Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-27
YELLOW SLAVES.

a Gigantic Scheme for Importing Chinese
Coolies to Take tie Place IF Christian
W0rkilignen-4 Scheme Depending Upon
Continued Republican Scendancy.
The Sunday Mercury of New York in its
last issue quotes the following as an inter
view with Pennsylvania congressman now
visiting New York:
ga steamship company, with capital of
$10,O00,000, the congressman says, has been
formed to bring Chinese laborers to the
United States, and one year hence the
Chinese population in this country will be
increased fold, and five wears
hence there will be a million Asiatic
mechanics and skilled artisans
at work among the factories and mills of the
Atlantic coast. The six coolie companies of
San Francisco some time ago made arrange
ments with John Roach to build twenty iron
ships, each of which will pack and convey
three Thousand Mongolians to this country.
to work for twenty five or thirty cents day.
Desiring to enlarge their field of operations
they sent their agent East to interest silk,
cotton, stove and other manufacturers in
their schemes, and the result has been the
formation of the company 1 speak of.
''The stock was all subscribed some time
since, for capitalists saw that it would paw
from the start; but it has been kept very
quiet in order to avoid influencing the DO
litical campaign. John Roach has already
gone to work on the ships, and six of them
are in forward state of completion. 1 do
not know the names of the incorporators,
who are principally wealthy New York gen.
tlemen of Republican proclivities, together
with few Connecticut and New Jersey
manufacturers; but I know from
my own personal knowledge that
the ships are being constructed
at Chester, Pennsylvania, and that MIR.
Roach is building them especially for the
yellow slave traffic. 1 do not scruple to call
it revival of the slave trade. The coolie
will work for only nominal wages, and the
employers will reap his profit in hiring hea-
then workmen at $1,75 a week, instead of
having to pay, as now, from SO to S1S for
American labor. The owners of Fall River
now receive % PER cent. dividends on their
investments; but under the new Chinese ar
rangement they will clear so per cent, and
the Mongolian will never dare to strike for
higher wages.
''Under the Burlingame- Republican treaty
these men are allowed to come into this
country without becoming citizens, retaining
allegiance to their own imperial government,
and yet have all the benefit of the laws of
the United States while driving out Ameri-
can labor. The scheme will paw enormously,
of course. As soon as the monopolists have
secured, as they expect, a new lease of power
through Garfield's election, with promise
of third term of Grant in 1884, they will
give themselves up to the task of plunder-
ing labor" Washburn must 60.
A. n. Martin, an ex-voluuteer, testified be-
fore the Warren court of inquiry yesterday
that when Warren. after being suspended, re-
quested Sheridan to reconsider his order, Sher-
idan answered with a profane monosyllable
Washburn must go.
The Baltimore, Cincinnati Western railroad
company was incorporated at Wheeling, VIVA.
sterday, Capital $5,0O0000 to build q
railway from Cincinnati, by way of Ironton
and through West Virginia and Virginia, to
Baltimore, a distance of 500 miles. Capitalists
of Baltimore and Cincinnati form the compa-
ny, of which ex-Gov. Young of Ohio will be
president. Washburn must 60.