National Republican., 1884-01-19
Free Labor vs.. Chinese CooI,e Labor.

are Just as rampant against the law restricting
Chinese emigration to-day as they ever were;
that we will fight the proposition to amend the
law as iorcely MS we did its passage, and that VIC
expect to have better luck than VIC did in ght
before. You can also say that we believe public
sentiment now is rather in favor of repeating tho
entire law than for strengthening it. America
should be free for all to come stay and Chinese
or any other people should be welcome" THIS
statement was repeated to Representative Budd
who said he was happy to be able TO say that GOV.
Rice was further away from the real facts in the
case than he was when he led the fight against
the present law. MY investigation in this house
conyinccs me-" said Budd, that our amended
Chinese bill will pass the house by over two-thrds
Majority" Washington Correspondence san iran
cisco Chronicis.
The above appeared in the tclographic
columns of the San Francisco Chronicle of the
eleventh instant, and is reproduced in THE
REPUBLICAN so that if the California mem
Der, Mr.. Budd, misunderstood tho member
from Massachusetts,, Mr.. Rice, serious mis-.
take may be publicly corrected and, if he
did not, that the general question may be
called to public attention here in the cast.
The. Burlingamo treaty with China gives q
blCdJ uCUl lOl a NClI llIllCs Nlllllt
opens very few of her ports to Americans, and
restrictswithin very narrow limits the pursuits
in which we may engage even in those places.
Why should the United States, in exchange
for such privileges, open its entire territory
to unrestricted emigration from China?
1t is notorious that tho Chinese aborcrs
who come here are almost all single men and
of the lowest order of that kingdom. The
census shows the entire Chinese population
in this country to be 1886 of these, only
I,779 are females, while 100 $50 are men. The
manner of life of these people would be unen-
durable to tho most degraded of our own.
The wages on which they could save money
won Id not afford food and shelter for like
nu mber of our own unmarried worlingmen.
What, then, could laborers with families to
provide for do in the face of such COM
petition?
The fortitude with which men endure the
misfortunes of others is cxompliied by tho
composuro with which Massachusetts,, with
her 222 Cinnamon and China women, re-
CARDS the complaints of California with her
71,2H Cinnamon and 3,sSS China women.
Oregon, with 9,3l6 Cinnamon and l6l China
women, cries in vain to Vermont, within
whose borders no Chinaman worships his
idols Connecticut, with but 119 Cinnamon
high duty for Nevada to entertain and
Christianize her 5,103 Cinnamon aud 3O3
China women. Maine, with her Cinnamon,
New Ham pshire, with her II, and Rhode Is
land, with her 27, feel not the same RESPONSE
bility for the presence of the s,097 male
Chinese in the territories Of Idaho, Montana,
Washington, and Wyoming, that they would
if their workingmen at home were crying
out against SO deadly competition.
The Chinese derive no benefit by emigra-
tion at all comparable with the injuries they
obligati on as Christian nation to admit
them. They are regarded as pest by all the
people of the Pacific slope, except the few
who contract for them in droves, and who
for the most part would have freshly
imported African slaves if they were cheaper
and could be as easily had.
Our Chinese population is thus distributed:
The three Pacific states. 8O,l49
All the territories. 1853
| The six New England s!a'e8................ 4ij
The sixteen southern states ................ 1OOl
! New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 1,2jl
Ten western states,..... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l,l2l
Total in United States OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, lOjOl3
| All that come locate on our western coast
The people of that region have with substan.
tial unanimity cried out for years for re-
striction of this emigration. Finally new
treaty was entered into under which this
could be done without oilense to China or
disturbing our so called Chinese trade, to
wit The exchange of our gold and silver
for silks and teas Congress passed Il
law intended TO carry into effect
the provisions of that treaty. 1t is clearly
established that corrupt Chinese officials are
violating the treaty by taking advantage of
the looseness Of our law and regulations.
! False certificates are given to coolies declaring
them to be merchants. The representatives
of the Pacific states have brought out these
facts, and now ask congress to stop up the
gap unintentionally left open in our own
law, and which is being taken advantage of
to set at naught our treaty rights. Upon
such a showing wo do not see how any CON
gresham can make himself party to the
swindle of the Chinese officials by voting to
leave tho gate open to these coolies falsely
certified as merchants.
To contend for the free importation Of de-
graded coolie labor, which can live on half
the wages of the starving European opera
tives, is not consistent with republican pro-
fessions of regard for labor and dotermina-
tion to protect it by discriminating duties on
imports. We may as well have free trade as
to place our workingmon on n level with the
Chinese in the struggle for life. New Eng
land capital will hear from New England
labor on that subject if il blunders, for the
eastern operative is no less responsive to tho
call of his brethren of the far west than il
the eastern capitalist to his.
The republican party neods the confidence