The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-30
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". n Haney, farmer, testified be-
fore the Hard Times Committee. that
contracts could be made IN China nj The
rate of $S5 per year, and that the sus.
tepance OF Chinese labor.r would be
about $15 more. n hing 800 per year
Per man Mr.. Haney d. clned 10 accrp,
a business proposition made him on
that basis. pr f. ri, G 10 pay whit mrn
$50 per month. Otter witness testl-
lied that this Chinese were eating in Oh
the white standard OF wages by from
thirty.three to fift, per cent FIX ST. nator
Donovan, a painter contractor, WHO bss
Ia former times employed seventy 30
eighty white painters, { stlied that now
he employs very few The work can b.
done cheaper by tho C6inese. In the
manufacture of wollen goods, tho Chi
nese work for from sixty TO ninety cents
u day. They make tor sixty cents pr
| dozen shirts which cost for making 81 90
III the East. OF course it is only o ques-
ton OF time when Chinese-ua anirts
will crowd the Eastern. made article on,
of the market. OF the several Witnesses
who have been before the Committee
representing the principal branches of
business. the only one who has said
word in defense OF Chinese labor is Otis
Gibson. Mr.. Gibson's occupation is
converting Chinese heathens to Chris
tians. and in renting TO them one Of thc>
! filthy dens in Chinatown. A witness,
named James Cilroy, throws some light
upon the proselytising business as it is
conducted in China. HIS description of
the manner in which the missionaries in
China keep up an appearance OF making
converts was little setback to Mr. Glib
son, but was relished by he spectators.
MIR. G,lroy has lived some years in
China. and is evidently of an observing
cast OF mind. 1t is understood that the
Committee will hold no more sessions in
this city. The testimony they have
taken might easily be duplicated but
we doubt il there 10 respectable citizen
not dir, city interested in procuring
cheap labor who would controver. the
testimony on an essential point. All
over the State and city white men have
given away to Chinese. and all over the
State and city tradesmen and manufac
turers are complaining Of o lack of Gus.
TONERS. The lack of customers compels
them to reduce their force and in other
ways cut down expenses. Hence, the
hard times. Labor is too high in the
United States to compete successfully
with France, Germany, Belgium and
England for the markets in those coun-
tries, and if We do not find customers
among our own people. we can find but
few anywhere. But 500 u year does
not enable workineman to be much OF
a customer. We must keep out this ex-
cessively cheap labor or tho mass of our
lsboring population will be reduced to a
condition lower than that which prevails
in Europe The Chinese question is
assuming shape and form. 1t has re.
solved itself into o struggle between two
systems of labor. One system-the Chi
n se--allows the laborer just enough to
supply the absolute nec-ssifiss Of life
, Under that system he is serf, a slave, I
ohattei. His condition is as hopeless O,
il he was born slave. The other sys
tem-tbe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tn,
laborer's right to fair division OF thu
. products of labor and capitalists righ
5 to home, family and means of i'm
provement. Those two systems are il
deadly an,agonism to each Other. If tn
Chinese system prevails, tho American
t system perisbes. Both cannot exist aid
by side. 1t is no question Of race antip
atby-of religious conviction or socia
:. prejudice; but of radically different avs
{ tens. in which the industries OF q grea
L nation shall ba conducted.