Show I fl ATTACKING THE CHINESEI I I The recent attack upon the Chinese at Rock Springs by coal miners was both I I unprovoked and unjustifiable Tho China i j men were simply minding their business i busi-ness and performing their work two r things very characteristic of Chinamon BO far as our observation goes What ii t Il Californias troubles with the Chinese havu been and are we do not pretend to know but in Utah no such trouble has arisen The Chinese havo becomeS sff become-S unpopular on the Coast that it is almost I I j f deemed a high merit to wrong a China I I t man and this spirit seems to have t jJpread to Wyoming Tho problem oft of-t labor and capital is one that has always agitated civilized countries and always wl1 That the laboring man has his rights is true but his rights do not extend S ex-tend so far as to say who shall and who shall not labor in America and upon what terms If the laws of the United States permit a Chinaman toenter this country then that Chinaman is entitled to the protection of the laws and he has j a right to enter tho market and compete I I com-pete with the white man Laying I aside the question as to the policy of per I i i I I I initting the Chinese to come to this country i coun-try or of their exclusion from it there is I j no question as to the policy of protecting j them when here It is a duty owing to I i the Chinaman and to the Government No one pretends to justify tho attack on I I the Chinamen at Rock Springs yet it is doubtful if any of those engaged in murj f f tiering them will be tried not because the I Wyoming authorities will bo lax but because i be-cause Chinamen have no friends in the I i West There is i another thing to be con1 sidered in connection with this attack I Only a short time ago there was an antiS anti-S Chinese meeting held in Ogden at which a General Heed spoke and denounced the 1 Chinese in unmeasured terms and called t I fupon the people of Ogden to expel the Chinese although what business it is ofF of-F Heeds who lives in Idaho what the S citizens of Ogden do is hard to explainS I I explain-S Following on the heels of this meeting advertisements were placed in some of I our local papers calling upon all Ivuights j I of Labor to boycott all who had any deal t S I ings with or sympathy for the Chinese Such associations as that of the Knights i of Labor which secret inits workings and whose commands < itsmembers are I issued as ukases > arc svdangcr andthey have departed from the legitimateobject j of being protective associations to those 1 I of aggressive ones which assume the powers of soverignity and if a law or a relation does not suit them they at once proceed to trample it under foot holding I the theory that as all law and authority I in this country come from the people so I I the people can override that law and authority au-thority how and when they choose They I forget that for them to so proceed is for I I them to proceed lawlessly and to induce I anarchy and if the laboring men as to exclude the i electors have the right I Chinese from tho United States they must I do so through the law and not through I mobs The safety of all classes is in die I supremacy of the law and not the supre I macv of tho people as a mob |