The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-10-16

abors which the Chinese now perform in these
The settlement Of California is due to its pla-
Ger mines. While these we're prolific the country
was prosperous. and high prices. high wages, and
high living was possible. To augment this pro-
lificity you invited Cinnamon here. and worked
them for your own benefit. When the placers
we're exhausted some of you combined and turn
ed your attention to quartz mines Others to |
wheat farming. The Chinese picked up living |
by resorting to petty industries in which you |
could not compete with foreign or Eastern arti
sans and which you. therefore. could not have
started Now that the Cinnamon have built up
these trades some Of you would drive them away,
hoping. DO doubt, to 6 their places, and per
haps fill them ct higher wages. How mean!
how stupid The truth is that you can no more
continue these industries after the Cinnamon are
driven away, than you can work hydraulic
claim without piping. or mandatory without
steam. The Chinese are the labor-saving ma
chimes that render these industries possible.
Danish them and the industries will perish. Then
will your coast be deserted and your working
men themselves forced to flee from it. They can
not live upon quartz mines and seem to be averse
to wheat farming. When thew shall have raised
the price of living to what it was OF yore, and
shall find themselves, as they will, without the
placer mines which sustained it, they must either
leave or starve. May heaven guide them in their
darkness. They have much need of light when
they regard the poor Chinaman as being in their
way the truth being that without his aid in
providing them with cheap food, clothing, servi-
ces, ETC., they would not be able to live here at
all.
The same logic that would Danish the Chinese
will destroy every abor-saving machine in the
land. This would involve not merely the harvest
| ing and sewing machines, but also the spade and
the axe. The former in the hands Of u skilled
husbandman will perform as much labor as could
be done by dozen men with fingers and toes
| the latter as much as could be effected by hun
bred men with their unaded teeth. These labor
saving implements, therefore, dispace so many
honest workingmen, who may starye for lack of
work. Moreover, the spade and axe are nom
consumers. They neither eat, drink, nor wear
clothes as Christians do. The spade has no reli-
gion the axe morals. The spade is filthy
instrument, groveling among worms and putrid
bodies; the axe has committed many bloody
crimes. The spade cannot agitate; nor the axe
vote. They are not allowed to perform the du-
ties of citizen, and are, therefore, unworthy OF
its privileges one of these being that of remain
ing n the country. Many spades and axes
come from Sheffield, and nearly all others are
made of British steel. They are therefore,
Aliens whose presence here, and whose strange
attributes form standing threat to American
institutions. Your laws or customs do not per-
NIT them TO mingle with yoar people. n 10 man
may marry spade; no woman an axe. The
very aspect of these alien labor-saving machines
is repnlsive to you. The spade does not wear
queue longer even than George Washington
nor the axe excel General Grant in the smoking
of narcotics 0ut they both go stark naked,
without strip of clothing on them and what
L.. T.. -.
Then down with these labor-saving implements.
Let the cry of every true American be The
Spades and Axes Must Go!
} But the machine smashing logic is not peculiar
10 California. The industrial world of Christen-
dom resOunds with it. The same class of men
! who burned the wooden frames at Lancashire
are now breaking the reapers and mowers of
New York the harvesters of Kansas, and tie
gang plows of the San Joaquin valley. When
Commodore Perry visited Japan he carried
! ashore miniature railway, telegraph, harry
ester, and numerous lsbor-saviDg implements.
> Your civilization is degraded ours is ele-
> vated," cried this worthy commander to the
wondering Asiatics. Behold the proof. Your
plows and carriages (!in-riti-Shd) are drawn by
r men ours by steam. Your messages are car
ried by runners; ours by lightning You are
3 the slaves OF toll; we are the masters" You
; were very anxious to sell these civilizlng ma
b chimes to the Japanese in order, as you said to
+ lift them up to your proud level, and you
3 have never failed to similarly press them upon
! US. Was this because you were mistaken with
. respect to the advantages to labor-saviDg ma
chimes, or because you anticipated having no
: further use Tor them at home?
r But enough. The times are hard there is
e much suffering among the poor in every land
r and coming, as | do. from q country where suf-
: fering has most enthroned itself | am not dis
d posed to push the argument beyond the pale oil
n selfdefence No one has deeper stake in the
;, welfare OF your working classes than the Chi.
nese; for unless they manage to sustain them.
selves, what must be the fate of our starving
= millions All ask ia that your workingmen
will cease to look upon the Chinese as the source
Q of their troubles. 1t is not there, nor is it il
n the presence of any othersavng machines. Per
h haps they will find it in the worlds dwindline
i stock of metallic money-and in this respect one
d of the panks of their platform commends itsel
d most heartily to my mind. Perhaps they will
q find it in governmental extravaganza, in trade
y monopoies in the privileges accorded to corpo
! rations; in the exemption of government bonds
J. and other property from taxation-I know no
l. where. Your Congressional Committee, now il
Q New York is making the proper inquiries. Il
IL is not our business to discover the causes o
it your msfortunes. II is enough If we show tina
n they do not spring from our presence here ant
ir that, on the contrary, they would be infnite,
d. aggravated were you unfortunately to forget
what is due to honor, to justice and to your owl
n interest, and attempt to drive rs away from you
10 shores. KwANG CHANG LING.