a
challenge, open to all comers, to debate the
relative merits of the white and the black
man, und declared his ability to prove by
statements of fact that the negro is the
better citisen.
The negro problem iff a hard nut to
crack. Admission of coolies would very
prolothly displace the negro in the south
and send him ncroa* the ocean or to that
sphere which Bishop Turner says would
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be lietter for him than the United Staten.
The southern landed elans would scarce
ly oppose the admission.
*
Ir it reijnircs generalship to deal with
the cisdies in China statesmanship
should keep them out of America.
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