The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-04

community, Chinatown-the hlthiest
place in all Christendom. Here huhhled
together, in round numbers, are forty TO
FORTY five thousand "Celestials," in
space not large enough for hve thousand
whites with their families. 1t is plague
spot-a menace to the health OF the res
idents of the city. They trade and traf,
fic entirely with themselves. They spend
none of the money they earn with the
white merchants of the city. They I'M
port most of the articles they use. ihen'
we ask is it any wonder that business
here is stagnant and everybody com
planning of hard timesP There are here
at the present time several thousand un
employed white aborers, who are seek,
ing in vain chance to earn a livelihood
for their distressed families. heathen
Coolies fill the places from which these
white citizens and Christians are crowd
ed, and they grow rich in the golden pro-
duct of their labor-rich enough TO re,
turn to China with their hoardings, and
there comfortably live, while the white
laborers here linger in wretchedness and
starvation.
1t is madness for the whites to think of
competing with them, for to do so, white
men would have to be born over again,
and be brought up in The same manner
as they. But we object to our rising
generation being reduced to the degrad
ed level oil a Chinese Coolie; for II the
white men would work for 50Cents a day
and God forbid that they should be
compelled to do so-the Chinese would
work for 25 cents day, and it would be
a paradise to them at that figure, for it
would be five times the amount they re-
ceive in their own land. They can live
on five cents day; they eat rice and the
offal of the slaughter'houses. y
We would also call your attention to the
stories in eastern and foreign papers hat
business is good in California at the pres
ent time. This is some of the work of
the respectable" and responsible"
land .grabbers, monopolists, and vicious
capitalists, for the purpose of overCrowd'
ing the already giutted labor market, 80
as 10 haye the mechanic so completely
at their mercy that they will be com
PEELED to take whatever remuneration
may be offered or starve. \
We would also call your attention to the
fact as shown by the Eastern press, that
the Chinese are beginning to show them
selves in your Eastern cities. We there
fore warn you and the brethren that
their introduction brings nothing but
misery and degradation to the working
classes. You may think that this is
singular advice coming from us who
wish to get rid of fthem. But we hold 1t
to be our sacred duty as brothers enlist.
ed in the same cause.-the elevation OF
labor-to warn you of the danger that
besets you. Again, you have been told
that the workingmen's agitation has been
TIE cause of the hard times. by soaring
capital from building. ETC., thereby not
producing work for the working classes
The truth in the matter is this: There
are nearly 5000 empty buildings to let al
the present time in San Francisco. This
is the reason why capitalists do not build
the lack of demand And, instead Of
things getting better, they are likely to
grow worse. There are more mechanics
and laborers leaving this State at present
than are coming to it, and matters will
continue so as long as the Heathen Cool
les are preferred to the white Christian
population, by the avaricious, sordid
wretches, some of whom have b come
rich by chance, and others by robbing
his fellow man of his Just heritage-the
right to live in just manner, and tc
raise his children to become useful Citi'
zens CT this republic. We can safely
quote the language Of the Scottish Bard
Mans inhumanlty to man makes count
less thousands mourn"
We have one request to ask Of you and
the brothers throughout the Union
and ii Is this, that you pledge your Repre-
8entdtiue8 to Congress before Uoling for them
to do all in their pover TO abrogate the Bur
Engame treaty for 1Oe recognize that our com
mon safety lies in this direction.
We remain, yours truly,
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
THE VOICE OF TEE PEOPLE.