The Placer herald., 1867-03-09
SPEECH OF MR.. MOONEY.

At THE ANTI CHINESE MEETING At THE AMER
1cAN TnEATER, SAN FRANCISCO, wEDNEs-
DAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1867.
Mr.. Mooney then addressed the meeting
for about half an hour. He said:
l have been invited here 10 give my opn'
ion on this important issue. My opinion
and my voice are against employing Chinese
labor in any way whatever. raise my voice
against any further immigration Of the Chi
nese. Every dollar for Chinese labor is lost
forever 10 the community. Every dollar
given for white labor is M investment at
compound interest for the community. for
you and for your children. The China la.
borer is slave, brought here by a rich own
or. His food is sent after him in the shape
Of rice and tea. He picks up bit OF pork
or fish, or steals some poultry here to mix
with the rice, morning, noon and night; the
whole of which costs less than twenty cents
a day. The balance Of bis earnings is sent
out Of the country. He drains off $4,000
day. The white Iaborer distributes his
wages with the grocer, the butcher, the ba.
ker, the tailor, the shoemaker and the owner
Of house. He buys piece Of real estate,
and employs more white labor 10 improve it.
The China laborer buys no real estate, i'm
proves no property, invests no money. He
is sojourner only, who must return TO
China sooner or later, dead or alive. En-
ploying Chinese laborers will discourage The
further immigration Of white laborers to
California. Let it go TO the East and Europe
that Chuamen are to be employed in our
factories and public works 10 preference to
white men, and the present stream Of white
immigration, small as it is, will dry up al
together. The Pacific Mail Company will
then have slim reports Of "new arrivals"
More than tbat-every mechanic and labor
ing man, who has gathered money enough
to take him away from California, will quit
it as soon as he possibly can. Already China
men are taken in as cooks, chambermen,
factory bands, stitchers and tailors, shoe
makers and weavers, laborers and "handy'
men" in stores and workshops. They will
soon learn to plaster, carpenter, and lay
bricks. They will SOON be used in the foun
dries, and displace the mouders and furnace
men. They are all ingenious people, skilled
10 letters and literature. Soon they will be
used as drivers Of the street cars, and con.
ductors also, and blacksmiths, and bosllers.
They will hire houses through the city, open
bakeries, restaurants and hotels, and have
chinese walters and cooks; Of course they will.
We shall have the splendid hotel Of Ching
Foo erected On The site Of the old Oriental;
and We shall have the fashionable women Of
San Francisco-those Of the heavy waterfalls
come TO reside 10 the Ching Foo House!"
Cinnamon are now taken into the families
Of the merchants. lawyers, doctors, Of this
city, to wash their wives chimeses, and 10
make up their wives bedrooms. Time was
when, to see Chnaman act as servant in
Louise, that house was set down as house
of i'll fame; none but public women employ
ed CLinamen as house servants then-now
they are employed by private ladies. Chi
namen have already got possession OF sever!
al branches Of trade. They do almost all
the washing and sewing which should belong
TO women. They are masters Of the sewing
machine and Of the laundry. They have
got exclusive possession Of the cigar manu-
facture. The will soon 60 up into the print
ing Offices and work the various hand pres
set; they will learn to set up type, too, and
Capitalists" will employ them in order to
compete with Capitalists" They will make
admirable dry goods men, and will, in due
time, open extensive Chinese stores, whittier
our fashionables, Of course, will flock. As
The Cbinaman progresses, the white man will
retire before him. One by one, three by
three, men from each ofthe living branches
Of California employment will 60; for al.
though they may excel the Chinaman in
finish they cannot underseI him in the labor
market. The stampede will first begin with
the common laborers-then with the skilled
mechanics; then the merchants will close out
their stores and sell of, for the Chinese will
deal only with their own merchants-tbat is,
with their "owners." Then the auctioneers
will come upon their stands and offer real
estate extremely low;" but low as they may
offer it they will have no bidders, for the
Chinese laborers want none Of their real es'
tate, and the white laborers are either "go'
ing" or 'gone" The lawyers, too, will
have lost their occupation for the Cinnamon
never 60 10 law; and the doctors may throw
their pbysic to the dogs, the Cinnamon will
cling to bis own drugs and bis own doctors
Our fine ladies who now sweeten public as
semblies by their sunny smiles, and their
rich and balmy covering, will fly back to
the Eastern cities with their bankrupt hus.
bands and fathers, never to return to the
Pacific shores again. Chinawomsn will be
our only solace then. This vast and fair
rich country will be banded over to the
Chinese become colony Of the Em
peror Of the Celestial Empire. They shall
own the banks and the Insurance compau.
les, and be masters of the shipping, the com
merce, the merchandise, and the manufac
lures, and the money of the place; and you
white men and women, and your children's
children shall come to the future Mandarins
OF the Pacific coast and beg them, 10 the
name Of Charity, some employment and re
take US! And why shall we permit it! Il
is to appease Capitalists" Capitalists tell
| ns wa must hava cheaper labor in order tc