The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-10

iauof organizatOns, zoe understand, are al
most confined 10 the mechanics tnd artists
who consider themselves superior to servant
and common laborera This'is we'll for ss
The work Of displacipg thep with the bless
ed cheap labor Of China, can be accomplish
cd without any jotting or jarring Of The
social machinery. f0.' N VI M v
Cheap 1abour is a good thing II will
cover our country with benefits and bless
Ings land joys tenples) and rain upon Us .
torrent OF riches, besides stopping this per
nIcious agitation Of labor reform, and
kindred theories, which now seriously threat
en- oar blessed privileges After roe have
displaced the servants and day laborsrs
with coolies, ace can then fill the places of Q
large number Of the mechanics, manufactur-
ers and artizans, who think themselves
superior 10 their humble brethcrn the labor.
ers and servants. And at the same time fill
the places Of million agricultural laborers
Fon the soil which is already otss, and who
viii dare to say us nay
What wise foresight zoe have used
What masserly stratagems = In less than
100 years, in republic in which no man
was worth million, pe. the little handful
of only 4 per cent Of the people, have
monopolized more than half the present
wealth Of the nation.
The money wealth of the nation is ossrs |!
and with it we control the price of all pro
ducts and of ali labor. The soil is largely
ours, and the richest of it we can have
whenever zoe are prepared to work it with
cheap labor. One more masterly stroke of
policy Freight every ship bound to our
shores with coolies Give us two or three
millions of coolies Give Us cheap labor
with which to work the vas: territories Of
soil zoe now possess, and those awaiting our
ownership, and we will then really com
mence the enjoyment of those privileges
which righsfully belong to wealth This
will effcctually stop those agrarian and
labor reform agitations, which threatens the
very existence Of property (which means
our blessed privilegcs,) We can have this
labor at 20 cents day, sst think Of it
What immense sums zoe have wronefully
been forced to pay for labor The Romans
had cheap labor, aud the fortunes of their
wealthy men should make HS ashamed
But we may yet succeed in accumulating
them Their cheap labor was obtained
by costly wars. Ours awaits cheap ship
ment from China is much cheaper and in
every way superior to slave labor. No in
Suuections and consequent danger to life
and property no losses by death. When
the Coolie dies his bones are shipped back
to China and the contract is fulfilled. and
the laws Of his moneyed majesty fulfilled,
who will not alOw the bones Of bis sub
jects to decay in the soil Of the barharian.
When we have obtained three millions
Of those cheap laborers, (which is not half
China can furnish US, leayig out of the
calculation the japanese, with which some
OF the wealthy men Of California are already
colonizing their vast estates) we can tban
enter upon the enjoyment Of those rights
and privileges which arc the uualienable
rights of wealth. We can then draw that
line Of demarkation, between the refined
wealthy class and the lower classes, where
it should be in all well regulated govern
ments, and be no longer forced to associate
on terms Of equality, with greasy mechanics
and farmers.
But, exclaims some anxious inquirer, will
not the workingmen rebel against this dis
placement process )? Why, bless your in
nocent soul T! have all this time been
describing the displacement Of workincmen
by Cinnamon in California, as it has actually
taken place and is now being consumated,
and have seen no rebelling; no revolu-
tons. 1t is true VIC sent memorials to the
Congress Of the U. S. If we are to Judge
Of the effects of these memorials, by the acts
Of Congress, they have hsen very injurious.
Look at the shameful ty that gives to
Cinnamon the same rights conferred on the
most favored nations throughout cur vast
dominions. And to Americans, what ?
The right to reside at and trade at few
cities That gives to Cinnamon the right
to be educated in all our schools and col
leges oh noble Americans, If it il
noble to lick the dust from the feet Of these
long queed heathens, at the beck and nod
Of few capitalists who are benefited by the
China trade, and at the cost and to the deadly
wrong and injury of thousands of our
citizens.
Our petitions and memorials seem, indeed,
to have had quite a contrary effect from
what we intended, and the Coolies are s:i,l
being shipped to our shores in vast numbers.
And now since they have commenced ship
ping them to Massachusetts, and the sunny
South, shall we of California look supinely
on, as you Of the Eastern states have during
years past, and allow you to fight the battle
aloneE We can assure you that we shall
no remain uninterested spectators But if
it thoroughly arouses the laborers Of the
Eastern states, and causes them to look
earnestly into the question of cheap labor
we shall rather rejoice at the occurrence.
Would that they of the Eastern States
could see this matter with the eyes of their
brother wages slaves Of California. If this
will not arouse them from their deep lethar-
gy, and cause them to organise and unite as
one man, then | fear nothing will. A.,
will, with your permission, endeavor to
show you in my next some Of the injurious
and baneful effects, to the labor, the morals,
the general prosperity and happiness Of our
country, of those, to you, strange people, as
we now pretty thoroughly understand them
in California.
remain yours for the emancipation Of
labor, T. a.. J, GOWN,
Sierra CRY, Sierra Co., Cal.
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