San Andreas independent., 1857-07-25
For the Independently
LETTER FROM MUSTANG. u
UPPER CALAvERIrAs, july 10Th x,

perhaps fifty or hundred thousand more Chi
namen, tails and all. When is this going to
stop? believe in hospitality. but this is a little
| like running that virtue into the ground Icon
teSs TO the weakness of wishing to see Califor-
MIA settled by ''white men, for which I hope
will not be accused of using POLITICALLY speak
ing) dark lantern. would like to see stream
of emi migration pouring into California, but the
Cinnamon suit me too well. We want emigra-
ton from the rising, not from the setting sum-
have stood, when was young and felt my
bosom swell, listening to Fourth of July Ora
tors. glowing with patriotism and whiskey, de-
lneatng the qualities of the American eagle ;
how he would take under his wings the oppressed
OF every land, but never heard any of them at
tribute to him the digestive organs of an ostrich
which he would require to enable him to look
upon our Celestial visitors without feeling like
DONG what we do when we are sea sick Is
there no way of stopping them? Are we to sit
here and take them like the cholera, the yellow
fever, or flight of locusts, as Brigham Young
has It, as visitation on the Gentiles? What
a frlghtful array OF beSgars We shall have, when
old, worn out with opium-smoking and other
nameless vices, they cease working Perhaps
you think they don't understand begging They
haven't tried it on yet, that's ALL Think of it.
We taxpayers what aims houses, jails and hos
pitals will be required That's the way they'll
get back their S4 month with interest.
I'm tired of these disinterested, whining apol-
ogists for Cinnamon, pleading that they pay
taxes, work only in deserted diggings, and en-
courage navigation, commerce &c
This monthly tax, upon which so much stress
is placed, not more than a fourth pay. When
they have claim that is known to be rich one
that would sell quickly, they pay otherwise
there Is no way Of coercing them No one
would buy a claim without prospecting it, and
the collector could not risk his time for that
He might sell the tools, but unless some one
actually needed them at the moment they would
not be worth carrying away. And the money
which is collected? What with a percentage
to Tom, percentage to Dick, and a sweating
from Harry, it grows smaller by degrees and
I beautifully less on its way to the County and
State Treasures, where it is lost sight of-gets
up the chimney at last They only work in de-
serted placcrs, are told. The deserted
placcrs they have worked for four wears after
their advent into California, would pay good
wages to Americans now; of whom, perhaps
we would have as many more if we had never
seen Chinaman. Who would be the loser, if
the gold they had taken out was still in the
ground Not the American miner; it would
all be eventually taken out and we will one day
think (if we do not think so now, that it were
better at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, taxes
and all, than that the Chinese had thrown their
shadows across our thresholds. They encourage
trade, narigation &c. Why, one American miner
gives more impetus to commerce, &c, and pays
more indirect taxation than a hundred China
men.
The San Francisco press have been crying
out for years back for cheap labor and perma-
nent residents a panacea for all their ills
Labor is nearly as cheap there at present as in
most of the Atlantic States, and what have they
gained BY it? Instead of crowds of eastern en-
igrants who once made their streets perpetual
fair, they have hordeS of Chinese who create u
demand for damaged rice. Cheap labor only
benefits large capitalists, whilst on the contrary
we'll rcmunerated work is the great attraction
of new country If we could all be capital
lists, " Ell Dorado would be found for every
body but the Chinese, and cheap labor would
| fit my shoulder like rife Don't it look rather
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workers, &c, to emigrate to California to come
here to compete with people who, even with
California high prices, board themselves sump
tuously for seventy-fye cents per week, and
who will ultimately reduce wages in California
to Chinese, two cents per day. instead Of New
York prices. The same thing intimidates per-
manent residents and is take it all in all, g the
curse of California; Who cares what happens,
or how justice is administered IN country
which nearly everybody calculates to leave in
two years at the outside.
Is there no way Of getting rid Of what are
here, and guarding against them III future? If
there was any spunk in them we might stir up
a fight between Hong Kong and Canton, and
keen them at it. until, like the Kilkenny cats,
there'd be nothing LETT but the tails. But as
that would be morally wrong, besides being i'm
practicable method might be adopted of
which the following is an imperfect outline,
but will, however, serve to carry the idea: Let
a law be passed making it punishable by fine
for any person ineligible to citizenship (the
Chinese), working the Mineral Lands of the
State without license, costing, say ten dollars
monthly for following any other occupation.
six dollars monthly,-the fine for the first of
fence not less than fifty dollars; for the second
two hundred dollars. Upon conviction for the
offence and the non-payment of the penalty, the
correcting Justice shall bind him over to any
citizen who shall pay the fine and costs, the
Chnaman to work it out at rate (board inclu-