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Show RADICAL SANITY. I The Bubetanco ot a lecture delivered iu New York, on Thursday evening, by the Rov. Joseph Cook, on the Chineao question, will bo found in thia issue of tho Heuald. Mr. Cook is a radical, and given to aaying extreme things, but in Ihia matter he does not stray fur from expreasing the Bontimenta ol the intelligent, thinking olassea of the country, who are not directly interested in securing the voIob ol the sand lot citizens. Tho Pacific coast congressmen who are bo violent in their opposition . to tho Chinese, aro acting against their own better judgment. They know the Mongolians are vastly superior in any and every respect, to the ignorant hoodlum classes who oppose them; yet the hoodlums can vote, and give domagoguee fat ofJicea. Tbia ia the peorot of the anti-Chinese agitation. agita-tion. Drive tho Mongolians out of tin Francisco and California and the oity and state would at onco count their loesei by the millions. The Chinese are a necessity to the Pacific states as much as tho blacks are to the Bouth, Tho eastern press is unanimous in its opposition to tho bill recontly passed by the house, and ministers of tho"goepel and sane thinking men everywhere denounce it aadipcrace-ul. aadipcrace-ul. The bill was reported to the Ben-ate Ben-ate yesterday, by the foreign relations committee of that body, the chairman significantly remarkiug that when it came up he would move for its indefinite indefi-nite postponement. This indicates that the scnata does not propose to let congress make a fool of itself even for tho aake of getting a few thouaiud votes from the disreputable blackguard black-guard crew from the sand lota that run California Btateamcn. |