The union Democrat., 1869-08-21
In the first place the mode of introducing

In the first place the mode of introducing /
these lsborers is extremely Objectionable 1t
is not an immigration but an importation.
These people do not come here Of their own
free will, prompted either bya spirit OF ad-
venture or, If that were conceivable, by I
auv interest in or attachment 70 our ins:itu
tions That of course Is entirely out or the !
question. The Chinese know as much /.
about our institutions as the gre2f bulk OF /
our people know of the Chinese language, |
and that is just as near to nothing as II Is pos
s!ble. Laughter and cheers When an |
immigrant rom Ireland, from England, from |
France. or from Germany turns his face TO |
the West, and following the sun, finds him.
: self on the shores of the grea. Republlc, be i
/ is prompted by purpose and an lntelf-
gonce which of themselves form some
pledge TO Us here of his fitness 10 become
citizen of the United States. lApplause)
1 They prove his interest IN the country.
! They prove also his disposition TO ally him
self with it, 10 acqualnt himself with Its pol
! lev and with the principles of its institutions.
| You cannot say that OF beings imported in the
mass like a herd of cattle, as II Is alleged that
| these Chinese people have been, and 1t Is I'M
ders .ood they are to be hereafter on gigan-
tic scale. Applause l say nothing at
present of the charge doubtless not wholly
untounded, that mauy OF them are brought
here not only without knowledge OF where
they are going, but even against
their will and in some sort of seryitude
Under the enormous stimulus OF a great sys-
TEN OF importation, we shall have results
very far beyond those from any movement
of immigration. We shall see the Chinese
brought among US, in a ve-y short tine, by
hundreds OF thousands, and, after no long
period, by millions, through the country at
large. We are struck by the ease and fre-
quency with which great numbers are men,
toned, and men talk of laying down" these
people in masses-just as ii it were ''laying
down" so many bushels of wheat-of "laying
down. 5000 Cinnamon here, "laying down"
10 900 there and so coo ct another place, and
100, 900 at another place. IApplause.l And
there is no impossibility ABOUT 1t. Our
opponents, whilst clamoring for Chinese
labor, tell us that there is no possibility OF
bringing a very large number here, because
of the tficulty of finding the great amount
of shipping required. In this way they
would quiet your apprehensions. They seem
to forget the history of the movements Of
similar labor elsewhere. For years there
has been an organized system, not of impor-
tation, but of immigration merely from Hin
dostan of a race analogous to the Coolies OF
China, to the Mauritius, to British Guiana
and to Trinidad-on the South American
coast-a voyage, as you Will perceive, taking
the three points together, as long AMI as diff
ficult probably more so, than the voyage
, that in 1859, the latest figures l could find,
that emigration had grown III few years to
over 102, 900 men, 80, 900 women; total,
r 1885, 600 em;grant Coolies transported In
one year to those threa points from Hindos-
| tan. Now, those three districts and the field
3 they offer are quite lnconsiderabie, COM
| pared to California and the Pacific coast, and
: very insignificant compared to the United
: States. Let the importation once be started,
with sufficient demand to sustain it, the
t American energy, effort and means which
1 will be freely used will easily move the Chi
( nese laborers to this coast, taking as a stand
S ard the Hindoo emigration in 1859, at the
+ rate of 250,000 to half million year.
t Then, my friends, what becomes of your
Y State of Californis? Your whole population
: is SOC, 900 men, women and children, and in
J one year you would be buried under an
o Asiatic avalanche. In one year, with an I'M
l.! portation of 100000, added to the Chinese
e population already here, of 60,000 to $4,000,
+ the novelty will be, i'll some parts of your
S State, to see white face Applause. From
8 her vast swarms of $50 to 400 millions China
Q could, without feeling the loss, throw upon
v our shores ten millions of ablebodied men-
q two millions more than all the able
!, bodied males in the United States. Wha
" wonder that people here are agitated and
Is disturbed
IL Here let me say that l have read with
Y newspapers of attacks made upon these peo-
g Pile by men and boys. l am we'll aware how
IS exaggerated many of these reports must be-
e | am also aware that there are people excite;
II enough to imagine, or malicious enough tC
/, invent many things which have not hap
Il pened. l make allowance also for the feel
d ing aroused by the threatening aspects Of
l. Chinese labor. | do not speak of this how
ever to break one title of the force of what
!, l am about to say. All good people, anG
5 none more than the wise and judiciOus
Il friends of our cause are agreed, and heart
Is lily agree with them, that these troubles, these
Q wrongs on the Cinnamon whatever they are,
o great or small, by whomsoever committed
70 must cease. Applause.
II No matter by whom committed, in what
II ever form or under whatever stimulus, they
are against law and order, against humanity,
and are the worst things for the cause e1
white labor that can possibly occur. They
give to the opponents of the cause through.
out this State and the Union a great advan-
T. tage and are precisely what they most desire.
: l am glad these wrongs have ceased. APP
} plause. They should not be renewed, and
> hope there will be no occasion again to refer
u to the subject. In connection with this mat
ter the newspapers of the East have had a
> great deal TO say OF the brutality of Califor-
; MIA. This is grossly unjust, and as Califor-
9 mans we are indignant. Applause. We
|
stand that California is distinguished for better
; things than brutality; and whatever wrongs
8 may have been committed on Chinese in San
Francisco in times of ofexcitement San Francis
co is to-day In every part oft as safe for life,
= limb and property as any other seaport town
: of her Importance in the United States or
elsewhere. Cheers and applause Speak
ing as Californian and a former member
of the Press, think it may we'll be ques'
: ton for the managers of that portion OF the
influential daily press of this city on the
credit of which these assaults are made on
our good name, whether there is not pos
: sibility of doing wrong and an injury to the
} city of San Francisco in their Zeal for their
own views of Chinese labor.
, Mr.. Chairman. there is no necessary hos
; tiity between the capital and the labor Of
the country. Their interests are reciprocal
, one should support the other. For the
purposes of society, neither is wholly inde-
pendent of the other, and when the capital
! of the country has just alliance with the
labor of the country, the country is bene-
fitted, and 10th interests are prosper
ons. What l dispute, is the right of the
, capital of the country to divorce itself from
the labor of the country because of some sup
, posed present advantage or conflict of views
aud interests, and to attempt to supplant it
by cheap labor imported from Asiatic
countries. l deny the right, and am pre-
, pared, not tonight to any length, bat upon
some future occasion, TO support my views by
argument. \ sudden cry for cheap
! labor has been raised on this coast, in
suggestive coincidence with the development
of the Chinese passenger trade. wonder
at such word in the mouths of sensible
men, and particularly in the mouths of sensi.
bic men in Calitornis. What has made Cali
fornia what she is? Was it the cheapnesS of
her labor? We know it WAS not We know
that what made her what she is was the emil
grafton of hardy. Industrious, adventurous
working men who tiocked here from the
United States and Europe, and who by their
labor in your mines built up the State
swiftly 10 power that is marvel TO man
kind. And what brought those useful men
here, Did thew come because labor WAS