, 1874-06-04


VIZ UPON CH1NAMEN.-Thism morning
all the Cinnamon employed upon the
Seattle and Walla Walla railroad grade
were forcibly driven from the work by
the white laborers employed upon the
same. This act of mob violence was an
act of hostility against the road, and per
consequence against the interests of ev
cry citizen of the town, without the
least shadow of provocation or justifia-
BILE excuse. The Cinnamon were not
guilty Of any aggressive or offensive act;
they were occupying or receiving noth-
ing to which the white laborers had any
just claim; were depriving no white man
of employment which but for them he
might have obtained; and TO drive them
from the work does no good to any one;
rights no wrong, and can have no other
effect than to annoy and embarrass the
Company in the prosecution of the
work, and to throw out of employment
all of the white laborers engaged in this
lawless proceeding. This the Company
is bound to do as measure of self-de-
fence necessary to successful prosecu-
tor of the wolk, for it is utterly i'm
practicable to carry on with any regard
to time or economy, with the rnder-
standing that combination Of employ
ees of one class or nationality may die
tate who shall or shall not be employed,
or the conditions upon which they may
work.
The work now being done is under
the direct control of the Company, who
have given the preference to white labor
as far as practicable, and were intending
to increase the force of white laborers
as fast as the men could be had. Tie
Cinnamon employed were principally
employed by men who had subscribed
for stock to be paid for in labor, and
found Chinese labor the most. readily
available. The employment Of China
men is almost an absolute necessity in
many cases, when white service cannot
be had on any conditions, or upon con-
ditiors exceedingly onerous to employ
ers. Ali persons with families have ex-
perienced this, and to prohibit the n
ployment of Cinnamon is to compel al
persons to do their own menial service
or become the servants of their menials.
We have never met with an aristocrasy
more oppressive and exacting than the
aristocrasy of service, possessed by the
common lust of power unrelieved by the
Establishments of wealth or the refine
ment of gentle culture. Where we are
all in moderate circumstances and have
to labor for our own subsistence, and in
case of sickness or other disability in
our families are compelled to employ
the service of others. the Cinnamon is
our only resource against the most inso
lent and arbitrary exactions, and in ma
ny cases our only resource ON any terms.
In country where all are laborers, it is
monstrous error, propagated and
maintained by demagogues and petty
politicians that the employment of Chi
namen is calculated to degrade labor. =
Honest labor, honestly pursued, is
respected by all respectable persons
and none such would desire to degrade
their own countrymen to the level of
the heather Chinese. If white laborers
are thus degraded, the fault is entirely
their own, for they have all the advan-
tages of education. social position and
political rights to start with.
The fact is, that there has not been
railroad nor any other great public
work successfully prosecuted upon the
Pacific Coast but by the aid of Chinese
labor, for the conclusive reason that
white labor, of the same character, was
not equal to the demand, and there is
no other part of the world where labor
is SO highly respected, or where so ma
nv laborers have raised themselves from
poverty to opulance.
E The following interesting statis>