The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-07-29
CALIFORNIA AND THE GEaE.
NySE.


ports from California show that our
sister State is suffering reverse of
fortune this year which seems to al-
most prostrate her business energies.
In San Francisco the dullness of trade
in every branch of business is greater
than ever before known there, and
several of the largest houses have al
ready failed or are on the eve of fail
ure. The working men who have
heretofore labored only eight hours a
day, have been forced to compromise
with their employers and work nine
hours, whilst others are compelled to
work on half time, and not q few have
been thrown entirely out of employ
ment. There is greater destitution
among the poorer classes than ut any
previous time in the history of that
city, and many hundreds of families
are absolutely devoid of the necessa-
ries of life. In some cases substitute
for the primitive fg-leaf is hardly pro-
durable, and many are forced to remain
Gagged in their novels for want of suffi-
cient clothing to cover their nakedness.
It is impossible for the benevolent as
sociatioLs 10 supply half of those who
apply for relief, and hundreds of me-
chanics and laboring men, out of en-
ployment and out of bread, have be-
come desperate and regardless OF law,
and theft, rapine and murder prevail
TO an alarming extent.
The cause of this deplorable state OF
affairs is not difficult to fathom. While
small share of it may be attributed
to the failure of the crops in that State,
and the loss OF the merchants by COM
petition with Eastern houses since the
completion of the Pacific Railroad-the
flooding OF her shores with the count-
less horde of Chinese is the curse thai
has brought this great evil upon tho
once proud and prosperous "Golder
State" These creatures, who can ex'
ist where white man would find moth
ing but starvation, and who would
grow fat from the offal of o slaughter
pen or the swill-barrel of an eating
house, have brought down wages IL
almost every branch OF industry there
to such figure that white men art
unable to live upon them; and IN suci
cases the Chinese monopolize the labor
while the white citizen is thrown out
of employment and his family driver
to the brink OF starvation or hurled
into the vortex OF crime to gain The
means of subsistence.
Eatreaty, remonstranoe and threats
have alike provA3 Of no avail in Keep
ina the authorities from importing the
filthy heather to our Pacific shores
and the only alternative now seems t.
be for the workingmen TO resort to vio
lence to prevent themselves from being
crowded out OF every avenue to honea'
labor by these verInin-eating idolnters
Already the workingmen of Sar
Francisco have warned the authorities
that these encroachments upon then
means of liyihood must cease; and i
their appeals and warnings are unheed.
ed we may shortly look for a carnive
of blood which will shock these phi
lanthropists and pagan immigrationist:
into realization OF the deplorable ane
desperate state to which their selfisl
and suicidal policy has driven the peo
pie. On the Sth inst. the workingmer
of San Francisco held one of the iarg
est meetings upon this subject that ha;
ever assembled in that city, and theil
proceedings were characterized by aI
earnestness and frmness which must
eventually lead to an avenue OF reliel
and immunity from the wrongs which
they are suffering. The following res.
olutions show the spirit which anima
ted their deliberations:
ResoIeed. That We form ourselves into an organ
ization, both military and civic, in Crder 70 main
tain our rights as free men, cnd rid tie State 0
tac pestiicntial Chipesc
Rcsolrcd, That we demand OF the Government
ofthe United States the stoppage Of payments nov
being made TO Chinese steamers, and that we in
sist upon the abrogation Of the treaty With China
and the passage Of iaw prohibiting MoDgolian
coming to this country, except for commcrcia
purposes.
Resolced, That we wish cur Representatives q
Washington 10 inform that intelligent body Of las
makers that if they will not make laws to protec
ard aid to free ourselves from the further immi
grafton Of these hordes Of barbarian slaves, tina
we will make both laws and law makers, as is GU
constitutional right to do.
Our own Oregon is already cursed
with an influx of the moon-eycd fol
lowers of Confucius, also, and it vii
soon become necessary for our citizens
to join issue with our California neigh
bors to protect US from the evils which
attend their presence. Were it not
for the oppressive enactments of Rad
ical Congress, in arrogating to itseli
the right to regulate the domestic con.
Germs of the States, the entire Pacific
coast would shortly, by Legislative en-.
actment, free its people from this ter.
rible scourge; but in the present state
of affairs the people will have to wal