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parties see fit to uphold it. Though we
hud avaricious motives in making this
treaty and have now got the worst of the
hat-gain, this is no reason why wo should
allow il to he our destruction while we
have the power to prevent. The only
question now remaining is how to stop
this influx Congress lias heen adopting
rather extreme measures and I think tar
from the best. Il would he heller for all
concerned that we first enter into negotia
tions with the Chinese government (as lias
heen suggested) and see If the obnoxious
clause cannot be so amended us to suit
both parties- To jump at the clause with
a snap and a growl without warning the
Chinese government is an net worthy
only a cowardly villain who knows he
lias no right on his side. Let the matter
he taken care of properly, but let il he
thoroughly done, so thai protection may
he allbrdcil to our own oppressed. Cheap
labor is not what this country needs. Il
would he the greatest blessing possible to
the land if we only had laws preventing
the influx of semi barbarous hordes,
and outcasts of all nations. We have
enough to dojbr many years to come in
assimilating all the foreign and discor
dant elements now in our borders. When
we liuvo recieved such vast numbers of
these classes that we cannol assimilate
them then, the foundations of our govern
iiicnt will begin to quake and unless some,
thing isdoue quickly' we will soon reach
this point. Why then this abnormal hu
manity which so many of our leading men
exhibit. Let Joseph Cook, Henry Ward
Ik'cohcr and others step down from their
curved pulpits and luxurious homes and
place themselves in the place of the labor
ing poor of the Pacific coast, with the pros,
peel of eating outs and poorly fed dogs and
eats, or the other alternative, starvation, and
I imagine their great humanity would
"scatter as chuff before the wind."
Anti-Ciiinesk.
SllAKSPEllE'S WOMEN.
The master painter of human chaiactcr
has placed upon the canvass before us his
men and women, both drawn with the
same elegant and powerful hand.
He bus shown by the character of his
women that his mind was all-embracing
in its grasp. For every Hamlet, there is
an Ophelia, drawn with the same power,
but purer and more delicate.
There is no phase of human nature that
he has not penetrated. Some men ciui
unfold the characters of men only. Thoy
can not enter into the mind and thought
of women; they can not appreciate aud
develop the passions and feelings that
animate them. Other men, like Richard
son, draw their female, far more life-like
than their mule characters.
But Shakspcrc seemed to have a
charmed hand : one that could paint man
or woman with equal fidelity. Shakspcrc
has given us Juliet; aud what a picture
of young, romantic love, yet true ami firm,
ending only in death.
Juliet, though not disguising her love
for Romeo, docs not lose any of the sim
plicity uud modesty that makes the true
and tender woman. All her life, from
that first moment of meeting, is bound
up in Romeo's. Scarcely does she hesi
tate in her love for him even when he has
slain hot cousin. In his exile, her love
goes with him; and finally, when she dis
covers, on awakening from her sleep, that
the poisonous cup has ended his life, she
snatches his dagger and dies with him.
In this play, Shaksperc has pictured the
hast' southern blood. To us of a more
northern dime, it may seem somewhat
unreal. In that fact, Shukspcre's genius
shines the brigb'er, for it shows that he
not only understood men as he saw them
but he could place himself in any age or
an' country and be equally at home.
Rut the hasty, impetuous love of Juliet,
of the south, finds its opposite in the re
serveed und tender lovo of Ophelia, of the
north, for Hamlet. Mrs. Jameson says
