Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-06

I'4uai as MS tfauef III any Kind
r merchandise. He is as good IL furme
miner, fisherman, woodsman, "a
dener, or domestic servant, AZ
, found IN any class of white person
He imports and exporst, and acts
his own custOm-hOuse broker. He
his own banker and insurer, aud ac
as the middle-man aud interprete
between his own counlrymen AN
other nationalities. He is con,roIle
by hls own trade customs, aud GOV
erhed by Chinese laws, administere
through secret tribunals, of which w
have no knowledge, and over wnic
we have no control. Thus we hay
here in San Francisco met in direc
c. ni1ict this alien race. The Cau
G sian and the mongolian are now i
struggle for the supremacy of thi
city. The city is the stronghold ant
strategic point for the coast. Ifw
lose San Francisco we lose California
Forty thousand Chinese go out t.
their daily toll in San Francisco il
rivalry with forty thousand whit,
men. The contest is unequal, auC
can not long be maintained. Tb,
Chlnaman goes nome at evening tt
his bunk, to his rice. tee, dried fish
and vegetables, to opium and sleep,
HIS surplus earnings he sends to his
family III China. The white mar
goes from his daily toll to a home. TO
wife, and to children-children. wife.
and home all demanding expenditures
III accordance with q different kind
of civilization than that which prr-
va:is III China LII this coufiict the
white rece is going to the wall.
Whlthln twenty years Chinatown has
extended IRON Sacramento and Du-
pont Streets over a much wider area
from Market TO Pacific, from Powell
10 Sansome these people have gained
iootiag. They are now crossing
Market silpet. They are throuelnS
upon our vharves at the rate of ons
thousand per week. Four thousand
and eighty Cinnamon arrived here in
March. In the port of Hongkong
seventeen ships, carrying passenyers'
are now advertised for Pacific ports.
Temporary employment attracts them
to Pritish Columbia, Arizona and
Mexico as railroad builders. When
thes' works are completed then will
coin' down upon our city an ava.
lancie of Cinnamon for whom we
must provide. Our farmers oiye
them employment, and luckily the
last hree Years good rains have as
suret good crops, and farm labor has
been abundant. Our crucial period
Will come when hard times and a bad
seas'h precipitates these people upon
OF! our working men out of em pioyment.
lie wealthy man who does not ALL
tc'pate future conflicts, and who
'iinks That our white labor class
Will patiently submit when lack of
is followed by lack Of
read, is blind and pig headed idiot. |
ne statesman who ignores this cues |
ion lacks both I'M diligence and pairi. |
tism. This conflict may not come
0-day nor this winter. 1t will not
Dme at all ii congress gives us any
Nv which will practically prevent
nd arrest this Chinese invasion. Ifi
ongress does not come to our relief
cennlct WIN the law will be uu-
voldable. 1t will be disastrous and
loody when it comes. 1t will come
San Francisco, and the people will
e practically united. 1t will not
'me from the Sand-lot, but from the
'x-roll not from the loud and
ward Ioafer. tramD
nd political adventurer, but from
10 Merchants' Exchange, the Me-
ianics' Institute, aud the Boar,I ufl
rade. 1t will not be with pick.
lndlss against the Irish, nor the
ish against the Chinese, 1t will
,me III the quiet resolve of detsr.
ihed citizens against the authority
the United States. after the con.
'ess OF the United States has finally
'termined that its laws shall proIsct
li'nese Immigration. and shall not
'otect the homes, tho welfare. the
'erty, and the lives of American
t'Zens against the Chinese invasion.
he resolve will not be hasty nor
'ecipl'ate: 1t will not be made, and
'ioh VIII not be taken, until IT, ia
parent that revolution against the
w is The only possible solution of "A
ooiein otherwise not to be worked
~. Inc people Of the country will ,
iate 10 JOIN us. because thew Will .
rate 10 feel the burden of the evil.
lt they Will be i'll full sympathy
'th us, as once before in yipilauta ,
mes. Our sister states and terri.
ries Of the Pacific coast will mt
ID III this hazardous emprise of =
Oeilioh, but they will follow. The :,
'rklng men Of the north do moi ,
W realize the danger impendinp =
e.. .t .neh' put as the cloud grows '
nhef 'nsy VIII see their danger, and t
: al,.. our allies. The black men of 8
s"uth may be deceived for time .
inc lying suggestion that this is u
se prejudice but we rely upon the n
.lhct OF seif-protection to guide :
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