Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-06-18

was more independent than capital. As
to the characteristics of the laborers com.
ing in upon US. For 5000 years they
have been in the habit of living on rice.
1t had been and was now their staple food,
and they could do good days work upon
it alone. But the white laborer must
have his meat or he can't work. A
Chinese laborer's food need not cost him
more than seven to ten cents day,
while a white laborcr could not live
on less than seventeen or twenty cents, at
the lowest estimate. Even the food of the
convicts in the prisons, consisting solely
OF bread and meat, costs twenty cents per
day. 1t was useless to think of white
laborers competing with Chinese. They
could not do it. lie had known men
heartless enough to say ''Let them com.
pete; let them live on rice, then, if they
are not able to earn MORE" But they
could not it; they would starve and die
if they attempted it. The Chinese had
been in the habit of living upon the water,
crowded upon their river boats, and could
live like rats in hole. The white labor.
ers, with his respectable wife and his girl
of fourteen years Of age, perhaps aud his
boy, could not live cat and sleep in one
room, and the boy must have his separate
room, CIR they could not consider them
selves, or be considered moral aud reli.
gious. The American man must have his
three or four rooms, or he does not feel
respectable; whereas, the Chinese would
bunk fifty together in an apartment with a
brazicr in the center. at which all the
cooking would be done-all this in space
that would hardly be sufficient for four of
our citizens. There was gentleman.
friend of his, cigar manufacturer il this
city, who had over fifty Chinese bunking
together in Il loft over stable which was
only large enough, for six horses. lie
would put it to property holders, how
many houses would the 1900 Cinnamon,
who came in on the previous days steam.
er, occupy? How different it would have
been had 1900 white laborcrs marched
up our streets with, at least, their five
hundred virtuous wives, beside them, and
their two hundred stalwart sons. They
would have established themselves in
offices in time, built or occupied houses,
or taken farms; while those 1900 China.
men that had arrived, were at that very
time rccking and fostering in their dirty
dcns, and if they were capable of any
sense of thankfulncss for the termination
of their voyage, were even then worship
ping their Josscs. And, said he. Ameri-
cans meet all that comes, standing and
seeing this plague of lice, or worse, come
upon them, eating up their substance, and
bringing thousands of men to the brink of
slavery. Within the last two years thirty
thousand laboring people had left this
State; they had gone away, and were not
coming back to compete with Cinnamon,
which meant only death, starvation, igno.
miny and disgrace No country could
prosper unless its producers were con-
sumers also. Bat those Chinese had
brought enough rice and opium with them
to keep their bellies full and heads drunk
for year to come. Thirteen hundred
white men would produce something, and
would spend it in the country. Whereas
all the Chinese population did not give
employment to ten white men. Instead,
they stole the bread of 300 white labor
crs, whom they displaced from the labor
market of this State. That steamer on
Friday had brought 1900 Chinese. There
would soon be two steamers a month-that
would be 1900 per month, 50 900 a year,
even while being opposed by adverse leg
islation and by public sentiment; but If
this barrier were broken down, there would
be 5000 next year, and 10000 the year
after that, until they felt strong enough
to defy Christian civilization, and bring
over their hordes to overrun this land like
Timour and his hosts. 1t was absurd to
talk of competing with them. Are the
Chinese stealing the labor? Now let
them consider, said he, whether the
Chinese were really stealing the labor, or,
in other words, the bread from white men.
When he came to this country first, in
1919, he and the others went to the eastern
slope of the Sicrras aud dug for gold;
some got it, others didu't. Well, when.
ever they began to pay less than 81 or SIS
day, they were abandoned, and the
Chinese came and took them, apd at this
day the Chinese formed the real popula.
tion of the mining counties of California
In every county that he had known, pov.
erty was STAYED off by The wash-tub. Was
the husband helpless, or idle, or dissolute
the woman took in washing, aud supported
herself and family. The invasion of
Chinamen had deprived many table Of
the bread that might have been earned at
the wash-tub. How was it with cigars
4 faw yeors oro Lermou, made Iii .Lo
cigars in San Francisco; to-day there was
not a German who rolled cigarette.
Cinnamon made them all. Matches, slip.
pcrs-all made by Cinnamon. Wooleu
factories, with Chinese almost in entire
control. Only few days ago eight men
had been discharged from one of these
factories. One of the men, with a wife
aud children wholly dependent on the 81
day which he got as wages offered to
take 81 so. "No," 81; NO." for they
had hired Chinamcn at eighty cents a
day.