The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-20

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Whed hnt vent 10 California ihe pftJu.
dice against lhe Chinese was confined 10
the lab0fing classes alOns Tho capitalists
thought II On excellent idea ~ let them
come, Now all classes are most earnestly
opposed to n continuance ~ Chinese
lfnmlgfatlon Why tlie changer Thesaine
characteristics that made them dangerous
competitors In the labor iuaiket are now
maklng thcm equally dangerous In The
avenues sought by the operations OF capt
tai. Had the lab0ring man alone been
hurt bv this competition, the groWl about =
IL would not have bee heard outside OF the
state. / can trace about tho way in which
| this immigration operates. In a town,
say Of about 10, COO inhabitants, there VIII
be goodly proportion Of that population
who will support themselves by the sale Of
their labor. A capitalist, employing 200
| laborers, substitutes Chinese laborers for
his white labor. Many OF those laborers
have families, and the loss of employment
| by the displaced laborers, who seek EN-
pIoymsnt and take their families elsewhere,
,akes from the population OF the place
about 500 souls, and adds to 1t only 200
Cinnamon. These 200 Cinnamon buy their
supplies from storekeepers of their own race,
AM. the patronage which had previously
gone to a Caucasian grocer, butcher and
dry goods dealer, is lost, and they remove
and are likewise lost to the community.
The original employer 80 much undersells
his com petitors, by having cheap Chinese
labor, that, to compete with him, they dis
charge their laborers and employ Chinese.
l With every 200 Caucasians supplanted by
i Mongolians, there is taken out OF the COM
munity population Of 500 souls, beside,
those who furnish them with the necessa-
ries of lie, and with number OF these go
those professional men who have subssted
upon the patronage of this lost population
such as physicians lawyers, school
masters and the like; and the sub
stance of the local newspaper is ma
terially affected. But finally the original
employers of these cheap laborers find that
factories conducted by Chinese capitalists,
employing Chinese laborers, who have
learned the business of them, are in the
field, and are monopolizing their business
in the same way that the Chinese laborers
they originally employed monopolized the
labor market. This has beer the history of
The Chinese movement in California. Hav-
lng once set their foot in the ranks of an in
dustry as laborers, the Mongoians have
chung to it until they have completely mo-
nopolized it, not only as labolers, but as
employers and capitalists. This is the his
tory Of the clgar-making industry, of the.
boot and shoe factories, OF the factories OF
ready made clothing, of ladies' and chill
dlen's underwear, and of many other man
ufacturing industries in San Francisco and
T all over the Pacific coast. And this in only
one generation. What will it be in two
generations mole? | honestly believe that
in that time the entire industrial and mer-
camille intei ests of the Pacific coast will be
in the hands of the Chinese, and that find
to be the universal belief all over The Pa
cific coast. having but just returned from
six weeks visit TO San Francisco, after an
absence OF two years.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor. allow me to
say that the foregoing lines are but slight
{ glance at one small side of this almost il
limitable question. | could write until
morning without eXhausting the subject,
and every word that | might pen would
find responsive echo in the heart of every
Californian who loves his state and who
loves his country. 1t is not question OF
philanthropy or of sentiment to be settled
by reference to sympathies or prejudices,
but it is question of broad and compre-
hensive policy whether the Pacific coast is
10 be like the rest of our common country,
with people having the same habits, the
same customs, the same religion, or wheth-
err it is to become Mongolized, and pagan
lied and in time become q political append
age of the empire of the sun. Part Mon
golian and part Caucasian, it can never re-
main. The conditions are such that with
T Mongolian immigration unlimited, the pre-
DO lderance of the Mongol is bound 70 en-.
sue If the people of the east do not give
California what she asks it will be the mat
Ter of only couple of generations before
the Pacific coast will be lost to America.
Now is The time to save these states. TWO
generation hence II Will cost IN awful war
and ocea IS Of blood aud rivers of treasure.
n Yours truly, 4. L. Is.