Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-23
WHO ARE THE HooDLUMS

A San Francisco contemporary concludes
| that when the Boston Herald charges that
there is a tendency in the political parties
to make sacrifices for the hoodlum vote
of the Pacific States" it means that the.
people who favor certain measures are the
hoodlums, as contradistinguished from and
| opposed to the corporations that favor
certain other measures. This explanation
| is involved We cannot conceive how our
| contemporary arrived at it, or on what
basis it plants it. The Boston Herald is
not the only Eastern journal that has re-
ferred to the people of the Pacific States as
| hoodlums" In every instance the sheer
| is intended as an insult. The hoodlum, in
the estimation of these sclf-righteous East
ern journals, is the man who prefers
| honest American labor 10 Chinese serfdom.
| The appellation in the Eastern mouth
| refers always to those who entertain objec-
tons to the unrestricted immigration of
Chinese. Whenever an Fastener INDUCES
himself by speaking of this people as
hoodlums he exposes his ignorance.
No well-informed man, at all familiar
with the people of the Pacific, will so offend
his own sense of justice, or do violence to
the truth, as TO apply the term
of opprobrium to the population of Oregon,
California and Nevada, because they are in
favor Of preserving our civilization from the
contamination of the Orientalism of China.
In OF +bo,. 4,
are firmly convinced, and because they so
believe, they are, by the Herald and like
journals, termed hoodlums," which is to
say, rough and lawless characters, rioting,
criminal, shiftless, selfshly unreasonable,
and preiudiced against certain class of
foreigners because they labor for less than
the American workman can exist upon.
The Herald does not, as our contemporary
suggests, refer to tariff views, bimetallism,
the railroad or any other than the Chinese
question. And we must make up our
minds to submit to these assaults Con-
tenting ourselves with fiat denial and Wig
orous protest, We shall come presently TO
the time when the men of the East will
burn with shame that they ever APP
piled the offensive term to people every
inch as liberal, intelligent, advanced, hui
name and patriotic as they themselves can
possibly claim to be. These sneers and
slurs are meant to injure the cause of Mr.
Blaine, by arraying against him the goody,
goody people, whose ideas Of hoodlumism
are measured by the standard of opinions
sake the Boston Herald sets up.
The objections which this journal has
advanced to Congressional contributions of
public funds to the New Orleans Worlds
Fair and Cotton Centennial Exposition do
not apply to the proposition to appropriate
some 100000 TO enable the departments
of Government to make creditable exhibits
at the Fair. Such a scheme is for gov
ernmental purpose. The Interior Depart
mcnt, the bureaus of Agriculture, Educa-
cation, etc, the Signal Service branch of the
army, the Treasury, the Patent Of
fee, the MINIS, the Naval and Army
Construction Departments, etc. are all pro-
motive of industries and causes in which
the Government has a direct interest, and
the benefits of exposing examples of the
work accomplished by the departments ac-
crues to all the people. The cost necessary
to conduct or make an exposition effective,
is, of course, a governmental charge, and is
wholly distinct from the donation out of
hand of public funds to foster private as
sociation.