The Labor enquirer., 1883-03-17


town before being received by the whites
since the peddlars deposit (often beside
a corPse) there during the night. The
alleys and streets are so built out from
the houses that often they are only a
foot wide, and generally only from three
to five, and are built upwards in the air
correspondingly. The usual number of
Chinese living in room, 8xlO, is from
fifteen to twenty. The stencil of the
main streets, even, is more than can be
borne by a white man. They live upon
few cents worth of rice a day, and
every article of their wearing apparel
comesfrom China through the six mighty
Chinese companies, who own every
CoOlie here, and to whom each poor
slave pays the greater part Of his earn
ings. Should he fail to do so, or should
he give any evidence against any other
Chinaman, the axe or the knife of the
High binder" (the secret, assassin of
the company to which he belongs re
moves" him very speedily, and almost
every day we have more or less in
stances of this, with, Of course, no pun
ishment to these murderers. Their
lodging costs but few cents per day, and
few Chinamep sleep more than four or
five hours at a time. We're it, not for
the high winds, heavy fogs, and the
favorable situation of our city, it would
be the deadliest pest-hOIe in the world
They hide and they bury secretly those
who die OF SMALLPOX, and many cases
have existed in wash-hQuseS filled with
linen of white families In short, they
regard us as enemies Of their race and
religion; they laugh at our laws and dis
regard all sanitary regulations they do
not even buy their food or clothing from
us. They take the place Of white labor
in all directions, and at wages upon
which white man would Starve Cur
white Iaborers, meanwhile, must starve
with their wives and promising children,
while horde5 of jabbering, mooneyed,
brainless, dirty beast-ike creatures are
taking the bread from their mouths, and
sending every dollar to China.
'I visited some of the British ships,
which brought in thousands Of them
just before the passage of the anti-Chi-
nese bill, and l wish Queen Victoria and
Dz,-;Ior,+ +L,,r ,,o,,lJ Io,-o CooD tho
big vessels with their four decks crowded
so that another man could not stand
amongst them, and this horde composed
of wiId-eyed, vermin-cOvered, dirty,
naked, and diseased wretches, who never
had a good meal in their lives, and now
stood screeching and howIing with won
der or fright. What eligible citizens!
Do they not come here to horde and
save, and then 90 back,-even their
bones are sent back by every steamer.
The trades, except printing, carPen-
tering painting, and the higher crafts,
+ are run over and degraded by Chinese,
who work at them day and night tor a
minimum at first, but finally, when they
get a monopoly, charging as high as the
= whites. I have seen hundreds Of shops
with only a little passage in large room,
say generally 5Ox60, filled with China
men, each at a machine and sewing
with them, with never a pause, and this
continues night and day-Sunday in
cluded.
"You may imagine, if you can, the
number Of garments, and all for the
whites, made even in one week. Our
white women have no sewing, and many
young girls have to go to printing, but
greater numbers go to the streets. There
f are not, may say, five white girls in
five hundred servants.
Go where you will, even to the city S
, bonanza palaces and there you will find
"John." He is the cook, the door-opener,
the everything. And John" even ar
ranges my Iady's chamber-there is no
show for the white GIRL Thus you see
the moral tone Of the whole community
is lowered, crimes are unpunishable,
wages are lowered business is slow, our
money goes by the ton in silver and
especially in gold, to China. They are
intruders and come only to pIunder and
90 thoroughly in opposition to our
whole race, while those who emigrate
from Europe are white and desirous Of
becoming allied to our interests and
) heinC Of rs Thnu are Ike q nlaCna and