The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-01


Court or The United States that the law OF
California relating to Chinese immigration is
unconstitutional, The Board Of Supervisors Of
San Francisco have appointed committee Of
citizens 70 call a mass meeting for the purpose
Of expressing public sentiment in the matter
and appointing 4 delegation to present the
subject to congress. The growth Of Chinese
immigration Is shown by the fact that the last
steamer from China brought to San Francisco /
more than ZOO Chinese, and that "the en-
tire sleerage eapasity Of both lines is engaged |
for the neat six months BY the importers Of |
coolies
The vast population Of the Chinese En-
pire, It's crowded condition and perpetual
struggle for bare subsistence, make en-
igration everyway desirable. The coolies
imported into this country have seen how
much easier il is to live here than in
China. They have sent home knowledge
Of this fact to those they left behind them,
and desire to come hisher is spreading
and increasing among the people Of the
aowery kingdom. Twenty thousand of
them are in San Francisco alone. They
win work for almost nothing aud can live
on almost nothing, aud the cheapness Of
their labor secures thCm employment as
laborers, mechanics, domestic servants, aud
IN all other branches Of trade or business.
American mechanics, in every employment,
have been driven out, because they cannot
and win not work as low as the Chinese,
who seem able and willing to live upon
the very garbage ofthe city. Carpenters,
brick and stone masons, plasterers, shoe
makers, tailors, in fact almost every kind
ofmschanic is ruined there, in consequences
Of the influx Of these copper-skinned Ce-
lestials. What is to be done under the
circumstances There's the rub. Many
Of the people have combined against them.
But still they come. They have been
brought to New England, by wealthy
manufacturers, and placed in many of the
shoe factories aud cotton and wooden mills,
at prices far below the rates paid to white
operatives. This employment Of cheap
Chinese labor Is likely to increase un-
til our own mechanics and laborers will
be reduced 10 the condition Of these semi
barbarians, and be utterly ruined. Come
they win, our constitution protects them.
Come they win, with their idolatry and
degradation, until they overun every part
Of our country. The demand for cheap
labor will secure them employment. They
can live upon rats and mice and reptiles
they care nothing for education, nothing
for Appearances or for dress; their wives
and children are their slaves and are treated
as such; they viii underworld the native
mechanic and laborer, and ultimately re-
duce him to their own degraded position,
unless some remedy can be applied. What
can stay the tide of Chinese immigration
and keep their hundred millions FROM
overunning America What win protect
our mechanics and labOring classes from
ruinous Chinese competition These are
questions even now pressing upon the atten-
ton Of the people of California, and which,
in very brief time, will no doubt be
brought home to the people Of the other
States. Self preservation is tho 6rst law
Of nature, and the people of the United
States viii have to take this question into
serious consideration. The law ofrace will
ultimately force itself upon the public at
tention. IL is our boast that our iustitu-
!tions are free, and that here al men are
equal, our country affording an asylum for
the oppressed Of all lands. This is all
well, 50 long as NO are not crowded out of
our own country; but, when we begin to
feel there Is danger that We shall be, we
should not sit still until we are. If our
constitution and laws stand in the way of
selfprotection, then constitution and laws
49,. - s1-,1 Mes' '.e eA'sen'les o.
'-s ''e, 'Au m me -Ae'su circumstances OF
~ op .As sV's'a"sa' "As e''aO-
80 !, 'l"s Isa ~ ."s dement, q
"A',s .sA A'ais % races y not
1s. = 'As r4pp''e's " prosperity
!. = ''''.s4,, ~ 'a.s0' nave homo
.s rvP.'A' ss 'n'ns' are now Or
80 ' 'Asss WIN ~. mus. nave
I n. s' .4''s. anu issnngs
,s INV a'.as0nnm are unavoidable
al1s nv, ''lea@s'..'es. no" snall
80 = U a"noa. ~ ass'ee 70
ny ns's p'0o's% we s0'a''on o.
49, o''1, = my ' 0s'' sn0''s o. our
~ e" s. country van ye.
s..S 80 : ~ -s,nose%en ana
49, ~ = ''s ,'no,p'e la'a Gown "
Jug 1a'sy, y 'ne supreme cour'' mat
none out WNlte men are citizens of the