Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-07

For every Chinaman so displaced, and
his place supplied by white operative,
there is meant consumer who contributes
to the homes and the material prosperity
of the State, and of all the people; per-
son who buys carpets, books and articles of
personal comforts, and the necessities of
American civilization; wage winner who
reads newspapers and frequents libraries,
builds home, patronizes the butcher and
baker and candlestick maker" toiler who
raises up to the State children for the pub
lie schools and for citizenship; consumer
whose wages remain here, and are not
regularly deported to the pater tamilias of
Chinese serfs, who are as bounden slaves
as ever toiled in the cotton fields of the
Southland more so, for to those there
was the chance of liberty, while to
the Chinese operative, there is no hope of
release this or the other side of the grave.
The patriarcical system enslaves his very
soul, and upon its maintenance depends
the future welfare of the bondman.
There is class of foreign laborers in
our midst, besides the Chinese, who
would not be missed in the economy of
American civilization. OF this class come
the socialist and bowling agitator who be-
lieves in violence, is the creature of brutal
impulse, Taught in the rigors of a
European system-where there is a ruling
class and servile ruled class-he has for
| watchword this only exclamation: damn
| the Government" This class is born
quarrelsome, nurtured in antagonism to
order, and conceives law to be but the in
strument Of oppression. 1t is the product
of brutal instincts and the lowest levels Of
ignorance. Compared to it, the Chinese,
| with all their vices and non-assimilative
character, are vastly preferable. But for
| tunately the progeny of this class is sus-
eeptibe to the assimilative influences of
American civilization, and it seldom is
found to exist in the generation to which
| it gives birth.
Now, the situation is this: the element
referred to can be controlled, or it viii in
luence and control, but only temporarily
1t has no more chance of standing up
against the strong arm of the United
| States Government, or even against
the government of the State Of
| California, than the degraded
Diggers who subsist upon the fall mast.
But this element, small as it is, has the
power to precipitate conflict in which,
though it would be swept from the path
ike chaff before the gale, the honest, sin
cere, intelligent and hopeful worker, to-
gether with the middleman, the owner of
property and the manufacturer, would
suffer beyond measure. This monarchial
scum, this communistic rabble, must be
taught the might and majesty, and
the immeasurable strength that resides in
the right kind of American citizen
slip. 1t does not need force of arms to do
this. On the contrary, simple unity be-
tween the decent workers and the middle
men who supply them, will subordinate
the vicious element peaceably, and ac-
complish the common desire lawfully.
But no one must run away with the idea
thatit is to be done at once, or by resolutions
or by denouncing all employers of Chinese
1t so happens that the incoming Of the
coolie has driven out other labor until il
is all but impossible to do without Chinese
There are very few employers of Chinese
who are not opposed to their unrestricted
immigration but take the single instance o
house service; there are thousands o
households where there is. not the posi-
bility Of supplying the place of the China
man at this time-and so, too, in hosts o
other employments It is only the dema
gogue who boasts on the street corners
that he employs no Chinese. The mar
who fortunately can do without them i
modest in his statement, and does not con
denim those whom necessity compels.
The worker is himself quite as much a
fault as any others He is the chief con
sumner of Chinese manufactured goods
His consumption makes the demand The
economy of buying the cheapest-by nj
means a true economy-makes him tn,
chief supporter of Chinese manufactures
| ITa IL l,poup IN form ont tho Iohor ,r;,-,,
him, very often, to Chinese workers, VIII,
will do the task something cheaper, spar
the Caucasian physical energy, and at III
same time enable him to make quite a
much of profit as if he applied his owl
muscle to the accomplishment. In short
this is no time for abuse of Chinese EN-
ployers, as a rule. In that kind of vi
tuperation there is no sort of strength
whatever, but all the elements of weak
ness.
A call is to be put out, it is understood
for the workingmen of this city to NEE
again some time this week, to consider tn
situation. 1t is, of course, in the direction
of agitation. If it is issued to all thos
who believe in lawful accomplishment, i
can be promoted by such elements, ant
protected from antagonistic ones If it
general in its nature, however, it open
the door to the blatant howlers and tn
destructionists, and no good can resul
whatever. Under the broad protection c
the laws these latter have the right t
pollute the air with their vaporings, bu
they should be driven to do it in as
semblies of their own. The conservativ
workers are entitled to the sympathy an,
the material aid of all who believe will
them. 1t remains to be seen if they vii
have it. If they are. begrudged this, W,
may expect disappointment to embitte
them, and the vicious element to win then
over. In that case the result is easily t.
be foreseen-the anti-Chinese agitation
will be put back, and the hoped-for relic
indefinitely postponed, if indeed NOR
serious consequences do not follow.
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