Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-04

aprrAp or TIE PLAoUE.-The Chimes
are being crowded at present, ana arr
breaking in all directions Tor more
quarters in this city. Every mouse, nt
mater how dilapidated, Ii eagerly
oouoht after, and big rents are prof
Serod. Il il reported on good autnonty
That HIoischner has sold the nortneas'
ooensr Of Third and Morrison Tor ~.
000 10 Q Chinese nrm. Another nfm
warts IL northeast corner OK eeoono
and Morrison, and thooNh tns 49,
saisoa his peioe every time ne ~
pCuG5hod, tie Chimes fsemn eno sso.
DR. the amoant. The nsw ba1ldfne g
Morrison Gtroet, nsaT Fourth, o.nGo ~
Peer Haxdsuborgh, has aneeoy
leaoed by Chinese merchants. thus Wv
ING them Q foothOld on the mogs ~
nent cross street or thofooeniane -
The oity. American merchants IN ouaao
inas adjoining the invader lag. men,
toned are preparing 70 move out, ano
this will give opportunity 20 the Mo1
ools TO crowd In the rooms thus vacsteo.
ft seems Q pity that Morrison street =
doomed 70 become only an ailey snt0ugn
China town, and that citizens WI! %
compelled to pes through or go Wo
blocks out Of the way TO reach the post
o6joe. But the Chinese have the city
In thsty erasp.-Porttand Standard.
The statement made In the concluding
sentence Of tho foregoing Ii . melan-
oholy ono TO make, but we fear there II
entirely too much truth in It for the
GOOD Of our peighbor on the Willamette.
Tho biighting hold the Chinese have
upon San Francisco is known TO every
resident Of the Pacific Coast, and their
hold upon Portland is hardly less tena'
oious than that upon San Francisco. .
In Victoria q similar report can d
made, and the same can b Of every con-
siderable town on the Pacific Slope, ex-
oept Seattle.
Here, in some mysterious manner, the
Chinese have been kept down and out
In proportion 10 the general population
and the extent of bosiness, there are
perhaps fewer Chinese in this city thar
In any largo town west Of the Book,
Mountains. For this We cannot be tot
thankful.
Now, however, a change ia in fail
way to be experienced. Street contract
have brought TO our town at least ont
hundred and fifty new Cinnamon, ane
the building Of the railroad from her'
20 Tacoma will add several hundred
more. These, added TO those here be
fore, will bring the whole number Of
Chinsss In our county up to 1000 prob
ably By tho lst Of December. OF thess
1000, 800 will be workers, and will bt
doing work that would otherwise bt
done by 800 white men. OF the 10,0O(
white people in King County, there are
perhaps not TO exceed 800 white mer
Who earn their daily bread by tho sweat
Of their brows. Adding 800 more labor
en-, IN the factories and mines, on the
whaEvss, building houses, clearing lands
would b equivalent to doubling ouI
population, or making It 10000, instead
Of 10000. Adding 800 Chinese laborerf
simply means tho keeping out of a
many white men, and incidentally the
loss 10 10 Of Q desirable acquisition OF
10000 to our prssensSpopulation.
These Chinese can be kept out only
in ous way, and that il By refusing them
places Of residence and business among
~ That part Of town IL always blight.
Cd in which tho Chinese dwell. Let them
ssttis in any quarter, and values there
20 down 30 per cent. in consequence
Rents 60 down, adjacent property ID
rendered undesirable. and soon visible
curse rests upon the particular block
street or ward % infested.
II our people viii combine and deter.
mine positively not TO let the Chinese in
thsy. can Ivery. easily b kept out, and
they and tho town will Be- hundred Dol
can't. bott0Y In Oonsouuenco.