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Show WORKING CROSSWAYS. j What iJ 'h? ninrr or with Ma.il:i otti. anl New K:ii?!ar.l p!ti-:ra!!y ? j Dors thtiir e-tini i'a of human worth mnn in proportion to the 'l;ukri';-i of tin? skin'.' A iid if m, why do they frown -'i TVi-n !;,- on thn poor Monfro- j linn? Kvcn if In: ii not a black a.i the African. he is at lea: tevrai i!iaI:.4 darko-r than the Caucasian. Or bus Nuw I'liij-'iatul expended no iiiu..-!i swii j.afhy on tin: n :f-'io that tl ere ii nuiu to ."p'-re lor any otlr.-r portion f the Ullhli:a;h':'i rii'XS ' .lolm Chinaman has invad-.'d Ma.-i-KicliiHttM. Hi; hai "irrupted" on North Adams anil ha.i euitimet.'vd making shoes, and New England :and.s ii'liaH. A luii'l cry ii raided that it is renewal of plavry in another form. J'ut it Moms the C'hine.-o at North Ad ains answered an ud vurtieu;en t for workmen. ju.-t the sume as intelligent blaek or (;ven whire men would have done ; and they hired out lor the joh to go to North Adams that ihey might learn to make f-hot e. California has had the Chinee for twenty years. They have mi:r..d, washed, wash-ed, cooked, madu ck'ars, and rendered themselves useful in a variety of ways. Hut they could live on little and worked cheap, and they usurped employment which while men would not do at the price received by them. Californians did not like this, and they protested aramst the immi ration of ''John" heine encouraged. New England called California Democratic Demo-cratic and other harsh and hard-sound ing names, lauded Anson Burlineame . to the t-kies, eulogized his Chinese treaty, and figured what immense benefits wi.iv to accrue to tho country as a result i,f it. lint '"John" had not reached Massachusetts then. He has now; and his advent has set eloquent toncues a-wag.'iue:, and stirred stir-red up the bile of New England, and the "Chinese question" has sprung into remarkable prominence in a few days. It does seem a little strange to out-wide out-wide barbarians, who cannot appreciate tho importance of New England, why ' all this bother should arise because of a few Chinamen learning to peg shoes in North Adams. They are not coming com-ing to the American shores from tl e Flowery land in any unusually excessive exces-sive numbers. Wo do not underrate the question, but are merely looking at the strangeness of its so rapidly as suming such importanc.3. There was no particular stir in the east when California was sending up aery against toe Chinese. When they crept along the lin j of railway as section hands it was merely chronicled as an item of news. When they were carried down south, no greater importance was attached at-tached to tho fact. But when less than a hundred make their appearance n Massachusetts, the whole country is set iu a ferment over it; and the Fed oral legUIuiu.ro is agitated concern ing it. The radical portion of the republican party, which has labored So zealously to place the black race above the white, would do well to remember that hundreds hun-dreds of thousands are watch ng closely close-ly the luauuer iu which they deal with this matter of the yellow race, to see how far their doctrine of equal rights will be applied, aud whether the Mongolian Mon-golian will be treated as the equal of the African under the same circumstances. circum-stances. It is one of tlwe questions which is jusiTow strongly testing their sincerity and cousistcucy, and no amount ot special pleading will explain ex-plain away the pointed declarations to which they have so firmly committed themselves in the past. |