The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-05-20

cheap labor for everything. This was be-
fore California had adopted . Constitution.
They wanted TO introduce slavery and PeOn-
age, but the coolie system wa finally adopt
ed. In 1852 the Assembly passed bill le.
CALLING contracts made in other countries.
This he had opposed in the Senate, and
made q report against 1t, which be read, and
then predicted what it would do, and it had
SO come out Some had said it was pro-
phscy, but he had only deducted certain
results from certain causes. He held that
THE oooLIE SYSTEM
was against the Constitution, because il was
not voluntary servitude, and was made for
term Of years. They had $4,000 China
men in San Francisco, and 10000 in ali.
forniA He said that the Chinese were fear
their statements which gave an idea TO out
siders Of the truth. The population of Cali
fornia is about $50. 900, One-tenth Of which
were Chinese. They were opposed TO the
manners and customs Of the people. They
represented larger element than the Irish
in the State of Illinois. They had nearly all
Chinese men in California, and few women
and children. They hal $50, 600 white men
in California who supported families and the
State, while the 10000 Cinnamon only sup
ported themselves. They supported nobody
hut themselves He had seen attempts to
Christianize the Chinese for twenty seven
years, but very little progress had been made.
They simply laugh At it in their sleeves -
There were many men and women in San
Francisco who needed the Abrogation of
Chinese immigration. Many women had
been driven to the lowest depth Of degrade
ton by Chinese cheap labor. Australia and
British Columbia were tired of COoie labor,
and were driving them away from their
midst. and they were
COMING TO CALIFORNIA IN THOUSANDS
The people of San Francisco were getting
could be born no longer. They were law
abiding citizens in California, and had had
only one little not there. He only asked
the moral support of Chicago, and had hoped
for . larger audience. He next alluded to
the glorious climate Of California. Santa
Barbara's climate was unmatched. They
had grown the olive, the orange and the
vine in California. Thay were not getting
immigration because the wOrking-mAn sought
q home-employment for himself and child.
rem Juveniles when not employed became
juvenile delinquents In France family Of
boys was . fortune. Not so in California.
There was no immigration of white men to
that State now. They had 1920 square
miles of terretory . fine sea coast, and
withal they had only population Of $780,
600, Of which 10000 were Chinese, and
some Indians Some Of the States-Iowa
and wisconsn-hAd gone ahead Of them. The white
man and woman would work in the same shop
with the ChinAmAn, and who would blame them
Some held
THAT CHIKAMEN PLAIKD THE PART
As Industry tn machinery. This he held wAs MOE 90,
and brought TO bear ArgumsnIs showing the in~QuAl-
ty. The ChinAmAn worked longer and cheaper than
the white man And, in fact, = machine himself.
The employment Of the Coolis and the throwing the
white out Of work demorAliEing and degrad-
ing. The Cinnamon living in Chicago we're . better
class than those living in San Francisco There they
boarded lodged and got their washing done Tor q per
week The Chinese quarter city BY itself in San
Francisco. II cost the Chinese merchant but little
70 hive than the Chinese laborer. II the
boast Of this country that the public domain had been
apart for public school purposes. The system Of
education in this country had been such that had
produced some AZ the greatest men the world.
Elihu Burritt, the simple blacksmith. Of this
class rnd 70 with the NAtick cobler, Henry wilson
Andrew Johnson also complimentet for ms in
teGrity. The system Of public education had given
the States their population. The vast number Of
pewsI Aper the showed shsir popular INTEL
liGence II Chinese emigration not stopped they
could
rrRS oUR SCHOOL HocsRs INTO PooR HousEs,
for learned pAuper could and place in society
II Stephen A. Douglas lived to-day, his voice would
roll cut like thundsr against this iniquity. The Gov
eminent had egisl~ted In . manner 70 degrade the
people and AbAse the working classes. They could
not legslAte against a treaty, and what do
manded that the treaty with China Be repealed
He pictured the Chinese womAn.sAverv In San Fran
.sco where they are farmed out for prostitution and
cruelty punished by their MASTERS and read the evi
dsnce Of the Rev Otis Gibson support Of his
and pAupen to the Chinese companies. which made
money out Of them The question Of labor and money
the least smong them. They brought diseases
with thtm which they spread broadcast He had been
told Of six cases OF leprosy among Cinnamon Emf
physicians Of San Francisco had stated that boys
Of "A and Is years Of ee had been the victims Of loath
some diseases spread among them by Chin sse
The press had the power prevent the spread Of the
evil and they should oppose it. In some cities there
opposition TO the views snuDciated by him. He
wanted the papers to treat this question boldly
prevent the further existence Of this evil The China
seemed honest and docile yet trey had more than
their share in the penitsntiary in California There
they learned trades and brought in direct con-
trAst with honest labor He argued against convict
cheap labor He wanted the farmer 70
RAISE yUTE AND HEMP.
which the convict should weave md sew into bass.
Trades had been ruined BY convict labor Ia California
where it could be hired for from 50 TO So cents day
He alluded TO the immense quality Of pawnshops In
San Francisco which could not exist II white labor
wAs employed Chinese boys had displaced girls at the
workshops. II China did not want 70 AbrogAts the
coole trade why, they could eaord 70 do away with
trade with China whh had balance in ia favor each
year Of o. The speaker read the resolutions
adopted at the meeting hsld April last, in San
Francisco He read from President Grants message Of
last year, showing row he viewed the Chinese labor
que ton, and supported the speakers vsws, who had
10000 copies Of it circulated There 5000 house
servants in San FrAncisco. dspAcing many women.
This was not always the fault Of the ChinAmsn, b.
women didn't like 70 girls in the house,
and gave the preference 70 Chinese boys Thousands
Of Spanish and American cigAr-nAke1 were thrown
out Of work BY Cinnamon Women formerly made
Ga and 90 eek 1t tins business Chinese carried
on every occupation, and drove out composition In
the fisheries they had driven out 700 men, and had de-
strcyed nearly all the ash in San Francisco Bay The
people had built In San Francisco At = cost
Of 900 prevent their children from being taken
through the Chinese quarter their way 70 school, on
account Of the vice exposed there. He held that the
reciprocity treaty reciprocal ALL but entirely
for the benefit o. the Chinese Government. There
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