The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-06-07
Editsr Of tn. wossnssAs.. ApvOcArs

To the Editor Ut the woRKNsNAss ADVOCATE
San Francisco, Cal, Nav 2S.
enclose You clippings from the Chroai
Gle, which gO to show how much differences
it makes whose AZ is being ground.
But q few weeks since the writer said
when speaking Of the Chinese question
" Go, workingmen, 70 the Chinese quar-
tiers and buy your teas, rice, sugar, and
coffee, the Chinese merchants undersell
our own, as the Chinese lAborers work
cheaper than we do Carry the Val
into Africa and you will see how soon
Front street will squirm."
But q week or two after, the Chronicl,
published the article under the caption o.
Cheap Chinese Labor, which | enclose,
and which proves that manufacturers have
taken the alarm, and not without reason,
for if things were permitted to continue
long, the Chinese would soon become
factors a. well a. manufacturers in al
the branches Of business they have
learned.
The Alta Californian Of this city,
which is to the monopolist what the jSckall
Is to the lion, contained an editorial few
days since, commenting upon letter,
which said that all the Cinnamon who
came here were held to service and labor
This was dirt to the Alta, but they gob-
bled il down without saying nay Six
months ago the same paper would have
snarled over that letter like any ugly cur
with little dog under. To-day the Alta
ticks its chops over the proceedings in the
Board Of Supervisors last night, which
also enclose you 70 let you see how the
sat jumps here IN san Francisco. Look
out Mr. sampson
Now mark me In slX mouths, perhaps
weeks, the Alta, that has made 30 much
noise about the abuses and outrages in
flicted upon Cinnamon Ia our streets, will
be bounding their Whilom pets to the
death.
John has struck for higher wages on
the Mail COmpAnys steamers, and got II,
too.
The Chinese companies, alarmed, have
telegraphed to send No more Cinnamon
here
This whole thing has come upon US so
sudden that we are lost In wonder The
Chronicie seems to have had the irst INK
ling. and nobody ever before suspected
that paper knew better how the u NJ. q.
A. wAs putting up things than the Altd,
and yet il must Be 50 or We would not see
the 4 To following in the ChroRieLe's wake.
Some there are who think this a new
political dodge, not 50, though the masses
are bound " be sold all the same a.
If it was. The question will turn on men
at the fall election.
WHO 10 TO Nh SENATOR
Stanfords man, of course, no matter
which one wins.
For buying Legislatures, out and out,
give me California yet, though not much
ahead Of Oregon and Nevada We are
older hands At It. We began, If not st an
earlier age, at az earlier day, and no mat
ter how clever they are In the other Pa
chic States, we can always lay the hAtter-
ing junction. ~ our Soula, these Adep.s In
bribery and corruption. master and man,
graduated right here in California deny
that who can
Ben Holiday has : line Of steamers
plying 70 Portland 20 he keeps the Ore
gon and California railroad IN Obeyance
while his steamers are coming money.
The land which Congress has granted him
to build the railroad Is growing IN value IN
the meantime, and the Oregon and Cali
fornlA Senators are fOrgstful that they
never think 70 move for an inquiry into
the cause for so much delay Ia It any
wonder that Of all our Senators, who 60 To
Washington poor, those who come back at
all, come rich.
I'm speaking Of Eve Or sl1 years past /;
poor men don't try to get there nov unless
Holiday or Stanford put them on the
track, and then. Of course, they win.
There u only one question that could
be brought before the people Of California
to excite any attention at the ensuing
election, and that 10 currency. The farm
ers and mechanics are ripe for 1t, but good
crops will stave il of, while disappOint-
ment among the farmers may bring 1t OH.
California viii be the Last SLAtS to move
on the labor problem