Show I THE CHINESE AGAIN News comes from Seattle W T that the Chinese laborers at the coal mines some twenty miles from that town have been attacked and their lodging and I cook houses burned Tho Chinamen themselves fled to the woods and fortunately for-tunately none of them were killed The mob attacking the Chinamen were masked but probably they were miners fleeing that it was the miners at lock Springs who massacred tho Chinamen there There seems to be an organized move against the Chinese throughout the entire West and the move has assumed the dangerous form of murder and pillage In California those who have been legitimately legiti-mately agitating against tho Chinese and in favor of forbidding them immigation to this country deprecate very much such crimes as those committed at Rock Springs fully realizing that whatever of merit there is in their cause is hidden by such inhuman treatment of a race to them obnoxious The natural result is to create sympathy for a race of whom all things vile are said and yet who are I massacred merely because they are obnoxious But this new outbreak against the Chinese at Seattle clearly proves that some secret society is instituting the outrages no doubt with the hope of causing the Chinese themselves to see that they are not safe in the United States As Seattle is in a Territory it is to be hoped that the Government Gov-ernment will take precautions there to protect the Chinese the same as in Wyoming So long as the Chinese are here they must be protected and not to protect them from such unjust and unprovoked un-provoked attacks as the ones to which they have been subjected of late is to bring the United States into a just contempt con-tempt Neither is it any palliation of these attacks that the Pekin Government does not approve of the departure of its subjects from the realms of the Celestial Kingdom The Pekin Government has permitted them to depart from their native shores and the United States Government has allowed them to land upon its shores and the duty of the Government is to protect them The course of the Administration in regard to the Wyoming massacre proves that in the Territories the Chinese will be protected by United States troops if attacked hut this fact does not relieve the Territorial and municipal officers of the Territories from the duty of doing all in their power to see that the law extends its protection to all whether citizens or strangers Likewise it is the duty of the various companies whether coal or railroad companies com-panies to furnish the Chinese with the means of protecting themselves If they are liable to attack at any time by mobs armed with guns and pistols the Chinese should be able to defend themselves with guns and pistols Such a condition of affairs is very greatly to be regretted and if it exists and experience proves that such is the case it must hemet he-met the best way possible and where any class of people is liable to sudden and murderous assaults none arc so competent to repel such assaults if the law cannot piotcct them as those whose lives and property arc placed in jeopardy A man will fight much better for himself than any ono will fight for him Let the 1 authorities do all they can to protect the Chinese but in the meantime let the employers em-ployers of the Chinese provide them with the moans of selfprotection I |