Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-10
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TER.
FRIDAY EVE'G, MARCH 10, ISIS:
An Important Question.


An Important Question.
One of the largest anti Chinese
meetings. ever held III California,
met in Platt's Hall, San Francisco,
las: Saturday. Not only was the
large building packed, but upwards
OF 10000 people surged about the
stands erected on Montgomery and
Pine Streets. The list of Presidents
and Vice Presidents was composed Of
leading citizens in every department
Of business, including al the ju es
Of the United S a'es AMI ;o,att
courts. Strong resolution, favoiing
immrdia'e action V Congress il
res, ricting the inillX of Chinese
slave labor, were adopted and tele'
graphed to the Pacific Coast delega-
ton.
This meeting was composed OF
representative men in every walk of
life, irrespective of sect or creed,
impelIed by a sense of impending
calamity. They were convinced of
the necessity of action by the ire
sistible logic of events. They have
seen many of the most lucrative
branches of manufacture monopo-
lied by Cinnamon. In 1878, there
we're 500 white cigar makers in San
Francisco; now there are but 179,
while the Chinese employed in this
industry have increased from 4 900
to $500. The same startling revela-
ton is made in many other trades.
In the year referred to, there were
no Chinese tailors; now there are
1910 against 900 white men en-
ployed at the same business The
Chinese made only slippers eleven
years ago; now $500 of their num-
Der manufacture shoes, as against
LOO whites making boots and
shoes, while the factories owned by
Chinese number 1877, against 81
owned by whites. In other lines
they are making steady progress,
while they are not slow in taking up
ranches and farms.
These cold facts, when under
stood, drive all the warmth from
sentimental theories, and lead to
but ono conclusion, that f-preser.
vation as people, requires the use
Of extraordinary means, if necessary
to avert restitution and degrade
ton Of the laboring masses. White
men can only compete with China
men by becoming literally slaves.
This would afford the only condition
requisite, with the aggregation Of
capital in the hands of few, to es-
tablish distinctions OF caste and lead
TO tho establishment of a despotic
rule upon the ruins of the great Re-
public which had we'll nigh solved
the problem of self-government. 1t
would render forever abortive the
cherished hopes of its founders and
the brave efforts of the patriotic men
who have fallen liz its defense.
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DEATH OF MILTON S. LATHAM.-A
quarter of century ago probably
there was no more popular public
man on the Pacific Coast than Milton
8. Latham, who died. last Saturday,
at bis hotel. in New York city. Mr..
Latham was q native OF Columbus,
OF 10. and IS years Ct ege. Moo
tLan half his lifetime was spent on
the Pacific const. In 1850, he held
tie cfics of clerk OF the Recorder :
Court, in San Francisco; he was
afterwards chosen District Attorney
for Sacramento and Eldorado coun-
ties. In 1852, he VS. elected a
Representative from California to
the Thirty-Seventh Congress. De-
clining q reelection, in 1856, he was
appointed Collector of Customs at
San Francisco, which Office he held
till 1857. Having been elected Gov
ernor Of the State, three days after,
his Inauguration be was. in January,
1880, elected U. S. Senior. Mr..
Latham was, at one time in his ca
reer, quite wealthy. having been
very fortunate in railroad operations,
but he finally met with financial
reverses, and at the time of his death
was comparatively in INDECENT cir
cumstances. There are many old
timers of the Pacific Coast who will
shed q tear to the memory of one
whose history Is inseparably con-
nected with tho flush days of so.
TIE Philadelphia NeaU Northeast
for February says it is regarded in
Eastern commercial circles that the
shipment of Washington Territory
and Oregon wheat to Europe from
Puget Sound, seems to be establish.
ed as . permanent fact. Contracts
are now making for the carriage to
Liverpool of 40, 900 tons of the next