Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-04-15
SAN Francisco, March 20, 1880.
Editor Americdn


Pacific Coast, who thus far have been the
only sufferers from their presensc among US. i.
and certainly that agitation must continue to
exert very powerful If not controlling in
Auence upon California politics ~ long as
their presence is q menace to our industries,
and their influx is not restricted to our
civilization.
regret deeply the fact that the eastern
people have no just conception Of the effect
of Chinese labor upon our own people, for
know how readily they espouse the cause
,ha, is founded in injustice. and am sure
We should have their sympathy and active
cooperation if they we're made to realize the
condition to which Chinese competition is
disposed to reduce our own people if check
is no, put upon their coming. ALLOW me to
present some Of the phases of the subject
for your contemplation based upon an ex-
perience Of ten years among them here, and
then say whether you are willing your own
race shall be subjected to competition with
horde Of bartarians whose clothing and
food comes mainly from China who can
live on ofEal, who pack so closely in their
sleeping apartments that two or three tiers
of hunks are bull, under their ironing tables,
sbou, the heigh, Of common dining table ;
who, have no, or a, any rate fer family ties.
as few Of them are married. whose wages
average less than seventy-fve cents . day.
Now fancy such laborers, (who are so in
urcd to toll BY habits Of life in China for
hundreds. if not thousand Of years, tha; rest
hardly seems necessary TO them) coming
among you in such times Of depression, that
suffering among your own native born citi-
Iens reaches even the point bu, recently
passed away, in the proportion Of one China
man to every three Of your voters and re.
feet upon the increase Of suffering such
state Of things would produce. When YOU
have seen and suffered all this and the homes
Of honest laborers are being sold for taxes
they cannot pay, see if they won, cry ou, to
be relieved from the burden Of the aliens
whose earnings 60 10 China in continuous
stream, 90 that Chinese laborsr pays prob
ably no, more than one-tenth as much to-
wards the support Of our institutions the
laborer Of any other Nationality.
Is no, the citizen or the laborer who comes
here to become a citizen entitled to more
consideration than such an alen' and is il
not rank injustice TO the tax payer with a
famil, TO support and educate. to subject
him to competition so degrading or when
he finds il difficult If not impossible TO sup
ply actual necessaries OF life for his family
is it not cruelty to him to permit the alien
without any Of his claims upon the govern
meat he help. to support. to take the bread
his family needs
think i, cruelty unjust toward the Ia,
payer and the sooner the treaty is modified
80 as to greatly restrict, il not altogether
stop the coming of Chinese coolies, the
sooner will a bitter curse be remos cd from
our whole country. For while the Pacific
eoas, has so far been the only sufferers in
this country. the aliens would soon spread
over the v hole Union.
1t really seems TO me that christian teach
srs who rank among the highest IN the land
take very strange view Of the situation,
and when they labor to give an impression
Eastern people that the opposition to the
's seonined 10 the low class Of Cali
ally seems 10 me that ,hoy
.o'N'' Il ID for the truth, for the
have very little rega. ,ro,.d ,b. vo,.-.
result of the state election .,;,,o,. IN
" NA4iio'iiia 10 oe almost ILL., d the
their opposition to their presence, a. =
impracticable humanitarians who woulu
shTis.ianize Cinnamon would degrade one
hundred Of our own people, for every China
man they would CONVEX, to christianity.
Thoss who study the subjec, sufficiently
to understand the practical effect of
their presence here know this. The man
who like Beecher assumes to know what
%istian spirit would dictate TO = people in
,eaIx with them. commits great wrong
n nv o. Snion in claiming that his few weeks
.mong then, enables him to [. 'e'ae the qae''
ion upon its merits, and unit. he uii''e'
tand. the subject fully he has n. NORA
Ugh, to attempt TO enligh,en the peopl. u
he East upon the SUBJECT
The stand such teachers take on the sub
ect calls to mind Artemas Wards reply to
IN invitation TO deliver an address on Axri-
'ulture. He replied tha, it would afford
linn great pleasure to do so. for there was
10 subject he could think of that he knew
ess about. and he could make the mos,
lbsurd statements to them without the
lightest embarrassment.
do not suppose the course Of our present
Mayor |. S. Kalloch, Of unsavory eastern
ane, surprises those who knew him there
" knew his record since leaving Boston. bu,
many here supposed when he WAS elected
Mayor tina, he would be prompted by ambi-
ion to be respectable, but the vagabond
n his composition is too strong, and he is
till as improvident in the matter of reputa-
ion as he is in money, and the result must
necessarily be bankruptcy in both.
Just how the election tomorrow of Joint
Senator in place of Desty is likely to result
$ hard to determine.
The coalition between the Democrats and
Sand Lotters" may elect Freud, but
loubt it. for there are very many Democratic
90 respectable to be led into any such
You will learn the result long before this
an reach you. but let US hope in the mean
ime that "Ssnd Lot" oratory and dema-
,oguery are near their end.
The people. after waiting great deal too
ong, have at last determined that San Fran
isco has had enough, and it will be we'll for
(. & X. to heed it. They are mnch to COW
'rdly to perform in the role Of Ku Klux,
'ut (the eternaD rigiiantes may cost them
heir liberty unless they cease to disturb
he peace. May they take heed in time.