Show Evils of Alien Labor lel I I There will be no Senatorial inquiry into the niasrfacre of Chinamen in Wyoming No impassioned orator will recount the i j incidents of the bloody deed and no j party platform builder will demand anything concerning it i When Congress assembles no investigation costing thousands < thous-ands of dollars will be ordered and no j newspaper anxious to foment strife will I employ romancing correspondents to i make the case worse than it reall was I Why Because the Chinaman has no I vote and no friends He is not closely I bound up in the history of either political I party Nobody is anxious to force him on other people as their equal or superior I and above all no party capital is to be made of his woes though his blood may I flow in rivers I fow rvers Yet back of this Wyoming massacre is I a question of greater importance to Amer I i icans in general than any of the j antecedents of common assault and bat I j ten cases at the South can have f he I j Chinamen were at work for a government j I subsidized company and had been hired i I by it for the purpose of depressing the I j I wages of white labor Murderous and I j shameful as was the attack made on these wretched creatures it was not more I villainous than the attack which the Union Pacific Railroad Company made I on the rights of American labor When tIe rich men or the rich corporations that enter into arrangements of this character I for the purpose of reviving a species of I slavery in America find that they are looked upon as contemptible skinflints and devilish oppressors olVthe human Ira I e it is probable that there will be fewer ccasions for such butcheries as that in I Wyoming The blame for the horror I rests primarily on the corporation which I i 1 sought without proper excuse to reduce t j 1 the American workingman to the position of a wonChicago Herald |