A NEW REPUBLIC.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1651, 5 June 1879, Page 3

A NEW REPUBLIC.

California talks of setting up a republic on her own account. The San Francisco Daily Stock Report, the oldest financial paper on the Pacific Coast, after urging that a monster mass meeting shall be held in San Francisco to demand of President Hayes that he shall sign the Bill restricting Chinese immigration, goes on to say :— * This is a most critical time in the history of California. Already such a dread possibility as secession from the Union in the event of our failure to obtain the relief we demand from the Chinese evil, is broadly talked of in high circles. The East has utterly failed to understand our situation and to extend the aid and sympathy wo have a right to expect from the sisterhood of States. Leading men say that we have pleaded, exhausted arguments, have cried aloud for relief, but our most earnest appeals have been treated with indignity, and our sufferings have been made a mockery. As a last resort we take advantage of the geographical lines which surround us, the vast extent of soil within our boundaries, the exhaustleas resources of wealth that are ours, and will set up an Occidental Republic, which, if it cannot rival the old Republic in its glory of the past, will at least be a magnificent empire of white free men, whose heritage shall be preserved to their children for ever.’ On the other hand, if the new ‘ Occidental Republic ’ will not allow free competition in its labor market, it can hardly take credit for liberty, equality, and fraternity, which words are generally accepted as embodying the creed of those who maintain the rightful supremacy of the numerical majority. It is not the least remarkable feature of modern progress that it appears to those who watch it from a little distance to bo a retrograde movement, but this, of course, is an optical delusion