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Show Now look out for tho Grant move ment to boom with modified force on the Pacific coast. Tue general has eaid the only objection to the Chinese in this couutry is that they come here as slaves, whereas that feature of the question is t je least objectionable to tho claps who are more bitterly opposed op-posed to the heathen. The opposition to the Chinese is chiefly on account of their cheap labor, and their industry indus-try and economy which make it pcsiiblo ifur them to work for leas than others require. Notwitbstand-1 ing the fact that this country nearly ruined itself in the struggle to abolish slavery, were ali the Ciinese on our eborej practically slaves, that circum. staucJ would cut a very significant figure iu the Mongolian question. j When the distinguished candidate for third-term honors proposes that the American people will treat the Chineie with "kicdueas and justice, aud not ; deny to the free and deserving people of that couutry the asylum they ofhr to tbo rtst of the world," he is running run-ning afoul of the sentiment that controls con-trols the elections of California, Oregon Ore-gon and Nevada, and ia taking the right course to count thoje states in the presidential race (or his opponent. |