The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-08-24
WANTS CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

WANTS CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
California has adopted "A resolution opposing cool
lie immigration. and demanding that Congress
legislate to prevent it. This is absurd. Congress
has more right to prohibit immigration than it
has to prohibit babies from being born.
emigration why not let It prohibit Asiatic slave
emigration which is much more to be feared by
every American mechanic ?-.StdtcSnaR-
CHINESE COMING ONO.
The Cleveland Leader of Thursday says the
proprietOrs of the coal mines near MasSillOn,
which have not been worked for nearly a year,
owing TO the disagreement with the workmen,
have sent an agent to San Francisco to engage
Cinnamon TO labor in the mines.
THE cooLIE CONTRACT or MASSACHUSETTS RADICALS.
SAN Francisco, May &C. 1869.
This contract entered into by All Young and
An Yam, Of San Francisco, and Charles 7. Sampson
OF North Adams, Mass. Witnessed: That said All
Dung and AH Yam, partners III business, agree TO
furnish T. I. Sampson with seventy-fve steady,
active and intelligent Cinnamon, such as are quick
to learn Il trade, Zone foreman, two cooks and
enty-tWO Workmen6 on the following terms and
conditions: They receive one dollar commission
for procuring each man. Wages for foreman six
ty dollars per month for overseeing seventy-ive
menI If more men are added TO receive atty cents
o each man per month. Wurkmen and cooks TO
receive twenty-three dollars per month for first
year, twenty-Six per month the second and third
years, and for all time they stay after three years
they receive twcnty-eight dollars per month
Pay roll TO be made up first of every month, and !
for the month preceding, in United States gold
coin or its equivalent. House wood and water
furnished free to men Time eleven hOurs ner
day from the 10th of March to the 10th Of Septem-
ber and ln13 hours per day from the 10th of Sep
tenber to lie 10th of March Lost time TO he de-
Quoted except when employer stops work for his
own benefit, in which case men are to receive full
pay. Should the men be discharged by inability
Of employer to give them work, they are TO have
free passage back, and wages paid TO time of stop
ping woIk. The employer is to receive S25 from |
the hrst six months wages of each man as a Sc
curlty TO him against mans leaving before his
time expires the amount to be taken out of his
monthp wages; Pay Of men TO commence when /
Witness, W. W. BATTLES, An YOUNG.
Witness, CHARLES SING, An YAN.
&. T. SAMPSON,
BY GEORGE w. CHASE.
TIE CHINESE SOUTH.
An officer of the Chattanooga railroad writing |
corporation, says; | desire that it should be well |
understood at the North, that in the South the |
Chinese 30 not in any way compete with other la
Dor tor there IS an abundance of employment for
all, and not half wOrEmen enough to meet the de-
mand. Our company have employed all the col !
ored labor they could get, and are still trying TO
get more. Our various labor reform associations |
should not condemn the Chinese for it is well un-
derStood, south, that the scarcity of labor is
OF the great hIndrances to the development of the
Southern States and they should hail with delight
any class OF labor that will tend to develop that
beautiful par OF our country.
Yours truly
JoHN c. STANTON, Sup't.
PLEA FOR CHINESE SLAVES PROM AN OHIO RADICAL
The Toledo Blade the most prominent Radical
paper of northern Ohio, abuses Horatio Seymour |
for his opposition to Coolie slavery, and the i'm
PortatOn of Chinese into the United States. Says
the Blade:
at is urged by the antChinese party that the |
immigration of the past is no indication of the fu
ture extent of the influx and that the prospect is
that they VIII come in overwhelming numbers
We do not see why. Under the decree of the En- |
peror of China, Coolie emigration is confined to |
American agents and vessels, and Congress has |
prohibited such importation of labor. The Coolie
system, therefore, Is broken up far as law can
accomplish it. The emigration from China will |
he free and voluntary, and will be for years to |
come, as it always has been confined to a strip of
country along the coast If the Chinese had as |
intelligent knowledge of our country and its in |
eSPect very hGaVy immigration, but that know-
edge is confined 10 the coast and those who come |
at present are a sort of half marine class, who |
come to get money and expect to return and ell |
joy it in the "Flowery Kingdom"
The Blade torgets that Chinese slavery slavery |
Is already established IN Massachusetts, and some
of the Southern States, and promises to be in Ohio
How soon they will be in the car shops foundries |
etc. no man can tell.
THE cOoLIE SLAVERY PAYS.
Mr. Sampson, of North Adams, Massachusetts, |
tiOn of Chinese labor into his shoe factory that he
will within a few weeks send for fifty more work
men from California OF the u lac now has, all |
but four or five are doing finely.
DEMOCRATIC OPINION ON THE QUESTION.
Vim. Heisey, Esq, the Democratic candidate |
for Secretary of State the Fourth July ora /
tor at the celebration in Cleveland. Mr. Heisey |
said:
''The United States, for many long years, have |
been the refuge and asylum of the opp essed peO-
pie OF the old world and it NAV truthfuy be said
that in no other country in the world has labor |
been so well rewarded and the dignity of toll as |
Oliver Goldsmith has beautifully said
princes and lords may flourish or may fade
\ breath can make them as breath hath made.
But bold peasantry, their country's pride
When once destroyed, can never be supplied"
The wOrkingmen of the United States have more
respect and more liberty than in any country in |
the world. large portion of them own their own
homes and in comfortable circnms tancPs.-I
all nations of the earth,we should nevertheless be
very cautious about how we extend an invitation |
TO that class Of people who would be no valuable |
acquisition to the morals of our country.
The Chinese seem to he intending to flock TO
shores, and find here that eysian field Of |
prosperity that the Celestial Empire has failed TO |
furnish them The labor TO he performed i'm Amer
lea can easily be done by the civilized people of |
the earth, and it is anything but wise of us to hold
out inducements to these Pagans to come here
honor to our community. They subSist |
on the mOrsel of food and report says they derive
great pleasure from eating vermin. The truth is, |
they can come here and labor in workshops !
for half what is a reasonable compensation to our
own mechanics and the result will be that, if we /
encourage their importation, we viii lmpoyerish |
and finally destroy our own workmen-whOse |
homes are here, and are more entitled to the bles
sings of our abundance than these Pagans are |
The mechanic and labOrar of the United States |
have borne their full share of the hardships and |
trials through which we have passed, and 1t Is not
just to them to invite others to take the food and
raiInent from them and their children.
When our mechanics and labOrers exact eX- |
orbitant compensation it will be time enough to |
think of filling their places with these Chinese la
borers, ana turning our own people adrift to sub
sist best they may, but in the present condition
of the labor interests of country, there is
need whatever of taking such a step, and hope |
that every man who desires the welfare of the |
American people will speak and write against this
wrong Tie Golden State of California has exper- |
imented with the Chinese, and declares them the |
most baleful element in their society
WHAT SENATOR cAssERLY, OF CALIFORNIA, SAYS.
Hon. Eugene Casserly, of California, is the Dem |
he
has had personal experience with this whole |
Chinese question and knows all about it. In a /
speech made by him in New York, few weeks |
since, he thus spoke for himself and the Demo /
cratic party:
This whole movement of Chinese emigration is /
a sordid, unchTiStian, and had almost said dew /
ilish, purpose the part of capital 10 add to its
swollen profits out of the hard labor of the work
ingman of the United States. They have got Il |
tariff, gentlemen and an internal revenue system,
every line of which is dripping with the blood of
the laboring poor of the United States. They |
have got Il system that has built up corporate |
monOpolies rolling IN wealth; at no time in the |
history of the United Stated have the profits of |
capital been so enormous as at this time. II the !
face of the outcry OF aborin the face of Christi
anity. in the face of civilization, they propose to
pour in upon this land horde of Pagan, vicious,
degraded Aslatlcs, TO take the bread out 81 the
mouths of the lahorers of this country, and send |
them TO the poor-honse, or perhaps the Peniten-
tiary, and others 10 Il life OF degradation and
shame. lApplauSe.l 1t shall not be. [Great APP
plausel 1t Is not party question 1t Is toofhigh
for party. 1t lies at the foundation of our Gov
ernment, We can have no free government, gem
tleman, without an intelligent, independent, free
working class. 1t is in no spirit of hattery or
wOrkingnen for the redemption of the liberties
of the country. l don't look to your bankers and |
your capitalists. l believe there good among |
them: but believe the great majority are ready |
to submit to any sort of despntisIn tomorrow, if
est. | look to you men that depend on your daily |
labor for your daily support; look to you whose
strong arm stood between your country in the
great peril of the civil war; we look to you whom
owe it that we came out of that great contest