The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-12-01

Saturday, Dec. l. 1877.


THE CHINESE PROBLEM.
It is already evident to the most cas-
ual observer that the Fifteenth Amend
mont to the Constitution is dead let
ter, 20 far a. the Chinese are con. 'rned.
San Francisco has her factories of shoes.
cigars, clothing and blankets in which
ninety per cent. of the labor employed
Is slave labor. imported from China by
the Six Companies who have mcmorial-
ized the President OF the United States
~ follows:
"Open and public threats by large
public gatherings have been made for
weeks past to drive out the Chinese
residents and destroy their property.
A procession has been devised tor the
10th, for the avowed purpose Of execut.
ing these threats. Heretofore Chinese
reoideuts have been denied tho protec-
ton guaranteed them in Articles and
2 Of the Cushman Treaty and Article
4 Of the BuTlingame Treaty, and now
appeal to the United States Government
70 msintain those treaty obligations.
without delay"
II the evils Of Chinese slavery were
confined merely to manufactures. it
would be bad enough; but now the
danger is thst their competition will
exclude white labor from agriculture
which 10 now the great standard svoca-
ton OF California. Twenty-Five years
ago that State Was . mining communi-
~ and agriculture was secondary con-
sideration. Now. agriculture u its lead
Jig feature and mining for gold has
dwindlsd down, by exhaustion of the
placer diggings, to third-rate industry.
SO long ~ owners of large tracts Of
land like Glenn. of Colusa. and Carr. Of
Kern, can work their farms Of 10, 600 to
90. 900 seres with Chinese labor hired at
$e6 per month and the lsborers board
themselves. what show is there for
white labor that claims $50 and foupds
: Oregon and Washington Territory
arc ss yet exempt from this curse, but
how long viii that exemption continus2
We have already three hundred and fifty
Of thess barbarians employed upon our
little local railroad aud when Colrnan
reversing the example of Sherman.
shall begin bis great march from the
ses. we shall need at least $50 more.
While that road is being built to Wal.
ID Walla or Dayton, there will be no
fear Of their competition with white L.
Dor in the broad grain fields Of the
Great Basin. But when that road is
finished, there will be Ave acres sown
in grain where one h now cultivated.
And then will come the rub.
It has been shown already too plainly
that tho Chinaman is to ths land what
the tersdo 10 to the water--a destroyer
Of what others create. consuming the
vitality Of every structure with which
be comes in contact. he tolls and L.
bors. bat the country rssps only limi-
ted profit from his labor for he ships
abroad his earnings. while at the same
time. be excludes from participation in
the Development Of this country the
white man. who spends oil his earnings
here 10 enrich and advance the people
ancng whom he makes his home. No
country can grow o. hope to advancs.
morally or financially, which depends
merely uponthe toll Of barbarian serfs.
The Grsoian and Roman republics, -
we'll ~ the Russian empire of oar own
era, are che best proofs Of this shsosy.
Nor can mob law or threats Of vio-
isncs made By unlawful asssmblsgsa.
s4sct the needed reform. The Hurlin-
game Treaty, that unjuse concessions
made to psrtiaAn leader b realizes
majority in Congress. must be abrc-
gated and tho present status Of the
Chinamen in The Pacific States. legally
dsstroysd. All tho commercial commo-
ditiss ws nov obtain from China ON Be
purchased Of japan On equally reason.
able farms: nor will our industrial sys-
tAns b threatened by IN Influx Of
Japanese labor TO compete with our own
ssas and kindred. The prosperity Of tho
PasiAe States depends, upon total
obIitesation Of the commercial relations
Bow pending With the Fiowsry King
dom, and the restoration Of the supre-
macy 81 white labor il Westsrn Ane.
Sico.
Hon. .. 8. Fam. delegate to Con
grsss from Idaho Territory. has intro
ducsd hill fsr annexation Of the span
handle" counties 81 that Territory 70
our own. This. il carried into elect
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