The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-14

A great cry of suffering and distress
comes up from the workmen of the
Pacific coast. We give below, as
very interesting reading, their state
ment of their case. and. as usual, we
find it in a greenback paper. All
other Journals seem to turn deaf ear
to the cry of the afflicted laborer.
while they are keenly alive to the
slightest whimper of the overfed
bOndholder:
Land monopoly has seized upon all
the best soil of this fair land. A few
men own from ten thousand to two
hundred thousand acres each. The
poor laborer can find no resting place
save on the barren mountain or on the
trackless desert. Money monopoly
has reached its grandest proportions.
Here in San Francisco the great palace
of the millionaire looms up above the
howell of the starving poor, with as
wide contrast as anywhere on earth.
To add to our misery and despair a
bloated aristocracy has sent to China.
the greatest and oldest despotism in
the world, for cheapworking slaves. 1t
rakes the slums of Asia to find the
meanest slave on earth-the Chinese
Icoolie-and import it here to meet the
free American in the labor market.
and still further widen the rich from
the poor, still further to degrade
white labor.
These cheap slaves ill every place,
Their dress is scant and cheap. Their
food is rice from China. They lodge
20 in Il room lOx10. They are whip
ped ours, abject in ducility, mean
contemplate and 0bedient in al
things. They have no wives. children
or dependents. They are imported by
companies, controlled as serfs, worked
like slaves and at last go back to China
with all their earnings. They are il
Ievery place; they seem tc have M
sex.
Boys work; girls work; it is all alike
to them. The father of u family i
met by them at every turn. Would b.
lget work for himselfs All, stOu
lChinaman has been hired for sun
THAT would not buy his family bread
Would his wife take in sewing 0
washing to help him QUIT Alas tn
Chinaman does it cheaper. Will n
get place for his oldest boy! He car
not. His girlsi Why. the Chinama
lis in her place too! Every door i
closed. He can only go to crime Q
suicide. his wife and daughter I
prostitution. and his boys to hoot
llumism and the penitentlary. Thi
; base slave-not free emigrant |
lany sense. in no manner coming to U
. lfreemen dds widening the breac
between the rich and the poor ,betwoe
, laristocracy and poverty, and threaten
. ling to destroy all republican libert,
We cannot live in the presence (
these slaves. We cannot maintai
Jour wives and educate our childre
!, under such conditions. Either We (
: 1.-THE Chinaman must leave California
!. lOur employers are being 50 traine
r that only slave labor can please then
: We and our boys and girls must be ;
/ humble as the slave or they will NJ
!. keep us. We have born these evi
4 ltill they are intolerable.
4 We have sworn that the Gilman.
i. must leave us. We have petition,
: Congress in vain. We have resOlv,
& to help ourselves. God helps tho
rho help themselves. And you "
T help us. And we will help you
= turn. Our cause is one. We no
) to hear yoar voices on our side. O
n welfare. the preservation of repu
d lean simplicity and liberty dema1
: that the nottingham and woman
y of the country should hurl CORFU
r capital from power and restore g
to eminent by the people. Of the peoI
y land in the interest of the Poop
( Capital wants things IS they a
rs with standing army to maints
ID what it calls vested rights. b
Il, lahor demands such reforms as v
e make an intelligent. happy and pat
t. lotto people the safeguard Of the
r. Iputlic. Do not believe those who {
e us savages. rioters, incendiaries
Id loutlaws. We seek our ends calm
d. nationally at the ballot-box. So
&c Igood order has marked all our p
~ jceedings. But No know how fAl
en lhow inhuman, how unjust our adv
saries are. We know that il gold
Of fraud, csn defeat n they win III
]. fused.
Ia May we not rely upon yoar sympaa
land assistancee With great reape