Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-04
DrsAPPorNTmENT.

1t is presumed that the fresiuent acIeu
upon the Anti Chinese bill yesterday
afternoon. Unfortunately the wires got
out of order just in time. to cut of COM
munication ON this subject, which is, at
present, the one Of all absorbing interest
on the Pacific Coast. THE last heard Is
that the signs were indicative Of a veto. 1t
is earnestly TO be hoped that the signs
are false. The delay of President Arthur
makes it plain either that he does not
know the nature OF the evil that he is
dallying with, or else he is hesitating Tor
mercenary reasons. The people OF the
Fast may be conscientious in their dis
p~osition to make our land free to the
Monaghan horde, who can overrun the
country, as swarms OF grasshoppers, and
destroy us as a pestilence. God grant
that the day may never come, as we have
had occasion to say before, that the eviioi
Chinese immigration to the United States
may ever grow into a national calamity.
We know so well what IT'S horrors are
that we could wish no community a
greater harm than to be subjected to Its
influence. We are unselfish enough
though put out of humor by those in
the East who are unwilling to take a
practical view of the subject, and who
put us in comparison with the Chinese
giving them the advantage OF 1T, to wish
that they should have any actual expert
ence OF the plague that we are sui
fering. This sentiment, however, is not
on account Of any charity for the AFRO
gaut politicians who have espoused the
cause Of the Mongolians as against their
" people. They would be the last to
feel the injurious effects OF the plague.
Were they in position to suffer first and
alone. we would be uncharitable enough
to reverse the popular phrase OF the
Pacific Coast, and say, "Let the Chi
nese Come" But such men as Hoar,
Edmunds and Sherman, and old David
Davis, and the rich generally, for whom
Cinnamon take the place OF slaves or
machines, will be, for a time, benefited
by cheap labor. 1t is che humber peo-
pie, the laboring men and women, who
are to be beggared and driven to the
wall, the children of poor parents that
are to cry for bread-it is these for
whom our sympathies are excited. 1t is
on account of those who cannot protect
themselves, and who will be deprived of
the poor privilege Of laboring to live,
that we hope the Chinese may never
infest the Eastern States. A gentleman
who has Just returned to Eureka from
San Francisco, tells that a few days ago,
while he was below, the report came
that the Anti Chinese bill had been We
toed. The bulletin board in front of the
Examiner office was surrounded by q
dense crowd in a few minutes, and the
excitement Of the people bordered on
wildness. In their disappointment and
anger they did not hesitate to express
their opinion Of the President in the
plainest and harshest terms. Nor il
there any wonder that they should,
They see their means Of. living taken
away from them. A multitude of Chi
namen are employed in manufacturing
whereby three or four times that mum
Der Of whites could make living wages.
They have almost ntirelymonopolized the
manufacture Of cigars, of common boots
and shoes, of overalls, of clothing and
many other articles. They are driving
white people out of work slowly but
surely. If they are allowed to keep on
coming and overrun the country, as they
certainly will in time if not shut out,
there will be no labor left for white peo-
pie to engage in. Our informant says
he saw files Of Cinnamon trotting along
Market street covered all over with
boots and shoes and other truck of their
wi make which they were transporting
to save drayage Eve He says that the
enraged crowd, while gathered about
the bulletin in which many Of them saw
the writing so pregnant for them with
distress and degradation, swore that
they would not submit quietly any
longer; that if they could not be pro-
tected by the Government they would
protect themselves. And they meant all
they said. If President Arthur vetoes
the Anti Chinese bill there will be trouble
in California, not only in his party of
great moral ideas, but his veto will make
MANY a Chinaman sick also.