| Show NARROW sarrow AND ANID pori PorT POLICY cir A BILL for the protection of labor li has 6 been recently introduced into the nevada legislature the billis bili bill is designed to protect the chinese from mob vio aehee lence when engaged in any peaceful labor or occupation throughout the state of nevada whether working fon foe themselves or in the employ of others the territorial enterprise bays says that the measure is just and humane in character it alms at nothing beyond the protection ebion of the weak against the strong 91 and a rational argument cannot be urged against its ita passage yet the prospects are that it will be defeated there is a miners mineral union society at virginia city and another at gold GoldHill nui HUI these societies are said to be very powerful organizations as regards numbers and voters and they are working very vigorously to defeat this bill they have submitted a protest to the legislature against the passage of the bill from which the following is an extract the tho deplorable condition of our sister state of california her river livers sand and ana hills once once teemed with glittering wealth wealthy and gave profitable employment to thousands 0 of industrious men but a mistaken policy permitted the chinese to enter and surp usurp the place of nobler men peonage was was their heir controlling agent the who placers and hills bills and rivers swarmed with the multitude of persons sent bythe bytho great com companies es located in various cities of chirani Chirp china ni i fihe white men were forced to fee flee from the contact with such a degraded race and the tho mines were in a great measure abandoned to the pagan and today to day 1 in irr the the tho shadow hadow of the cross tho the idol of ya paganism ra is nestled to in fancied security i seriously gentlemen you cannot be bo so dead to ta the tha gest test dest oest interests of the state as to attempt to fasten bylaw by law such i a eco scourer urra urro rdo reo upon our people ayo nyo we ive ilare have nned fled from the ithe leprosy do not we prayton pray ton you again agaid bring it to our presence it ia is very often asserted in these days daya that the white race and especially espe cally caily the anglo saxon the leading element in the population of amark america is vastly superior to any race not blessed byna by nature with a skin of just the same bame tint but the whining sprit manifested by the above extract from this bill gives no evidence of much vaunted superiority perio rity but rather ratter the reverse why according to thid the deplorable condition of california invented expressly fa for r the occasion we should imagine by those interested in the passage of the bill is the result of admitting the hardworking economical sons of the flowery kingdom to compete in labor with hard handed hard fisted white skinned sons of toil of the anglo anilo saxon saxo n and other races and they poor souls have been forced to flee from the contact with such a degraded race and in consequence of this the mines have been in a great measure abandoned to the pagan and california today to day has baa within her borders a few more copper colored celestials Celesti als and perhaps not quite so many supporters of the cross the narrow minded but relentless crusade that has been waged against the chinese on the pacific slope and which seems to be extending into the rocky bocky mountain territories is entirely un american and savors only of the spirit end policy th atone might expect to find in some contemptibly little out of the way conservative and ignorant village or hamlet in england grant that the chinese are immoral and inferior are the miners and inhabitants generally of the pacific slope and the mining regions of the rocky bocky mountains so immaculately hureas pure as to fear defilement fi from their presence away with such nonsense this intolerant disposition is as bad or worse than was ever manifested by the ignorant english or their equally equal y intolerant american descendants to wards warda the celtic race it was long fashionable in britain and america to preach the doctrine that the hardy sons of the emerald isle would take the bread out of the mouths of the english or oT American amerlean workingman working man but such hugot lugot ted prejudice has died out to a considerable extent now and while the irish laborer has ever been in the front rank where hard labor and delving toil toll were to be done and perhaps has been willing to do it a trifle cheaper than others his frugal frugality I 1 ty enabling him to do so he kas has has never permanently diminished the chances of his saxon neighbors to gain a livelihood this bill introduced by mr woodworth into the nevada legislature will probably be defeated on account odthe of the wide spread combination of miners and the influences they will bring to bear against it but if defeated it will be a standing reproach to the people oane of nevada sucha such a policy polley being worthy oni only y of the blue law days of intolerance |
