Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-20
THE CHINESE.
Posr IsTELLIeKscEk:

pssros PosT IsTELLIeEscEE;
n YOU viIl kindly grant a man who
.a,hs few suggestions through your
,sr, valuable publication, on the most
,s,si auestion Of the day, will respect
,,Ily submit the following:
ysyer iB the history Of the Pacific
a ths anti-Chinese feeling prevail 30
a. Intensity of the present moment
ruder the prevalent intensity Of feel
40 Ia this city and vicinity against
cbiuess labor, a few feeble suggestions
.ooId seem to be in order. Aad as a
nd nj citizen, and one who owns his
hops in Seattle and Who has TO sapport
his family at daily toll, / wish TO say
nat il is the voice Of an over xhelming
usjority Of this community that says
tbe Chinese must 90, and this people
rspsesent the bone, sinev and wealth
lss labor il the father OF wealth. of
ths community. They are a deter
nined people, and decided. without
dosbt. The question is hourly being
discussed, how osn such q measure be
secomplishedf Our reply 10, the good
yofk has already commenced. We re-
fer you 10 the action taken by Msssrs-
stetson * Post, the Commercial Mil
Company, the Railroad mill and others,
N dispensing with Chinese and sup
piantine them With other nen. The
bobls action Of these parties will have
De hearty support and 90 -opsratisn of
sery fair minded citizen. and cannet
i too highly appreciased By the think
= public. Fellow citizens, this 10 ths
ny 10 the problem TO all who employ
Mipsss, go thou and do likewise. II
"a do not employ them, they cannot
pusn here. Throw them out of en-
psgnent, and they must 90. The cry
! rsised that Chinese cannot be dis
pnsed with, because white men get
dunk and 90 on sprees, and cannot be
sslied upon, eto. All, gentlemen, this is
not admissible as an argument. Your
humble servant can we'll recollect when
Chinese labor was unknown in the Uni
ssd States. Then the people lived and
ihrived better than today. Any Of rs
would be disgnsted If IL were thrown in
our faces that our brothers or sons we're
psufiQstes Of 30 low type that they
could not be depended upon 10 fill the
position Of the ordinary Mongolian.
0n geo who employ Chinese labor de-
psnds all: whether the Chinese 90
quietly and peaceably, or whether troo-
BE arises. There Ia an impending crisis
dearly apparent 10 any person of ordi-
nary intelligence. Much of this anti
Chinese movement is assigned to the
Knights of Labor, Miners Unions and
other labor organizations. Whether or
sot sny or all Of these bodies, directly
ef indireotly, collectively OF individu-
ally, matters not. I say to yoo, fellow
citizens of Seattle, IL is the duty of
sach and every one of as, rich or poor,
70 take the matter in hand az becomes
good Amsricans, and rid ourselves of
this scourRe in a cool, business like
manner, aud by all means without the
sacrifice of single human life, or the
destruction OF a single dollars worth
Of property, and thus make record for
Seattle of which she may be proud, and
% becomes her law loving and Law
abiding citizens. Let as all put our
shoulders TO the wheel. and work 10
nnison; for this is duty We owe to our
wives and our children. car brothsrs
and our SISTERS, our country and our
God. q. d.
SEATTLE, w. T., Sept. 10, 1895.