The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-27

! DtlIR Drought mere W HI our uOS DIItlS
and to communicate loathsome disease to
others, l would be one to take torch in
daylight and burn the steamers at our
wharVes that brought them. Cheers.
| Mr. Pixley then read from a book a de-
scription of the Chinese and their habits
! customs, morals, religion, government, etc.
which was not very fattering to them
| He read it. he said, to show their social
life He then proceeded to say: Under
the inevitable striking out of the word
/ ''white" from the naturalization laws
and he believed it was inevitable, for the
| Republican leaders were going to do it
l can not see why the Cinnamon may not
vote and strike down our system of Gov
eminent, and our system of civilization
and society, and introduce their own.
can see no reason why Mongol and Tar
| tars might not sit in the Presidents chair,
| and IN the halls of legislation, and make
laws for us. The industrial question is
an important one in considering this sub
Ject. We do not want cheap labor, we
want
CHEAP MONEY. ---
Cheap labor is a heresy. Immense
cheering No Government ever -four
ished under cheap labor. Every country
I pay lllS u4Rn DIlGGS lOI ldbOE Is DIO5 pGLONlS-
For US to say we want immigration, and
form immigration societies asking Euro
| peans to come here, and tell them we pay
high prices for labor, and bid them leave
! their homes and come to the Great Re
public where there are homes and farms
! for them all at the same time we. are
! giving subsidies to steamship lines to
! bring men here who work for ten cents a
1nNv. Thnt - Tho fn 1nHr1pn tho
white race to come and make their homes
among US. If you want cheap labor, give
increased subsidies to the steam lines, and
send to Asia for it. The much talked of
CONFLICT BETWEEN CAPITAL LABOR
he said, was a good deal of myth Cap
ital was useless without labor; labor
must starve without capital. If he had a
million ducats; that very night, of what
use would they be to him without the la
borer whereas, labor would at least sup
port itself by the fruits of the earth, and
in that respect occupied a higher position,
and was more Independent than capital.
As to the characteristics of the laborers
coming from China, for 5000 years they
have been IN the habit of living on rice.
1t had been and was now their staple of
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 laborer 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.
COMPETITION WITH CHINESE.
They could not do it. He had known
men heartless enough to say: LET them
compete; let them live on rice, then, if
they are not able to earn more" But
they could not do it they would starve
and die if then attempted it. The Chi
nese had been in the habit of living upon
the water, crowded upon their river boats,
| and could live like rats in hole. The
white laborer, with his respectable wife
and his girl of fourteen years of age, per-
haps, and his boy, could not live and eat
! and sleep IN one room. The girl must
have her separate room, and the boy must
have his room, or they could not consider
themselves or be considered moral and
religious. 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 apart
ment with brazier in the centre, at which
all the cooking would be dOne-all this in
a space that would hardly be sufficient for
four Of our citizens. There was q gentle
man, friend of his, cigar manufacturer
IN this city, who had over fifty Chinese
bunklng together IN loft over a stable
which was only large enough for sly hor-
ses.
To PROPERTY HOLDERS.
How many houses would the 1900
Cinnamon, who came in on the previous
dayss steamer, occupy? How different it
would have been had l 300 white laborers
marched up our streets, with at least,
their five hundred virtuous wives beside
them, and their two hundred stalwart
sons. They would have established them
selves IN offices IN time, built or occupied
houses, or taken farms while those 1900
Cinnamon that had arrived. were at that
very time reeking and fostering in their
dirty dens, and if they We're capable OF
any sense of thankfulness for the termin-
alton OF their voyage, were even then
worshiping their Josses. And, said he,
Americans meet all that comes, standing
and seeing this plague of lice, or worse,
SOlAC uPOI ILSLL4J SeitluS up luClL SuD-
stance, 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 China
men, which meant only death, starvation
ignominy, and disgrace. No country
could prosper unless its producers were
consumers also. But 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 spend it in the country
I Whereas all the Chinese population did
not give employment to ten white men
| Instead, they stole the bread of BOO
white laborers whom they displaced from
the labor market of this State That
steamer on Friday had brought !, 300
Chinese. There would soon be two steam
ers q month-that would be 1900 pei
month, $4,000 a year, even while beng
opposed by adverse legislation and by
| public sentiment but if these barriers
were broken down, there would be $4,000
next year, and 10000 the year after that
until they were strong enough to defy
Christian civilization, and bring over theil
hOrdes to oVerrun this land like Iimoul
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 We're really stealing the labor
or, in other words, the bread from white
men. When he came to this country first
in lS49, he and the others went to the
eastern slope of the Sierras and dug fol
gold; some got it others didn't Well
whenever they began to pay less than S.
or So a day, they were abandoned, and the
Chinese came and took them, and at thi.
day the Chinese formed the real popula.
tiOn of the mining countries of California
In every country that he had known
poverty was STAYED off by the washtub-
Was the husband helpless, or idle, or dis,
solute the women took in washing anC
supported herself and family, The inva,
sion of Cinnamon had deprived many {
table of the bread that might have beer
earned at the wash-tub. How was it witt
cigars? A few years ago Germans made
all the cigars in San Francisco; to-day
there was not German who rolled Gig,
a rette. Cinnamon made them all Match
es. slippers-all made by Cinnamon