The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-09
CHINESE IN THE EAST.

1t now begins to look as though the Eastern
cities, whose inhabitants have so long been
accustomed to abuse the people of the West
on account of the hostility manifested in this
section of the country towards the Chinese
are to be visited in force by the ~almond-eyed'
Celestials. The dispatches received yesterday
announce that large numbers OF the heathens
have recently settled in Chicago, and that a
company of them numbering two hundred,
has recently left San Francisco for New York.
This migration has been brought about by the
Kearney agitation in California, and by the
promises made by Eastern manufacturers
who are anxious to procure cheaper labor than
they now employ. The effect of the intro
duction of this foreign element on the work
ing classes of the Eastern States will beyond
a doubt prove disastrous in the extreme to
the poorer classes, who, like those in the West,
will find it impossible successfully to compete
with The Chinese intruders. The distress
which their advent has created III California
will, it is safe to say, be increased fully ten
fold in all the great manufacturing centres OF
the East, where already starvation wages are
paid, for wherever the experiment has been
tried white men and women cannot exist
where the Chiuese will thrive and accumulate.
The Eastern papers have united in condemn
ing the opposition displayed towards the Chi
nese on the Western coast, and, standing on
the broad platform OF freedom to all races,
have heaped ridicule and abuse on those who
oppose Chinese immigration, or who even
advocate its restriction. The New York pa
pers have argued that the competition OF white
and Chinese labor is not prejudicial to the
interests of any country, and charge the White
laborers of the Pacific coast with Il lack OF
energy and all skill il allowing the Chinese
to take so active Il part in the various indus
trial nersu,ts of California. In their blihc
denunciation of the Western people for i'm
bibing a spirit of amnesty towards these
Celestial invaders. the Eastern Journals seen
to lose sight of the fact that the persona
necessities Of the two races are altogether
different; that the Chinese coming l." TIN:
country have no families to support, compalit
lively no expenses tOr wearing apparel u
house rent, and no requirement but for th'
most iueXpensive kind ofIuOG. The absOlutei,
necessary EXPENSES for il white laboIer 10 IN'
comfortably and keep up a respectable appear
auce are fully i've times as great as those re
quired for a MongoIian to maintain 4 ti"ul
ishing existence. Bal these all-wisc Eastern
journalists claim that .ta community Of whit
men cannot work for the same low wage
which suffice for the Chinese, tllst the tOrme
are without enterprise, indolent, lazy all
good for nothing.
The Western people will therefore lesar
with IA feeling akin to satisfaction the dispo
siIion recently manifested among the Chimes
residents of San Francisco to remove to tn
Eastern centres of commerce aud manutaC
ture, and if the exodus should assume co,
siderable proportions, of which there is now
strong likelihood, the people Of the Easter
States will soon have Il chance to lake d dos
Of their own medicine.