The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-10

wnEELING, ". w., N0yEHHEH 10, 1885


may succeed, by the employment Of the
military, in quelling tho rio:ouS demon
STATIONS against tho Chinc9o on the Paci'
fc Coast. But 60 long as th4r' is Chi
nese question there viii he outbreaks, and
only those parts Il the country will be
free from l4wlcss demonstrations which
remain FREQ from The presence Of the
Chinese as competing labor force.
Half dozen Chinese washing clothes
in Wheeling cause no irritation; bring a
hundred here to displace our home mtners
or to suppiaut American workmen white
or black in other employments, and home
labor would revolt, having at it's back a
wholesome public opinion. For the Amer
lean laborer, however uulearned ne may
be in political and social economy, knows
instiuctively that unleG5 he can at once
perform tbs impoasibis Iea. OF taking on
q new and lover DA'u'", he cannot stand
against the u-w-COmir H5 knows that
he has come !u,1 Sadly contact with a
social and ioI1Srial fyrcs efficient III
labor, apt u learn, accustomed to subsist
on the Cheape5. oil, 10 hurdle in the
cheapest loi4iGx', 10 wear the cheapest
apparel, aqd Nithsl to be content. He
realizes the utter Aop"l"saes9 Of any
effort to maintain family in competition
with this lower organism which has but
one o! its cheap kial TO maintaia.
He may be toll that the Chinese had a
civilization Ctnturie, hslore thiscontinent
was kSown; that they had literature
long before there was IN English language;
that while his ancestors live'i in caves,
ate raw meat, and hall HI their naked
ness with the sAius Of wild beasts, China
had ner skii.e artisans, heE statesmen,
her philosopherG-wha IL all this to him?
The American workman knows that the
being who has come to contest this soil
with him is in every social way inferior
to himself, that the educated and refined
orders in his own native land regard him
as cheap End polluted commodity.
Producers and tradesmen in employ
ments upon which tho Monaghan in
vader has not yet entered, knows that be
consumes little and buys littlO and, there
fore, will not compensate them tRr the
loss of the good customer whom no dis
pleases. Leave out Of consideration any
thought OF justice TO home labor or OF a
good national policy, and there Is reason
enough why local public opinion will
always BIO on the eide Of tine home work
man.
In any effort 10 understand the Chinese
question as it effects and sillicts the Pacific
Coast communities We must Try to put
ourselves in their place. We are to re-
member that they are the most exposed
OF any, being on the line Of first attack.
The high seas are as much Chinese as
American; cheap and rapid communica-
ton has made nextdoor neighbor Of that
teemiug population which has shown
itself equal to colonizirg the islands OF the
ssa in the face OF bloody Inequalities.
The people OF California have had bitter
taste Of Chinese immigration. In the
splendid city OF San Francisco fair spot
has been blighted with moral death and
called Chinatown-a hole OF iniquity
Wnich snames " Tree @n" onIsn'eneu peo-
pie on tne bosom Oh tn's AS'"'G S'feA'u
mas llo"'eu me Asi"uc p"sue' lepfoSy'
WIN Wh'ch human sA''i KNOWS noE III"
10 ueai.
Inc Mopgo!iahs are making tneif way
over tne "no'e RACING coast no' 40
pioneers but IN the wake oil inc more ad-
Ventnroua whlte' and 10 snatch inc bread
out oil ms mouth IL is roasG usage 10
shoot MN down. II ID scarcely m'lueF
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no 'o' IN ms l"nu' h"S no ues.fe ever u
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enough 10 I'VE on IN Emma once ne ID
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pe[,ence anu Oh reason 70 say .n"' TINS IN
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