Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THlE WEST.
themselves, declared that the Chinaman should not
come here; but they might as well go down to the
Golden Gate and order the tide to'stay out, with the
Pacific Ocean behind it. Nothing can keep back
the starving population in China, from going where
there is plenty of labor. Labor will go where it is
needed and paid the best-this is in accordance with
immutable laws. They are now doing nearly all the
work in the California factories, at one dollar per
day, and they have proven to be superior workmen.
Their labor is needed-let them come.
But some say they will come here in such numbers as ultimately to control the country. I have no
fears of this. The Anglo Saxon race having founded
and made this country what it is, with their original
traits of character to control, to govern, will never
transfer the control of this country to another race.
No other people in the world would or could have
gone on the Pacific Coast, and established themselves, made governments and planted their home
institutions so peacefully, so permanently, so pros
perously. Our people truly, in their quiet way, are
the most successful colonizers of the earth. No nation is so sure to impress itself on malnkin.d, upon
whatever it undertakes, as ours; and I have no misgivings as to the power which will control this country in the future as in the past. There are other
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