The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-03-04

| mltl0e, reported tnaI after ILLS "eeh tAo
committee would cease calling on the
employers of Chinese and the weekday
meetings at Sand Lot would be discon-
tinued. Cries of 'agitate. J "We viii
agitate in different way" said Cannon.
His speech was principally devoted to
comment on the recent meeting of mer
chants, with view of raising subscrip-
tons for the benefit of the unemployed,
several of whom he abused roundly.
A meeting of merchants was held in
the afternoon to hear the report of the
committee appointed to concert relief
measures. There was very small at
tendance and the report was not submit
ted. The committee stated that since
the last meeting the incendiary language
of the agitators had put the mercantile
community in frame of mind i'll which
it would be of but little use to approach
them for contributions. The feeling
seemed to be that they were ready to as
sist the unemployed, but wanted to wait
and see the result of the agitation. The
meeting adjourned without action, and
the impression seemed to be that the
project had fallen through until such
time as more temperate counsels might
prevail among the workingmen.
Considerable inquiry, to-day, among
gentlemen supposed to be interested in
the reported vigilance committee move
ment failed to draw out any direct infor-
nation on the subject, but there is good
reason to believe the report well found
ed, and thorough organization exists.
1t is understood Kearney has gone to
Sacramento.
1t would appear from the tone of the
editorials of Eastern journals, telegraph
ed to San Francisco, that much appre-
hension exists there as to the real situa-
! ton. Il is not true that the agitation
has assumed a Socialistic aspect, nor is
there any good reason to believe that
within few days mob will march on
Chinatown. Several things have COM
bined to bring about the present critical
condition of affairs. Professions of the
unemployed and their demands for the
discharge of Chinese and the employ
ment of white labor, have excited the
workingmen and irritated capital. The
passage of the law forbidding corpora
tons to employ Chinese, and the refusal
of certain corporation managers to COM
ply with the law until it had been inter
preted by the United States courts, ag-
gravated the mutual hard feeling. The
action of the board of health in declaring
Chinatown nuisance was supposed by
the workingmen to mean the immediate
wholesale condemnation of the Chinese
quarters and the removal of the occu-
pants to the outskirts of the city, and
the delay necessarily arising in carrying
out the decree of condemnation in detail
under legal processes has given rise to
! apprehension that an effort is on foot to
defeat the measure. These things have
combined to impress the workingmen
with the belief that while they have both
the law and justice in the case on their
side, organized attempt is afoot to resist
the laws and rob them of the benefits
expected from their operations. This
belief has been fostered and their fears
worked up to the highest pitch of appre-
hension by the very windy declarations
OF some of their leaders, until they are
undoubtedly living in daily expectation
of the uprising of a vigilance committee,
backed by the police and military, for
the purpose of killing their leaders and
trampling the law under foot.
As matter of fact, the condemnation
of Chinatown meets with the almost
unanimous approval of citizens, and
some classes of corporations are daily
discharging Chinese, pending the inter-
probation of the law, and a relief move
ment would have been actively progress
ing but for the violent harangues of the
last few days. On the other hand, the
iincendiary language of the agitators has
alarmed and exasperated the business
classes until they are ready to arm in
self defense. Both parties are flashing
themselves into fury over the almost
purely imaginary and suppositious
grounds Of disagreement. No doubt
Mayor kallock means to use all his in
fiuence with his followers to keep the
peace, but he probably recognizes the
fact that to maintain his influence over
them it is necessary to certain extent
TO fall into their ways of speech and &C
ton. At the present time few calm
words between the leaders and the work
ingmen and business classes would 90
far to create better understanding and
remove all danger of q conflict, and from
appearances to-day there is reason to be-
lieve that something of the kind has tax
en- place, and that influences are at work
tending to a pacific solution of the CUES.
| ton.
| INDIA is said to possess convenient
tree, called the ''capas," which is used
as telegraph post. When cut down, its
branches partially removed and stuck in
the ground, it readily takes root, thus
checking the rayages of the white ants
and becoming living telegraph post.
/ The Mark Lane Express, for Feb. I'd.
saps that the prevalence of the parasitic
disease known as rot in sheep has now
assumed dimensions which amounts to
national calamity, and that each week
the accounts get more and more serious,
and sheep are dying in large numbers in
all the lowland districts of the entire
country. The disease is what is known
as ''hver fiuke.