Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-20
THE CHINESE MUST GO.
Captain Rocks stand for the Poor
LabOrer.

EDITOR SENTINEL: / am tantalized
daily by some Of our best citizens as being
the champion of the Anti Chinese cause in
Eastern Nevada. The Colville Troupe
which played here last week, and who ex-
pect to make money by a display of legs,
took occasion to refer to me as a representa-
tive Of the Anti-Chinese cause in Nevada.
Such tantalization only makes me feel
proud that 1, Of all others, am singled out
as the great and determined defender Of
white and black, and as standing in bold
| opposition to a servile heather race as the
laborer and domestic servants in America.
Many of you tell me that the white laborer,
girls and men,, are inferior to the China
man, while the Chinaman, is superior as
house servants that the girls want a room
and leisure to walk out Of evenings, and
that they must be INDUCED with rooms,
receiving their beaux and male friends.
10y ladies, and heads Of families, did you
never want to walk out with your gentle
men friends? Did you never wish them to
call and see you Of evenings? Did you
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you never swung on the gate wishing the
hours to pass more slowly when your beau
was there? All these things and more
have you done, and you know it, and yet
you grudge the like pleasures to your
white girl. Have you no poor kin who are
now wrestling pitifully with poverty, eak-
log ont q scanty living. receiving less
monty than you pay -FOUR Chinaman, who
would gladly accept the work which you
refuse them and give to the Chinese? l
know many Of you have, some Of whom are
living on the small pittance you send them
as an act OF charity. You may be bankers,
merchants, mine managers, by chance or a
streak OF good luck, rather than any supe-
rior qualifications, and yet you are so sell
fish as to forget even your poor blood rela-
lions. Shame on such philanthrophy |!
You may raise your family as most do
here by hiring Chinese, bnt / would have
you know that your promising children
will not all be bankers, merchants, lawyers
and preachers, as you would like to have
| them be, but many Of them will have to
earn their own bread by laboring; by doing
the drudgery, even begging for that work
in opposition to and at Chinese wages.
Mothers, do you want to see your sweet,
darling girls come in competition with the
Chinaman, and be driven to houses Of
shame for a living, and all because you en-
courage Chinese labor for selfish motives
l have many poor relations, living back in
the old States, even where Chinese compe-
tition is not felt, who are making less than
Chinese wages, and who wish to come to
this country, and write to me to advise
them. Two young ladies, working at the
millinery business, one in Carrollton, Mis-
souri,, and one in Baltimore, who tell me
they can hardly make a living, sewing day
and night, who would gladly be here doing
honest work, but / tell them not to com
here to come in competition with Chinese
prices. Shame on Americans, who ann
and do not unitedly, with one accord, say
the Chinese must go. All hail to the Anti
Chinese Legislature of California, all hail
to that most unanimous cry in the golden
State, 1.-THE Chinese must CO." And
while / cannot be personally benefited by
the stand | am taking, / Am determined to
do all l can to benefit the future laboring
poor, be they my children, my kinsman,
| or the stranger, who will have to live by
the sweat Of their brow. A. D. Rock.