Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-28

San Francisco, Oct. 26-Ali the leading city
journals notice editorially the statement of
Col. Bee, published in the Washington Post.
The Bulletin this morning says: the state
ment in the Washington Post by f. A. Bee in
relation to the views of the eople of this coast
on the Chinese question will attract more at
tention the other side than here. Perhaps
opinions that may be formed in relation To ii
viii undergo some modification when it is gen.
orally understood that the Chinese are Mr.
Bees clients. That gentleman has been setting
for some time in this city in the capacity
of their general attorney. We are rather in
clined to think that his presence in Washington
indicates that campaign to thwart the wishes
of the great mass of psople of this coast is
about to be opened there. Mr. Bee Is quite
perlenced In the ways of that city, and is well
known in the corridors of the capitol. He
last there before going into Chinese employ
in the interest of Mr.. Webb. who was seeking Z
subsidy for his Australian steam hip line
The Eoer.ih.g Post. after referring TO Col.
Bees position, as attorney to the Chinese COM
panies, continues: Nov we have no objection
to Col, Bee serving any master ne plesaSes.
Doubtless he Is better paid for congenial work
by Chinese capitalists than he could hope to be
i'll open practice of the legal profession. but
what we do OBJECT to is this man maligniug the
population of the Pacific coast, the exceptions
being SO few to be hardly worth noticing"
The article then quotes largely from the inter
view published by the Washington Post, and
charges that the national Ryan of the Demo-
| cratic party has been bought by the Chinese
companies.
The r. miner devotes column to the sub
| ject. 1t says: Col. Frederick A. Bee. agent
| and man-of-all-Work in public way of the
! Chinese six companies, is now in Washington.
He taken there by of the Chinese OIL
Gals recently come to this coast In the interest
of that governmen to do whatever he can III
| behalf of the maintenance of the Bur-
liugame treaty before the Cabinet. prepara-
tory to the meeting of congress. De-
| tested, discarded, and stunned by his
! own race this droue Bee has sold himself body
and breeehes to the Monaghan, and is their
ready, reckless and unscrupulous liar in the de-
| famatiou of our own adopted citizens particu-
| larry, and this whole community" In general
! terms the article then, in opposition Col.
| Bees statements, refers to the position of the
| California Senators and Representatives on the
| Chinese question, the action of the legislature
at the last session, the declaration OF all polit-
| zeal parties IN the States and the avowed senti-
ment of nine-tenths of the press of California
| and the Pacific coast
| The Chronicle tomorrow will say: 'sCol. f.
A. Bee, paid attorney of the Chinese companies
| of this city, exceeds the bounds alike of truth
and decency in the representation that he has
| thought fit to make to reporter OF the Wash
| ingtou Post in regard to the attitude of citi-
zens of San Francisco toward The Chinese emf
| grants. His statement that opposition to the
| Chinese comes only from the lowest class of the
| populotion, is unqualitedly false. That any
considerable number of persons in California
favor Chinese immigration is equally untrue,
and IS indeed as gross pervcrsion of well
! known facts as 1T is possible TO conceive
| With the exception of few capitalists who
! find in servile labor an efficient weapon for
! breaking down the wages of white men, the
! people of this coast, Col. Bee well knows,
are opposed to the importation OF Chinese, and
look upon their presence here az an unmixed
| evil.
The CAL tomorrow will publish the follow
! ing regarding Col. Bees statements. to what
class oppose the Chinese, and how the better
! class OF Californians regard them: '.fhese
statements of Col. Bee need correction, because
! they untrue. They represent state of
| facts which does not exist aparG from few who
are making large profits in business by Chinese
in various trades i'll which they engaged.
There is substantially no difference of opinion
on the question OF Chinese immigration.
The great mass OF the people of all
classes demand that immigration be
stopped. The utmost point that
will be conceded is that those here may remain
until they may be persuaded peaceably to de
| part. The people of Thu State WA respect the
obligation imposed on us by the federal consti
| tuition, but every remedy that can be devised
| without violating the federal constitution viii
/
! Business men and property-holders of this
city are decidedly opposed to The Chinese as the
class known as hoodIums. though they have
q different way of showing 1t. The Letter class,
as Col. Bee has it, DO not regard the Chinese as
good citizens.
| The 4Nd will haze an article OF which the
| following is the substance: IF the report of
the language reported to CO... L. A. Bee - the
! Washington Post be correct. we must say that
| TIE gentleman has spoken indisoretely. His in
diSnation at the numerous great wrongs and
| petty vexations of which Cinnamon have been
victims may drive his judgment from the strict
| middle ground Of cosiness and imnartiality
but whatever the cause, wi ether prejudice
| incomplete information. do not hesitate TO
| say that he claims entirely too much for tho
Asiatics The better class Of C&lifornjans do
not regard the Cinnamon good citizens. We
| do not believe Col. Bee ever applied the term
| to them desires to encourage their i,nmigra-
ton. On the contrary the better class Of Cali
| fornaDs would be the chief gamer. by having
white laborers in place Of Chinese at any tate
of wages the business OF the State could afford
| to pay"