The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-04
OPPOSITION TO THEIR BEST INTER
ESTS

For some time past the residents OF Cali
fornia have been inveighing as heavily
against the Chinese as any set of people
upon the globe could do. They have OBJ
jected to their backwardness in adopting
our civilization, but principally to Their
cheap labor, contendng indeed that the
Mongolians upon the Pacific coast made re-
munerative employment impossible Tor
those of American or other extraction thah
Chinese. As consequence, the. Chinese
question has assumed immense proper
tions in Congress, and no act of the gem
eral government is watched with
more interest than the determination
of the Chinese question. Cheap labor to
those who have intelligence enough
to appreciate what it means is but
indicative OF the fact that those who nave
the benefit of it are enabled to sell cheaper
in the markets of the world than Others
From this fact California is growing, per
haps, more rapidly to-day than any other
state in the Union, and really holds the bal
ance of power in national campaign Is
is possible from this fact alone that certain
sections are inmical to the
further immigration of the Chinese,
and certain other sections persist in insist
ing that they be admitted without limit or
any bubble to the country rs citizens.
However this may be- it is beyond dispute
that in California, at least, the question is
such momentous one that the citizens
have hung their harps upon the willows
unless something is done, lust here the
insncerity and absurdity of the Caliior-
mans demands are apparent. Chinese
cheap labor has done more ito con-
tribute to the aggregate wealth of the
Golden State than any other agency,
therein although it may have been disas-
trous to the hoodlum and dead-beat ele-
ment which KEARNEY has SO persistently
harrangued on the Sand Lots. Those who
have had money and have had work to do,
know the vast savings they have made by
employing Chinese labor and only those
object to it who are dead broke" aud till
want exorbitant prices for their services.
The hoodlum element being in
the majority it is but natural
that such politicians and ambl-
tious citizens as desire further recog-
milton at the hands of the masses, should
desire the total exclusion of their most in
dustrious and energetic neighbor-the
Chinese. Equally absurd and antagonistic to
the best interests of California is the atti-
tudc of the San Francisco Chronicle and
the Sacramento Record Union in opposing
the Hawaiian treaty. 1t matters not who
tons under that treaty, whether Mr..
SPRECRELs or some one else, California, as
state, gains UNNECESSARILY, and it is
almost impossible to believe that the Cal
fornia press should decry Il course of acto /
worth thousands of money to the state.
Hawaiian sugar admitted free of duty en-
ters largely into the products of California,
the manufacture of her Guits, raisins and
grapes, and gives to the principal western
commonwealth, particularly, monopoly
of the sugar trade in this country. There
fore it is beyond comprehension that such
journals as those above named should
continuously oppose beyond all
things else the very things in. which they
are most interested and upon which they
mos depend for wealth and independence.
1t is but another evidence of the concession
to the miserable and sensclcss demands of
the rabblc and the politicians, but stands in
the way, if put into practice, OF the best
interests of one of the best states OF
the Union. 1t is passing strange that
people Ps numerous and wise
as the Californians should tolerate such oh.
vious antagonism to their interests as is
expressed in the California press In the
first place the advocacy of the abolition OF
cheapness of labor, and, secondly, the abro-
CATION of the Hawaiian treaty, through
both of which the Caliiornians have been
getting richer than any other people. 1t is
4 curious example of popular clamor over
riding all the better dictates of interest and
reason.