The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-13
From OREGON.
PORTLAND, OREGON, Jan. %

way. Since Iheh nave feSei'eu iet'et'
from parties charging me with writing
private letters 10 quite q different tone
from the one you published. II 1 have
don. so I fail to remember it; and to
those who are disappointed with the man.
p,ri n which I answered their questions
would recommend that they call on Mr..
Joseph R. Booth, who started from this
pl,ce for Wheeling on the 18th inst. He
has spent the last ten months in Oregon,
has travelled quite wei the State, and
visited the principal towns OF Washing
ton Territory. His experience has been
greater than mine, and, therefore, more
capable Of giving Satisfactory Informs.
ton ia regard to the climate, soil, bust.
ns,s add matters in general than [ am.
"rHE HEATHER CHIsEE.p
The great question on this coast at pres.
ent il the Cinnamon. Public meetings
.rs held, legislation prayed and petit
TONED for; labor parties, Graugers and
club, are heing formed in every city,
o Y and precinct in this State and Cali.
iOrnia. Old party ties are almost en-.
tirely ignored and the question has mar.
roWed down 10 "CooIie" or "Anti.C oolie."
Both sides are ably Represented by influ.
sntial citizens OF both Republlcan and
Democratic presidents. On one point all
are a;reed-that is, there ia going to be n
great change in tue political heavens Of
Ihh coast, and where and who this light
ming ia going to strike Is a matter Of con-
lecture US yet. The Democrats are thor
ouShly frightened. Their organs are
marks Of ridIcule. In their lamentable
attempts to keep up a show Of organiza.
lion they are ~demoralized, frantic and
wild. Appeals with prayers, appeals
with curses, fill their columns daily; they
recognize the fact that the strength Of the
new labor party ha TO come from the
good old mothers" ranks. Tie Demo-
cratic pres are very bitter in their at.
lacks on the Labor World, a weekly, pub.
lShed in this city In the interests OF
labor reform, but their curses and
threats avail nothing; u steady stream
Of voters keeps flowing from them,
and their language is hurled back
at them ten fold improved. The editor
Of the World Is y formidable rival oil
Brick POmerOy 10 using bad and abuBiye
language. He originally hailed from JET
terSOn county, Ohio, and was u soldier in
Col. Curtis regimentin the Mexican war,
i.a carpenter by trade and IL known as A.
b. Edwards, the "0regOn Mechanic" He
has u great deal Of influence among the
AbOring classes, was originally u demo-
Graf, aud now all that old love seems
changed into undying hate. The Repnb-
licans treat the reform in that passive
quiet cool way, that has characterized II,
ever since its formation. Letting alone
those things that don't come in direct
with II. The Chinee, whose pres.
Ia the immediate cause Of this pol.
ideal iurore, ia very little understood
in the east, where he is considered u curl.
Osity, but here on this coast he Is encoun.
tered at every turn with his blue cotton
blouse, wide baggy pantA Of the same ma.
letial aud thigh bottom" cloth and wood
shoes, and that everlasting pig tail wan.
dering down his back or done up in a
funny little knot on the back OF hia head,
add their sharp, black pig-like eyes pier
chg into every nook and corner. Moth
ing escapes them; a load Of wood coming
TO town Is greedily followed by q lot Of
healhen chinee with saw buck and Ak, all
anxious for the "six bits" that must
Be paid for the cutting aud splitting OF
The same. About one.half Of the Chinese
population are thus employed, the other
hIii not being laboroualy inclined geek
subsistence in an easier way-making
cigars, washing, cooking, dry nursing.
Then there are the junk gatherers-this
lmtclSss arc the dirtiest and most miSer.
able beings | ever beheld, living in holes
dug in the bank, here are their rag pre-.
server and tin repositories. All bits OF
tin arc carefully gathered and put in u
furnace where the tin is melted from the
iron, cast into bricks aud sold 10 timers
Tor making colder. II ia a new business,
to ME at least, and ! am told there arc mel
get rich at it. The race, "A a general
thing, isl very quiet inoflsnsiye one, very
much inferior, both physically and mo-
rally, 10 the Caucasian. They will steal
Vhsheyer a safe opportunity presents it.
'slf; they will work for ons.halt what q
white nGn eau afford 10, and live on about
one .tourth the whites can. He is not c
pible Of doing one-hAlf as much work:.as
The white man, because, no doubt, OF his
manner Of subsistence. For an instance
81 the inferior abilities OF the Coolie la
!eOter compared with white Irish labor,
let NE show your readers some figures.
cooLIE LABOR
And to those parties East contemplate
inG employing eoolie labor, let them re.
1:ct on their course, whether 1t DO the
west and latest or not. ! deprecate
iAe employing OF these men on the fol.
loving grounds: They are not or never
WI become cilirenA Of the United States,
whereas every white laborer's greatest
ambition is for the time When he can
vote. Not one in a hundred Of these
soOlie labOrers are married, nor does he
contemplate such n state; on the other
aind, the white laborer Ia n man Of
lluil!!, with vile and children depending
% him Tor support stAliciAns report
ialtthe greatest amount Of criminals are
found among the unmarried men. Are
!asy acting the part Of good citizens
.aen in importing an element only too
b'one TO evil In is best staieR Do they
!ash think to improve society with the
'.OSsst element Of such a people Look
sel 10 your own interests, gentlemen,
then endeavor 10 protect the Inter.
~ Of that society and government upon
Saich you must depend for protection.
ca.l iot our figures: A lot Of eight
sIihIuen were engaged In digging away
1olhE Tor building purposes. In two
wy they had dug out space 90 ieetlong
ShG . ieet wide by actual measurement,
mixing IN all 50 cubic yards. This dir.
w. Thteled about 10 feet aud dumped in
5Nhk, Sixteen dayE' work at q dollar q
y! 10 sl8; so cubic yards excAyaung al
@0nll 4 yard, SID. Now, had con-