Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-02-03

oring, by the continued introduce
ton and employment Of coolie
labor, to compel white mon,
through want, to accept of Chimes Q
wages.
Ninth. That the continued and
unrestricted immigration of Chi
nese, who will not and cannot as
simulate with our race, who cannot
understand the principles of our
Government, who have no desire to
live in accordance with our institu-
tions, who are governed by code
of laws foreign to our own and ad-
ministered by the companies to
which they belong, who take or
send large sums of money out of
the country, who bring loathsome
diseases into our midst, who i'm port
female slaves for purposes of prosti-
tuition, who are polluting our
youth and, by occupying the fields
of labor rlghtfully belonging to
them, are driving our boys to
hoodlumism aud crime and our
girls to lives of shame, aud who
will ultimately, if unrestrained,
overrun our whole land, outnumber
our whole people, and reduce our
COUNTRY to condition of barba-
rism.
Tenth. That the exclusive en-
ploy ment of Chinese in the con-
struction of the Central and South
ern Pacific railroads, has been O
great outrage against the white
laboring men of this country, and
we ask the Congress of the United
States 20 compel the managers Of
those roads who have in this and
in other ways SO grossly abused the
generous bounty of the nation, to
pay to the Government their just
debts; aud we further ask, as an aid
to the while laboring men of our
country and as u stimulus to all
our industries, governmental aid
to the Texas Pacific Railroad, I'M
der such restrictions as shall for
ever prevent it from becoming an
instrument of opposition to the
American people. Also,
Resotved, That 10 railroad re-
ceiving aid from the Government
shall he allowed to employ Chinese
labor, in building those roads in
the future.
Eleventh. That as government
assumes the power to regulate the
currency, it is its duty to provide,
so far as it is possible to do so, a
circulating medium measure of
values which shall hold a constant
and uniform relation to the num-
Der of the population and the
amount of property in the country;
that we greatly deprecate rapid
initiation at one time, leading as it
does to wild speculation and the
injury of the creditor class, and
rapid cQntraction at another, re-
sulting in great disturbance of
values and in cruel wrong to the
debtor class; and that as it WAS
necessary to greatly increase the
volume of money during our civil
war, and as the price of property
and labor had become adjusted to
an abundant currency and a vast
amount of public anu private in
debtedness had been contracted on
a basis of cheap money! we strongly
condemn the policy Of rapid con-
traction pursued by our govern
ment since the close of the war,
which has made money scarce and
hard to get, which led to therpanic
of 1878, which has almost ruined
the entire debtor class while en-
riching capitalists, which has
greatly appreciated the price of
property and labor, which has par
allied our industries and thrown
millions of our people out of EN-.
ployment and which bids fair to
lead to even more terrible and
widespread disasters in the near
future.
Twelfth. That if it is necessary
to have a paper currency the gov
should issue it aud the
nation have the benefit of il; and
we most emphatically protest
against the national bond system,
by which powerful monopolies are
inimical to the interests
of labor, and by which also the
government is made to pay to the
banks the interest GU its bonds
owned by them while loaning nine
tenths of the amount to the banks
without interest.
Thirteenth. That we are in favor
of laws which shall lead to The
of the quantity of land
VIII ich can be owned or held by in
or corporations-the kind
and quality of such land and the
purposes for which it is held being
in fixing such limita-
ton.
Fourteenth. That large tracts Of
land should be assessed as much in
proportion to quantity as small
tracts, and that it should be made
a felony for any assessor or other
officer to violate the law requiring
property of all kinds to be taxed at
its full value.
Fifteenth. That we are opposed
to high salaries to public officers,
as being unjust to taxpayers, as
tending to create an army of Office
holers, and as furnishing incum.
bents the means with which to cor
ruptly re-elect themselves, and we
favor the passage of laws giving all
public officers fixed salaries, linn
tied in amount to the compensation
paid to those of other yocations re-
curing equal skill and talent, as
IN uch labor and as great respon-
sihility.
Sixteenth-That more stringent
laws should be passed for the pun
ishment of malfeasanee by any
pu bile officer or the officer of any
Bank or other corporation,
and that the. pardoning power, so
far as persons convicted under such
laws are concerned, should be abol-
ished.
Seventeenth-That the purchase
of votes at elections is an attack
upon the principles of our govern
ment and is therefore reasonable;
and we are in favor of law which
shall punish any person giving a
bride, either directly or indirectly,
to influence auother's vote, by
heavy fine and by Imprisonment,