The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-05-27
TWELVE HUNDRED CuINAMEN

Under this title the Oakland Tran
script contains very remarkable arti-
Gle from correspondent, from which
we make the following quotations.
We are persuaded that his views ac-
cord with the sentiments of q large
majority of California, upon whom
they have been impressed by disas-
trous experience. The brilliant wri-
ter says:
The above is the concluding clause
the newspapers use in publishing the
list of passengers from China by the
last steamer. Only twelve hundred
Aye. send them along!
Send on the locusts from the Flow
cry Kingdom. Subsidize lines OF
steamships to disembogue millions OF
the valuable vermin upon our shores.
Fill the land with temples erected to
the great Joss. Are not the footprints
of the higher civilization tfaceable
throughout every branch of our Gov
ernment? Does he not rejoice in our
success and mourn Mt our calamities ?
Do they not run our sewing ma
chimes? Do they not manufacture our
cigars? Do they not make our boots
and shoes? DO they not preside in
our kitchens? Do they not swarm in
our orchards and gardens? Do they
not harvest our crops? Have they not
driven our poor white women from the
washtub to the bagnio?
Are not their women ready to teach
the incalculable value of their love?-
And are not the procurers OF this
wholesale system of prostitution lion
lied wherever they go as moral Mo-
seses who are to lead our people to the
promised land?
Twelve hundred more IA mere
bagatelle. Do they not furnish en-
ployment to our carpenters. black
smiths, tanners, masons, plasterers,
stone-cutters, plumbers, and ship
wrights?
Docs not his custom make glad our
merchants, fruitmen and farmers? Is
his presence not blessing to our ho-
tells, banks and insurance companies
Is he not god-send TO the locality
he inhabits? Does he not improve
and beautify his home, embellish his
gardens, and make paradise of his
neighborhood? Does he not cheer
fully contribute to our schools and
academies, our churches and chari-
ties =?
Only twelve hundred more Twelve
hundred white men to be thrown out
of employment. But then they can
beg, steal and starve. Twelve hun
dred white women, pure as the snow
fakes from heaven, driven to barter
their virtue for crust of bread In
the name of God, what age do we
live in? what land is being thus crush
ed? and, ever and above oil, what peo-
pie is permitting its consummation?
Millions can be voted to enable CON-
panies, bloated with wealth, to over
run our country with these people -
hundreds of millions can be donated
to millionaires to protect their manu-
factures.
But nothing, nothing, nothing can
be done in the interest of the toiling
classes of the country whom this in
fux of pauper labor is running.
Twelve hundred lnorel
Every day suicide some poor
devil of a white man, out of money
too proud to beg, too honest to steal,
too noble to starve, blows his brains
out. All right; white blood is at a
discount, and cofins are cheap. The
potter's field is large; starving white
people are welcome to its gates.
Fellow-laborers of California, a
fearful duty rests upon your shoul-
ders. Wisdom, frmness, honor and
courage are demanded at your hands.
The security of yourselves, the future
welfare of your Government depends
upon your course.
By every consideration of honor and
of manhood; by every tie of family
and of country; by every impulse Of
justice and patriotism, I conjure you
to rise, as one man, in the majesty OF
your power, as freemen, and throw
back the tide Of heathen paupers from
our shores. Unless this be done, as
sure as light shines, and God reigns.
this great country aud noble people
are ruined.