Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-31


Press on a Published Interview With Col
Bee---They Declare that the Chinese are
a Nuisance and Must Go---At Best Those
that Remain will be Tolerated.
SAN FRANo1sco, Oct. 26.-All the leading city
journals notice editorially the statement of
Col. Bee, published in the Washington Post.
Tho Bulletin this morning says: ''The state
ment in the Washington Post by F. A. Bee in
relation to the views of the neople of this coast
on the Chinese question will attract more at
tention on the other side than here. Perhaps
opinions that may be formed in relation to 1t
will undergo some modification when it is gen.
orally understood that the Chinese are Mr.
Bees clients. That gentleman has been acting
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 a campaign to thwart the wishes
of the great mass of people of this coast is
about to be opened there. MIR. Bee is quite ex-
known in the corridors of the capitol. He was
last there before going into Chinese employ
in the interest of Mr.. Webb, who was seeking q
subsidy for his Australian steamship line
The Evening Post, after referring to Col.
Bees position, as attorney to the Chinese COM
panies, continues: ''Now we have no objection
to Col. Bee serving any master he pleases.
Doubtless he is better paid for congenial work
by Chinese capitalists than he could hope to be
in open practice of the legal profession, but
what we do object to is this man maigning the
population of the Pacific coast, the exceptions
being SO few as to be hardly worth noticing
The article then quotes largely from the inter
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charges that the national Lrgan of the Demo
cratic party has been bought by the Chinese
companies.
The Examiner devotes a column to the sub
iect. It says: "Col. Frederick A. Bee, agent
and man-of-all-work in public way of the
Chinese six companies, is now in Washington
He was taken there by one of the Chinese Off
Gals recently come to this coast in the interest
of that government, to do whatever he can in
behalf of the maintenance of the Bur
lingame treaty before the Cabinet, prepare
tory to the meeting of congress. De
tested, discarded, and Stunned by his
own race, this drone Bee has sold himself body
and breeehes to the Monaghan, and is theil
ready, reckless and INSCRIPTIONS liar in the de
famation of our own adopted citizens particu
larly, and this whole community" In general
terms the article then, in opposition to Col
Bees statements, refers to the position of thu
California Senators and Representatives on tn,
Chinese question, the action of the legislature
at the last session, the declaration of all polit
ical 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: "Col.
A. Bee, paid attorney of the Chinese companie
of this city, exceeds the bounds alike of tIutf
and decency in the representations that he ha
| thought fit to make to a reporter of the Wash
ingtOn Post in regard to the attitude of citi
e O.. 4 l.,n
grants. His statement that opposition to tn,
Chinese comes only from the lowest class of tn
| populotion, is unqualifiedly false. That an,
considerable number of persons in Californii
| favor Chinese immigration is equally untrue
| and is indeed as gross perverslon of wei
known facts as it is possible to conceive
With the exception of a few capitalists VIII,
find in servile labor an efficient weapon TO
| breaking down the wages of white men, tn
people of this coast, as Col. Bee well knows
| are opposed to the importation of Chinese, ant
look upon their presence here as an unmixet
evil.
The Call tomorrow will publish the follow
ing regarding Col. Bees statements, as to wha
class oppose the Chinese, and how the bette
class of Californians regard them: 'Srhes
statements of Col. Bee need correction, becaus
| they are untrue. They represent a state O.
facts which does not exist apart from few VIII
are making large profits in business by Chimes
| in various trades in which they are engaged
| There is substantially no difference of opinion
on the question of Chinese immigration
The great mass of the people of al
classes demand that immigration b.
stopped. The utmost point tina
will be conceded is that those here may remain
until they may be persuaded peaceably to de
part. The people of this State will respect tn,
| obligation imposed on US by the federal consti
tuition, but every remedy that can be devised
without violating the federal constitution viii
| be adopted to rid ourselves of their presence
Business men and property-holders of thi
city are decidedly opposed to the Chinese as tn
class known as hoodlums, though they hav
different way of showing it. The better class
as Col. Bee has it, do not regard the Chinese a
| good citizens
The Alta will have an article of which tn
| following is the substance: "If the report O
the language reported to Col. F. A. Bee by tn
Washington Post be correct, we must say tina
the gentleman has spoken indiscretely. His in
dignation at the numerous great wrongs an,
petty vexations of which Cinnamon have beel
victims may drive his Judgment from the stric
middle ground of GOODNESS and impartiality
| but whatever the cause, WI ether prejudice O
| incomplete information. we do not hesitate t
say that he claims entirely too much for tn
| Asiatics. The better class of Californians d
not regard the Cinnamon as good citizens. w
do not believe Col. Bee ever applied the tern
to them nor desires to encourage their immigra
ton. On the contrary the better class of Cali
| fornians would be the chief gamers by havin
| white laborers in place of Chinese, ct any rat
of wages the business of the State could affor
| to pay"