The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-21
The Chi ese Movement The Other Side
of the Question.

WV
of the Question.
Now, while Memphis is holding pub.
lie meetings inviting Chinese labor 10
th" South, the following protest against
The further Importation OF these people
INTO California, published by the Anti
Coolie Associat on. is OF special inter.
est
There are about 10000 Chinese in
California, 100000 Of whom are in n
state OF peonage or slavery, and aro
rented out by the company owning
them to The various parties by whom
they arc employed, in gangs Of from SO
to 5000. as they may be required their
wages being paid TO The agent of the
company, who is responsible for the
performance OF their labor, and for The
return of The slaves, dead or alive, in
the Celestial Empire. The bulk of the
female portion of them are scattered
throughout our towns and cities, de-
moral'zlng our youth and laying the
| foundation of future disease and sorrow
to an unlimited extent. The importa.
tion OF these slaves has already led to
scenes OF conflict on our wharves, be-.
tween the rival companies owning them,
and threatens to assume gigantic proper
tons. The employment Of these slaves
displaccs like portion of white labor,
and more particularly Of the rising gene.
ration.
There are in San Francisco about
$4,000 to 10000 boys and girls. OF
from ten to twenty years of age, the
majority of whom brought up in idle
ness, as there is no employment for
them, and no opportunity for their learn.
ing trades, as all the inferior work in
our mills, factories, stores, workshops
Sc, that is elsewhere done by appren-
tees Is here done by Chinese labor.-
The consequence -, that our boys are
but prcnaring for he State Prison, and
vast numbcI of our girls must, alas |
sink to the lowest depths Of degrade.
ton
by the general employment of this
slave labor in every branch of industry
immigration Of deserving white people
from 'lln E,st and Europe ia retarded,
and will ultimately cease, while many
now here must leave. We may in.
stance the cigar makers, five hundred OF
whom. with their families, who were
earning good wages, and investing and
spending them here TO the advantage O!
the country, were compelled two wears
ago TO retire before the Chinese labor
and leave the State. In this conncc-
ton it isa noticeable fact that tho IN
PRODUCTION Of cheap labor has not cheap.
ened the price OF blanket, a cigar, or
any other article Of homo MAMMA cture.
one single cent 10 the consumer.
The employment Of Chinese labor on
the Central Pacific Railroad may have
expedited lis completion a few months,
but we contend that the injury done
our State can never be balanced bv the
gain in time. Had white labor been
employed, hundreds Of acres would even
now have been reclaimed from ,hs
wnst"s and become the homesteads Of
happy families, who would have pur.
chased the land and increased the reve.
nue. OF the railroad company, and also
of the entire State, while the money
paid TO Chinese labor has been drained
out OF tho country for export to Asia,
and on tho retirement Of The Chinese
slaves from their field of labor not a
vestige of Improvement will remain-
not even bone OF them will be left in
the soil.
For twelve months an epidemic has
been raging in our midst, which for a
long time bafflcd the skill Of our medical
men and the sanitary regulations of our
city and this smallpox or black pla que,
is generally attributed to the Chinese.
from the density of their population
and their peculiar mode OF living, they
are subject to many diseases almost
unknown among the Caucasian race, to
wh'cl' we are rendered peculiarly liable
~ The introduction OF Chinese into orr
hotels, restaurants ane private dwellings
as cooks. washers and domestic ser.
wants.
1t has been objected TO our associa-
',on thatit is an Irish: crusade against
cheap labor but on The contrary, we
emoody in our own ranks all classes
creeds and political parties, imbued mol.
WIN hostility 10 tho Chinese as q race,
out fully believing that all the vast re-
sources OF California can be fully devel-
oped' and her railroads, canals, and
other public works, can be as we'll and
prohtably completed by free white labor
as they have been in the Eastern States,
ana that the future greatness Of .Califor.
MIA depends more upon the general
prosperity OF her industrial classes than
upon the vast accumulations Of few
capitalists. -"
BY Order nc ,ba (tn~,, c,. r.,