Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-01
AN ADDESS

From the workingmen of California to
their Brethren Tnroush out the Country
What Garfield's PiS i ailed Rat L aters
Rave Done for the Poor Men of the
West.
NLw YuEK, October 29.-The follow.
iny address OF the workIngmen ol Cali
fornia has been received by the Ma
tional Democratic Committee by toie-
g'aph:
"SAx FRAxCIsCo, Octoher -.
"The Workingmen's psriy OF Caliior-
'orn'a heretofore not al!i!iating with any
ctser political party, but now having
unanimously resolved to support Han
cock and English. send greetings 10
their brethren and sisters OF labor
throughout the East, \ nth and South
OF their common country, without dis
tinction OF par Y. and appeal to them
for relief. Tue toiing masses oil Call
fornia, once occupying the proud posi-
tion Il teng
The Bes. Paid and Most Prosperous
of any in the Uuion, are now reduced to
want and in many instances begsary,
by hori OF Chinese who have obtrud-
ed ,hems Ives into every in ,ustrf. The
Chinese come without families, lnow
Zone OF the attachments OF home or do
mcst'c surroundings, live in holes anu
sleep on shelves, subsist on rice and
other iool imported from China and do
TO, assimilate with our civilization on
the Pacific coast, The work OF the 'ac-
tory ani domestic service
Is,na Great Measure Monopolized by
HIN,
40 that the interests of the laborlng
women AMI children, no less than those
Of the men. are involved in the dlsas-
trous ard unequal conflict between the
two races. the one OF higher, the other
Of a lower civilization. They have al
most entirely driven the whites from the
cigar, boot and shoe and clothing facto-
ries. They gre also exclusively en-
rIny.d in WOODEN and Linen manuiacto'
ri@s, AMI the canning OF fruits and fish.
The lIun,rv work is completely in their
hands, aud in fact there is scarcely any
emplovment CT manufacture in which
they have not entered ard supplanted
tie Caucasian.
Oar skilled labnrers men who have
snrut wears in learGiug trades,
Walk the Streets Without kmplcyment
during the day, AMI return at nisEt IN
DESPAIR 10 their Impoverished homes
and j, stitute families. Our boys are
no longer appren,iced, and are growing
m in iileness without work and with
oat trades. Our girls are driven from
domestic service No one can hope to
compete with the Chinese III any branch
n; I,bOr in which they choose to enter
uuI,ss he sinks to their level, gives up
al home aud family ties, lives as the
Chinese do, becoming rs they are, q
mere human machine. The Mongolian
EVIL has reached us and is now destroy
ing us.
Il Will Soon be Upon You
II is not so far from New York tn San
Francisco as 1t is from Hong Kong Ia
san Francisco.
The 4OO,oOO,0S0 Of Chinese have
awakened from the slumber OF ages. and
unless their influx is checked thew will
flood the Eastern States rs they already
have the Pacific coast. We can hope
for no relief from the Republican party.
That party, and especially Garfield, has
always worked TO promote the Chinese
immigration to this country and 10 give
the Chinese the right OF SUI
iraye. In LS69 Garfield showed
By Hs Vote in Congress
that he favored Chinese suffrage; that
he was, in 1874, for displacing whites
with Chinese upon the work at the
Mare Island Navy Yard, and in 1879 he
voted TO sustain the Presidents veto OF
the Chinese Passenger bill. q measure