The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-04-01

SAN FRANcIsco. March. q. la

SAN FRANCISCO, March, %, 1876.
To the Editor Of the woRKmsnAx's ADVOCATE.
The Chinese are pouring into our city at
the rate Of over z, 900 per month, and the
stesrage accommodation Of every steamer
10 engaged ahead for the entire SIX months
to come. When this Chinese immigration
interfered with the wording classes, the
middlemen and capitalists saw in the future
glorious returns for the investment of en-
terprise and capital in cheap Chinese labor.
Bat now it is son ebody else's Oh that ID
being gored, and our sharks are beginning
TO find out that the game il not all IN their
own hands. They end out that with Chi
nsse laborers come Chinese sharks, who
are also adep.s at plundering the laborer;
and a. for capital, the Chinese have plenty
Of it, and TO spare, and they have made 1t
all nut of us. Their merchants don't live
in palaces; they don't drink champagne,
smoke Regalias and drive out to the Cliff
House. They econ,mize their quarters,
wearing apparel and drinks, and Of course
undersell their Caucasian neighbors. The
Chinese are very willing 30 manufacture
for US, but when it comes 10 buying, why
they buy from each other; and when it
comes to selling, trade is dull among the
Caucasian merchants; for. - the Chinese
are occupying all the avenues Of produc-
tion, they earn all the money and do most
Of the buying. And now, instead of
lengthy homilies on the equal rights Of
Cinnamon, we find doubls-headed leaders
in the newspaper, asking how we are TO
solve the Chinese prools:a- Instead Of
pious exhortations from the pulpit, telling
rs John is our brother. whom God has
sent over here to be converted, the ques-
tion arises. who 10 going 10 support the
churches when brother John monopolises
all the avenues Of industry
Some even begin ~ thlnk chat charity
begins at home, and that the better way 10
show our love for the hsathsn viii be to
elevate our people, and let John in his own
country profit By the example.
DO MANY MONEY RKpoRMxns
are anxious to become the Christopher
Columbus Of finance, that one becomes
bswildered At attempting to grasp the
manifold theories put forth for our consid-
eration. Many financial theorists who
do good service in the advocacy Of princi-
ples, prefer to immediate themselves on the
altar Of their vanity. No man living can
predict the outcome Of the present 6nan-
eial system. Those Who attsmpt to sst
bounds 70 its sxpAnsioa viii be swallowed
up in the aood, Whose gathering fores b.
tokens the colaing Of great serial rsvo-
luton. Events may delay, but cannot
prevent, its elimination.
fHR MONOPOLY on MoHIY
must cease. By this means one class oa
the community arc made the slaves ID
another class, who ass even lem entitled
than their victims 70 the snjoymsnt Of thia
privilege. Money monopoly i IN outrags
that has no parallel for iss iniquity. Thsrs
can be no just government wherever our
present monsy systsm ssista. fer ID per.
mita privileged claas Of tho people ID
collect interest upon what they owe. Thia
ID always done where the power TO issns
monsy for circulstion il delegated BY tha
government 10 Individuals or eorporaticns.
The people have only 10 lsafn thin fact tc
Overturn our prsssnt financial systsm.
n MoMEy
u 10 bs q soures u revsnus, Il should ban.
eft sll the people alihs. Cor ID In issasd By
thsir authority in thsir sovereign capacity,
But d may BE- doabssd n ID would bs do.
sisabls for sovsrnmsus 10 collect inssrssl
for the uas q monsy, let this nods d
raising rsvsnue, like that nov n vogus,
should fsll upon indnstzy alous. Thsrs
en- Be 10 justisessisn h sharying iutsrssI
for the uss d money, for "a - tAs psoms.
tsr al indnstry, and henes tho duty of 3
bsns6ssut sovsrnmsut 70 fuEnish u fsss'
and thua ssvs tho psopls lyum bssaminu
tAs visaims of EhylsskA sa shv 90 nos
n thia and 6Akss sivilissd conakzisss