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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1885)
. tf CZ7 ttc gmttj J$fMKtt, ASTOKIA, OKEGOtf: SATURDAY OCTOBER 10. 1885 THE NEW SLAVERY. About three hundred of the Chinese recently expelled from Rock Springs, "Wyoming, have been put to work under the pro tection of six companies of United States troops under Lieut.-Col. Chipman. The department is un der the command of Gen. Howard, who is well knowu as a sentiment alist who may be described as a man who gets his opinions rather from emotions and intuitions than from facts. It is not likely that he has had occasion to penetrate the disguise in which the coolie has been so industriously envel oped. He, perhaps, looks upon him as a suffering man and broth er, who is the subject of an unrea sonable prejudice. Most likely he has no idea of the invisible chain which binds the coolie slave, and extends all the way to his na tive land. It will be admitted on all hands that it is due to the dignity of the United States that peace and or der should be maintained in the territories, which are more directly under its control. Protection to life and property should be ex tended to all persons, desirable or not, within our borders. But the incident suggests some new phases of the Chinese question which pol iticians should carefully study. The Chinese returned to the mines under the escort of United States troops are coolies held to contract and labor. They were hired in San Francisco and for warded to the mines in question. They have been worked for less than the white miners have here tofore been receiving. Being without wives or families they can be worked for still lower figures. It is hopeless for white miners to compete with them. There is no alternative for thorn but to leave. They can be expelled in the same manner from every other industry in which they may engage. They cannot contend with the coolie on one hand and the United States troops on the other. There is nothing for them to do but to mi grate. It cannot fail to be seen that this turn of events surrenders the territories to coolieism. It will be useless hereafter for the American workingman to proceed to these places. In the states where the federal government can not interfere until it is invited they may have some show. But the territories arc practically closed against them. Washington terri tory can, under this process, be wrested from the sturdy pioneers who have built it up and turned into a slave region. The same fate, under the new aspect of things, awaits all the other territories. They can be so transformed that none but slaveholders and slaves can occupy them. The significant political fact is that the mailed hand of the United States has once more been bared in the territories against free labor. It is more, peiluj.s, ih:,n a coin cidence that that po-ition was last taken when James Biiehanan was president of the United States. 'He used the military arm of the government to maintain slave holders in Kansas. He acted ap parently in defense of law and order. He protected slavery, which meant the expulsion of free labor. But his bayonets could not do it. Kansas was reclaimed to freedom in spite of all his efforts. Now the same question, but only in a slightly different aspect, has come up once more. The United States is again arrayed against free labor in the territories, and the troops appear on the scene in obedience to the orders of Presi dent Cleveland, who after an interval of twenty-four years, suc ceeded Mr. Buchanan. It is the man-dealers of Canton who have won the day now instead of the man-owners of Missouri. The policy in both cases is identical, he Reek Springs inoiclent closes the territories to American labor. None need go there any more, but those who are able to hire large gangs of coolies. The Americans who now labor with their hands in them must retire. No one who can view these threat ening possibilities with the eye of the statesman will take ground that the troops should be withdrawn and that the two different kinds of labor should be left to fight it out. In that case there would not be room for any doubt as to what would be the issue of the conflict. Peace manifestly should be maintained with all the force at the command of the government. But, on the other hand, the cause which threatens that peace should be removed. That cause is the constant influx of coolies in spite of the restriction sought to be placed on their coming. The ter ritories of the United States can only be secured to free labor by the rigid exclusion of the new and insidious form of slavery. If this remedy is not employed the army of the United States, as now con stituted, may not be large enough to uphold coolieism. It was not strong enough to suppress free labor in Kansas. On the contrary, in a brief space of time, it under went a most extraordinary meta morphosis, and swelling into mill ions, bore no banners but those of freedom. It would be a curious repetition of history if President Cleveland should be borne down by causes identical with those which laid out Buchanan. Of course coolieism can never attain the gi gantic proportions of the place of which it is seeking to take. It will be eliminated in much shorter time, but it is potent enough as it is, to destroy a half-dozen admin istrations. AMERICAN EXPOSITIONS. Tueke is to be a flood of Amer ican expositions on the other side of the water next year. Besides the permanent display of American manufactures and pro ducts to be opened in London, an other of the same kind, or rather series of them, are to be inaugu rated in Rome and the other prin cipal cities of Italy. These are to be conducted under the auspices of the minister of agriculture, in dustry and commerce, the purpose being to give the Italians some idea of American products, so as to develop a trade between this con tinent and Italy. The American manufacturers are also invited by Germany and by other European powers to make displays in their permanent trade exhibitions. The general interest in this con tinent thus shown by the Euro pean powers does not need much explanation. There is a great de sire on their part just now to ar range closer relations with Amer ica, not with the United States alone, but with Mexico and Cen tral and South America as well. They recognize the fact that the trade of these two continents is immensely large and profitable, and growing faster than that of any portion of the world. When one or two problems are solved, such as a transit route over the isthmus and the pacification and development of Central and South America, as Mexico has been paci fied and developed, this growth will be far more rapid than it is to-day. The foreign trade of America con stitutes about one-fourth of the total trade of the world to-day; it was only one-eighth thirty years ago; it will be one-half in another thirty years. Europe appreciates this, and is holding out all manner of induce ments to the countries of Ameri ca. England, Italy, and Ger many all want American exhibi tions, and want to attract Ameri can trade. We will hold before these others an Americau exposi tion which will be de voted somewhat to these same purposes to securing for the United States the trade of Latin America, to keep it at home in stead of letting it fall into the hands of Europe. It is evident, fa these expositions and from many other facts, that there is to be a warm commercial fight for the trade of the Americans. The United States is the first in the field; and if it utilizes the North, Central, and South American ex position to good advantage, by showing our products and manu factures to all the countries south of us, and by learning something of their resources, we will secure an advantage which cannot be off set by these other expositions. It is a grand field to fight for, and on our victory here depends much of the future prosperity of the coun try. It is to be hoped that the people of the United States recog nize this, and appreciate the very able arguments used by the man agement of the new exposition, showing how necessary it is to se cure the trade, and how much can be done through the coming expo sition. Cottox is fully half a cent a pound lower than it probably would be but for the war on silver. A crop of G,500,000 bales yields about 3,100,000,000 pounds, which at 10J cents per pound will have a value of $3S7,500,000, and from which a lall of half a cent takes off $15,500,000. This promises to be the tax which the cotton-growers of the south will have to pay for the war upon silver. New En gland leads in this war. She may well do it. It tends to enable her cotton-spinners to buy their cot ton at whatever they may choose to pa', and to sell their goods at wbatevea. they may choose to ask. The Eugene City Register spells "negro" with two e's. NEW TO-DAY. Nicely Furnished Rooms, WITH OK WITHOUT BOAltD; AT Mrs. S. T. 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