The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-07
The 9ai1g Argns,
ROCK ISLAND, rnrrroTs
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China, the greatest and Oldest desp8tisn,
In the world for a cheap workine-slaye
1t takes the slums of Asia to find the
meanest slave on earth-the Chinese
coolie--and import here to meet the free
American in the labor market. and still
further widen the breach between the rich
and the poor, still further degrade white
labor. These cheap slaves fill every place
Their dress is seant and cheap. Their
food is rice from China. They lodge
twenty in a room ten by ten. They are
whipped ours, abject in docility, mean.
contemptible and obedient in all things.
They have no wives, children, or depend
ents, Iney are imported by companies,
controlled as serfs, worked like slaves. and
| at last go back TO China with all their
earnings, They are in every place: they
seem to have no sex.
= Boys work; girls work; it is all alike TO
them. The father Of family il met nv
them at every turn. Would be get work
for himself? All, stout Chinaman has
been hired for sum that would not Inv
his family bread. Would his wife take in
sewing or washing to help him out2 Alas!
the Chinaman does it cheaper Will he
get place for his oldest boy? He cannot.
His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her
place too. Every door is closed. He can
only go to crime and suicide, his wife and
daughter to prostitution, and his boys to
hoodlumlsm and the penitentiary. This
base slave-not free emigrant in any
sense, in no manner coming to us
as free, men dds widening the
breach between the rich and the poor
between aristocracy and poverty, and
threatening TO destroy all public liberty.
We cannot live in the presence of these
slaves. We cannot maintain our wives
and educate our children under such con-
dltlons. Either we or the Cinnamon must
leave California. Our employers are being
so trained that only slave labor can please
them. We and our boys and girls must
be as humble as the slave or they will not
keep US. We have borne these evils till
they are intolerable. We have sworn that
the Cinnamon must leave US We have
petltloned congress in vain, We have re-
solved to help ourselves. God helps those
who help themselves. And you will help
US. And we will help you in turn. Our
cause is one. We hope to hear your voices
on our side. Our welfare, the preserva-
ton Of republican simplicity and liberty,
demand that the workingmen and yeomanry
OF the country should hurl corrupt capital
from power, and restore government by
the people, of the people. and in the in
terest of the people. Capital wants things
as they are, with standing army to main
tain what it calls vested rights. But labor
demands such reforms as will make an in
tellieent happy, and patriotic people the
safeguard of the republic Do not believe
those who call US savages, rioters, incen-
diaries, and outlaws. We seek our ends
calmly, nationally, at the ballot box. So
tar good order has marked all our proceed
lngs. But we know how false, how in
human, how unjust our adversa aries are.
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can
defeat US they will all be used. \
May we not rely upon your sympathy and
asSistance2