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Show , HHJIiim 1 J i jAUSE.ygQIt CniNAMEN." I - ii 1 III I 1 Work That Whlto Mon Cannot Bo " Hlrod to Do. I Hero ta rrnpoiltlon Which Might For-nUh For-nUh TartUl Kolntlon of the I'erplnltiu tlilncie l'rolilem. Bomo days ngo the l'ortland Oroii-lim Oroii-lim iMit.l: "If wo tind nt thla moment forty thouMtivl mom (lilnpac In the la- ;'!o In llio north ni'Bt to to U10 work r.-hkh whlto men will nut do, nnd which yot ta npceMary fordovolopmont of tho country, tho ruiull would bo pooil for every lxxly." A corrotpomlcnt writes that "ho would Ulto to bo Informed In-formed whnt the nature of thnt work la," nnd tho Orcgonlnn tints responds: The occupation 111 which Chlnono labor la-bor would maluly bo uneful la that of clcarinff our henvlly tlmlwrcd lands. This li lalmr which whlto men will not or do not to any extent perform. Thua far nearly nil tho worlc of clearing our lands han been performed hy Clilnom. 11 .it It liai cnino to a atop. Hlnco C'hl-ncso C'hl-ncso iramlffratlon wn auspendeil It hni become tmtioanibto to jret labr foi-tblit purpose. Hltrhcr wngen oro demanded by Chlncfo, nnd no owner of timber land can afford to hlro It cleared. It la onay, of courae, to autre that theroaro plenty of white men ready to perform labor of this hind nnd to denounce tho owners of the land for employing; them, butllierulaatcctof this matter tint may bo ory simply made Tlioro nrc Immense- aroai of this land yet open for settlement. Oovernmcnt will five them nway to nil citizens who apply. Hut our worhlngmen refuo to tnfto thcMj lands and subduo them. They wouldn't clear tho landi for tho gift of them. douhtlcKn bccauio thoy think they can do hotter, and many of them may Iks right. Hero then Is 11 line of work In which Chinese would not bo In tho way of whlto labor, and thcro Is nothing more necessary for development of tho country than tho clearing- of largo bodies of theto InmlB. Tho worlc Is now practically at it stand. Agnln, Chinese lalor would bo useful In market mar-ket gardening nnd fruit growing. Or egon and Washington do not grow vegetables enough byone-half forthelr own consumption. Whnt we have In tho way of market gardening now Is largely tho work of Chinese. Fncti lllio theM) nro facts In splto of all declamation. decla-mation. An a people tho Chinese nro not a desirable class, slneo they arc unfit for Incorporatluh Into tho citizenship of tho country, but in every rospect they nro fnr less objectionable and dangerous than tens of thousands from Uuropcnn countries who nre admitted without question every year nnaroli-ists; nnaroli-ists; agitators, beggars. mountubnnUn and criminal of ovcry degree. Tho country eun do without Chinese, of coutsc, but much work that would oontrllmto to its development will remain re-main undone. There is no piobnbllity thalChiiieio will over ho freolv admitted ad-mitted ngaln, and thin, too. in all clroumitonoes Is well, nlnro tho presence pres-ence of an inferior nice among superior supe-rior beings like ourselves Is always a fco-irco of discontent which political nitators continually inilame. In ull clrciiuistnncos, therefore, exclusion of tho Chlnoso la advisable, or even necessary, nec-essary, hut still n iionl now and then on certain phases of the subject, dictated dic-tated by eandornnd common seut,c, mny not bo Intolerable. |