Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-06-25
Twelve Hundred Cinnamon.

Under this title the Oakland transcript
contains very remark able article from
correspondent, from which We make the
following quotations. We are persuaded
that his views accord with the sentiments
Of large majority in California, upon
whom they have been impressed by disas.
trous experience. The writer 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 Flowcry
Kingdom. Subsidize lines Of steamships
to discmbougc 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 civili-
zation traceablc throughout every branch
of our Government? Docs he not rejoice
in our success and mourn at our calami-
ties
Do they not run our sewing machines !?
DO they not manufacture our cigars Do
they not make our boots and shoes Do
they not preside in our kitchen? Do
they not swarm in our orchards and gar
deuss DO they not harvest our crops !?
Have they not driven our poor white wo-
men from the wash.tub to the bugnio?
Are not their women ready to teach in.
calculablc value of their love 3? Aud arc
not thc procurers of this wholesale system
of prostitution lionized wherever they 90
as moral Mosescs who arc to lead our pco-
PIE to the promised land?
Twelve hundred more "a mere baga-
tcle DO not they furnish employment
to our carpenters, blacksmiths, tanners,
plastcrs. stone cutters, plumbers and ship
wrishts
Hocs not his custom make glad our
merchants, fruitmcn, farmers? Is his
presence not blessing to our hotels,
banks aud insurance companies
Is he not god l-senl to the locality he
inhabits? Does he not improve and
bcauti!y his home, cmbcliSh his gardens,
and make a paradise Of his ncishborhood :?
Does he not checrfully contribute to our
schools aud academies, our churches and
charities
Only twelve hundred more. Twelve
hundred white men to be thrown out of
employment. But they can beg steal and
starve. Twelve hundred white women,
pure as the snowflakes 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 crushed ?
and ever aud above all, what people is
permitting its consummation
Millions can he voted to enable com.
panies, bloatcd with wealth, to overrun our
country with these people; hundreds of
millions can be donated to mlionarcs to
protect their manufactures.
But nothing, nothing, can be done in
the interest of the toiling classes of the
country whom this influx of paupcr labor
is running.
Twelve hundred more!
Every day suicide; some poor devil
of 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 coffins
are cheap. Pottcr's field is large; starv-
ing white people are welcome to its gates.
Make room for the twelve hundred ad-
ditionul clauses to the Burlingamc treaty !!
Fellow laborers of California, a fearful
duty rests upon your shoulders. Wisdom,
firmncss, honor and courage arc demanded
at your hands. The security of yourselves,
the future welfare of your families, and
the prosperity of your Government de-
pends 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, l conjure you to rise, as one
man, in the majesty Of your power, as
freemen, and throw back the tide of heath
Gu paupcrs from our shores. Unless this
be done, as sure as light shines, and God
reigns, this great country and noble poop
pie arc ruined.
T An editor, alluding to the dcuand