Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-26
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
STRONG.

kind. Strong as boarding house butter
and as voracious as plague OF locusts.
We learn that the steerage accommoda-
lions Of the China steamers are engaged
six months ahead for the transportation
Of Chinese coolies. This bodies no good
for the white labor. In California and
Nevada there are already not less than
ono hundred and ten thousand Chinese.
By the intelligence just referred to it ap-
pears that this amount is likely to be
indefinitely increased unless some very
decided steps are taken to stop this very
undesirable accession to our population.
The practical result Of this heather in
vasion is the ousting of about as many
white workers from the employment IN
which they are engaged. Enough mis-
chief OF this character has been done
already. From the time tho Chinese
FIRST set foot on the shores of California
they have been nuisance and an injury.
Az miners they have depleted the
placers. carrying of the yield of precious
metal to other lands, spending as little
and retaining as much as possible. As
laborers they enter into competition with
the whites, and in consequence OF
wages they have supplanted white
working for greatly reduced rate OF
labor in many branches OF industry.
Further still. This Country has made
enormous sacrifices to extirpate the
curse Of slavery from the land, yet the
Chinese have again introduced 1t, in its
worst and most hideous phases. Men
and women are brought to the Pacific
Coast in droves who practically are as
much the property and chattels Of others
of their race as ever negros were the
bondmen OF the Southern planters.
These creatures are brought to this coast
and are bought and sold among the Chi
nese with the same IMMUNITY as ever
slave was disposed Of, on the auction
block at New Orleans. The men for
labor and the women for the very viles
purposes. These are some Of the fruits
of that beautiful Burlingame treaty about
which 30 much fuss was made at the
time. In honor Of which so many peans
were sung and 30 much sentimental
balderdash written and uttered. The
results are that thousands OF American
citizens both male aud female are either
kept in enforced idleness or else find
that their opportunities of obtaining
employment are greatly restricted and
their remuneration greatly reduced.
Not only that but vicious, filthy and
turbulent population is introduced
which bids practical defiance to thu
laws Of the land and brings with it, the
most disgusting. abhorrent. loathsomt
habits it is possible for the mind of maj
to conceive. This evil has nov
grown to such monstrous proportion.
that the best citizens of all classes OF
this coast unite in calls for its immediate
abatement. One of the great causes O.
the hoodlumism for which San francisco
has acquired SO melancholy notoriety
is because the Chinese epgross the lighte
occupations, which would otherwise give
employment to great number of boil
sexes. The pressure has become so un
bearable that the Geographic report
from the Bay state the vigilance associa
tions are being formed to drive the Chi
nese from the country. OF course. sue
q course is not commended. But th
evil is 80 intolerable that it cannot b
wondered OF if men adopt violent mean
to rid themselves of 1t. Under thes
circumstances the best thing the Govern
ment can do is to follow the example {
the German Empire, and give notice {
the abrogation of the treaty OF commerce