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Capitalists doing it oiiglit to be proliibited by law from such 

 abuse of power. Factories run upon such a basis are a curse 

 rather than a blessing. Any business that cannot live without 

 degrading humanity ought to die. The first requisite in any 

 department of business should be to have the rights of labor 

 engaged in it sacredly regarded, and the dignity of the indi- 

 vidual maintained. It is now quite popular in certain direc- 

 tions, where the proplem of labor in this country is discussed, 

 for those who do all in their power to degrade labor to affect 

 great sympathy for the Chinaman, to insist upon his great 

 utility, if not his superiority as a laborer. Eminent and popu- 

 lar clergymen desire to be regarded as the special advocates 

 of the cause of the poor and down-trodden, in defending 

 Chinese immigration, wholly losing sight of the fact that while 

 doing no kindness to the Chinaman, they are doing a great 

 wrong to the Christian laborer, by favoring his being brought 

 into competition with servile labor. No true friend of human- 

 ity, no follower of the Saviour of Mankind, will do aught 

 against the rights of the Chinaman ; he certainly[will not, if 

 actuated by a Christian spirit, do aught to injure any human 

 being in all the universe. If there is a Chinaman in the Ce- 

 lestial Kingdom who has in his soul hatred of oppression, a 

 longing after liberty, the desire to enjoy the benefits of our 

 Christian civilization, and to abjure allegiance to his govern- 

 ment and to become loyal to ours and to our institutions, I bid 

 him (xod-speed to our shores. I welcome him to our Chris- 

 tian civilization, to a participation in the glorious results of 

 free institutions. But when capital, accumulated by not giving 

 a just and fair compensation for labor performed, brings bar- 

 barians to our shores, who come unwillingly, come under ser- 

 vile contracts, come not to permantly remain, come not with 



